Isaac Souza de Miranda Jr.
Also published as: Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior
2026
Say "No" to Missing Polarity: A Negation Enrichment of Porttinari UD Treebank
Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior | Oto Araújo Vale | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026)
Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior | Oto Araújo Vale | Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2026)
Negation is a central phenomenon in linguistics: every language has some way of expressing the difference between an affirmative sentence and a negative one (Horn and Wansing, 2025). However, the treatment of negation remains uneven in Natural Language Processing (Jimenez-Zafra et al., 2017; Jiménez-Zafra et al., 2020). This paper presents the enrichment of a Brazilian Portuguese corpus with negation-related morphological information within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework (Nivre et al., 2020; de Marneffe et al., 2021). We enrich the Porttinari-base corpus (Duran et al., 2023) by systematically adding the UD morphological features Polarity=Neg and PronType=Neg for 18 negation-related lexical items. The enrichment only modifies the morphological features, leaving tokenization and dependency structure unchanged. To evaluate the computational results of this enrichment, we present an experiment using the Brazilian Portuguese parser PortParser (Lopes and Pardo, 2024), which we trained both on the original Porttinari-base data (Duran et al., 2023) and on our enriched version. Our results show that after enrichment, the parser’s performance remains stable, and the newly introduced features are being learned.
2024
Roda Viva boundaries: an overview of an audio-transcription corpus
Isaac Souza de Miranda Jr. | Gabriela Wick-Pedro | Cláudia Dias de Barros | Oto Vale
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - Vol. 2
Isaac Souza de Miranda Jr. | Gabriela Wick-Pedro | Cláudia Dias de Barros | Oto Vale
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese - Vol. 2
2021
A proposito do verbo falar no português brasileiro: uma analise em corpus e em bases de dados verbais
Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior | Marcela Monteiro Lemos Couto | Francimeire Leme Coelho | Roana Rodrigues | Oto Vale
Proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology
Isaac Souza de Miranda Junior | Marcela Monteiro Lemos Couto | Francimeire Leme Coelho | Roana Rodrigues | Oto Vale
Proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology