PROPOR 2022 - 15th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese

PROPOR 2022


Computational Linguistics Language & Linguistics



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PROPOR 2022: 15th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
University of Fortaleza (Fortaleza - CE, Brazil)
March 21st to 23rd 2022
1st Call for Papers
http://www.unifor.br/ppgia/propor2022
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Dear all,
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 and Galician. The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry 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
- NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
- 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 (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macao, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe)
Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese
TRACKS
Considering the importance of language resources in the development and sustainability of language technologies, and the impact of natural language processing in the conception of innovative tools, services and applications,
PROPOR will have for the first time two tracks dedicated to Linguistics and Resources and to Industry, apart from the traditional NLP research track (named "General").
"Linguistics and Resources" track papers can describe work focusing on linguistic research and development activities leading to rich and innovative language resources usable and useful for NLP. This track is specifically designed for (but not limited to) papers describing:
- NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
- Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars)
"Industry" track papers can describe work on any topic listed above, focusing on research and development activities on language technologies framed by industrial and/or commercial settings and goals.
PROPOR 2022 will be held at the University of Fortaleza (Fortaleza - CE, Brazil) from March 21st to March 23rd. While we aim to host the conference in-person in Fortaleza, we are constantly monitoring the pandemic situation, and will provide suitable online options if needed.
PROPOR 2022 will be the 15th 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), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018) and Évora, PT (2020).
SUBMISSIONS
See http://www.unifor.br/ppgia/propor2022
IMPORTANT DATES
Full and short paper submission deadline: 27/09/2021 (23:59 GMT+1)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 05/11/2021
Camera-ready papers due: 19/11/2021
Conference: March 21st - 23rd, 2022
PUBLICATION
The proceedings of PROPOR 2022 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 2022 by the early registration deadline.
Kindest regards,
Carolina Scarton & Raquel Amaro
PROPOR 2022 Program Chairs