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In this paper we assess to what extent the available Portuguese treebanks and available probabilistic parsers are suitable for out-of-the-box robust parsing of Portuguese. We also announce the release of the best parser coming out of this exercise, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first robust parser widely available for Portuguese.
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Silva, J., Branco, A., Castro, S., Reis, R. (2010). Out-of-the-Box Robust Parsing of Portuguese. In: Pardo, T.A.S., Branco, A., Klautau, A., Vieira, R., de Lima, V.L.S. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12320-7_10
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