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Call For Papers</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"> ToRPorEsp: Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
Processing Portuguese and Spanish (Propor 2014)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">========================================================</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
October, 5th, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"> São Carlos (SP), Brazil</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Deadline for Abstract Submissions: July, 15th, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12)</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Much of the research and development of NLP tools has been done for English, leading to best state of the art systems for this language, while other languages lack of the coverage of English resources. Although there are several interesting initiatives to develop state of the art tools for other languages, there may not be enough awareness in the community about them and the same work may be repeated in several institutions and projects. This is a limitation for new projects or research that would benefit from having such tools available to develop higher level systems. Similarly, work done for one language may be beneficial to other closely related languages. Within this context, we present the first Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish in PROPOR 2014 (International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, <a href="http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/" target="_blank">http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/</a>).</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">This workshop aims to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of language-specific developments for Portuguese and Spanish, two closely related languages. We expect to join together researchers and developers with a focus on the creation of tools and linguistic resources for these two languages. These are two thriving communities that can join efforts to maximize the impact of the developments in the area for each of these languages, and promote resource reuse and sharing. This workshop offers a venue for researchers and developers to show work in NLP tools and resources, covering a wide spectrum of tasks (from PoS taggers and parsers to text simplification or sentiment analysis tools), and linguistic resources (WordNet initiatives, grammars, etc). Furthermore, given the proximity of these two languages, this workshop aims to promote discussion of crosslinguistic approaches and possible tuning of existing tools for one language as basis for developing similar tools for the other.</div>
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A special interest of the workshop is to facilitate access to technologies and resources that are specific to Portuguese and Spanish. We intend that the workshop will contribute to make tools and resources easily available to the local community. To that aim, we encourage submissions that are oriented towards simplifying the integration of a given tool or resource to address specific needs in these regions. Detailed descriptions, motivation of utility with specific scenarios, even tutorial-like approaches will be highly appreciated. All workshop-related materials will be readily available from the workshop webpage, to promote adoption.</div>
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The workshop is targeted at anyone interested on developing and using tools and resources for Portuguese and Spanish. Presentations and demonstrations are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
* NLP tools: PoS taggers, parsers, etc</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* NLP applications: text simplification, summarization, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, etc</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Linguistic Resources: WordNet, grammars, etc</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Techniques to Automatically create such resources</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Techniques to Automatically adapt such resources to local variants of the languages.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
* Cross-lingual approches, between Portuguese and Spanish or other languages.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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SUBMISSIONS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">The main goal of this workshop is to offer a venue for sharing tools and resources . Thus we encourage submissions of presentations and demonstrations of both consolidated and under-development resources.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Authors are invited to submit their presentations/demonstrations in the form of abstracts that will be published online. We accept submissions in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Abstracts should contain authors names, afiliations, a set of keywords and should be up to four pages including references. Papers must be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNAI format guidelines.</div>
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<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">IMPORTANT DATES</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
July, 15th, 2014 - Abstract submission deadline</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">September, 1st, 2014 - Notification of acceptance</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
October, 5th, 2014 - Workshop</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">---------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Núria Bel (UPF, Spain)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
* Montserrat Marimon (UPF, Spain)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Lluís Padró (UPC, Spain)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Muntsa Padró (UFRGS, Brazil)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Thiago Pardo (ICMC-USP, Brazil)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Carlos Ramisch (LIF-TALEP, France)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Rodrigo Wilkens (UFRGS, Brazil)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Muntsa Padró (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">* Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Contact: <a href="mailto:torporesp2014@gmail.com" target="_blank">torporesp2014@gmail.com</a></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
Muntsa Padró<div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.muntsapadro.com/" target="_blank">www.muntsapadro.com</a></span></div><div>Laboratório de Neurocognição e Processamento de Linguagem Natural<br>
</div><div><div>Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul<br><div><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div>