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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
COMUNICA - A Question Answering System for Brazilian Portuguese
COMUNICA is a voice QA system for Brazilian Portuguese with search capabilities for consulting both structured and unstructured datasets. One of the goals of this work is to help ...
Rodrigo Wilkens, Aline Villavicencio, Daniel Mulle...
DOCENG
2008
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Brazilian Portuguese automatic text simplification systems
In this paper we investigate the main linguistic phenomena that can make texts complex and how they could be simplified. We focus on a corpus analysis of simple account texts avai...
Sandra M. Aluísio, Lucia Specia, Thiago Ale...
PROPOR
2010
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
An Open-Source Speech Recognizer for Brazilian Portuguese with a Windows Programming Interface
Abstract. This work is part of the effort to develop a speech recognition system for Brazilian Portuguese. The resources for the training and test stages of this system, such as c...
Patrick Silva, Pedro Batista, Nelson Neto, Aldebar...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Portuguese variety identification on broadcast news
This paper describes an accent identification system for Portuguese, that explores different type of properties: acoustic, phonotactic and prosodic. The system is designed to be ...
Jean-Luc Rouas, Isabel Trancoso, Céu Viana,...