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Short Paper
Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for Portuguese (Short Paper)

Authors: João Ferreira, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 83, 9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020)


Abstract
We present work on the automatic generation of question-answer pairs in Portuguese, useful, for instance, for populating the knowledge-base of question-answering systems. This includes: (i) a new corpus of close to 600 factoid sentences, manually created from an existing corpus of questions and answers, used as our benchmark; (ii) two approaches for the automatic generation of question-answer pairs, which can be seen as baselines; (iii) results of those approaches in the corpus.

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João Ferreira, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira. Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for Portuguese (Short Paper). In 9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 83, pp. 16:1-16:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{ferreira_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2020.16,
  author =	{Ferreira, Jo\~{a}o and Rodrigues, Ricardo and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo},
  title =	{{Assessing Factoid Question-Answer Generation for Portuguese}},
  booktitle =	{9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:9},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-165-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{83},
  editor =	{Sim\~{o}es, Alberto and Henriques, Pedro Rangel and Queir\'{o}s, Ricardo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2020.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-130298},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2020.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Question-Answer Generation, Corpus, NLP, Portuguese}
}
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Complete Volume
OASIcs, Volume 74, SLATE'19, Complete Volume

Authors: Ricardo Rodrigues, Jan Janoušek, Luís Ferreira, Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 74, 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)


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OASIcs, Volume 74, SLATE'19, Complete Volume

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8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 74, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@Proceedings{rodrigues_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2019,
  title =	{{OASIcs, Volume 74, SLATE'19, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-114-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Janou\v{s}ek, Jan and Ferreira, Lu{\'\i}s and Coheur, Lu{\'\i}sa and Batista, Fernando and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109008},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019},
  annote =	{Keywords: Computing methodologies, Natural language processing, Software and its engineering, Compilers; Information systems, World Wide Web}
}
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Front Matter
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization

Authors: Ricardo Rodrigues, Jan Janoušek, Luís Ferreira, Luísa Coheur, Fernando Batista, and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 74, 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)


Abstract
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization

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8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 74, pp. 0:i-0:xviii, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{rodrigues_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2019.0,
  author =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Janou\v{s}ek, Jan and Ferreira, Lu{\'\i}s and Coheur, Lu{\'\i}sa and Batista, Fernando and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}},
  booktitle =	{8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)},
  pages =	{0:i--0:xviii},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-114-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Janou\v{s}ek, Jan and Ferreira, Lu{\'\i}s and Coheur, Lu{\'\i}sa and Batista, Fernando and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108679},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}
}
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Using Lucene for Developing a Question-Answering Agent in Portuguese

Authors: Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Ricardo Filipe, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Ana Alves

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 74, 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)


Abstract
Given the limitations of available platforms for creating conversational agents, and that a question-answering agent suffices in many scenarios, we take advantage of the Information Retrieval library Lucene for developing such an agent for Portuguese. The solution described answers natural language questions based on an indexed list of FAQs. Its adaptation to different domains is a matter of changing the underlying list. Different configurations of this solution, mostly on the language analysis level, resulted in different search strategies, which were tested for answering questions about the economic activity in Portugal. In addition to comparing the different search strategies, we concluded that, towards better answers, it is fruitful to combine the results of different strategies with a voting method.

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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Ricardo Filipe, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Ana Alves. Using Lucene for Developing a Question-Answering Agent in Portuguese. In 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 74, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{goncalooliveira_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2019.2,
  author =	{Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo and Filipe, Ricardo and Rodrigues, Ricardo and Alves, Ana},
  title =	{{Using Lucene for Developing a Question-Answering Agent in Portuguese}},
  booktitle =	{8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-114-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Janou\v{s}ek, Jan and Ferreira, Lu{\'\i}s and Coheur, Lu{\'\i}sa and Batista, Fernando and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108692},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: information retrieval, question answering, natural language interface, natural language processing, natural language understanding}
}
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Improving NLTK for Processing Portuguese

Authors: João Ferreira, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, and Ricardo Rodrigues

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 74, 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)


Abstract
Python has a growing community of users, especially in the AI and ML fields. Yet, Computational Processing of Portuguese in this programming language is limited, in both available tools and results. This paper describes NLPyPort, a NLP pipeline in Python, primarily based on NLTK, and focused on Portuguese. It is mostly assembled from pre-existent resources or their adaptations, but improves over the performance of existing alternatives in Python, namely in the tasks of tokenization, PoS tagging, lemmatization and NER.

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João Ferreira, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, and Ricardo Rodrigues. Improving NLTK for Processing Portuguese. In 8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 74, pp. 18:1-18:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{ferreira_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2019.18,
  author =	{Ferreira, Jo\~{a}o and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo and Rodrigues, Ricardo},
  title =	{{Improving NLTK for Processing Portuguese}},
  booktitle =	{8th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2019)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:9},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-114-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{74},
  editor =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Janou\v{s}ek, Jan and Ferreira, Lu{\'\i}s and Coheur, Lu{\'\i}sa and Batista, Fernando and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108852},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2019.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: NLP, Tokenization, PoS tagging, Lemmatization, Named Entity Recognition}
}
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ASAPP 2.0: Advancing the state-of-the-art of semantic textual similarity for Portuguese

Authors: Ana Alves, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Rui Encarnação

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 62, 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018)


Abstract
Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) aims at computing the proximity of meaning transmitted by two sentences. In 2016, the ASSIN shared task targeted STS in Portuguese and released training and test collections. This paper describes the development of ASAPP, a system that participated in ASSIN, but has been improved since then, and now achieves the best results in this task. ASAPP learns a STS function from a broad range of lexical, syntactic, semantic and distributional features. This paper describes the features used in the current version of ASAPP, and how they are exploited in a regression algorithm to achieve the best published results for ASSIN to date, in both European and Brazilian Portuguese.

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Ana Alves, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Ricardo Rodrigues, and Rui Encarnação. ASAPP 2.0: Advancing the state-of-the-art of semantic textual similarity for Portuguese. In 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 62, pp. 12:1-12:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{alves_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2018.12,
  author =	{Alves, Ana and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo and Rodrigues, Ricardo and Encarna\c{c}\~{a}o, Rui},
  title =	{{ASAPP 2.0: Advancing the state-of-the-art of semantic textual similarity for Portuguese}},
  booktitle =	{7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:17},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-072-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{62},
  editor =	{Henriques, Pedro Rangel and Leal, Jos\'{e} Paulo and Leit\~{a}o, Ant\'{o}nio Menezes and Guinovart, Xavier G\'{o}mez},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92709},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: natural language processing, semantic textual similarity, semantic relations, word embeddings, character n-grams, supervised machine learning}
}
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Short Paper
NLPPort: A Pipeline for Portuguese NLP (Short Paper)

Authors: Ricardo Rodrigues, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, and Paulo Gomes

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 62, 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018)


Abstract
Although there are tools for some the most common natural language processing tasks in Portuguese, there is a lack of available cross-platform tools specifically targeted for Portuguese, from end to end, namely for integration in projects developed in Java. To address this issue, we have developed and tweaked, over the last half-dozen years, NLPPort, a set of tools that can be used in a pipelined fashion, which we have made publicly available. In this paper, we present the major features of such set of tools.

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Ricardo Rodrigues, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, and Paulo Gomes. NLPPort: A Pipeline for Portuguese NLP (Short Paper). In 7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 62, pp. 18:1-18:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)


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@InProceedings{rodrigues_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2018.18,
  author =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo and Gomes, Paulo},
  title =	{{NLPPort: A Pipeline for Portuguese NLP}},
  booktitle =	{7th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2018)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:9},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-072-9},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{62},
  editor =	{Henriques, Pedro Rangel and Leal, Jos\'{e} Paulo and Leit\~{a}o, Ant\'{o}nio Menezes and Guinovart, Xavier G\'{o}mez},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-92768},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2018.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: natural language processing, tools, Portuguese}
}
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LemPORT: a High-Accuracy Cross-Platform Lemmatizer for Portuguese

Authors: Ricardo Rodrigues, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, and Paulo Gomes

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 38, 3rd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (2014)


Abstract
Although lemmatization is a very common subtask in many natural language processing tasks, there is a lack of available true cross-platform lemmatization tools specifically targeted for Portuguese, namely for integration in projects developed in Java. To address this issue, we have developed a lemmatizer, initially just for our own use, but which we have decided to make publicly available. The lemmatizer, presented in this document, yields an overall accuracy over 98% when compared against a manually revised corpus.

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Ricardo Rodrigues, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, and Paulo Gomes. LemPORT: a High-Accuracy Cross-Platform Lemmatizer for Portuguese. In 3rd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 38, pp. 267-274, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2014)


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@InProceedings{rodrigues_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2014.267,
  author =	{Rodrigues, Ricardo and Gon\c{c}alo Oliveira, Hugo and Gomes, Paulo},
  title =	{{LemPORT: a High-Accuracy Cross-Platform Lemmatizer for Portuguese}},
  booktitle =	{3rd Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies},
  pages =	{267--274},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-68-2},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2014},
  volume =	{38},
  editor =	{Pereira, Maria Jo\~{a}o Varanda and Leal, Jos\'{e} Paulo and Sim\~{o}es, Alberto},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2014.267},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-45753},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2014.267},
  annote =	{Keywords: lemmatization, normalization, rules, lexicon}
}
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