OpinExpress: a lexicon of opinion expressions represented by local grammars

• Grant number: 14/00136-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: July 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Oto Araújo Vale
• Grantee: Oto Araújo Vale
• Host Investigator: Cedrick Fairon
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universitè Catolique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium

Abstract

The main aim of the present project is to build a lexicon of multi-words units that express opinion in Brazilian Portuguese. One intends to establish lists of expressions which have a high level of polarity, and that therefore more strongly express the speaker's viewpoint/opinion. This selection will be based on actual use, i.e., a corpus of real texts and its representation will be done by means of local grammars. (AU)