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However, we go further and exploit all of the analysed LKBs in the creation of new LKBs, based on the redundant contents. Both original and redundancy-based LKBs are then compared, indirectly, based on the performance of automatic procedures that exploit them for solving four different semantic analysis tasks. In addition to conclusions on the performance of the original LKBs, results show that, instead of selecting a single LKB to use, it is generally worth combining the contents of all the open Portuguese LKBs, towards better results.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info9020034","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,2]],"date-time":"2018-02-02T08:25:30Z","timestamp":1517559930000},"page":"34","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["A Survey on Portuguese Lexical Knowledge Bases: Contents, Comparison and Combination"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5779-8645","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hugo","family":"Gon\u00e7alo Oliveira","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Informatics Engineering, Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC), University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,2,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Fellbaum, C. 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