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Proverb Variation: Experiments on Automatic Detection in Brazilian Portuguese Texts

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2014)

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This paper describes a methodology for automatically identifying proverbs and their variants in running texts. This methodology is based on existing compilations of proverbs, by exploring the regular syntactic structures that most proverbs present and intersecting syntactic structure with the lexical units of the proverbs. From the syntactic regularities we divided the data into 13 different classes. Finite-state automata is used to represent the regular patterns found in the classes. The results showed a precision rate of 74.68% tested in Brazilian Portuguese journalistic corpus.

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  1. Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, Rodovia Washington Luís, km 235, SP-310, São Carlos-SP, Brazil

    Amanda Rassi & Oto Vale

  2. University of Algarve - FCHS/CECL, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Amanda Rassi & Jorge Baptista

  3. Institute of Systems and Computers Engineering - INESC-ID Lisboa/L2F, Rua Alves Redol, n. 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Jorge Baptista

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    Jorge Baptista

  2. INESC-ID Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Nuno Mamede

  3. IT-University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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  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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Rassi, A., Baptista, J., Vale, O. (2014). Proverb Variation: Experiments on Automatic Detection in Brazilian Portuguese Texts. 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_14

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