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Building a Dictionary of Anthroponyms

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2006)

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This paper presents a methodology for building an electronic dictionary of anthroponyms of European Portuguese (DicPRO), which constitutes a useful resource for computational processing, due to the importance of names in the structuring of information in texts. The dictionary has been enriched with morphosyntactic and semantic information. It was then used in the specific task of capitalizing anthroponyms and other proper names on a corpus automatically produced by a broadcast news speech recognition system and manually corrected. The output of this system does not offer clues, such as capitalized words or punctuation. This task expects to contribute in rendering more readable the output of such system. The paper shows that, by combining lexical, contextual (positional) and statistical information, instead of only one of these strategies, better results can be achieved in this task.

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  1. L2F – Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada – INESC ID Lisboa, R. Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista, Fernando Batista & Nuno Mamede

  2. Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, P – 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  3. ISCTE – Instituto de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Av. Forças Armadas, 1649-026, Lisboa, Portugal

    Fernando Batista

  4. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade técnica de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil

    Renata Vieira

  2. Departamento de Informática, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  3. NILC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, CP 668P, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

  4. L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Email: qa-clef@l2f.inesc-id.pt, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede

  5. Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Praça General Tibúrcio, 80, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Cláudia Oliveira

  6. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Maria Carmelita Dias

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Baptista, J., Batista, F., Mamede, N. (2006). Building a Dictionary of Anthroponyms. In: Vieira, R., Quaresma, P., Nunes, M.d.G.V., Mamede, N.J., Oliveira, C., Dias, M.C. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3960. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751984_3

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