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Body-Part Nouns and Whole-Part Relations in Portuguese

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2014)

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In this paper, we target the extraction of whole-part relations involving human entities and body-part nouns occurrences in texts using STRING, a hybrid statistical and rule-based Natural Language Processing chain for Portuguese. Whole-part relation is a semantic relation between an entity that is perceived as a constituent part of another entity, or a member of a set.

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  1. Universidade do Algarve/FCHS and CECL, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Ilia Markov & Jorge Baptista

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

    Nuno Mamede

  3. INESC-ID Lisboa/L2F - Spoken Language Lab, R. Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ilia Markov, Nuno Mamede & Jorge Baptista

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  1. FCHS, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas,, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

  2. INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

  3. IT-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sara Candeias

  4. USP-EACH, São Paulo-SP, Brazil

    Ivandré Paraboni

  5. USP-ICMC, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Thiago A. S. Pardo

  6. SCC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

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Markov, I., Mamede, N., Baptista, J. (2014). Body-Part Nouns and Whole-Part Relations in Portuguese. In: Baptista, J., Mamede, N., Candeias, S., Paraboni, I., Pardo, T.A.S., Volpe Nunes, M.d.G. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_13

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