Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

184However, not all candidate terms proposed by TermoStat were selected. There aretwo reasons for this. Firstly, some candidate terms correspond to erroneous part of speechtagging due to part of speech ambiguities. For example, the Portuguese candidate termaludir (to refer to) most often occurs in the corpus as an adjective deriving from the pastparticiple of the verb aludir:Tal sistema veio, então, com o aludido DL 39/95, a ser substituído pelo daoralidade mitigada, preconizado por Franz Klein, assim se permitindo um amplorecurso sobre a matéria de facto. (STJ 115/1997.S.1)Translation:The aforementioned Decree-Law 39/95 then replaced this system by a more oralone advocated by Franz Klein, thus allowing for a broad appeal of facts.The candidate term tender is another invalid term because its form tendo can bothrefer to the first person singular of the verb tender (to tend to) or to the gerund form of theauxiliary verb ter (to have). We verified in the corpus that tendo systematically occurs asthe gerund of the auxiliary verb in complex verb forms:[…] o autor respondeu ao anúncio, tendo sido convocado para uma entrevista noescritório que a 1.ª ré então possuía em Lisboa […] (STJ 09S0470)Translation:[…] the author answered the ad and was invited for an interview in the office thatthe first defendant owned in Lisbon […] (STJ 09S0470)English candidate terms such as accuse, enumerate, individualize, etc. were notretained for the same reason. For instance, although accuse may seem a relevant candidateterm, in the corpus it is the noun form accused (as in The accused was sentenced to lifeprison) that occurs extremely frequently, whereas verb forms appear only 8 times.Similarly, enumerated and individualized occur in the corpus as adjectives and seldom asverbs.