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Alberto Simões
Researcher at Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Publications - 120
Citations - 859
Alberto Simões is an academic researcher from Instituto Politécnico Nacional. The author has contributed to research in topics: Portuguese & WordNet. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 120 publications receiving 782 citations. Previous affiliations of Alberto Simões include Polytechnic Institute of Porto & University of Minho.
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The adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW) for European Portuguese
TL;DR: The EP adaptation of the Affective Norms for English Words for European Portuguese is shown to be a valid and useful tool that will allow researchers to control and/or manipulate the affective properties of stimuli, as well as to develop cross-linguistic studies.
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NATools, a statistical word aligner workbench
Alberto Simões,José João Almeida +1 more
TL;DR: This document shows a variety of alignment methods for parallel corpora and discusses the resulting terminological dictionaries and their use: evaluation of sentence translations; construction of a multi-level navigation system for linguistic studies or statistical translations.
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On the advantages of word frequency and contextual diversity measures extracted from subtitles: The case of Portuguese.
Ana Paula Soares,João Machado,Ana Rita Costa,Álvaro Iriarte,Alberto Simões,José João Almeida,Montserrat Comesaña,Manuel Perea +7 more
TL;DR: SUBTLEX-PT, a new lexical database for 132,710 Portuguese words obtained from a 78 million corpus based on film and television series subtitles, offering word frequency and contextual diversity measures, explains approximately 15% more of the variance in the lexical decision performance of young adults than the P-PAL database.
jspell.pm: um módulo de análise morfológica para uso em processamento de linguagem natural
Alberto Simões,José João Almeida +1 more
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Procura-PALavras (P-PAL): A Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese lexical database
Ana Paula Soares,Álvaro Iriarte,José João Almeida,Alberto Simões,Ana Rita Costa,João Machado,Patrícia das Dores Marques da Silva Cunha França,Montserrat Comesaña,Andréia Schurt Rauber,Andréia Schurt Rauber,Anabela Rato,Anabela Rato,Manuel Perea +12 more
TL;DR: P-PAL is a Web-based interface for a new European Portuguese (EP) lexical database that provides a broad range of word attributes and statistics, and will be a key resource to support research in all cognitive areas that use EP verbal stimuli.