[Corpora-List] CFP: ToRPorEsp. Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish

[Muntsa Padró]

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       Call For Papers
          ToRPorEsp: Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically
              Processing Portuguese and Spanish (Propor 2014)
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            October, 5th, 2014
               São Carlos (SP), Brazil

       https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp


Deadline for Abstract Submissions: July, 15th, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12)

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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, http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/).

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.


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.


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:
* NLP tools: PoS taggers, parsers, etc
* NLP applications: text simplification, summarization, sentiment analysis,
information retrieval, etc
* Linguistic Resources: WordNet, grammars, etc
* Techniques to Automatically create such resources
* Techniques to Automatically adapt such resources to local variants of the
languages.
* Cross-lingual approches, between Portuguese and Spanish or other
languages.


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SUBMISSIONS

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.

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.

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IMPORTANT DATES

July, 15th, 2014  -   Abstract submission deadline
September, 1st, 2014  -   Notification of acceptance
October, 5th,  2014  -  Workshop

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
* Núria Bel (UPF, Spain)
* Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil)
* Montserrat Marimon (UPF, Spain)
* Lluís Padró (UPC, Spain)
* Muntsa Padró (UFRGS, Brazil)
* Thiago Pardo (ICMC-USP, Brazil)
* Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil  and FGv/EMAp,  Brazil)
* Carlos Ramisch (LIF-TALEP, France)
* Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil)
* Rodrigo Wilkens (UFRGS, Brazil)


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

* Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
* Muntsa Padró (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
* Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil  and FGv/EMAp,  Brazil)
* Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Contact: torporesp2014 at gmail.com


-- 
Muntsa Padró
www.muntsapadro.com
Laboratório de Neurocognição e Processamento de Linguagem Natural
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
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