LINGUIST List 11.15

Tue Jan 11 2000

Calls: Automatic Processing/Portuguese, FEAST 2000

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Lucia Rino, V WORKSHOP/AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN PORTUGUESE LANG
2. Feast 2000, FEAST-FEEDBACK AND EVOLUTION IN SOFTWARE AND BUSINESS PROCESSES -DEADLINE EXTENSION

V WORKSHOP ON THE AUTOMATIC PROCESSING OF WRITTEN AND SPOKEN
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE November 19-22, 2000 S�o Paulo, Brazil


PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

Updated information: http://nilc.icmc.sc.usp.br/propor/

I. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Former workshops on Automatic Processing of Written and Spoken
Portuguese Language (PROPOR) have taken place yearly, either in
Portugal or in Brazil. The last one was held in Portugal, September
1999. In Brazil, PROPOR is usually held along with SBIA, the Brazilian
AI Symposium. 

This year, PROPOR'2000 will take place along with SBIA'2000 and
IBERAMIA'2000, aiming at both putting together researchers interested
in the automatic processing of Portuguese and boosting linguistic
resources that can bring about conditions to solve diverse NLP
problems, in special those related to the Portuguese
language. Theoretical, methodological or practical NLP contributions
addressing the automatic processing of the Portuguese language, as
well as more general and language-independent contributions in the
Computational Linguistics field are welcome.

II. TOPICS

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 Mono or multilingual text processing
 Speech processing
 Linguistic tools and resources to process Portuguese
 Machine translation
 Text Summarization
 Statistical approaches to NLP
 Corpora development and analysis
 Multimedia environments for the NLP of Portuguese
 Evaluation of NLP systems
 Writing tools

III. SUBMISSION DETAILS

The workshop committee invites full-length papers for technical
presentations and proposals for demonstrations of products or
software. Technical articles may address research results or work in
progress and different timetables for the workshop will be set
according to such tracks. Submission of products/software must
address the automatic processing of Portuguese.

 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Maria das Gra�as Volpe Nunes (ICMC/USP-S�o Carlos)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Bento Carlos Dias da Silva (Faculdade de Ci�ncias e Letras/UNESP-Araraquara
- Brasil)
Diana Santos (SINTEF Telecom and Informatics - Noruega/Portugal)
Donia Scott (Information Technology Research Institute/ITRI - UK)
Eckard Bick (University of Southern Denmark - Dinamarca)
Jos� Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Faculdade de Ci�ncias e Tecnologia/UNL - Portugal)
Isabel Trancoso (Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores/INESC -
Portugal)
Lucia Rino (Centro de Ci�ncias Exatas e de Tecnologia/UFSCar - Brasil)
(coordenadora)
Marco Rocha (Centro de Comunica��o e Express�o/UFSC - Brasil)
Sandra Alu�sio (Instituto de Ci�ncias Matem�ticas e Computa��o/USP - Brasil)
Vera L�cia Strube de Lima (Instituto de Inform�tica/PUCRS - Brasil)
Violeta Quental (Departamento de Letras/PUCRJ - Brasil)

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+ Lucia Helena Machado Rino +
+ Departamento de Computacao - Centro de Ciencias Exatas e de Tecnologia +
+ Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos +
+ Caixa Postal 676 13565-905 Sao Carlos - SP, Brasil +
+ Tel.: (016) 260-8232 Fax: (016) 260-8233 +
+ http://www.dc.ufscar.br/~lucia +
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CfP - FEAST 2000 Workshop *Deadline Extension*
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As a result of several requests, the deadline for the submission of
position papers and extended abstracts for FEAST 2000, the International
Workshop on FEEDBACK and EVOLUTION in Software and Business Processes, to
be held at Imperial College, London, from July 10th to July 12th, 2000 has
been extended to Monday 24th January 2000. Further details at

http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/f2000

Submissions should be addressed to Ms. Siew F. Lim, 

sflimdoc.ic.ac.uk

Two other workshops, Evolution 2000 and ProSim 2000, will be co-located
with FEAST 2000, running from July 12th to the 14th. The afternoon of the
12th is expected to be a joint meeting of all three events featuring a
keynote address by Professor Barry Boehm.


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FEAST 2000 International Workshop on FEEDBACK and EVOLUTION in
Software and Business Processes, Imperial College, London,
July 10 - 12, 2000

http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/f2000
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