This paper introduces the novel concept of a Multilingual Paraphrasary addressing its need
for paraphrasing and translation. The multilingual paraphrasary is an ongoing work carried …

Paraphrasing is an indispensable practice in translation. Translation can even be
considered as a paraphrasing process, where the paraphrasing of a sentence or part of a …

This paper presents a methodology to extract a paraphrase database for the European and
Brazilian varieties of Portuguese, and discusses a set of paraphrastic categories of …

Multiword expressions (MWEs) are common word combinations which exhibit idiosyncrasies
in various linguistic levels. For various downstream natural language processing …

Abstract Machine Translation is a sub-field of Computational Linguistics that deals with
systems that automatically translate text or an utterance from one language into another. The …

In this paper, we make an attempt to improve the textual fit of English-to-Polish translation of
a peculiar type of multi-word units known in corpus linguistic literature as lexical bundles …

In this paper we present the development of an ontology-based bilingual (IT-EN)
lexicographic resource of Italian clitic Verbal MultiWord Expressions (VMWEs) to support …

A análise de corpora confirma que os sistemas de quantificação universal do inglês, do
francês e do português não são simétricos: o quantificador universal português cada é …

This paper analyzes the semantics of verbs with the prefix “do-” and explains the adlativity
feature based on the morpho-syntactically annotated corpus hrWaC and handcrafted verb …

This paper performs a detailed analysis on the alignment of Portuguese contractions, based
on a previously aligned bilingual corpus. The alignment task was performed manually in a …