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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Apologies for multiple postings<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">The first version of the Portuguese linguistic module is now available
for NooJ. <br>
This module includes a bilingual extension to be used in Portuguese-English
machine translation, a work in progress. It contains:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US">-- two text files: the
Portuguese version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
"Declaração Universal Direitos Humanos-PT.not" (7,3 MB) and the novel
"Viagens na Minha Terra - Almeida Garret.not" (377 KB)<br>
-- a general open source dictionary (approx. 60,000 entries = lemmas):
PT-Dict.nod. Compiled dictionary recognizes 980,230 inflected word forms. <br>
-- a morphological grammar to process contracted forms: PT-Contr.nom<br>
-- a syntactic grammar that recognizes and translates dates: PT2EN-Dates.nog<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;" lang="EN-US">We hope this
work is useful to NooJ users interested in either working in the Portuguese
language or in other languages and who would like to compare and discuss the
new characteristics that the Portuguese module incorporates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">New users can download NooJ from <a href="http://www.nooj4nlp.net/"><b>http://www.nooj4nlp.net/</b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.nooj4nlp.net/"><b style=""></b></a><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="ecmsoplaintext"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Anabela
M. Barreiro</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><font size="2"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP)</span><br style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto (CLUP)/Linguateca</span><br style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Visiting scholar at New York University (NYU)</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class="ecmsoplaintext"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="http://www.linguateca.pt/Equipa/Anabela/Anabela_Barreiro.htm" target="_blank">http://www.linguateca.pt/Equipa/Anabela/Anabela_Barreiro.htm</a></span><span style="font-size: 4pt;"><br>
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