<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">========================================================<br> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Call For Papers<br> ToRPorEsp: Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically<br> Processing Portuguese and Spanish <br>========================================================<br>To be held with PROPOR 2014 - International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese <br><br> October, 5th, 2014<br> São Carlos (SP), Brazil<br><br> <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp">https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp</a><br><br>Deadline for Abstract Submissions: July, 15th, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12)<br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>Much of the research and development of NLP tools has been done for English, leading to best <br>state of the art systems for this language, while other languages lack of the coverage of English <br>resources. Although there are several interesting initiatives to develop state of the art tools for <br>other languages, there may not be enough awareness in the community about them and the same <br>work may be repeated in several institutions and projects. This is a limitation for new projects or <br>research that would benefit from having such tools available to develop higher level systems. <br>Similarly, work done for one language may be beneficial to other closely related languages. Within <br>this context, we present the first Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing <br>Portuguese and Spanish in PROPOR 2014 (International Conference on Computational Processing <br>of Portuguese, <a href="http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/">http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/</a>).<br><br>This workshop aims to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of language-specific developments <br>for Portuguese and Spanish, two closely related languages. We expect to join together researchers and <br>developers with a focus on the creation of tools and linguistic resources for these two languages. These <br>are two thriving communities that can join efforts to maximize the impact of the developments in the area <br>for each of these languages, and promote resource reuse and sharing. This workshop offers a venue for <br>researchers and developers to show work in NLP tools and resources, covering a wide spectrum of tasks <br>(from PoS taggers and parsers to text simplification or sentiment analysis tools), and linguistic resources <br>(WordNet initiatives, grammars, etc). Furthermore, given the proximity of these two languages, this workshop <br>aims to promote discussion of crosslinguistic approaches and possible tuning of existing tools for one <br>language as basis for developing similar tools for the other.<br><br>A special interest of the workshop is to facilitate access to technologies and resources that are specific to <br>Portuguese and Spanish. The aim of the workshop is to contribute towards making tools and resources easily <br>available to the local community. To that aim, we encourage submissions that are oriented towards <br>simplifying the integration of a given tool or resource to address specific needs in these regions. Detailed <br>descriptions, motivation of utility with specific scenarios, even tutorial-like approaches are welcome. All <br>workshop-related materials will be readily available from the workshop webpage, to promote adoption <br>of resources.<br><br>The workshop is targeted at anyone interested on developing and using tools and resources for Portuguese <br>and Spanish. Presentations and demonstrations are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:<br>* NLP tools: PoS taggers, parsers, etc<br>* NLP applications: text simplification, summarization, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, etc<br>* Linguistic Resources: WordNet, grammars, etc<br>* Techniques to Automatically create such resources<br>* Techniques to Automatically adapt such resources to local variants of the languages.<br>* Cross-lingual approaches, between Portuguese and Spanish or other languages.<br><br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>SUBMISSIONS<br><br>The main goal of this workshop is to offer a venue for sharing tools and resources . Thus we encourage <br>submissions of presentations and demonstrations of both consolidated and under-development resources.<br><br>Authors are invited to submit their presentations/demonstrations in the form of abstracts that will be published <br>online. We accept submissions in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Abstracts should contain authors names, <br>affiliations, a set of keywords and should be up to four pages including references. Papers must be submitted <br>in PDF, following the Springer LNAI format guidelines.<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>July, 15th, 2014 - Abstract submission deadline<br>September, 1st, 2014 - Notification of acceptance<br>October, 5th, 2014 - Workshop<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br>Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)<br>Núria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)<br>António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)<br>Ariani Di Felippo (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)<br>Maria José Finatto (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br>Montserrat Marimon (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)<br>Lucelene Lopes (PUCRS, Brazil)<br>Franco Luque (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)<br>Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (CISUC, University of Coimbra, Portugal)<br>Valeria De Paiva (University of Birmingham, UK)<br>Lluís Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)<br>Muntsa Padró (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br>Thiago Pardo (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)<br>Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV, Brazil)<br>Carlos Ramisch (Aix-Marseille University, France)<br>Aiala Rosá (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)<br>Diana Santos (University of Oslo, Norway)<br>Cassia Trojahn (UTM & IRIT, France)<br>Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil)<br>Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br>Rodrigo Wilkens (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS<br><br>* Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)<br>* Muntsa Padró (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br>* Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil)<br>* Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)<br><br>Contact: <a href="mailto:torporesp2014@gmail.com">torporesp2014@gmail.com</a><br><div><br></div><br></body></html>