<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(Apologies for cross-posting)</div><div><br></div><div><b>Second call for papers:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>The 11th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR-2014) will take place at São Carlos, Brazil, 6-8 October 2014.</b></div><div><br></div><div>PROPOR is the main event in the area of Human Language Processing focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese.</div><div><br></div><div>The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research communities dedicated to the automated processing of Portuguese, promoting the development of methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. The conference will consist of 3 days of paper presentations, special tracks and workshops.</div><div><br></div><div>PROPOR is in its 11th edition and it has been hosted in Brazil and in Portugal: Lisbon/PT (1993), Curitiba/BR (1996), Porto Alegre/BR (1998), Évora/PT (1999), Atibaia/BR (2000), Faro/PT (2003), Itatiaia/BR (2006), Aveiro/PT (2008), Porto Alegre/BR (2010) and Coimbra/PR (2011).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Topics of interest:</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>We invite submissions of papers describing work on any topic of language and speech processing of Portuguese from the industry or academia, including but not limited to:</div><div><br></div><div><u>Human speech production, perception and communication</u></div><div>Human speech production</div><div>Human speech and sound perception</div><div>Physiology and pathology of spoken language</div><div>Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)</div><div><br></div><div><u>Linguistic Description and Theories</u></div><div>Phonology and phonetics, prosody (e.g., production, perception, modeling)</div><div>Syntactic, semantic and anaphoric phenomena</div><div><br></div><div><u>Natural Language Processing Tasks</u></div><div>Parsing, tagging, chunking and segmentation</div><div>Annotation, evaluation, semantic role labeling</div><div>Grammar induction, sub categorization acquisition</div><div>Sentiment analysis and opinion mining</div><div><br></div><div><u>Natural Language Processing Applications</u></div><div>Word sense disambiguation</div><div>Dialect identification</div><div>Machine translation</div><div>Information retrieval</div><div>Plagiarism detection</div><div>Question answering</div><div><br></div><div><u>Speech Technologies</u></div><div>Spoken language generation and synthesis</div><div>Speech and speaker recognition</div><div>Spoken language understanding</div><div><br></div><div><u>Speech Applications</u></div><div>Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems</div><div>Systems for information retrieval and information extraction </div><div>Systems for speech-speech translation</div><div>Applications for aged and handicapped people</div><div>Applications for learning and education</div><div><br></div><div><u>Resources, standardization and evaluation</u></div><div>Spoken language resources, annotation and tools</div><div>Spoken language evaluation and standardization</div><div>NLP resources, annotation and tools</div><div>NLP evaluation and standardization</div><div><br></div><div><u>Language and Speech processing in academic disciplines</u></div><div>Speech and Hearing sciences, Health, Biology</div><div>Linguistics, Psychology, Education</div><div><br></div><div><b>Important dates:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Full and short paper submission deadline: March 14, 2014</div><div>Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 25, 2014</div><div>Camera-ready papers due: May 5, 2014</div><div>Conference: October 6,7,8, 2014</div><div><br></div><div><b>Submissions:</b></div><div>Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers:</div><div><br></div><div>Full papers - Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area - wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included.</div><div><br></div><div>Short papers - Reporting ongoing work, position papers and potential ideas to be discussed.</div><div><br></div><div>Authors will be able to express their preference for full/short papers but the final decision is on the program chairs. Short papers may be selected for oral or poster presentation and should be up to 5 pages of content plus one page (maximum) of references (only). Full papers will be presented in an oral session and should be up to 10 pages of content and 2 additional pages of references (only).</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions should be written in English.</div><div><br></div><div>As in previous PROPOR editions, full papers are expected to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series (anticipated). Selected short papers may be taken under consideration for LNAI publication as well. Papers must be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNAI format guidelines.</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will be blind, the submission should not include the authors' names and affiliations, neither contain self-references that reveal identity, like, "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Instead, use citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Separate author identification information is required as part of the submission process.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Conference website:</b></div><div><a href="http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/">http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/</a></div><div> </div><div><b>Call for papers:</b></div><div><a href="http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/index.php/call-for-papers">http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/index.php/call-for-papers</a></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>We will be happy to see you in Brazil!</div><div> </div><div>On behalf of the Program Committee,</div><div><i>Sara Candeias</i></div><div><i>Ivandré Paraboni</i></div></body></html>