Working with Portuguese Corpora

Although Portuguese is one of the main world languages and researchers have been working on Portuguese electronic text collections for decades (e.g. Kelly, 1970; Biderman, 1978; Bacelar do Nascimento et al., 1984; see Berber Sardinha, 2005), this is the first volume in English that encapsulates the exciting and cutting-edge corpus linguistic work being done with Portuguese language corpora on different continents. The book includes chapters by leading corpus linguists dealing with Portuguese corpora across the world, and their contributions explore various methods and how they are applicable to a wide range of language issues.

The book is divided into six sections, each covering a key issue in Corpus Linguistics: lexis and grammar, lexicography, language teaching and terminology, translation, corpus building and sharing, and parsing and annotation. Together these sections present the reader with a broad picture of the field.

Tony Berber Sardinha is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, University of Sao Paola, Brazil

Telma de Lurdes Sao Bento Ferreira is ESOL teacher and translation coordinator, Lexikos Cursos e Traduções Ltda, Brazil

Foreword, Mike Scott \ Introduction \ Part 1: Corpora and tools \ 1. Creating and using the Corpus do Português and the Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese, Mark Davie & Michael Ferreira \ 2. The Brazilian Corpus, Tony Berber Sardinha \ 3. New corpora for "new" challenges in Portuguese processing, Sandra Maria Aluísio, Thiago Pard & Magali Duran \ 4. Corpora at Linguateca: vision and roads taken, Diana Santos \ 5. The C-ORAL-BRASIL: Informal Brazilian Spoken Corpus, Tommaso Raso, Heliana Mello \ 6. The Reference Corpus of Contemporary Portuguese, Sandra Antunes, Luísa Pereira, Amália Mendes & Maria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento \ 7. The CoMET Project - corpora for teaching and translation, Stella E. O. Tagnin \ 8. The Per-Fide Corpora in contrast: a new resource for corpora-based terminology, contrastive linguistics and translation studies, Sílvia Lima Gonçalves Araújo \ 9. PALAVRAS, a Constraint Grammar-based parsing system for Portuguese, Eckhard Bick \ Part 2: Corpus analysis and applications \ 10. Understanding Portuguese Translations with the Help of Corpora, Ana Frankenberg-Garcia \ 11. Portuguese corpus lexicography: setting up the resources, Adam Kilgarriff, Jan Pomikalek, Pete Whitelock \ 12. Mapping grammatical change in a corpus: the concrete case of Portuguese complex prepositions, Tania Maria Granja Shepherd \ 13. Dimensions of register variation in Brazilian Portuguese, Tony Berber Sardinha, Cristina Mayer Acunzo & Carlos Kauffmann \ 14. Dimensions of variation in metaphor use, Tony Berber Sardinha \ 15. The issue of authenticity in a textbook for the teaching of Brazilian Portuguese as a Foreign Language, Telma de Lurdes So Bento Ferreira \ 16. The Common Orthographic Vocabulary of the Portuguese Language: a multi-national corpus-based lexicographic effort -- José Pedro Ferreira, Gladis Barcellos de Almeida , Margarita Correia, Gilvan Muller de Oliveira \ 17. Oncology terms in Brazilian Portuguese, Rosa Barros Silva e Teixeira \ 18. Lexical bundles in Brazilian Portuguese, Tony Berber Sardinha , Telma de Lurdes So Bento Ferreira, Rosana Barros Silva e Teixeira \ Bibliography \ Index