Portuguese Manners of Speaking

Valeria de Paiva, Alexandre Rademaker


Abstract
Lexical resources need to be as complete as possible. Very little work seems to have been done on adverbs, the smallest part of speech class in Princeton WordNet counting the number of synsets. Amongst adverbs, manner adverbs ending in ‘-ly’ seem the easiest to work with, as their meaning is almost the same as the one of the associated adjective. This phenomenon seems to be parallel in English and Portuguese, where these manner adverbs finish in the suffix ‘-mente’. We use this correspondence to improve the coverage of adverbs in the lexical resource OpenWordNet-PT, a wordnet for Portuguese.
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2019.gwc-1.47
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Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference
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July
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2019
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Wroclaw, Poland
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Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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373–377
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Valeria de Paiva and Alexandre Rademaker. 2019. Portuguese Manners of Speaking. In Proceedings of the 10th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 373–377, Wroclaw, Poland. Global Wordnet Association.
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