Universal Dependencies for Portuguese
Alexandre Rademaker, Fabricio Chalub, Livy Real, Cláudia Freitas, Eckhard Bick, Valeria de Paiva · University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark) · 2017
This paper describes the creation of a Portuguese corpus following the guidelines of the Universal Dependencies Framework.Instead of starting from scratch, we invested in a conversion process from the existing Portuguese corpus, called Bosque.The conversion was done by applying a context-sensitive set of Constraint Grammar rules to its original deep linguistic analysis, which was carried out by the parser PALAVRAS, with some additional manual corrections.Universal Dependencies offer the promise of greater parallelism between languages, a plus for researchers in many areas.We report the challenges of dealing with Portuguese, a Romance language, hoping that our experience will help others.