Lexical resources for the identification of causative relations in portuguese texts

The identification of causal relations from text is a mature problem in Natural Language Processing. There are a number of resources and tools to aid causative relation extraction in English, but there seems to be a limited number of resources for Portuguese. This paper presents a number of resources which are designed to aid the researcher and the practitioner to extract causative relations from Portuguese texts.FAPESP (grant number: 11/20451-1