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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Dear colleagues</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We are pleased to announce
that the syntactical annotation of the CHAVE collection, <a
href="http://www.linguateca.pt/CHAVE/">http://www.linguateca.pt/CHAVE/</a> by
the PALAVRAS parser <a href="http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/visl/pt/">http://beta.visl.sdu.dk/visl/pt/</a>
of Eckhard Bick is now available for download from the Linguateca site.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The CHAVE collection was
created by Linguateca with the full material of the Público and Folha de São
Paulo daily newspapers in 1994-1995 (respectively from </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Portugal</span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>
and </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Brazil</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>) in the scope of CLEF, the
cross-language evaluation forum, <a href="http://www.clef-campaign.org/">http://www.clef-campaign.org/</a>
and is available since 2004 also at the CLEF subsite of Linguateca, <a
href="http://www.linguateca.pt/CLEF/">http://www.linguateca.pt/CLEF/</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We hope that this will
contribute to steadier progress of Portuguese language processing and
Portuguese IR, and specifically advances in geographical information retrieval
and question answering.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>For the Linguateca team</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Luís cabral</span></font></p>
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