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[Valerie Mapelli]

[ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ]
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		     *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***

We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA:

ELRA-W0024 PAROLE Portuguese Corpus
ELRA-L0035 PAROLE Portuguese Lexicon

A description of each database is given below.

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ELRA-W0024 PAROLE Portuguese Corpus
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The parole Portuguese corpus contains approximately 3 million
running words of European Portuguese distributed by Medium,
as follows:
- Newspaper: about 65%, covering the period 1996-1997 of 3 titles;
- Book: about 20%, concerning 12 titles from 3 editing houses;
- Periodical: about 5%, concerning 7 weekly issues of 1 title, 1996;
- Miscellaneous: about 10%, concerning several files distributed by 8 titles.
The corpus was classified and encoded according to the common
core parole encoding standard. The file format of this corpus is SGML.

A subcorpus of the PAROLE Portuguese Corpus, which reproduces
approximately the whole Corpus distribution by Medium
(Newspaper: about 65%, Book: ab. 20%, Periodical: ab. 5%,
Miscellaneous: ab. 10%) is also available.
It has about 250,000 words morpho-syntactically tagged accordingly
to the parole common tagset and morpho-syntactic annotation standards.
Disambiguation was manually checked.

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ELRA-L0035 PAROLE Portuguese Lexicon
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The PAROLE Portuguese Lexicon is constituted by 20 thousand
entries morpho-syntactically and syntactically encoded, accordingly
to the parole common encoding standards. The data is in SGML format.

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For further information, please contact:

     ELRA/ELDA	               Tel  +33 01 43 13 33 33
     55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin         Fax  +33 01 43 13 33 30
     F-75013 Paris, France           E-mail  mapelli at elda.fr

or visit the online catalogue on our Web site:

     http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
     or http://www.elda.fr
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