alt Hacker NewsIt is definitely an interesting problem, because Portugal is a small enough country that the actual total corpus of available texts in (non-Brazilian) Portuguese is potentially problematic.
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embedding-shape • today at 4:13 PM
I don't think so, Portugal the country might be small, with a small population, but there is ~250 million "Lusophones" (native Portuguese speakers), making it the fifth-most spoken native language in the world, I'd hardly call that small :) And before everyone screams; yes, European Portuguese is different from Brazilian Portuguese, but they're still both Portuguese and understand each other, so it's not like the text from one cannot be used to train a model for the other, or vice-versa.
All in all, I don't think that's a major issue here.
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European Portuguese is the 13th most populous language in Europe. Not that small, there are many other European languages in use that are much smaller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...