The purpose of the U-Compare platform is to facilitate easy and rapid development and evaluation of NLP and text mining systems. It includes utilities (including a graphical user interface, the U-Compare workbench, see separate record in META-SHARE) to create workflows from individual, interopera...

LX-DepParser is a free online service for the syntactic analysis of Portuguese. It allows the automatic parsing of sentences in Portuguese in terms of the grammatical functions of their words. This service was developed and is maintained at the University of Lisbon by the NLX-Speech and Natural ...

LX-Proficiency is an online service for the quantitative analysis of texts along a range of linguistic metrics, and for the estimation of the proficiency level of texts. These quantitative metrics are meant to provide support in the classification of texts according to the proficiency levels i...

LX-Quantitative is an online service for the quantitative analysis of texts along a range of linguistic metrics. This service is based on automatic text processing tools. Hence, the results it returns may not be always totally correct. Its high accuracy rate tough allows it to provide a useful...

Reddit Dataset Extraction Tool (RDET) is a tool that takes advantage of the resources available at 'pushshift.io' that relate to Reddit comments and submissions and generates new datasets based on any given subreddit.

The present tool, that was built to deal with Portuguese-specific issues concerning syntactic categorization, assigns a single morpho-syntactic tag, from the tagset below, to every token. The tag is attached to the token, using a / (slash) symbol as separator: um exemplo → um/IA exemplo/CN ...

LX-Lemmatizer is a freely available online service for fully-fledged lemmatization of Portuguese verbs. It was developed and is maintained at University of Lisbon by the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group of the Department of Informatics. LX-Lemmatizer takes a Portuguese verb form and deliv...

LX-Sentence Splitter is a language processing tool for delimiting sentences in Portuguese. It was developed and is maintained by the NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group at the University of Lisbon, Department of Informatics. LX-Sentence Splitter marks sentence boundaries with <s>…</s>, and p...

LX Semantic Similarity is an online service for measuring the semantic similarity between words in Portuguese. This service uses the LX-DSemVectors, a distributional semantics model (a.k.a. word embeddings) of the Portuguese language. The model represents each word in its vocabulary by a vecto...

YamCha is a generic, customizable, and open source text chunker oriented toward a lot of NLP tasks, such as POS tagging, Named Entity Recognition, base NP chunking, and Text Chunking. We used it for NP chunking.