29.121, Calls: Portuguese, Computational Linguistics/Brazil

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-121. Fri Jan 05 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.121, Calls: Portuguese, Computational Linguistics/Brazil

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:38:24
From: Fernando Perdigão Ana Luís [propor2018workshops at gmail.com]
Subject: 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese

Full Title: 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese 
Short Title: PROPOR-2016 

Date: 24-Sep-2018 - 26-Sep-2018
Location: Canela, RS, Brazil 
Contact Person: Adeline Villavicencio
Meeting Email: 2018propor at gmail.com
Web Site: http://inf.ufrgs.br/propor-2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Portuguese (por)

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2018 

Meeting Description:

The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
(PROPOR) is the main event in the area of human language processing that is
focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken
Portuguese. 

The meeting has been a very rich forum for the interchange of results and
partnerships for the researchers dedicated to the computational processing of
Portuguese and the technologies for the Portuguese language. It brings
together research groups in the area, promoting the development of
methodologies, language resources, processing tools, applications and projects
that may be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. 

PROPOR is a biennial event hosted in Brazil and in Portugal. Past meetings
were held in 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);  Coimbra, PT (2012), São
Carlos, BR (2014) and Tomar, PT (2016)

2nd Call for Workshop Proposals:

The PROPOR-2018 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be
held in conjunction with the conference. The overall purpose of a workshop is
to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel
research ideas on active and emerging topics of computational processing of
Portuguese.

Workshops can take on a number of forms including (but not limited to) being
organized around emerging research areas, challenge problems and industrial
applications. The organizers of approved workshops are required to announce
the workshop and call for papers, gather submissions, conduct the reviewing
process and decide upon the final workshop program. They must also prepare a
set of workshop proceedings to be distributed with the registration materials
at the conference or in an electronic version. They may choose to form
organizing or program committees for assistance in these tasks.

Important Dates:

February 10, 2018: Workshop proposals due
February 20, 2018: Notification of decision
March 05, 2018: Workshop web pages available and linked to the main site.
Workshop CFP published.
July 15, 2018: Camera-ready of papers of the Workshop
September 24-26, 2018: PROPOR 2018 Workshops (electronic proceedings due for
online publication)

Proposal Details:

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to propor2018workshops at gmail.com.

They should be no more than three pages in length and must include the
following:

Description of the workshop: title, abstract, objectives, goals, relevance,
and expected outcome
Motivation why a PROPOR workshop on this topic is needed
Description of the target audience
List of core committed program committee members (at least 2 to 3 members)
Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)
For workshops previously held at PROPOR or other conferences details on venue,
attendance and number of submissions from previous years.
For new workshops a list of potential attendees/submissions and/or a
justification of the expected attendees and submissions.
Relevant experience of the organizing committee
Duration of the workshop (full day or half day)
Contact information (address, email, and phone) for all organizers
Designation of a contact person

The workshop organizers are responsible for:

- Creating and distributing a call-for-papers, call-for-participation and any
other relevant advertising. The calls should make it clear that at least one
author of any accepted paper must attend the event and that papers will be
withdrawn if no such participation is secured with the payment of the workshop
dues. The call should clearly describe the review and selection process.
Finally, the calls must be framed to encourage as broad a participation as
possible.
- Creating and publishing (in a timely manner) a web site with all the
relevant information pertaining to the workshop.
- Provide an extended abstract for the conference program
- Review and select papers submitted
- Schedule the presentations within the workshop

It should be noted that the conference organization does not budget for free
registration, accommodation or travel expenses for the workshop organizers or
their invited speakers. The workshop organizers should therefore secure any
source of funding / sponsorship deemed necessary for their invited speakers.
Prepare electronic proceedings volumes by end of July 2018.

Please contact the Workshop Committee for questions (e-mail
propor2018workshops at gmail.com).

Call for Papers:

We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational
language and speech processing of Portuguese by researchers in the industry or
academia.

Submissions:

Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to
submit two kinds of papers:

- 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. Full
papers can have up to 8 content pages + 2 pages for references.
- Short papers - Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work,
position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, negative results, or an
interesting application nugget. Short papers can have up to 4 content pages +
1 page for references.

Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing
will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized.

Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format
is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given
1 extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted
papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the
proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to Springer LNAI stylesheet
using the LaTeX or MS Word templates below:

- LaTeX styelesheet:
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip
- MS Word stylesheet:
ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/word/splnproc1703.zip

The URL for paper submission, will be published on the conference website.

Multiple-submission policy:

For submissions that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or
publications, this information must be provided at submission time. If a
submission is accepted, authors must notify the program chairs indicating
which meeting they choose for presentation of their work. Papers that will be
(or have been) published elsewhere, cannot be accepted for publication or
presentation.

Important dates:

Full and short paper submission deadline: April 15, 2018 - 23:59 (GMT-11)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 15, 2018
Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2018
Conference: September 24-26, 2018

Publication:

The proceedings of PROPOR 2018 will be published by Springer as a volume of
the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. They will be available
online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must
complete a full registration for PROPOR 2018 by the early registration
deadline.

Contact:

General chair:

Aline Villavicencio, UFRGS (Brazil)
Viviane Moreira, UFRGS (Brazil)

Technical program chairs:

Alberto Abad (INESC-ID, Portugal)
Helena Caseli (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago Compostela, Galiza/Spain)
Carlos Ramisch (Aix-Marseille University, France)

Contact email: 2018propor at gmail.com

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