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title = "Can {I} guess where you are from? Modeling dialectal morphosyntactic similarities in {B}razilian {P}ortuguese",
author = "Siqueira, Manoel and
Freitag, Raquel",
editor = "Souza, Marlo and
de-Dios-Flores, Iria and
Santos, Diana and
Freitas, Larissa and
Souza, Jackson Wilke da Cruz and
Ribeiro, Eug{\'e}nio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of {P}ortuguese ({PROPOR} 2026) - Vol. 1",
month = apr,
year = "2026",
address = "Salvador, Brazil",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-1.59/",
pages = "601--610",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-387-6",
abstract = "This paper investigates morphosyntactic covariation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) to assess whether dialectal origin can be inferred from the combined behavior of linguistic variables. Focusing on four grammatical phenomena related to second-person pronoun, correlation and clustering methods are applied to model covariation and dialectal distribution. The results indicate that correlation captures only limited pairwise associations, whereas clustering reveals speaker groupings that reflect regional dialectal patterns. Despite the methodological constraints imposed by differences in sample size requirements between sociolinguistics and computational approaches, the study highlights the importance of interdisciplinary research. Developing fair and inclusive language technologies that respect dialectal diversity outweighs the challenges of integrating these fields."
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%T Can I guess where you are from? Modeling dialectal morphosyntactic similarities in Brazilian Portuguese
%A Siqueira, Manoel
%A Freitag, Raquel
%Y Souza, Marlo
%Y de-Dios-Flores, Iria
%Y Santos, Diana
%Y Freitas, Larissa
%Y Souza, Jackson Wilke da Cruz
%Y Ribeiro, Eugénio
%S Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2026) - Vol. 1
%D 2026
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Salvador, Brazil
%@ 979-8-89176-387-6
%F siqueira-freitag-2026-guess
%X This paper investigates morphosyntactic covariation in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) to assess whether dialectal origin can be inferred from the combined behavior of linguistic variables. Focusing on four grammatical phenomena related to second-person pronoun, correlation and clustering methods are applied to model covariation and dialectal distribution. The results indicate that correlation captures only limited pairwise associations, whereas clustering reveals speaker groupings that reflect regional dialectal patterns. Despite the methodological constraints imposed by differences in sample size requirements between sociolinguistics and computational approaches, the study highlights the importance of interdisciplinary research. Developing fair and inclusive language technologies that respect dialectal diversity outweighs the challenges of integrating these fields.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-1.59/
%P 601-610
Markdown (Informal)
[Can I guess where you are from? Modeling dialectal morphosyntactic similarities in Brazilian Portuguese](https://aclanthology.org/2026.propor-1.59/) (Siqueira & Freitag, PROPOR 2026)
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