PROPOR 2006 - CALL FOR PAPERS We cordially invite you to participate in the 7th PROPOR - Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - Written and Spoken, to be held in Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2006, in conjunction with the 10th Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages. PROPOR 2006 is sponsored by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP We invite the scientific community to submit original and unpublished research on aspects of Computational Processing of Portuguese, including, but not limited to: Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon Phonetics, phonology and morphology Terminology Understanding and generating natural language Summarization and information extraction Natural language interfaces and dialogue systems Machine learning for natural language Speech science and technology Multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids Tools and resources Evaluation Applications Preference will be given to papers reporting original and complete work on all fields of Computational Processing of Portuguese, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the development of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. We also invite people and institutions in NLP industries to participate in the Workshop and to benefit from this forum where the most recent applications can be presented. Papers must be written in English. We expect to publish the proceedings as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series of Springer, as in the previous meeting. Important dates: Paper submission: December 20, 2005 Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2006 Final version due: March 20, 2006 For more information: http://propor.ime.eb.br E-mail: propor2006@ime.eb.br General Chairs Claudia Oliveira (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil) Maria Carmelita Dias (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Program Committee Chairs Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de =C9vora, Portugal) Renata Vieira (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil) Publication Chairs Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de =C9vora, Portugal) Maria das Gra=E7as Volpe Nunes (Universidade de S=E3o Paulo, Brazil) Renata Vieira (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil) Nuno Mamede (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal) Program Committee Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Ana Frankenberg-Garcia (Instituto Superior de L=EDnguas e Administra=E7=E3o= , Portugal) Ant=F3nio Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Ant=F3nio Ribeiro (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy) Ant=F3nio Teixeira (Universidade do Aveiro, Portugal) Ariadne Carvalho (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil) Berthold Crysmann (Deutsche Forschungszentrum f=FCr K=FCnstliche Intelligenz, Germany) Carlos Augusto Prolo (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Caroline Hag=E8ge (Xerox Research Centre, France) Claudia Oliveira (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil) Diana Santos (Linguateca/SINTEF, Norway) Donia Scott (Open University, UK) Eckhard Bick (Southern Denmark University, Norway) Egidio Terra (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Br= azil) Elisabete Rachhod (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Eric Laporte (University of Marne-la-Vall=E9e, France) Gabriel Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) Irene Rodrigues (Universidade de =C9vora, Portugal) Isabel Trancoso (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portug= al) Jason Baldridge (Texas University, USA) Jo=E3o Paulo Neto (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Port= ugal) Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal) Louisa Sadler (University of Essex, UK) L=FAcia Rino (Universidade Federal de S=E3o Carlos, Brazil) Lu=ED=ADs Caldas Oliveira (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal) Marcelo Finger (Universidade de S=E3o Paulo, Brazil) Maria Carmelita Dias (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Maria das Gra=E7as Volpe Nunes (Universidade de S=E3o Paulo, Brazil) Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK) Michel Gagnon (=C9cole Polytechnique Montr=E9al, Canada) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain) Nuno Mamede (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal) Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Compostela, Spain) Palmira Marrafa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de =C9vora, Portugal) Rove Chishman (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil) Sandra Aluisio (Universidade de S=E3o Paulo, Brazil) Saturnino Luz (University of Dublin, UK) Tracy Holloway King (Xerox Research Centre, USA) Renata Vieira (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brasil) Vera Strube de Lima (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Violeta Quental (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Br= azil) Organizing Committee Claudia Oliveira (chair - Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil) Maria Carmelita Dias (chair - Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Violeta Quental (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Br= azil) Claudia Justel (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil) Alex Garcia (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil) Jos=E9 Ant=F4nio Xexeo (Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil) Maria Claudia de Freitas (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Milena Garr=E3o (Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro, Br= azil) Contacts Claudia Oliveira Departamento de Engenharia de Sistemas Instituto Militar de Engenharia Pra=E7a General Tib=FArcio, 80, Praia Vermelha Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP 22290-270 Brazil Maria Carmelita Dias - PUC-Rio Departamento de Letras Pontif=EDcia Universidade Cat=F3lica do Rio de Janeiro Rua Marqu=EAs de S=E3o Vicente, 225, G=E1vea Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP 22451-900 Brazil