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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Detection of Uncertain Statements in the Financial Domain
The automatic detection of uncertain statements can benefit NLP tasks such as deception detection and information extraction. Furthermore, it can enable new analyses in social sciences such as business where t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Domain-Specific Hybrid Machine Translation from English to Portuguese
Machine translation (MT) from English to Portuguese has not typically received much attention in existing research. In this paper, we focus on MT from English to Portuguese for the specific domain of informati...
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Simple or Not Simple? A Readability Question
Text Simplification (TS) has taken off as an important Natural Language Processing (NLP) application which promises to offer a significant societal impact in that it can be employed to the benefit of users wit...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stylistic Changes for Temporal Text Classification
This paper investigates stylistic changes in a set of Portuguese historical texts ranging from the 17th to the early 20th century and presents a supervised method to classify them per century. Four stylistic feat...
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Can Statistical Tests Be Used for Feature Selection in Diachronic Text Classification?
In spite of the great number of diachronic studies in various languages, the methodology for investigating language change has not evolved much in the last fifty years. Following the progressive trends in othe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Text Simplification in Spanish: A Comparative Evaluation of Complementing Modules
In this paper we present two components of an automatic text simplification system for Spanish, aimed at making news articles more accessible to readers with cognitive disabilities. Our system in its current s...