Summary of Previous Editions

XVI PROPOR (2024)

• Place & date: Santiago de Compostela, from the 12th to the 15th of March 2024
• Chairs and organizers:
  • General chairs: Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza), Daniela Claro (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
  • Program chairs: António Teixeira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), Livy Real (CE-PLN, Brazil), Marcos Garcia (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza)
  • Editorial chairs: Hugo Oliveira (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal), Raquel Amaro (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
  • Demo chairs: Iria de Dios (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza), Marlo Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brasil)
  • Workshop and tutorials chairs: Alberto Abad (INESC-ID, Portugal), Alberto Simões (Checkmarx, Portugal), Helena Caseli (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)
  • Best dissertation chairs: António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal), Renata Vieira (Univ. de Évora / PUCRS, Brasil)
  • Industry track chairs: José Ramom Pichel (imaxin|software, Galiza), Luis Trigo (CODA-Faculdade de Letras do Porto, Portugal)
  • Local organization: Daniel Bardanca (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza), José Ramom Pichel
  • Consultants: Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield, UK), Fernando Batista (INESC-ID/IST, Portugal)
• Keynote speakers:
  • Elias Feijó, “É este galego latim em pó?”
  • Gemma Boleda, “Pressures on the lexicon and their effects”
  • Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà, “Beyond Semantic Evaluation in Seamless Speech Translation Models”
• Workshops and satellite events:
  • PROPOR’24 Competition on Automatic Essay Scoring of Portuguese Narrative Essays
  • 5th OpenCor: Latin American and Iberian Languages Open Corpora Forum
  • Third Workshop on Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing
  • First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries
• URL: https://propor2024.citius.gal/

XV PROPOR (2022)

• Place & date: Fortaleza, from the 21st to the 23rd of March 2022
• Chairs and organizers:
  • General chairs: Vládia Pinheiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil), Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
  • Program chairs: Raquel Amaro (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal), Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Editorial chairs: Fernando Batista (INESC-ID and ISCTE, Portugal), Diego Silva (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
  • Demo chairs: Wellington Franco (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil), Juliano Norberto Sales (University of Passau, Germany), Luís Trigo (University of Porto, Portugal)
  • Workshop and tutorials chairs: Larissa de Freitas (Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil), Marcos Garcia (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
  • PhD and MSc best dissertation award chairs: Daniela Claro (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Idalete Dias (University of Minho, Portugal)
  • Track Chair (Linguistics and Resources): Catarina Magro (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
  • Track Chair (Industry): Hugo Pinto (Sentimonitor, Brazil)
  • Local organization: Vládia Pinheiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil), Wellington Franco (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
• Invited speakers:
  • Maria José Bocorny Finatto, Full Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Rada Mihalcea, Professor at the University of Michigan, USA
  • Sebastião Miranda, Head of Development at Priberam, Portugal
• Satellite events:
  • Second Workshop on Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing (2nd DHandNLP 2022)
  • Automatic speech recognition for spontaneous and prepared speech and speech emotion recognition in Portuguese
  • Universal dependencies
  • Digital humanities and natural language processing

XIV PROPOR (2020)

• Place & date: Évora, from the 2nd to the 4th of March 2020
• Chairs and organizers:
  • Organization: Paulo Quaresma (University of Évora, Portugal), Renata Vieira (PUCRS, Brazil)
  • Program chairs: Sandra Aluísio (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon/INESC-ID/IST, Portugal)
  • Editorial chairs: Teresa Gonçalves (University of Évora, Portugal), Fernando Batista (INESC-ID/IST, Portugal)
  • Demo chairs: José Saias (University of Évora, Portugal), Vládia Pinheiro (University of Fortaleza, Brazil)
  • Workshop and tutorials chairs: André Adami (UCS, Brazil), Irene Rodrigues (University of Évora, Portugal)
  • PhD and MSc best dissertation award chair: Pablo Gamallo (USC)
  • Local organization (alphabetical order): Madhu Agrawal, José Duarte, Hongjun LI, Nuno Miranda, Prakash Poudyal, João Sequeira, Hua Yang
• Invited speakers:
  • João Graça, Co-founder and CTO of Unbabel, “A Scalable Consistent High Quality Translation Pipeline
  • Fernando Pereira, VP and Engineering Fellow at Google, “Representation learning, inference, and reasoning”
  • Cícero dos Santos, Research Scientist at at Amazon, “Natural Language Processing in the Age of Deep Representation Learning”
  • Isabel Trancoso, Senior Researcher Spoken Language Systems Lab INESC-ID / IST, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal, “Speech – a health biomarker”
• Tutorials:
  • Joaquim Santos and Renata Vieira, “Evolução dos Modelos de Linguagem”
  • Altice Labs, “Botschool: Criação de assistentes virtuais”
• Workshops and satellite events:
  • DHandNLP: Workshop on Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing
  • Techs and Languages: Machine Translation, Tools and Digital Technologies in the Acquisition of Portuguese and Other Romance Languages
  • OpenCor 2020
  • POP2 – Por Outras Palavras: 2nd Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Paraphrasing in Portuguese
• URL: https://propor.di.uevora.pt/

XIII PROPOR (2018)

• Place & date: Canela, from the 24th to the 26th of September 2018
• Organization: Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK and UFRGS, Brazil), Viviane Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil)
• Program chairs:
  • Helena Caseli (UFSCAR, Brazil) – language
  • Alberto Abad (INESC-ID, Portugal) – speech
  • Carlos Ramisch (Aix-Marseille University, France) – multilinguality and Portuguese across the world
  • Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago Compostela, Spain) – resources and applications
• Editorial chairs: Hugo Oliveira (University of Coimbra, Portugal), Gustavo Paetzold (University of Sheffield, UK)
• Demos committee: Fernando Batista (INESC-ID, Portugal), Valéria de Paiva (Nuance, USA), Rodrigo Wilkens (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Student research workshop chairs: Daniel Beck (University of Melbourne, Australia), Livy Real (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Amália Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) – faculty advisor
• Co-located workshops committee: Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve, Portugal), Ana R. Luís (UC/CELGA, Portugal), Osvaldo Novais de Oliveira Junior (USP, Brazil), Fernando Perdigão (IT/U Coimbra, Portugal), Vládia Pinheiro (University  of Fortaleza, Brazil)
• Tutorial chairs: Diego Amâncio (USP-SC, Brazil), Diana Santos (University of Oslo, Norway), Alberto Simões (IPCA, Portugal)
• Chair of best dissertation on Language Technology for Portuguese contest: António Teixeira (University of Aveiro, Portugal), Vera Strube de Lima (Brazil)
• Chair of Jobshop and Innovation Forum: Fabio Kepler (UNIPAMPA, Brazil), David Martins de Matos (INESC, Portugal)
• Advisory committee for diversity and inclusion in Language Technology: António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Margarita Correia (CELGA/ILTEC, Portugal), Gilvan Müller de Oliveira (UFSC, Brazil)
• Local organization committee: Felipe Paula (UFRGS, Brazil), Rogers Prates de Pelle (UFRGS, Brazil), Renata Ramisch (UFSCAR, Brazil), Rodrigo Wilkens (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Leonardo Zilio (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
• Social media and communication chairs: Marcely Boito (UFRGS, Brazil), Renata Ramisch (UFSCAR, Brazil)
• Steering committee: António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal), André Adami (UCS, Brazil), Sara Candeias (Microsoft, Portugal), Alexandre Rademaker (IBM, Brazil)
• Invited Speakers:
  • Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University (USA), Computational pragmatics: a case study of “speaker commitment”
  • Lori Lamel, Laboratoire d’Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l’Ingénieur (LIMSI, France), Speech technologies as an aide for large-scale linguistic exploration
  • Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr., Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics (NILC) and São Carlos Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo (Brazil), Natural language processing and the intelligent machines
• Tutorials:
  • Rui Sousa-Silva: Linguística Forense Computacional: processamento de textos forenses em português
  • Fabiano Luz, Felipe Salvatore & Marcelo Finger: Processamento de Linguagem Natural por meio de redes neurais profundas: Teoria e Aplicações
  • Ellen Souza & Douglas Vitório: Mining the Opinion of Twitter Users in Portuguese with Python
• Satellite Events: POP – Por Outras Palavras, 1st Workshop on Linguistic Tools and Resources for Paraphrasing in Portuguese
• URL: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/propor-2018/
• Proceedings: Aline Villavicencio, Viviane Moreira, Alberto Abad, Helena Caseli, Pablo Gamallo, Carlos Ramisch, Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Gustavo Henrique Paetzold (Eds.), Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, 13th International Conference, PROPOR 2018, Canela, Brazil, September 24–26, 2018, Proceedings LNAI 11122

XII PROPOR (2016)

• Place & date: Tomar, from 13th to 15th July 2016
• Organization: António Branco(Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
• Program chairs: Paulo Quaresma (Univ Évora, Portugal) – text, André Adami (Univ Caxias do Sul, Brazil) – speech
• Editorial chairs: João Silva, (Univ Lisboa, Portugal) and Ricardo Ribeiro, (ISCTE/IUL, Portugal)
• Demos committee: Vládia Pinheiro (Univ Fortaleza, Brazil) – chairperson, Hugo Oliveira (Univ Coimbra, Portugal)
• Student Research Workshop chairs: Pedro Balage (Univ São Paulo, in São Carlos, Brazil) and Fernando Batista (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal)
• Co-located Workshops committee: Pablo Gamallo (Univ Santiago Compostela, Galiza, Spain) – chairperson, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP-SC, Brazil), Amália Mendes (Univ Lisboa, Portugal), Renata Vieira (PUC-RS, Brazil), José Ramom Pichel (Imaxin|Software, Galiza, Spain) and Alberto Simões (Univ Minho, Portugal)
• Tutorial chairs: Fernando Perdigão (Univ Coimbra, Portugal), Margarita Correia (Univ Lisboa, Portugal) and 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 committee: Daniela Braga (defined crowd, USA) – chairperson, Ana Tavares (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
• Organization committee: António Branco (Univ Lisboa, Portugal) – chairperson, Daniel Pereira (Univ Lisboa, Portugal), Ana Tavares (Univ Lisboa, Portugal)
• Keynote Speeches:

• Ana Paula Laborinho (President, Camões – Institute for Cooperation and Language): “Opening Address”
• Hynek Hermansky (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA and Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic): “Dealing with Unwanted Information in Speech”
• Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain): “Natural Language Understanding using Knowledge Bases and Random Walks”

• Tutorials

• Daniel Beck (University of Sheffield): “Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing”
• Lucia Specia (University of Sheffield): “Translation Quality Estimation”

• Satellite Events:

• Student Research Workshop
• ASSIN – Avaliação de Similaridade Semântica e Inferência Textual
• LexSem+Logics 2016 – Third Workshop on Logics and Ontologies / First Workshop on Lexical Semantics for Lesser-Resourced Languages
• CTPC – Corpora and Tools for Processing Corpora
• Demonstration Session
• MSc/MA and PhD Dissertation Contest
• Job-shop and Innovation Forum

• Main event articles: 52 submissions, of 134 authors from several countries, with the acceptance of 23 full papers and 14 shorts
• URL: http://propor2016.di.fc.ul.pt/
• Proceedings: Silva, João, Ricardo Ribeiro, Paulo Quaresma, André Adami and António Branco (Eds.), 2016, Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, LNAI 9727, ISBN: 978-3-319-41551-2 (Print) and 978-3-319-41552-9 (Online)
• Sponsors: QTLEAP Project, Portuguese Language Department Directorate-General for Translation, Camões – International Institute for the Portuguese Language, International Institute for the Portuguese Language, pcmedic, HF – Higher Functions, Hotel of Templars, University of Lisbon, Department of Informatics/Faculty of Sciences, Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon

XI PROPOR (2014)

• Place & date: Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC), Universidade de São Paulo(USP), in São Carlos/SP, Brazil, from the 6th to 9th October 2014.
• Organization: Núcleo Interinstitucional de Linguística Computacional (NILC), Instituto de Ciências Matemática e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo.
• General chairs: Thiago A. S. Pardo (ICMC-USP, Brazil), Maria das Graças V. Nunes (ICMC-USP, Brazil)
• Local organizing committee: Sandra M Aluisio (ICMC-USP, Brasil), Magali S. Duran (ICMC-USP, Brasil), Pedro P. Balage Filho (ICMC-USP, Brasil), Lucia H. M. Rino (UFSCar, Brasil)
• Program chairs: Ivandré Paraboni (EACH-USP, Brasil), Sara Candeias (Universidade de Coimbra e Microsoft Research, Portugal)
• Editorial chairs: Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal), Nuno Mamede (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)
• Workshop chair: Vera Strube de Lima (PUC-RS, Brasil)
• Demos chairs: Arnaldo Candido Jr. (UFSCar, Brasil), Fabio N. Kepler (UNIPAMPA, Brasil)
• PhD and MSc/MA Dissertation Contest chairs: Helena M. Caseli (UFSCar, Brasil), David M. Matos (INESC-ID, Portugal)
• ToRPorEsp (I Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish) chairs: Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), Muntsa Padró (UFRGS, Brasil), Alexandre Rademaker (FGV e IBM Research, Brasil), Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brasil)
• Keynote Speakers: Andreas Stolcke (Microsoft Research, EUA), Michael Riley (Google Inc., EUA), Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen, Escócia)
• Tutorial: Advaith Siddharthan – “An overview of Text Summarisation research”
• Main event papers:

• 63 submissions, from 91 authors from several countries, such as Brazil, Portugal, France, Norway, Netherlands, USA and Algeria.
• 14 full papers accepted for oral presentation (acceptance rate of full papers of 22%) and 19 shorts for poster presentation.

• Software Demonstration papers: 6 submitted and accepted.
• Thesis and Dissertation contest papers:

• 9 MSc papers and 8 PhD papers submitted
• 1 winner in each category(for oral presentation), with 3 from each category accepted for poster presentation.

• ToRPorEsp papers: 22 submissions, with 15 papers accepted, 6 of them for oral presentation and 9 as posters
• Main event’s program committee: 81 members from several countries
• Main event’s additional reviewers: 9 members from various countries
• Registrations: 88 participants, 46 of them being students and 42 professors/professionals
• Proceedings:

• Main Event: Baptista, J.; Mamede, N.; Candeias, S.; Paraboni, I.; Pardo, T.A.S.; Nunes, M.G.V. (Eds.) “Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language”, Lectore Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference, PROPOR 2014. São Carlos/SP, Brazil, October 6-8, 2014. Proceedings. LNAI 8775, Springer.
• Associated Workshops: BDBComp – Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Computação

• Events Promotion: CEPLN (Comissão Especial de Processamento de Linguagem Natural), SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação)
• Sponsors: FAPESP, CAPES, ISCA, NAACL, Samsung, Microsoft Research
• URL: www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014

X PROPOR (2012)

• Place & date: Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, 17-20 April 2012.
• Organization: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Universidade de Coimbra
• General Chair: Fernando Perdigão (IT/Universidade de Coimbra, Brazil)
• Program Chairs: Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Brasil) and António Teixeira (IEETA/Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
• Editorial Chair: Helena de Medeiros Caseli (NILC/Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Brasil)
• PhD and MSc Dissertation Contest Chair: Jorge Baptista (universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal)
• Demo Session Chair: Alberto Abad (L2F INESC-ID, Portugal)
• Keynote Speeches:

• Robert Berwick (MIT/USA): “What explains the Tower of Babel?”
• Paul Boersma (University of Amsterdam): “Symmetric networks in bidirectional phonology and phonetics

• Tutorials:

• Aníbal Ferreira : “Analysis and visual feedback of the singing voice”
• António Branco e Francisco Costa (Un. de Lisboa): “Deep linguistic Processing”

• Panel: “United we stand? Combining symbolic and statistical methods for Language Technologies”, with Isabel Trancoso, Aline Villavicencio, António Branco and Plínio Barbosa
• URL: http://www.propor2012.org/
• Full Papers: 86 submissions (Language:61; Speech:25), 24 accepted as full papers, 24 accepted as short papers and 23 posters
• 2 Demo Sessions
• PhD and MSc Dissertation Contest: 8 submissions, top 3 from each category selected.
• Program Committee: 96 members from several countries.
• Registrations: ~80 participants
• Proceedings: Helena Caseli, Aline Villavicenio, António Teixeira, Fernando Perdigão (Eds.), “Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10th International Conference, PROPOR 2012. Coimbra, Portugal, April 2012. Proceedings (LNAI 7243), Springer.

IX PROPOR (2010)

• Place & Date: PUCRS (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil, 27th to 30th 2010
• Organization: PUCRS
• General Chair: Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
• Program Chairs: António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) – Language, Aldebaro Klautau (Universidade Federal do Pará, Brasil) – Speech
• Tutorial Chair: Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• Editorial Chair: Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
• PhD and MSc Dissertation Contest Chair: David Martins de Matos (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal)
• Demo Session Chair: António Teixeira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
• Local Organizing Chair: Renata Vieira (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
• Tutorials:

• Automatic Speech Recognition: from the beginning to Portuguese Language (André Adami)
• Fundamental and New Approaches to Statistical Machine Translation (Lucia Specia)

• Sessão Especial: CLARIN: how can we link the continents? (Steven Krawer)
• Palestrantes Convidados: Robert Dale, Macquarie University
• URL: http://www.inf.pucrs.br/~propor2010/
• Full Papers: 48 submissions (Language: 37; Speech: 11), 13 accepted as full papers, 8 accepted as summaries and 12 posters
• Demos: 25 submissions, 22 accepted
• Phd and Msc Dissertation Contest: 8 submissions, top 3 in each category selected
• Program Committee: 63 members from 10 countries
• Registrations: ~104 participants from 10 countries
• Proceedings

• Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, António Branco, Aldebaro Klautau, Renata Vieira, Vera Lúcia Strube de Lima (Eds.), “Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 9th International Conference, PROPOR 2010. Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, April 27-30, 2010. Proceedings (LNAI 6001), Springer.
• Extended Activities Proceedings

VIII PROPOR (2008)

• Place & Date: Universidade de Aveiro Campus e Grande Hotel da Curia, Portugal, 8th to 10th September 2008
• Organization: Universidade de Aveiro
• Conference Chair: António Teixeira (Universidade de Aveiro – DETI/IEETA, Portugal)
• Program Co-chairs: Vera Strube de Lima (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil) and Luís Caldas de Oliveira (L2F/INESC-ID, IST, Portugal)
• Publication Chair: Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
• Satellite Events:

• II Workshop HAREM: Reconhecimento de Entidade Nomeada em Português
• Workshop”Dez anos da Linguateca”

• Special Session: NLP Technology applications for the Portuguese Language
• Keynote Speakers: Tanja Schultz (CMU and University of Karlsruhe) and Chris Quirk (Microsoft NLP Group)
• URL: http://www.propor2008.org/
• Full Papers: 62 submissions, 21 accepted as full papers and 17 accepted as posters.
• Program Committee: 58 members from 13 countries.
• Registrations: ~80 participants.
• : António Teixeira, Vera L. Strube de Lima, Luís Caldas de Oliveira, Paulo Quaresma (Eds.), “Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8th International Workshop, PROPOR 2006. Aveiro, Portugal, Sep. 2008. Proceedings (LNAI 5190), Springer.

VII PROPOR (2006)

• Place & date: IME-RJ and Itatiaia, RJ, Brasil, 13th to 17th May 2006
• Organization: IME-RJ
• Conference Chair: Cláudia Oliveira (IME-RJ, Brasil)
• Program Co-chairs: Renata Vieira (UNISINOS-São Leopoldo, RS, Brasil) and Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de évora, Portugal)
• Publication Chair: Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de évora, Portugal)
• Keynote Speakers:

• Adam Kilgarriff (DI, Un. Sussex, UK)
• Marcelo Finger (IME-USP, Brasil)
• Diana Santos (The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway)

• URL: http://propor.ime.eb.br/
• Full Papers: 56 submissions from 11 countries, 20 accepted for publishing and oral presentation, and 17 accepted for poster presentation.
• Program Committee: 47 members, from 12 countries.
• Registrations: 75 participants
• Proceedings: R. Vieira, P. Quaresma, M.G.V. Nunes, N.J. Mamede, C.Oliveira and M.C. Dias (eds.), “Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7th International Workshop, PROPOR 2006. Itatiaia, Brazil, May 2006 Proceedings (LNAI 3960), Springer. ISBN 3-540-34045-9.

VI PROPOR (2003)

• Place & Date: Univ. Algarve, Faro, Portugal, 26th to 28th June 2003
• Organization: Universidade do Algarve
• Conference Chair: Conference Chair: Jorge Baptista (Univ. Algarve and LabEL/CAUTL-IST, Portugal)
• Program Co-chairs: Isabel Trancoso (UST amd L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal) and Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (NILC-USP, Brasil)
• Publication Chair: Nuno Mamede (UST and L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)
• Satelitte Events: Avalon2003 – Encontro de avaliação conjunta para o Português
• Keynote Speakers: Julia Hirschberg (AT&T, USA) e Robert Gaizauskas (Sheffield University, UK)
• URL: http://w3.ualg.pt/~jbaptis/propor/propor/
• Full Papers: 64 submissions, 24 accepted as full papers and 17 accepted as posters.
• Program Committee: 39 members from 9 countries(42 evaluators)
• Proceedings: N. J. Mamede, J. Baptista, I. Trancoso, M.G.V. NUnes (Eds), “Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language”, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 7th International Workshop, PROPOR 2003. Faro, Portugal, June 2003 Proceedings (LNAI 2721), Springer. ISBN 3-540-40436-8

V PROPOR (2000)

• Fulfilled as satellite event of XV SBIA/IBERAMIA
• Place & date: Atibaia, SP, Brazil, 19th to 22nd 2000
• Organization: Universidade de São Paulo
• Conference Chair: Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes( NILC – ICMC-USP, Brazil)
• Program Co-chairs: Lucia Rino (NILC- DC-UFSCar, Brasil) and Sandra M. Aluísio (NILC- ICMC-USP, Brasil)
• Publication Chair: Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (NILC- ICMC-USP, Brasil)
• Keynote Speaker: Diana Santos (The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway)
• Full Papers: 40 submissions, 18 accepted as full papers
• Program Committee: 11 members from 4 countries(33 evaluators)
• Proceedings: M.G.V. Nunes (Ed.), Anais do V Encontro para o Processamento Computacional da Língua Portuguesa Escrita e Falada – PROPOR, Atibaia, SP, Nov. 2000, 193p.

IV PROPOR (1999)

• Fulfilled as satellite event of the Portuguese Artificial Intelligence Gathering (EPIA’99)
• Place & date: Univ. Évora, Portugal, 20th to 21st September 1999
• Organization: Universidade de Évora
• Conference Chair: José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Un. Nova de Lisboa, FCT, Portugal)
• Program Co-chair and Publication Chairs: Irene Rodrigues (Un. Évora/Dmat, Portugal) and Paulo Quaresma (Un. Évora/Dmat, Portugal)
• URL: www.eventos.uevora.pt/epia/propor.html
• Full Papers: 29 submissions, 24 accepted as full papers
• Program Committee: 16 members (26 evaluators)
• Registrations: ~50 Participants
• Proceedings: J.G.P. Lopes (Ed.), Actas do IV Encontro para o Processamento Computacional da Língua Portuguesa Escrita e Falada – PROPOR, Évora, Portugal, Set. 1999, 313p.

III PROPOR (1998)

• Fulfilled as satellite event of SBIA’98
• Place & date: PUC-RS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, 3rd to 4th November 1998
• Organization: NALAMAS (Natural Language Multi-Agent Systems) project team – CNPq/PROTEM-CC Fase III
• Conference Chair: Vera Strube de Lima (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
• Program Co-chair: Flávio Moreira de Oliveira (II-PUCRS, Brasil) and Rosa Maria Viccari (II-UFRGS, Brasil)
• Publication Chair: Vera Strube de Lima (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil)
• Keynote Speaker: Isabel Trancoso (UST and L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal)
• Full Papers: 12 accepted as full papers
• Program Committee: 12 members(17 evaluators)
• Proceedings: V.L.S. Lima (Ed.), Anais do III Encontro para o Processamento Computacional de Português Escrito e Falado (PROPOR´98), Porto Alegre, Brasil, novembro de 1998, 117p.

II PROPOR (1996)

• Fulfilled as satellite event of SBIA’96
• Place & date: CEFET, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, 21st to 22nd October 1996
• Organization: CEFET-PR
• Conference and Publication Chair: Laura Sánchez García (CEFET-PR, Brasil)
• Keynote Speakers:

José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Un. Nova de Lisboa, FCT, Portugal)
• Donia Scott (ITRI, Brighton, UK)
• Clarisse S. Souza (PUC-Rio, Brasil)

• Full Papers: 18 accepted as full papers
• Program Committee: 14 members (23 evaluators)
• Proceedings: L.S.García (Ed.) Anais do II Encontro para o Processamento Computacional de Português Escrito e Falado, Curitiba, Brasil, Out. 1998, 179p.

I PROPOR (1993)

• Place & date: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal, 25th to 26th February 1993
• Organization: Instituto Nacional de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, UNINOVA – Instituto de Novas Tecnologias – and CLUL – Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa
• Conference Chairs: Isabel Trancoso (UST e L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal), José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Un. Nova de Lisboa, FCT, Portugal), Maria do Ceu Viana (CLUL, Portugal) and Antonio Serralhiro (INESC/IST, Portugal)
• Keynote Speakers:

• Clarisse S. Souza (PUC-Rio, Brasil)
• Fabio Violaro (Unicamp, Brasil)
• Fernando Pereira (AT&T, USA)
• Paul Dalgaard (Un. Aalborg, Dinamarca)

• Full Papers: 39 submissions, 31 talks presented