Paraphrasing Portuguese Adverbs ending in –mente

Authors

  • Jorge Baptista Universidade do Algarve/INESC ID Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.10.2.289

Keywords:

adverb, ending in -mente, paraphrase, word sense disambiguation, lexicon-grammar, Portuguese

Abstract

In this paper, we depart from the lexical-syntactic-semantic properties that were used to classify the most frequent adverbs in Portuguese ending in -mente  '-ly', and explore the generation of different paraphrasing patterns, both regular or very general structures, such as those for manner and view point adverbs, as well as other, less productive (and sometimes idiomatic) structures. The goal is to provide a comprehensive set of paraphrasing strategies, which can be used in several natural language applications, like text simplification or even machine translation.

Author Biography

  • Jorge Baptista, Universidade do Algarve/INESC ID Lisboa

    Doutor em Linguistica - Sintaxe (Univ. Algarve, 2001).
    Mestre em Linguística Portuguesa Descritiva (Univ. Lisboa, Fac. Letras, 1995).
    Licenciado em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas-Estudos Portugueses (Univ. Lisboa, Fac. Letras, 1990).

    Prof. Associado de nomeação definitiva da Univ. Algarve (desde 2006), onde é docente desde 1992.

    Investigador convidado do L2F - Spoken Language Laboratory, do INESC-ID Lisboa

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Published

2019-01-24

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2

Section

POP - By Other Words

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How to Cite

Paraphrasing Portuguese Adverbs ending in –mente. (2019). Linguamática, 10(2), 21-30. https://doi.org/10.21814/lm.10.2.289