  Automatic reasoning about textual information is a challenging task in modern
Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. In this work we describe our
proposal for representing and reasoning about Portuguese documents by means of
Linked Data like ontologies and thesauri. Our approach resorts to a specialized
pipeline of natural language processing (part-of-speech tagger, named entity
recognition, semantic role labeling) to populate an ontology for the domain of
criminal investigations. The provided architecture and ontology are language
independent. Although some of the NLP modules are language dependent, they can
be built using adequate AI methodologies.
