Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 8th International Conference, PROPOR 2008 Aveiro, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008 Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Event Detection by HMM, SVM and ANN: A Comparative Study....Pages 1-10
Frication and Voicing Classification....Pages 11-20
A Spoken Dialog System Speech Interface Based on a Microphone Array....Pages 21-30
PAPEL: A Dictionary-Based Lexical Ontology for Portuguese....Pages 31-40
Comparing Window and Syntax Based Strategies for Semantic Extraction....Pages 41-50
The Mitkov Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Portuguese....Pages 51-60
Semantic Similarity, Ontologies and the Portuguese Language: A Close Look at the subject....Pages 61-70
Boundary Refining Aiming at Speech Synthesis Applications....Pages 71-80
Evolutionary-Based Design of a Brazilian Portuguese Recording Script for a Concatenative Synthesis System....Pages 81-90
DIXI – A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese....Pages 91-100
European Portuguese Articulatory Based Text-to-Speech: First Results....Pages 101-111
Statistical Machine Translation of Broadcast News from Spanish to Portuguese....Pages 112-121
Combining Multiple Features for Automatic Text Summarization through Machine Learning....Pages 122-132
Some Experiments on Clustering Similar Sentences of Texts in Portuguese....Pages 133-142
Portuguese Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning....Pages 143-152
Learning Coreference Resolution for Portuguese Texts....Pages 153-162
Domain Adaptation of a Broadcast News Transcription System for the Portuguese Parliament....Pages 163-171
Automatic Classification and Transcription of Telephone Speech in Radio Broadcast Data....Pages 172-181
A Platform of Distributed Speech Recognition for the European Portuguese Language....Pages 182-191
Supporting e-Learning with Language Technology for Portuguese....Pages 192-201
ParaMT: A Paraphraser for Machine Translation....Pages 202-211
Second HAREM: New Challenges and Old Wisdom....Pages 212-215
Floresta Sintá(c)tica: Bigger, Thicker and Easier....Pages 216-219
The Identification and Description of Frozen Prepositional Phrases through a Corpus-Oriented Study....Pages 220-223
CorrefSum: Referencial Cohesion Recovery in Extractive Summaries....Pages 224-227
Answering Portuguese Questions....Pages 228-231
XisQuê: An Online QA Service for Portuguese....Pages 232-235
Using Semantic Prototypes for Discourse Status Classification....Pages 236-239
Using System Expectations to Manage User Interactions....Pages 240-243
Adaptive Modeling and High Quality Spectral Estimation for Speech Enhancement....Pages 244-247
On the Voiceless Aspirated Stops in Brazilian Portuguese....Pages 248-251
Comparison of Phonetic Segmentation Tools for European Portuguese....Pages 252-255
Spoltech and OGI-22 Baseline Systems for Speech Recognition in Brazilian Portuguese....Pages 256-259
Development of a Speech Recognizer with the Tecnovoz Database....Pages 260-263
Dynamic Language Modeling for the European Portuguese....Pages 264-267
An Approach to Natural Language Equation Reading in Digital Talking Books....Pages 268-271
Topic Segmentation in a Media Watch System....Pages 272-275
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