Extracts from the Borba/Ramsey corpus of Brazilian Portuguese
ECI version

Provided by Dr. Myriam Ramsey of Brigham Young University.
The corpus was taken from a larger corpus (30 megs)
and it is a sampler. It contains excerpts (anywhere from two to ten
lines) of novels, plays, newspapers, magazines, textbooks,
periodicals, etc.  involving some 200 different writers. The sampler
represents every fifteenth computer line of the larger corpus. It
contains more than one computer line from each text.  Each item is a
complete paragraph and should not end without a period or start with
small caps.  The language is Brazilian Portuguese. It does not differ
greatly from the language of Portugal. It is taken from materials
published after 1950 and most of it is from the 70s and 80s.

Processing of the texts received was minimal. The character set was
converted to ISO-LATIN-1 and paragraph boundaries were marked. The
corpus was split into four files on grounds of size and each file was
bracketed with <div0 type=file> .. </div0>.  All (8) occurances of the
TAB character were replaced by space. '&' characters were replaced by
&amp; and one occurance of '<' was replaced by &lab; .