36.3196, Calls: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (Brazil)

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Subject: 36.3196, Calls: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (Brazil)

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Date: 21-Oct-2025
From: Marcos Garcia [marcos.garcia.gonzalez at usc.gal]
Subject: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese

Full Title: 17th International Conference on Computational Processing
of Portuguese
Short Title: PROPOR 2026

Date: 13-Apr-2026 - 16-Apr-2026
Location: Salvador, Brazil
Web Site: https://propor2026.ufba.br/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Galician (glg)
                     Portuguese (por)

Call Deadline: 12-Dec-2025

Call for Papers:
Call for Best PhD/MSc Dissertation Award
The PROPOR 2026 Best PhD / MSc Dissertation Award recognizes
outstanding dissertations in academic research and development topics
relevant to the computational processing of Portuguese and Galician.
This award intends to recognize excellent young researchers in their
early careers and highlight theoretical and technological issues of
written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The award is managed by
the Best PhD / MSc dissertation committee.
Award winners will be invited to publish their thesis/dissertation
extended abstracts in the PROPOR 2026 proceedings. They will receive a
free registration to the main conference as part of the award. The two
award winners and runners-up will be invited to prepare a presentation
of their work for the main conference, using a particular format (A0
poster for poster presentation or slides for oral presentation).
The Award Ceremony will take place during the PROPOR 2026 Conference.
Submission Criteria and Procedure:
Eligible submissions are those from candidates who have successfully
defended their Master and PhD Thesis dissertations within the three
years preceding the contest submission deadline, except for thesis
submitted to the previous contest held during PROPOR 2024. A letter
from the primary dissertation advisor must be submitted with the
extended abstract, stating that the candidate meets this eligibility
criterion.
The dissertation must focus on some aspect of the written or spoken
processing of any variety of Portuguese (including the language
varieties of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique,
Angola, São Tomé, Macau, Timor) or Galician.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
 - Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense
disambiguation, coreference resolution)
 - Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering,
subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
 - Natural language generation
 - Information extraction and information retrieval
 - Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and
speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
 - Speech applications (e.g., spoken language interfaces, dialogue
systems, speech-to-speech translation)
 - Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g., corpora,
ontologies, lexicons, grammars)
 - NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
 - Distributional semantics and language modeling
 - Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the
language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia,
Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Principe)
 - Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources,
including Portuguese/Galician
Each submission, consisting of two PDF files, must comply with the
following:
 - An extended abstract
 - Letter from the primary dissertation/thesis supervisor
Extended Abstract:
The document must be in the form of an extended abstract that includes
the nature of the problem researched, relevant theory, hypotheses
tested, method, analysis and results and impacts (social, economical,
technological, scientific, environmental).
Inclusion of publications, formal reports written by the author and
other academic or nonacademic results from the PhD or MSc are
particularly relevant and should be included in the extended abstract.
Extended abstracts must include URLs for the PDF of the complete MSc /
PhD Thesis/Dissertation. We suggest placing it at the end, before
references, and use of tinyurl.com for long URLs.
Extended abstracts are limited to 6 pages, including all figures,
tables, and references and should begin with an abstract of 250 words
or less. The abstract must be submitted in PDF format, following the
same style as PROPOR 2026.
Submissions must be sent via the following URL:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PROPOR2026. Please select the
track: PROPOR2026 Best Dissertations.
For inquiries, contact the Committee Chairs.
Important Dates:
 - Submission deadline: December 12th 2025
 - Notifications: February 28th 2026
 - Camera-ready: March 15th 2026
 - Conference: April 13th - 16th 2026
Scientific Committee Chairs:
Marcos Garcia - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Aline Paes - Universidade Federal Fluminense

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