Cláudia Freitas

Floresta Sintá(c)tica: Bigger, Thicker and Easier

In this paper, we describe the resumption of activities of Floresta Sinta(c)tica, a treebank for Portuguese. We present some underlying guidelines around the project and how they influence our linguistic choices. We then describe the new texts added to the treebank, proceed to mention the new syntactic information added to the old texts, and finally describe the new user-friendly search system and the plans for its expansion.

Relation detection between named entities: report of a shared task

In this paper we describe the first evaluation contest (track) for Portuguese whose goal was to detect and classify relations between named entities in running text, called ReRelEM. Given a collection annotated with named entities belonging to ten different semantic categories, we marked all relationships between them within each document. We used the following fourfold relationship classification: identity, included-in, located-in, and other (which was later on explicitly detailed into twenty different relations). We provide a quantitative description of this evaluation resource, as well as describe the evaluation architecture and summarize the results of the participating systems in the track.