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Bootstrapping a Lexicon of Multiword Adverbs for Brazilian Portuguese

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Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology (EUROPHRAS 2022)

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This paper presents the process for bootstrapping a computational lexicon of multiword adverbs for Brazilian Portuguese (PT-BR) from an already existing lexicon built for the European variety of the language (PT-PT). This ongoing work aims to identify, collect, and provide a syntactical description of multiword adverbs in PT-BR, in order to produce a comprehensive lexicon of multiword adverbs in Portuguese. First, existing resources for this part-of-speech are presented, followed by the methods adopted for building this novel resource. Up to the present moment, approximately 700 new PT-BR multiword adverbs entered the lexicon, totaling, nearly 2,300 entries. We assessed this new lexical resource against a sample of 1,000 sentences, taken from a publicly available corpus collected from Brazilian Portuguese journalistic texts. Results are promising, although there is still room for improvement, given that the F-measure only reached a suboptimal 0.66 mark. We estimate that another 2,100 PT-BR adverbs will enter the lexicon, totaling +4,000 multiword adverbs in Portuguese.

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    https://gitlab.com/parseme/parseme_corpus_pt/-/raw/master/pt_gsd-ud-train.cupt.

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    https://houaiss.uol.com.br/.

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    https://www.linguateca.pt/cetempublico.

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    https://www.linguateca.pt/acesso/corpus.php?corpus=SAOCARLOS.

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    https://unitexgramlab.org/.

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Research for this paper was partially supported by national funds through FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under project UIDB/50021/2020.

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  2. Universidade de Lisboa - IST, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

  3. INESC-ID Lisboa - Human Language Technology Lab, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede & Jorge Baptista

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Müller, I., Mamede, N., Baptista, J. (2022). Bootstrapping a Lexicon of Multiword Adverbs for Brazilian Portuguese. In: Corpas Pastor, G., Mitkov, R. (eds) Computational and Corpus-Based Phraseology. EUROPHRAS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13528. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15925-1_12

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