Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

The refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2003, held in Faro, Portugal, in June 2003.

The 24 revised full papers and 17 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech analysis and recognition; speech synthesis; pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; tools, resources, and applications; dialogue systems; summarization and information extraction; and evaluation.

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Speech Analysis and Recognition.- Devoicing Measures of European Portuguese Fricatives.- AUDIMUS.MEDIA: A Broadcast News Speech Recognition System for the European Portuguese Language.- Pitch Restoration for Robust Speech Recognition.- Speech Synthesis.- Grapheme-Phone Transcription Algorithm for a Brazilian Portuguese TTS.- Improving the Accuracy of the Speech Synthesis Based Phonetic Alignment Using Multiple Acoustic Features.- Evaluation of a Segmental Durations Model for TTS.- From Portuguese to Mirandese: Fast Porting of a Letter-to-Sound Module Using FSTs.- A Methodology to Analyze Homographs for a Brazilian Portuguese TTS System.- Automatic Discovery of Brazilian Portuguese Letter to Phoneme Conversion Rules through Genetic Programming.- Experimental Phonetics Contributions to the Portuguese Articulatory Synthesizer Development.- Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon.- A Study on the Reliability of Two Discourse Segmentation Models.- Reusability of Dictionaries in the Compilation of NLP Lexicons.- Homonymy in Natural Language Processes: A Representation Using Pustejovsky's Qualia Structure and Ontological Information.- Using Adaptive Formalisms to Describe Context-Dependencies in Natural Language.- Some Regularities of Frozen Expressions in Brazilian Portuguese.- Tools, Resources, and Applications.- Selva: A New Syntactic Parser for Portuguese.- An Account of the Challenge of Tagging a Reference Corpus for Brazilian Portuguese.- Multi-level NER for Portuguese in a CG Framework.- HMM/MLP Hybrid Speech Recognizer for the Portuguese Telephone SpeechDat Corpus.- Managing Linguistic Resources and Tools.- Using Morphossyntactic Information in TTS Systems: Comparing Strategies for European Portuguese.- Timber! Issues in Treebank Building and Use.- A Lexicon-Based Stemming Procedure.- Contractions: Breaking the Tokenization-Tagging Circularity.- A Linguistic Approach Proposal for Mechanical Design Using Natural Language Processing.- Identification of Direct/Indirect Discourse in Children's Stories.- Curupira: A Functional Parser for Brazilian Portuguese.- ANELL: A Web System for Portuguese Corpora Annotation.- Email2Vmail - An Email Reader.- A Large Speech Database for Brazilian Portuguese Spoken Language Research.- Dialogue Systems.- Interpretations and Discourse Obligations in a Dialog System.- Using Dialogues to Access Semantic Knowledge in a Web IR System.- Managing Dialog and Access Control in Natural Language Querying.- Summarization and Information Extraction.- GistSumm: A Summarization Tool Based on a New Extractive Method.- Topic Indexing of TV Broadcast News Programs.- Evaluation.- An Initial Proposal for Cooperative Evaluation on Information Retrieval in Portuguese.- Evaluation of Finite-State Lexical Transducers of Temporal Adverbs for Lexical Analysis of Portuguese Texts.- Evaluating Automatically Computed Word Similarity.- Evaluation of a Thesaurus-Based Query Expansion Technique.- Cooperatively Evaluating Portuguese Morphology.