Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language: 12th International Conference, PROPOR 2016, Tomar, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings

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Preface
The International Conference on the Computational Processing of Portuguese, PRO-
POR, is the most important scientific event dedicated to the processing of spoken and
written Portuguese, covering both basic and applied research. This event is hosted
everyotheryear,alternatingbetweenBrazilandPortugal.Previouseventswereheldin
Lisbon, Portugal (1993), Curitiba, Brazil (1996), Porto Alegre, Brazil (1998), Évora,
Portugal (1999), Atibaia, Brazil (2000), Faro, Portugal (2003), Itatiaia, Brazil (2006),
Aveiro, Portugal (2008), Porto Alegre, Brazil (2010), Coimbra, Portugal (2012), and
São Carlos, Brazil (2014).
The community attending the conference is highly multidisciplinary and dynamic.
The sharing of expertise, the communication of results, the promotion of methodolo-
gies and the exchanging of language resources and tools have been key contributions
for the continuous scientific advance of the automated processing of the Portuguese
language.
This 12th edition of PROPOR took place in Tomar, in the center of Portugal, and
was hosted by the University of Lisbon and the NLX—Natural Language and Speech
Group from its Department of Informatics at the Faculty of Sciences.
The event also featured the 4th edition of the MSc/MA and PhD Dissertation
Contest, which selects the best new academic research work in the computational
processing of Portuguese.
Forthefirsttime,PROPORfeaturedaJob-shopandInnovationForumaimingatthe
creation of a fruitful environment to promote the exchange of results, talent, and
partnerships between researchers in the field of language technologies and companies
using and developing these technologies.
This year PROPOR had three workshops in addition to the main program, namely,
(a) ASSIN, an evaluation forum for semantic similarity and textual entailment recog-
nition; (b) LexSem+Logics, the Third Workshop on Logics and Ontologies and the
FirstWorkshoponLexicalSemanticsforLesser-ResourcedLanguages;and(c)CTPC,
the Workshop on Corpora and Tools for Processing Corpora. It is noteworthy that the
CTPC workshop was co-organized with the Portuguese Language Department of the
Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission.
Other additions to the main program were a Student Research Workshop and two
tutorial sessions, one on “Gaussian Processes for Natural Language Processing” and
another on “Translation Quality Estimation.”
Twokeynotespeakershonoredtheeventwiththeirlectures:Dr.HynekHermansky
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA and Brno University of
Technology, Czech Republic) and Dr. Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque
Country, San Sebastian, Spain).
In all, 52 submissions were received for the main event, totaling 134 authors from
many countries worldwide, such as Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Macao,
Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. This volume brings together a
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selection of the 39 best papers accepted at this meeting: 23 full papers and 14 short
papers. The acceptance rate for full papers was 44 %. To these, the two papers cor-
responding to the winning submissions to the MSc/MA and PhD dissertation contest
wereadded.Inthisvolume,thepapersareorganizedthematicallyandincludethemost
recent developments in language applications, language processing, language resour-
ces, and speech processing.
We express our sincere thanks to every person and institution involved in the
complexorganizationofthisevent,especiallythemembersofthescientificcommittee
of the main event, the dissertations contest and the associated workshops, the invited
speakers, and the general organization staff.
Wearealsogratefultotheagenciesandorganizationsthatsupportedandpromoted
the event, namely, the QTLeap Project, the Portuguese Language Department of the
Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission, the Hotel dos
Templários, the Universidade de Lisboa and the Department of Informatics of its
Facultyof Sciences, theFoundationoftheFacultyof Sciences ofthe Universidade de
Lisboa, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
May 2016 João Silva
Ricardo Ribeiro
André Adami
Paulo Quaresma
António Branco
Organization
General Chair
António Branco Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Technical Program Chairs
André Adami Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Paulo Quaresma Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Editorial Chairs
João Silva Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ricardo Ribeiro ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Demos Chair
Vládia Pinheiro Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil
Student Research Workshop Chairs
Pedro Balage Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil
Fernando Batista ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Workshops Chair
Pablo Gamallo Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Tutorials Chairs
Fernando Perdigão Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Margarita Correia Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Lucia Specia University of Sheffield, UK
Best MSc/MA and PhD Dissertation Contest Chair
Aline Villavicencio UFRGS, Brazil
Jobshop and Innovation Forum Chair
Rosa Del Gaudio Higher Functions, Portugal
VIII Organization
Publicity and Sponsorship Chair
Daniela Braga Defined crowd, USA
Ana Tavares Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Organizing Committee
António Branco Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Daniel Pereira Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ana Tavares Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Steering Committee
Thiago Pardo Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
António Branco Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Sara Candeias Microsoft, Portugal
Nuno Mamede Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Claudia Freitas PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Program Committee
Alberto Abad Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Alberto Simões Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Alexandre Rademaker IBM, Brazil
Aline Villavicencio UFRGS, Brazil
Amália Andrade Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Amália Mendes Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ana Luís Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Anabela Barreiro INESC-ID, Portugal
André Adami Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Andreia Bonfante UFMT, Brazil
Andreia Rauber UCPEL, Brazil
Antonio Bonafonte UPC, Spain
António Branco Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
António Serralheiro Academia Militar, Portugal
António Teixeira Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ariani Di Felippo UFSCAR, Brazil
Augusto Soares Silva Universidade Católica, Portugal
Bento da Silva UNESP, Brazil
Berthold Crysmann CNRS, France
Brett Drury USP-SC, Brazil
Carlos Prolo UFRN, Brazil
Cicero Nogueira dos Santos IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Daniela Braga defined crowd, USA
David Martins de Matos Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Derek Wong Universidade de Macau, China
Organization IX
Diamantino Freitas Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Eraldo Rezende Fernandes UFMS, Brazil
Eric Laporte Université Paris-Est, France
Fabio Kepler UNIPAMPA, Brazil
Fabio Violaro UNICAMP, Brazil
Fernando Batista ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Fernando Perdigão Universiade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fernando Resende Junior UFRJ, Brazil
Gladis Almeida UFSCAR, Brazil
Helena Caseli UFSCAR, Brazil
Helena Moniz INESC-ID, Portugal
Hugo Meinedo Microsoft, Portugal
Hugo Oliveira Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Irene Rodrigues Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Isabel Falé Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Isabel Trancoso Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Ivandré Paraboni USP, Brazil
João Balsa Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
João Luís Rosa USP-SC, Brazil
João Silva Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Joaquim Llisterri Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Jorge Baptista Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
José João Almeida Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Laura Alonso Alemany Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Leandro Oliveira EMBRAPA, Brazil
Lucia Specia University of Sheffield, UK
Magali Sanches Duran USP-SC, Brazil
Margarita Correia Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Maria das Graças Volpe USP-SC, Brazil
Nunes
Maria José Finatto UFRGS, Brazil
Mário Silva Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Nelson Neto UFP, Brazil
Norton Roman USP-EACH, Brazil
Nuno Cavalheiro Marques Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Nuno Mamede Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Pablo Gamallo Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Palmira Marrafa Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Paulo Gomes Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Paulo Quaresma Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Plínio Barbosa UNICAMP, Brazil
Renata Vieira PUC-RS, Brazil
Ricardo Ribeiro ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Rosa Del Gaudio Higher Functions, Portugal
Ruy Luiz Milidiú PUC-Rio, Brazil
Sandra Aluísio USP-SC, Brazil