7. PROPOR 2006: Itatiaia, Brazil

Summarization

• Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Lucas Antiqueira, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr., Luciano da Fontoura Costa:
  Modeling and Evaluating Summaries Using Complex Networks. 1-10
  
• Télvio Orrú, João Luís Garcia Rosa, Márcio Luiz De Andrade Netto:
  SABio: An Automatic Portuguese Text Summarizer Through Artificial Neural Networks in a More Biologically Plausible Model. 11-20
  

Resources

• Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede:
  Building a Dictionary of Anthroponyms. 21-30
  
• Luís Sarmento, Ana Sofia Pinto, Luís Cabral:
  REPENTINO - A Wide-Scope Gazetteer for Entity Recognition in Portuguese. 31-40
  

Translation

• Pablo Gamallo Otero:
  Using Natural Alignment to Extract Translation Equivalents. 41-49
  
• Carme Armentano-Oller, Rafael C. Carrasco, Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miriam A. Scalco:
  Open-Source Portuguese-Spanish Machine Translation. 50-59
  
• Diamantino Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso:
  Weighted Finite-State Transducer Inference for Limited-Domain Speech-to-Speech Translation. 60-68
  

Named Entity Recognition

• Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso:
  A Golden Resource for Named Entity Recognition in Portuguese. 69-79
  
• Eckhard Bick:
  Functional Aspects in Portuguese NER. 80-89
  
• Luís Sarmento:
  SIEMÊS - A Named-Entity Recognizer for Portuguese Relying on Similarity Rules. 90-99
  

Tools and Frameworks

• Marco Antonio Insaurriaga Gonzalez, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima, José Valdeni de Lima:
  Tools for Nominalization: An Alternative for Lexical Normalization. 100-109
  
• João Graça, Nuno J. Mamede, João D. Pereira:
  A Framework for Integrating Natural Language Tools. 110-119
  
• Bento C. Dias-da-Silva, Ariani Di Felippo, Ricardo Hasegawa:
  Methods and Tools for Encoding the WordNet.Br Sentences, Concept Glosses, and Conceptual-Semantic Relations. 120-130
  
• Cássia Trojahn dos Santos, Paulo Quaresma, Irene Pimenta Rodrigues, Renata Vieira:
  A Multi-agent Approach to Question Answering. 131-139
  

Systems and Models

• Benjamin Wing, Jason Baldridge:
  Adaptation of Data and Models for Probabilistic Parsing of Portuguese. 140-149
  
• Claudia Oliveira, Maria Claudia de Freitas, Violeta Quental, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Renato Paes Leme, Lucas Souza:
  A Set of NP-Extraction Rules for Portuguese: Defining, Learning and Pruning. 150-159
  
• Jorge C. B. Coelho, Vinicius M. Muller, Sandra Collovini, Renata Vieira, Lucia Helena Machado Rino:
  Resolving Portuguese Nominal Anaphora. 160-169
  
• João Paulo Neto, Renato Cassaca, Márcio Viveiros, Márcio Mourão:
  Design of a Multimodal Input Interface for a Dialogue System. 170-179
  
• Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes:
  Review and Evaluation of DiZer - An Automatic Discourse Analyzer for Brazilian Portuguese. 180-189
  
• Isabel Trancoso, Ricardo Nunes, Luís Neves:
  Classroom Lecture Recognition. 190-199
  

Information Extraction

• Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Julio C. Duarte, Raúl P. Rentería:
  Semi-supervised Learning for Portuguese Noun Phrase Extraction. 200-203
  
• Maria Abadia Lacerda Dias, Marcelo de Gomensoro Malheiros:
  Automatic Extraction of Keywords for the Portuguese Language. 204-207
  
• Túlio Lima Baségio, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima:
  Semi-automatically Building Ontological Structures from Portuguese Written Texts. 208-211
  

Speech Processing

• António Teixeira, Catarina Oliveira, Lurdes Castro Moutinho:
  On the Use of Machine Learning and Syllable Information in European Portuguese Grapheme-Phone Conversion. 212-215
  
• Daniel Nehme Müller, Mozart Lemos de Siqueira, Philippe Olivier Alexandre Navaux:
  A Model to Computational Speech Understanding. 216-219
  
• Rafael Teruszkin, Fernando Gil Vianna Resende Jr.:
  Phonetic Sequence to Graphemes Conversion Based on DTW and One-Stage Algorithms. 220-224
  

Lexicon

• Eric Laporte, Christian Leclère, Maria Carmelita Dias:
  Very Strict Selectional Restrictions: A Comparison Between Portuguese and French. 225-228
  
• Michel Gagnon, Eliana de Mattos Pinto Coelho, Roger Antonio Finger:
  Towards a Formalization of Tense and Aspect for the Generation of Portuguese Sentences. 229-232
  
• Lucia Specia, Gabriela Castelo Branco Ribeiro, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson:
  The Need for Application-Dependent WSD Strategies: A Case Study in MT. 233-237
  
• Sandra Antunes, Maria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento, João Miguel Casteleiro, Amália Mendes, Luísa Pereira, Tiago Sá:
  A Lexical Database of Portuguese Multiword Expressions. 238-243
  

Morpho-syntactic Studies

• António Horta Branco, João Ricardo Silva:
  Dedicated Nominal Featurization of Portuguese. 244-247
  
• Fábio Natanael Kepler, Marcelo Finger:
  Part-of-Speech Tagging of Portuguese Based on Variable Length Markov Chains. 248-251
  
• Ana Luisa Leal, Paulo Quaresma, Rove Luiza de Oliveira Chishman:
  From Syntactical Analysis to Textual Segmentation. 252-255
  
• Susana Inácio, Diana Santos:
  Syntactical Annotation of COMPARA: Workflow and First Results. 256-259
  

Web, Corpus and Evaluation

• Nuno Seco, Diana Santos, Nuno Cardoso, Rui Vilela:
  A Complex Evaluation Architecture for HAREM. 260-263
  
• Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Diana Santos:
  What Kinds of Geographical Information Are There in the Portuguese Web? 264-267
  
• Milena Garrão, Claudia Oliveira, Maria Claudia de Freitas, Maria Carmelita Dias:
  Corpus-Based Compositionality. 268-271