Evaluating CETEMPúblico, a free resource for Portuguese
Diana Santos, Paulo Cezar Correa Rocha Junior · 2001
In this paper we present a thorough evaluation of a corpus resource for Portuguese, CETEMPúblico, a 180million word newspaper corpus free for R&D in Portuguese processing.We provide information that should be useful to those using the resource, and to considerable improvement for later versions.In addition, we think that the procedures presented can be of interest for the larger NLP community, since corpus evaluation and description is unfortunately not a common exercise.,QWURGXFWLRQCETEMPúblico is a large corpus of European Portuguese newspaper language, available at no cost to the community dealing with the processing of Portuguese. 1 It was created in the framework of the Computational Processing of Portuguese project, a government funded initiative to foster language engineering of the Portuguese language.2 Evaluating this resource, we have two main goals in mind: To contribute to improve its usefulness; and to suggest ways of going about as far as corpus evaluation is concerned in general (noting that most corpora projects are simply described and not evaluated).