Towards Using Machine Translation Techniques to Induce Multilingual Lexica of Discourse Markers

no code implementations • 31 Mar 2015 • António Lopes, David Martins de Matos, Vera Cabarrão, Ricardo Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata

Discourse markers are universal linguistic events subject to language variation.

Machine Translation Sentence +1

Revising the annotation of a Broadcast News corpus: a linguistic approach

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Vera Cabarr{\~a}o, Helena Moniz, Fern Batista, o, Ricardo Ribeiro, Nuno Mamede, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata, David Martins de Matos

This paper presents a linguistic revision process of a speech corpus of Portuguese broadcast news focusing on metadata annotation for rich transcription, and reports on the impact of the new data on the performance for several modules.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Teenage and adult speech in school context: building and processing a corpus of European Portuguese

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ana Isabel Mata, Helena Moniz, Fern Batista, o, Julia Hirschberg

We present a corpus of European Portuguese spoken by teenagers and adults in school context, CPE-FACES, with an overview of the differential characteristics of high school oral presentations and the challenges this data poses to automatic speech processing.

Prosodic, syntactic, semantic guidelines for topic structures across domains and corpora

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ana Isabel Mata, Helena Moniz, Telmo M{\'o}ia, Anabela Gon{\c{c}}alves, F{\'a}tima Silva, Fern Batista, o, In{\^e}s Duarte, F{\'a}tima Oliveira, Isabel Fal{\'e}

This paper presents the annotation guidelines applied to naturally occurring speech, aiming at an integrated account of contrast and parallel structures in European Portuguese.

Part-Of-Speech Tagging