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Portuguese Controlled Language: Coping with Ambiguity

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Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012)

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This paper focuses on strategies to avoid lexical related ambiguity, induced by polysemy or by syntactic function effects, in the context of a system to control Portuguese as a source language for machine translation. This system, which is being developed under wider scope ongoing research, involves two main components - a controlled language for Portuguese and a tool to evaluate the conformity of texts with the controlled language. In a subsidiary way, it also makes use of the Portuguese WordNet (WordNet.PT).

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    Palmira Marrafa, Raquel Amaro, Nuno Freire & Sara Mendes

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Marrafa, P., Amaro, R., Freire, N., Mendes, S. (2012). Portuguese Controlled Language: Coping with Ambiguity. In: Kuhn, T., Fuchs, N.E. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7427. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32612-7_11

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