About the Event
The International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese, former Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - PROPOR - is the main event in the area of Natural Language Processing that is focused on Portuguese and the theoretical and technological issues related to this specific language.
The meeting has been a very rich forum for the interchange of ideas and partnerships for the research communities dedicated to the automated processing of the Portuguese language. PROPOR brings together research groups in the area, promoting the development of methodologies, linguistic resources and projects that can be shared among all researchers and practitioners in the field.
PROPOR, a tri- or bi-anual event, is hosted in Brazil and in Portugal . Previous meetings have been held in Lisbon/PT (1993), Curitiba/BR (1996), Porto Alegre/BR (1998), Évora/PT (1999), Atibaia/BR (2000), Faro/PT (2003), Itatiaia/BR (2006), and Aveiro/PT (2008). PROPOR 2010 was hosted by PUCRS (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul), in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil.
The event featured technical sessions with presentation of full and short papers, tutorials and invited talks by renowned researchers in the area, a software demonstration session, and the first edition of the PhD and MSc Dissertation Contest. Excepting the full and short papers (published in a volume of the Springer LNAI series), this volume of the proceedings gathers the remaining material and a collection of regular papers (a complementary selection of papers).
We would like to express here our thanks to everyone involved in the organization of the event, to the scientific committee members for their excellent work, to the researchers who kindly accepted to contribute to the event by delivering tutorials and invited talks, and to the institutions, organizations and funding agencies which allowed the realization of this event, namely, PUCRS, SBC (the Brazilian Computer Society), CEPLN (the SBC Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing), CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – a Brazilian funding agency), NAACL (The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics), ISCA (International Speech Communication Association), SIG-IL (the ISCA Special Interest Group on Iberian Languages) and CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure – a large-scale pan-European collaborative effort to create, coordinate and make language resources and technology available and readily usable).
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