Amália Mendes

Datos Biográficos

ID3897247
NOMBREAmália Mendes
NOMBRESAmália
APELLIDOMendes
FIRMAMENDES A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Lisbon
ORCID0000-0003-1020-8633
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2016
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Questions in the TED-Multilingual Discourse Bank and the development of an annotation scheme

    Open AccessDeniz Zeyrek, Amália MendesARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2025

    In this paper, we analyze question-answer pairs and stand-alone questions within the spoken discourse of TED Talks, specifically focusing on the TED-Multilingual Discourse Bank. Our aim is to reveal various characteristics of questions through an annotation approach. We have developed a taxonomy, referred to as the TAQ-TED, to categorize types of questions and examine their information transfer and dialogue control functions, drawing on the Dynam…

  • Advances in research on questions in monologic discourse

    Agnès Celle, Amália MendesARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2025

    This article is an introduction to a special issue titled “Questions in Monologic Discourse”. While non-canonical questions have received a lot of attention recently, most studies have taken dialogue as a discourse benchmark for analysis. This special issue gathers articles that do not assume communication to be restricted to information exchange. More specifically, this special issue focuses on questions that do not necessarily lead to an issue …

  • Explicitness and implicitness of discourse relations in a multilingual discourse bank

    Open AccessAmália Mendes, Deniz Zeyrek et al.ARTICLEFunctions of Language2023

    Proposals such as continuity and causality-by-default relate the level of expectedness of a relation to its linguistic marking as an explicit or implicit relation. We investigate these two proposals with regard to the English transcripts of six TED Talks and their Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish translations in the TED-Multilingual Discourse Bank (TED-MDB), annotated for discourse relations, following the Penn Discourse Treebank style of annot…

  • An Exploratory Analysis of TED Talks in English and Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish Translations

    Open AccessDeniz Zeyrek, Amália Mendes et al.ARTICLEContrastive Pragmatics2022

    This paper contributes to the question of how discourse relations are realised in TED talks. Drawing on an annotated, multilingual discourse corpus of TED talk transcripts, we examine discourse relations in English and Lithuanian, Portuguese and Turkish translations by concentrating on three aspects: the degree of explicitness in discourse relations, the extent to which explicit and implicit relations are encoded inter- or intra-sententially, and…

  • Spatial analysis of genetic clusters and epidemiologic factors related to wild poliovirus type 1 persistence in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Open AccessAmália Mendes, Ari Whiteman et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Following the certification of the World Health Organization Region of Africa as free of serotype 1 wild poliovirus (WPV1) in 2020, Afghanistan and Pakistan represent the last remaining WPV1 reservoirs. As efforts continue in these countries to progress to eradication, there is an opportunity for a deeper understanding of the spatiotemporal characteristics and epidemiological risk factors associated with continual WPV1 circulation in the region. …

  • Sobre formas de tratamento no Português Europeu e Brasileiro

    Open AccessMaria Fernanda Bacelar do Nascimento, Eugênia Duarte et al.ARTICLERevista Diadorim2018

    Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar uma comparação entre as formas de tratamento usadas no português europeu e brasileiro. Mostramos que naquela variedade o sistema é bem mais complexo devido (i) a uma distribuição complementar entre tu e você segundo o tipo de relação entre os interlocutores; (ii) a uma variedade maior de formas nominais para o tratamento entreíntimos e não íntimos. Quanto ao português brasileiro, os dois pronomes não se enc…

  • Modalidade e foco

    Open AccessAmália MendesARTICLERevista Diadorim2016

    Apresenta-se neste artigo uma análise da interação entre os conceitos de modalidade e de foco em contextos com o advérbio focalizador exclusivo só e um verbo semi-auxiliar modal (poder, dever ou ter (de)) ou ainda a estrutura predicativa ser capaz de. Interessa-nos observar de que forma o advérbio exclusivo, com efeitos sobre a estrutura informacional, pode interagir com o significado modal de base do contexto e ainda aduzir eventuais valores pra…