Paraphrasing Portuguese Adverbs ending in-mente

Abstract

In this paper, we depart from the lexical-syntacticsemantic properties that were used to classify the most frequent adverbs in Portuguese ending in -mente '-ly', and explore the generation of different paraphrasing patterns, both regular or very general structures, such as those for manner and view point adverbs, as well as other, less productive (and sometimes idiomatic) structures. The goal is to provide a comprehensive set of paraphrasing strategies, which can be used in several natural language applications, like text simplification or even machine translation.