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International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language

PROPOR 2016: Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language pp 340–346Cite as

Automatic Generation of Internet Memes from Portuguese News Headlines

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This paper presents MemeGera, a prototype tool that generates image-based memes from Portuguese news headlines. All is done automatically, with the help of computational linguistic resources, uncovered here with the rules for selecting images and adapting the text.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://api.imgflip.com/.

  2. 2.

    https://news.google.com/news?cf=all&hl=pt-PT&pz=1&ned=pt-PT_pt&output= rss.

  3. 3.

    http://knowyourmeme.com/.

  4. 4.

    https://opennlp.apache.org/.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/rikarudo/TagPORT.

  6. 6.

    http://label.ist.utl.pt/pt/labellex_pt.php.

  7. 7.

    http://natura.di.uminho.pt/~jj/pln/proverbio.dic.

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This work was supported by the project ConCreTe. The project ConCreTe acknowledges the financial support of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission, under FET grant number 611733.

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    Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Diogo Costa & Alexandre Miguel Pinto

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  1. Universidade de Lisbon, Portugal

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  2. ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal

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  3. Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  4. Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Caxias do Suö, Brazil

    André Adami

  5. Universidade de Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

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Gonçalo Oliveira, H., Costa, D., Pinto, A.M. (2016). Automatic Generation of Internet Memes from Portuguese News Headlines. In: Silva, J., Ribeiro, R., Quaresma, P., Adami, A., Branco, A. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9727. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41552-9_34

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