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Brazilian Portuguese corpora for teaching and translation: the CoMET project

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This paper starts with an overview of corpora available for Brazilian Portuguese to subsequently focus mainly on the CoMET Project developed at the University of São Paulo. CoMET consists of three corpora: a comparable Portuguese-English technical corpus (CorTec), a Portuguese-English parallel (translation) corpus (CorTrad) and a multilingual learner corpus, (CoMAprend), all available for online queries with specific tools. CorTec offers over fifty corpora in a variety of domains, from Health Sciences to Olympic Games. CorTrad is divided into three parts: Popular Science, Technical-Scientific and Literary. Each one of CoMET’s corpora is presented in detail. Examples are also provided.

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  1. COCA: https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/.

  2. Corpus do Português: NOW: https://www.corpusdoportugues.org/now/.

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Tagnin, S.E.O. Brazilian Portuguese corpora for teaching and translation: the CoMET project. Lang Resources & Evaluation 58, 347–361 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-023-09690-z

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