Inquietação, memória e afirmação no batuque: música e dança cabo-verdiana em Portugal

O presente trabalho propõe-se descodificar o papel da performance do batuque enquanto elemento central e identificador de aspetos sociais, políticos e culturais no contexto poscolonial da relação entre Cabo Verde e Portugal. A tese problematiza vários aspetos do batuque, música e dança cabo-verdiana na perspetiva da história, da teoria do poscolonialismo e da migração. Discute especificidades da comunidade imigrante cabo-verdiana em Portugal e propõe uma abordagem etnográfica da sua organização musical, centrando-se no batuque e sobretudo no grupo Finka-Pé, na sua história e atividade. A performance do batuque é interpretada como ingrediente de afirmação e integração social e, simultaneamente, como elemento de inquietação e memória de resistência. O batuque é estudado e descrito do ponto de vista histórico, etimológico e musical. Finalmente analisa-se a divulgação e a emergência pública do batuque em Portugal enquanto género de conotação musical africana. A prática do batuque constitui um rico marcador da relação e da atitude poscolonial porque este veio emparelhar-se e ganhar espaço junto de outros géneros musicalmente mais próximos das práticas europeias que historicamente definiam a singularidade cultural cabo-verdiana no contexto do império colonial português.

Medical information extraction in European Portuguese

The electronic storage of medical patient data is becoming a daily experience in most of the practices and hospitals worldwide. However, much of the data available is in free-form text, a convenient way of expressing concepts and events, but especially challenging if one wants to perform automatic searches, summarization or statistical analysis. Information Extraction can relieve some of these problems by offering a semantically informed interpretation and abstraction of the texts. MedInX, the Medical Information eXtraction system presented in this document, is the first information extraction system developed to process textual clinical discharge records written in Portuguese. The main goal of the system is to improve access to the information locked up in unstructured text, and, consequently, the efficiency of the health care process, by allowing faster and reliable access to quality information on health, for both patient and health professionals. MedInX components are based on Natural Language Processing principles, and provide several mechanisms to read, process and utilize external resources, such as terminologies and ontologies, in the process of automatic mapping of free text reports onto a structured representation. However, the flexible and scalable architecture of the system, also allowed its application to the task of Named Entity Recognition on a shared evaluation contest focused on Portuguese general domain free-form texts. The evaluation of the system on a set of authentic hospital discharge letters indicates that the system performs with 95% F-measure, on the task of entity recognition, and 95% precision on the task of relation extraction. Example applications, demonstrating the use of MedInX capabilities in real applications in the hospital setting, are also presented in this document. These applications were designed to answer common clinical problems related with the automatic coding of diagnoses and other health-related conditions described in the documents, according to the international classification systems ICD-9-CM and ICF. The automatic review of the content and completeness of the documents is an example of another developed application, denominated MedInX Clinical Audit system.