<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">==================================================<br class="">Final Call For Papers and Extended Deadline for Submissions <br class="">==================================================<br class="">PROPOR 2016 Best Dissertation on Language Technology for Portuguese Award<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>13-15 July 2016 </div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tomar, Portugal</div><div class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/?page_id=262" class="">http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/?page_id=262</a><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Extended Deadline for Submissions: February 2, 2016 (11:59pm GMT -12)<br class=""></b><br class=""></div>==================================================<br class="">This Award recognizes the best of emerging academic work on processing of spoken and written Portuguese and related issues, concluded in the three years preceding the submission deadline. Awards are given for:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Best PhD Dissertation<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Best MSc Dissertation<br class=""><br class="">==================================================<br class="">Submission Criteria and Procedure:<br class=""><br class="">• Eligible entrants are those candidates who have successfully defended their dissertations in the three years preceding the award submission deadline. A letter from the primary dissertation advisor must be submitted with the extended abstract (see item 3.), stating that the candidate meets this eligibility criterion.<br class="">• The dissertation must focus on some aspect of written and spoken Portuguese processing and related issues. In general, any topic that falls within the scope of PROPOR call for papers (<a href="http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/" class="">http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/</a>) is appropriate.<br class=""><div class="">• Each entry should be in the form of an extended abstract that includes the nature of the problem to be researched, relevant theory, hypotheses to be tested, method, analysis, and indicative references.</div><div class="">• Documents must be submitted in English (even if the thesis is written in another language).</div><div class="">• Documents must be submitted in PDF format, following the same style of PROPOR 2016. Submissions are limited to 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and references and should begin with an abstract of 250 words or less.</div><div class="">• The top two ranked papers (1st PhD and 1st Masters) will be included in the printed proceedings of PROPOR 2016.</div><div class="">• Submission deadline is February 2, 2016. Entries must be submitted electronically (no hard copy submissions will be accepted) via the following link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proporphdmscdc2016" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=proporphdmscdc2016</a></div><div class="">• Notifications to authors will be sent on March 15, 2016.</div><div class="">• Accepted entrants must prepare an A0 poster (portrait format) to be presented at a special session. Award winners are invited to prepare an oral presentation of their work (15 / 20 minutes).</div><div class="">• Evaluation will consist of two rounds of evaluation, and members of the second and final evaluation committee and their students are excluded from the PROPOR 2016 PhD and MSc Dissertation Award.<br class="">• All submissions must be in PDF format and must follow the EMNLP 2015 formatting requirements.<br class="">Important Dates:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• February 2, 2016 - Submission deadline<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• March 15, 2016 - Notification to authors<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• March 31, 2016 - Deadline for camera-ready<br class=""><br class="">==================================================<br class="">Evaluation Committee:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Alexandre Rademaker (IBM, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Carlos Prolo Carlos Prolo (UFRN, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Carlos Ramisch (Univ Aix-Marseille, France)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• David Martins de Matos (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Fábio Kepler (UNIPAMPA, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Fernando Perdigão (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Helena Caseli (UFSCAR, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Laura Alonso Alemany (Univ Cordoba, Argentina)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Leandro Mendonça de Oliveira (EMBRAPA, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Nuno Cavalheiro Marques (Univ Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Nuno Mamede (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Renata Vieira (PUC-RS, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Sergio Freitas (UnB, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Vera Strube de Lima (PUC-RS, Brazil)<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Viviane Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil)<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==================================================<br class=""></div><div class="">Chair of the Best PhD and MSc Dissertation Award:<br class=""><br class="">Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">==================================================</div><div class="">Contact Details:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class=""><a href="mailto:proporthesis2016@gmail.com" class="">proporthesis2016@gmail.com</a></p><p class=""><a title="2016 Dissertation Award website" href="http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/?page_id=262" class="">http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/?page_id=262</a></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>