Finding the region of origin for users of proverbs.

• Author(s): Mendes, Armando B. ; Funk, Matthias ; Sousa, Áurea
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2175
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Hierarchical Cluster Analysis; Proverbs; Azores
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Third workshop on statistics, mathematics and computation : First Portuguese-Polish Workshop on Biometry, Universidade Aberta: Lisboa, 21 Julho 2008 (Poster communication). Proverbs are a form of popular knowledge present in every culture and society. During a long project for proverbial sentences identification a data base was being constructed. This data base collects, today, information about 25.000 idiomatic sentences including more than one thousand valid answers for proverbial sentences recognition surveys. In this work a project is described aimed to extract knowledge from this data base in order to comprehend better the inquiries about their level of proverbial recognition and the influence of the locations they have been living. [Introduction]