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In this paper we describe the cooperation between the NooJ-based paraphrasing system eSPERTo and the broad-coverage emotion annotation of Linguateca’s corpora, Emocionário, to develop strategies for analyzing the paraphrasing of emotions. We start by briefly introducing these two projects. Then, we describe how we selected five parallel texts in European and Brazilian Portuguese, automatically annotated them with Emocionário, and carefully revised the annotation, while paying special attention to multiword units and other phrases representing emotion paraphrastic units, and created a set of putative paraphrasing grammars in NooJ. We also comment on the translations and discuss disagreements on the annotation of emotions, as well as on formalization strategies used in the internal structure of the paraphrases.
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This work was partially supported by Portuguese national funds through FCT, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, under project UIDB/50021/2020. We also thank UNINETT Sigma2 – the National Infrastructure for High Performance Computing and Data Storage in Norway – for use of their computational resources, as well as FCCN for hosting Linguateca in their servers. We thank Belinda Maia for having read a previous version and suggested considerable improvements in style and content.
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Mota, C., Santos, D., Barreiro, A. (2021). Paraphrasing Emotions in Portuguese. In: Bekavac, B., Kocijan, K., Silberztein, M., Šojat, K. (eds) Formalising Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities. NooJ 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1389. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70629-6_12
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