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Final CfP: PROPOR 2018 - The 13th International Conference on the
Computational Processing of Portuguese
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-- Final Call for Papers and extended deadline--
NEW: Submission deadline extended: May 06, 2018
- 23:59 (GMT-11)
PROPOR 2018
The 13th International Conference on the Computational Processing
of Portuguese
September 24-26, 2018 -- Canela, RS, Brazil
Deadline for paper submission: April 15, 2018
http://inf.ufrgs.br/propor-2018/
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 exchange of ideas and
partnerships for the research communities dedicated to the
automated processing of Portuguese, promoting the development of
methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among
researchers and practitioners in the field.
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. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
* Human speech production, perception and communication
* Linguistic description and theories
* Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense
disambiguation, coreference resolution),
* Natural language processing applications (e.g. question
answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
* 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)
* Language and speech processing in academic disciplines
* Portuguese language variants and dialect processing
* Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources
including Portuguese
PROPOR 2018 will be the 13th edition of the biennial PROPOR
conference, hosted alternately 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).
### 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, that is, they should not contain the authors' names
and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal
identity, like, "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Instead,
they should prefer citations such as "Smith (1991) previously
showed ...". Separate author identification information will be
required as part of the submission process.
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 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=propor2018
### 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:
2018p...@gmail.com