Building a Brazilian Portuguese Parallel Corpus of Original and Simplified Texts
Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Tiago F. Pereira, Lucia Specia, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Caroline Gasperin, Sandra Maria Aluísio · 2009
In this paper we address the problem of building the necessary tools and resources for performing Brazilian Portuguese text simplification. We describe our efforts on the design and development of: (a) a XCES-based annotation schema, (b) an annotation edition tool, and (c) a portal to access parallel corpora of original-simplified texts. These contributions were intended to (i) allow the creation and public release of a corpus of original and simplified texts with two different versions of simplification (called here natural and strong), targeting two levels of functional illiteracy and (ii) register simplification decisions during the creation of such corpus. We also provide an analysis of the first corpus created using the resources presented here: 104 newspaper texts and their simplified versions, produced by an expert in text simplification.