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A Confer&#234;ncia Internacional sobre Processamento Computacional da L&#237;ngua  Portuguesa, ou PROPOR, &#233; o principal evento na &#225;rea do Processamento de  Linguagem Natural, focado especificamente nos aspetos te&#243;ricos e  tecnol&#243;gicos da l&#237;ngua portuguesa. Esta confer&#234;ncia tem sido um  excelente f&#243;rum de interc&#226;mbio de ideias e parcerias entre as  comunidades cient&#237;ficas que se dedicam ao processamento autom&#225;tico da  L&#237;ngua Portuguesa. O PROPOR realiza-se, tipicamente, de dois em dois  anos e tem sido realizado, ora em Portugal ora no Brasil, desde 1993.Comiss&#227;o cient&#237;fica      Alberto Sim&#245;es (UM, Portugal)     Aldebaro Klautau (UFPA, Brazil)     Alexandre Agustini (PUC-RS, Brazil)     Am&#225;lia Andrade (UL, Portugal)     Am&#225;lia Mendes (UL, Portugal)     Andre Adami (UCS, Brazil)     Andreia Rauber (UCPEL, Brazil)     Antonio Bonafonte (UPC, Spain)     Ant&#243;nio Branco (UL, Portugal)     Antonio Rubio (UG, Spain)     Ant&#243;nio Serralheiro (INESC-ID, Portugal)     Ariadne Carvalho (Unicamp, Brazil)     Ariani Di Felippo (UFSCAR, Brazil)     Belinda Maia (UP, Portugal)     Bento da Silva (UNESP, Brazil)     Berthold Crysmann (CNRS Paris-Diderot, France)     Carlos Prolo (PUC-RS, Brazil)     Carlos Teixeira (UL, Portugal)     Carmen Garc&#237;a Mateo (UV, Spain)     Caroline Gasperin (TouchType, UK)     Caroline Hag&#232;ge (Xerox Research Centre, France)     Daniela Braga (Microsoft, China)     Dante Barone (UFRGS, Brazil )     Diana Santos (University of Oslo, Norway)     Doroteo Torre Toledano (UAM, Spain)     Eduardo Lleida (UZ, Spain)     Eric Laporte (Universit&#233; Paris Est, France)     Eva Navas (UBC, Spain)     Fabio Kepler (USP, Brazil)     F&#225;bio Violaro (Unicamp, Brazil)     Fernando Resende (UFRJ, Brazil)     Ga&#235;l Harry Dias (UBI, Portugal )     Gladis Almeida (UFSCAR, Brazil)     Irene Rodrigues (UE, Portugal)     Isabel Fal&#233; (U Aberta, Portugal)     Isabel Trancoso (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal)     Ivandr&#233; Paraboni (USP, Brazil)     Jean-Luc Minel (Universit&#233; de Paris X, France)     Jo&#227;o Balsa (UL, Portugal)     Jo&#227;o Lu&#237;s Rosa (USP-SC, Brazil)     Jo&#227;o Paulo Neto (INESC-ID / IST, Portugal)     Jo&#227;o Veloso (UP, Portugal)     Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, (UNL, Portugal)     Joaquim Llisterri (UAB, Spain)     Jorge Baptista (U Alg., Portugal)     Jos&#233; Gabriel Lopes ((UNL, Portugal)     Jos&#233; Jo&#227;o Almeida (UM, Portugal)     Julia Hirschberg (Columbia University, USA)     Laura Alonso Alemany (University National of Cordoba, Argentina)     Leandro Oliveira (Embrapa, Brazil)     L&#250;cia Rino (UFSCAR, Brazil)     Lu&#237;s Oliveira (INESC-ID, Portugal)     Lu&#237;s S&#225; (UC, Portugal)     Lu&#237;sa Coheur (INESC-ID/IST, Portugal)     Luiz Pizzato (University of Sydney, Australia)     Marcelo Finger (USP, Brazil)     Marco Gonzalez (PUC-RS,Brazil)     Maria das Gra&#231;as Volpe Nunes (USP-SC, Brazil)     Maria Helena Mira Mateus (ILTEC, Portugal)     M&#225;rio Silva (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal)     Michel Gagnon (Ecole Polytechnique , Canada)     Miguel Sales Dias (Microsoft-MLDC, Portugal)     Nuno Cavalheiro Marques (UNL, Portugal)     Nuno Mamede (IST/INESC-ID, Portugal)     Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)     Palmira Marrafa (UL, Portugal)     Paulo Gomes (UC, Portugal)     Paulo Quaresma (UE, Portugal)     Pl&#237;nio Barbosa (Unicamp, Brazil)     Ranniery Maia (Toshiba, UK)     Renata Vieira (PUC-RS,Brazil)     Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)     Ronaldo Martins (Univas, Brazil)     Rove Chishman (Unisinos, Brazil)     Rub&#233;n San-Segundo (UPM, Spain)     Ruy Luiz Milidi&#250; (PUC-Rio, Brazil)     Sandra Aluisio (USP-SC, Brazil)     Stanley Loh (UCPEL, Brazil)     Steven Bird (University of Melbourne, Australia)     Thiago Pardo (USP-SC, Brazil)     Tracy Holloway King (Microsoft, USA)     Val&#233;ria Feltrim (UEM, Brazil)     Vera Strube de Lima (PUC-RS, Brazil)     Violeta Quental (PUC-Rio, Brazil)     Vitor Rocio (U Aberta, Portugal)     Viviane Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil)PROPOR 2012The International Conference on Computational Processing of 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 . The   meetings have been held in    Lisbon, PT (1993);    Curitiba, BR (1996);    Porto Alegre, BR (1998);    &#201;vora, PT (1999);    Atibaia, BR (2000);    Faro, PT (2003);    Itatiaia, BR (2006) ;    Aveiro, PT (2008) and     Porto Alegre, BR (2010).Invited SpeakersRobert Berwick (MIT)Paul Boersma (U. Amsterdam) Topics of interest:We invite submissions of papers describing work on any topic of language and speech processing of  Portuguese from the industry or academia, including but not limited to:    Human speech production, perception and communication, including: Linguistic, mathematical and  psychological models of language;  phonetics, phonology and morphology; paralinguistic and  nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression);    Linguistic Description and Theories: syntactic, semantic, prosodic and anaphoric phenomena, in  (computational) linguistic formalisms like HPSG, LFG, Categorial Grammars, etc.;    Natural Language Processing Tasks, including: parsing, tagging, chunking and segmentation,  annotation, evaluation, semantic role labelling, grammar induction, subcategorization acquisition,  sentiment analysis and opinion mining, using symbolic or statistical methods, etc.;    Natural Language Processing Applications, such as word sense disambiguation, dialect  identification, machine translation, information retrieval, plagiarism detection, dialogue systems,  question answering, subtitling, e-learning, etc.;    Speech Technologies, such as spoken language generation and synthesis;  speech and speaker  recognition; spoken language understanding;    Speech   Applications: Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems; systems for information  retrieval and information extraction from speech; systems for speech-speech translation;  applications for aged and handicapped persons; applications for learning and education;    Resources, standardization and evaluation: Spoken language resources, annotation and tools;  Spoken language evaluation and standardization; NLP resources (raw and annotated corpora,  dictionaries, grammars, ontologies, etc), annotation, tools; NLP evaluation and standardization;    Language and Speech processing in academic disciplines, such as Speech and Hearing sciences,  Psychology, Health, Biology, Linguistics, Cognitive Sciences, Engineering, Education. Important dates:    November 13, 2011 - Extended Deadline for short and full paper submission        December 20, 2011 - Notification of acceptance             January 15, 2012 - Camera-ready papers due            April 17-20, 2012 - Conference    Submissions:Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of  papers:    Full papers: reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a  significant way to the advancement of the area - wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results  should be included.        Short papers: reporting ongoing work, position papers and potential ideas to be discussed.    Authors will be able to express their preference for full/short papers but the final decision is on  the program chairs. Short papers may be selected for oral or poster presentation and should be up  to five (5) pages of content and one (1) additional page of references in length. Full papers will  be presented in an oral session and should be up to ten (10) pages of content and two (2)  additional pages of references.Submissions should be written in English. Selected short papers will be taken under consideration for LNAI publication.  Papers must be submitted in PDF, following the LNAI format, using the  Springer Conference Service of PROPOR2012.Submissions will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will be blind, the  submission should not include the authors' names and affiliations, neither contain self-references  that reveal identity, like, &#34;We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...&#34;. Instead, use citations such  as &#34;Smith (1991) previously showed ...&#34;. Submissions that do not conform to these requirements will  be rejected without review. Separate author identification information is required as part of the  submission process.