[LFG] Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR2016): First CFP

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==========  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  ==========

PROPOR 2016
*12th International Conference on the Computational Processing of 
Portuguese*

13-15 July 2016
Tomar, Portugal

http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt

Important dates:

1 December 2015 - deadline for submissions
15 March 2016   - notification of authors
31 March 2016   - deadline for camera-ready
13-15 July 2016 - conference

Background:

The International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese
(PROPOR) is the main regular forum for presentation and discussion
of the best research results in the area of natural language and
speech processing focused on the Portuguese language.

The PROPOR series was initiated in 1993 and has since then being held
in Brazil and Portugal. Previous meetings took place in Lisbon (1993),
Curitiba (1996), Porto Alegre (1998), Évora (1999), Atibaia (2000),
Faro (2003), Itatiaia (2006), Curia (2008), Porto Alegre (2010),
Coimbra (2012) and São Carlos (2014).

Call for papers:

We cordially invite anyone researching in any topic of language and
speech processing of Portuguese to submit a paper to PROPOR2016.

Topics of interest include:
• any applied task (e.g. speech recognition, word sense disambiguation,
dialect identification, etc.),
• application (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, etc.),
• basic issue (e.g. parsing, evaluation, etc.),
• subdomain (e.g. phonology, semantics, dialogue, etc.),
• type of resource (e.g. corpora, ontologies, grammars, etc.),
• linguistic phenomenon (e.g. prosody, anaphora, modality, etc.),
• in any area benefiting from language and speech processing of Portuguese
(e.g. information retrieval, e-learning, e-humanities, etc.),
• under any methodological perspective (e.g. hybrid, symbolic,
machine learning, etc.),
• from the industry or
• from any contributing academic discipline, including but not limited
to Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Linguistics
or Cognitive Science.

We seek to select papers reporting substantial, original 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. Submissions are anonymized and will be
evaluated by at least three reviewers.

The proceedings of PROPOR2016 will be published at Springer as a volume
of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series. They will be
available online, and the paper version will be distributed among
participants of the conference.

More information at http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/?page_id=30

Related events:

For upcoming information and calls for submission to the demo session,
best dissertation award, tutorials, etc., please check future versions
of the conference website at http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt

Venue:

The next PROPOR is hosted by the University of Lisbon and the
NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group from its Department of Informatics
at the Faculty of Sciences.

This conference will be held in the historical city of Tomar,
a world heritage site, 1 hour north of Lisbon by train. Tomar is
one of Portugal's historical jewels and more significantly was
the last Templar town to be commissioned for construction.

Photos and video: http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/?page_id=32

Organization:

General chair:
António Branco, (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)

Program chair (language):
Paulo Quaresma (Univ Évora, Portugal)

Program chair (speech):
André Adami (Univ Caxias do Sul, Brazil)

Editorial chairs:
João Silva, (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Ricardo Ribeiro, (ISCTE/IUL, Portugal)

Demos chair:
Vládia Pinheiro (Univ Fortaleza, Brazil)

PROPOR Student Research Workshop chair:
Pedo Balage (Univ São Paulo, in São Carlos, Brazil)

Co-located Workshops chair:
Pablo Gamallo (Univ Santiago Compostela, Spain)

Tutorials chairs:
Fernando Perdigão (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
Margarita Correia (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Lucia Specia (Univ Sheffield, UK)

Chair of Best Dissertation on Language Technology for Portuguese Contest:
Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil)

Chair of Jobshop and Innovation Forum:
Rosa Del Gaudio (Higher Functions, Portugal)

Publicity and Sponsorship Chair:
Ana Tavares (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)

Organization committee:
Daniel Pereira (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Ana Tavares (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)

Steering committee:
Thiago Pardo (Univ São Paulo – São Carlos, Brazil)
António Branco (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Sara Candeias (Microsoft, Portugal)
Nuno Mamede (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Claudia Freitas (PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Program committee:
Alberto Abad (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Alberto Simões (Univ Minho, Portugal)
Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil)
Amália Andrade (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Amália Mendes (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Ana Luís (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
Anabela Barreiro (INESC-ID, Portugal)
André Adami (Univ Caxias do Sul, Brazil)
Andreia Bonfante (UFMT, Brazil)
Andreia Rauber (UCPEL, Brazil)
António Branco (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
António Serralheiro (Academia Militar, Portugal)
Ariani Di Felippo (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Augusto Soares Silva (Univ Católica, Portugal)
Bento da Silva (UNESP, Brazil)
Berthold Crysmann (CNRS, France)
Brett Drury (USP-SC, Brazil)
Carlos Prolo (UFRN, Brazil)
Caroline Gasperin (TouchType, UK)
Daniela Braga (VoiceBox, USA)
David Martins de Matos (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Derek Wong (Univ Macau, China)
Diamantino Freitas (Univ Porto, Portugal)
Eraldo Rezende Fernandes (UFMS, Brazil)
Eric Laporte (Univ Paris Est, France)
Fabio Kepler (UNIPAMPA, Brazil)
Fabio Violaro (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Fernando Batista (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)
Fernando Perdigão (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
Fernando Resende (UFRJ, Brazil)
Gladis Almeida (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Helena Caseli (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Helena Moniz (INESC-ID, Portugal)
Hugo Meinedo (Microsoft, Portugal)
Hugo Oliveira (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
Irene Rodrigues (Univ Évora, Portugal)
Isabel Falé (Univ Aberta, Portugal)
Isabel Trancoso (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Ivandré Paraboni (USP, Brazil)
João Balsa (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
João Luís Rosa (USP-SC, Brazil)
João Silva (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Joaquim Llisterri (Univ Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Jorge Baptista (Univ Algarve., Portugal)
José João Almeida (Univ Minho, Portugal)
Laura Alonso Alemany (Univ Cordoba, Argentina)
Leandro Oliveira (EMBRAPA, Brazil)
Lucia Specia (Univ Sheffield, UK)
Magali Sanches Duran (USP-SC, Brazil)
Margarita Correia (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP-SC, Brazil)
Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil)
Mário Silva (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Nelson Neto (UFP, Brazil)
Norton Trevisan Roman (USP-EACH, Brazil)
Nuno Cavalheiro Marques (Univ Nova Lisboa, Portugal)
Nuno Mamede (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Pablo Gamallo (Univ Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Palmira Marrafa (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
Paulo Gomes (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
Paulo Quaresma (Univ Évora, Portugal)
Plínio Barbosa (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Renata Vieira (PUC-RS,Brazil)
Ricardo Ribeiro (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)
Ronaldo Martins (UNIVAS, Brazil)
Rosa Del Gaudio (Higher Functions, Portugal)
Ruy Luiz Milidiú (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Sandra Aluísio (USP-SC, Brazil)
Sara Candeias (Microsoft, Portugal)
Solange Rezende (USP-SC, Brazil)
Ted Pederson (Univ Minnesota, USA)
Teresa Gonçalves (Univ Évora, Portugal)
Thiago Pardo (USP-SC, Brazil)
Thomas Pellegrini (Univ Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, France)
Valeria de Paiva (Univ Birmingham, UK)
Valéria Feltrim (UEM, Brazil)
Vera Strube de Lima (PUC-RS, Brazil)
Violeta Quental (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Vitor Rocio (Univ Aberta, Portugal)
Vládia Pinheiro (Univ Fortaleza, Brazil)