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This paper evaluates the structure and the performance of lexical finite-state transducers (FST) used to describe and tag complex multiword temporal adverbs in texts. First, a quick overview of the formal variation allowed by expressions involving the time-related noun ano (year) will be presented. Results from the application to a corpus will then be presented and discussed. Finally, the paper suggests a measure for evaluating linguistic coverage and adequacy of the FST.
Research for this paper was partly supported by FCT (project grant POSI/PLP/34729/99).
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Baptista, J. (2003). Evaluation of Finite-State Lexical Transducers of Temporal Adverbs for Lexical Analysis of Portuguese Texts. In: Mamede, N.J., Trancoso, I., Baptista, J., das Graças Volpe Nunes, M. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2721. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45011-4_37
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