The aim of this article is twofold. In the first place, we present evidence that the syntactic change towards overt pronominal subjects observed in Brazilian Portuguese is not a stable phenomenon; rather, our empirical results allow to follow the ...
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte +1 more
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Building a Sentiment Corpus of Tweets in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
The large amount of data available in social media, forums and websites motivates researches in several areas of Natural Language Processing, such as sentiment analysis.
Ayan K. Chakrabarti (139299) +3 more
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Validation for Brazilian Portuguese of the Eating Behavior Phenotypes Scale (EFCA): confirmatory factor analysis and psychometric properties [PDF]
Objective: To validate the psychometric properties of the Eating Behavior Phenotypes Scale (EFCA) and to analyze the stability of the construct and its external validity in Brazilian Portuguese.
Ronaldo José Pineda-Wieselberg +7 more
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Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese language version of the facial feminization surgery outcomes evaluation the Brazilian Portuguese language version of the FFSOE [PDF]
Objective: To translate and validate the Facial Feminization Surgery Outcomes Evaluation in Brazilian Portuguese. Methods: A standard back-translation method was applied to obtain the final Brazilian Portuguese language version.
Vanessa Silva Soledade +2 more
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The Uncertain Atlantic: African and European Transformations of São Tomé Island c. 1533
As the first European colony to specialize in sugar cultivation using a labor force comprised exclusively of enslaved Africans, São Tomé island in the Gulf of Guinea is often considered the birthplace of the sugar plantation complex.
Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, David Wheat
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Portuguese, a language of the Ibero-Romance subgroup of the Romance languages, has a variety which is spoken in Brazil, a country with circa 170 million inhabitants, of whom about 161 million speak Portuguese and 138 million live in cities. For this illustration of Brazilian Portuguese (henceforth BP), we have recorded a speaker whose choice was guided
Plínio A. Barbosa, Eleonora C. Albano
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Lateral vocalization in Brazilian Portuguese
Lateral vocalization is a cross-linguistically common phenomenon where a lateral is realized as a glide, such as [w, j], or a vowel [u, i]. In this paper, we focus on the articulatory triggers that could cause lateral vocalization. We examined Brazilian Portuguese, a language known for the process of lateral vocalization in coda position.
Howson, Phil J. +2 more
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A Normalizer for UGC in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
User-generated contents (UGC) represent an important source of information for governments, companies, political candidates and consumers. However, most of the Natural Language Processing tools and techniques are developed from and for texts of standard language, and UGC is a type of text especially full of creativity and idiosyncrasies, which ...
Magali Sanches Duran +2 more
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Translation, cultural adaptation and validation for Brazilian Portuguese of the Cardiff Acne Disability Index instrument [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The Cardiff Acne Disability Index was originally developed in English for measuring quality of life of acne patients. Considering the psychosocial impact of this disease, it is important to have instruments culturally and linguistically ...
Luciana Rosa Grando +3 more
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Interrelationships among international stock market indices: Europe, Asia and the Americas [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate the price interdependence between seven international stock markets, namely Irish, UK, Portuguese, US, Brazilian, Japanese and Hong Kong, using a new testing method, based on the wavelet transform to reconstruct the data ...
Crane, Martin +2 more
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