ABOUT POP
ABOUT POP
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The POP (Por Outras Palavras - In Other Words) Seminar on Tools and Linguistic Resources for Paraphrasing in Portuguese was held for the fist time on September 24, 2018 in the PROPOR organized in Canela (RS), Brazil. Due to the success of that first Seminar and the relevance of the topic to the field of Natural Language Processing, the organizers decided to follow-up on the topic as a satellite event of the main international conference on Portuguese Language Processing, PROPOR 2020, to be held in Évora, Portugal. Therefore, they invite interested researchers to discuss new ideas on the development and use of paraphrase language resources in Portuguese to be used in real-world applications.
The POP (Por Outras Palavras - In Other Words) Seminar on Tools and Linguistic Resources for Paraphrasing in Portuguese was held for the fist time on September 24, 2018 in the PROPOR organized in Canela (RS), Brazil. Due to the success of that first Seminar and the relevance of the topic to the field of Natural Language Processing, the organizers decided to follow-up on the topic as a satellite event of the main international conference on Portuguese Language Processing, PROPOR 2020, to be held in Évora, Portugal. Therefore, they invite interested researchers to discuss new ideas on the development and use of paraphrase language resources in Portuguese to be used in real-world applications.
Paraphrases are extremely important in human communication, both in production and understanding of natural language, and play an increasingly important role in research activities and projects and in a wide variety of software applications, as they allow for recognising and generating equivalent ways of expressing the same content. That is, paraphrases allow systems to provide the user with suggestions for saying and writing the same thing / idea in other words. They also help increase fluency, creativity and stylistic diversity in language usage. Increasingly, more research is needed in order to create paraphrasing systems that can be useful in the areas of text production and proofreading, and in the development and enhancement of online authoring platforms, developing interactive programs to help Portuguese language learners to produce different but equivalent phrases.
Paraphrases are extremely important in human communication, both in production and understanding of natural language, and play an increasingly important role in research activities and projects and in a wide variety of software applications, as they allow for recognising and generating equivalent ways of expressing the same content. That is, paraphrases allow systems to provide the user with suggestions for saying and writing the same thing / idea in other words. They also help increase fluency, creativity and stylistic diversity in language usage. Increasingly, more research is needed in order to create paraphrasing systems that can be useful in the areas of text production and proofreading, and in the development and enhancement of online authoring platforms, developing interactive programs to help Portuguese language learners to produce different but equivalent phrases.
In proposing the POP2 Seminar, we wanted to (i) bring together researchers with an interest in the field of paraphrases, with a special focus on Portuguese, to learn and share information on the topic; (ii) gather a set of good quality papers that discuss the latest trends in the area and contribute to improving the state of the art of paraphrasing in Portuguese; (iii) exchange ideas and disseminate best practices to help foster research in this area; (iv) foster a convergence of research efforts towards a consensual definition of scientific methods, and encourage international cooperation in order to achieve common strategies that respond to current technological needs; (v) discuss new methodologies, such as neural networks, etc., and learn to combine these methodologies with linguistic efforts; (vi) discuss future challenges and exchange information on scientific and technological aspects; (vii) encourage and reinforce the creation of parallel corpora of paraphrases for Portuguese as data sets for the collection of paraphrastic alignment resources for paraphrasing systems training and testing; and (viii) locate funding sources to further drive research, support innovation and develop this key enabling technology.
In proposing the POP2 Seminar, we wanted to (i) bring together researchers with an interest in the field of paraphrases, with a special focus on Portuguese, to learn and share information on the topic; (ii) gather a set of good quality papers that discuss the latest trends in the area and contribute to improving the state of the art of paraphrasing in Portuguese; (iii) exchange ideas and disseminate best practices to help foster research in this area; (iv) foster a convergence of research efforts towards a consensual definition of scientific methods, and encourage international cooperation in order to achieve common strategies that respond to current technological needs; (v) discuss new methodologies, such as neural networks, etc., and learn to combine these methodologies with linguistic efforts; (vi) discuss future challenges and exchange information on scientific and technological aspects; (vii) encourage and reinforce the creation of parallel corpora of paraphrases for Portuguese as data sets for the collection of paraphrastic alignment resources for paraphrasing systems training and testing; and (viii) locate funding sources to further drive research, support innovation and develop this key enabling technology.
The Program Committee consisted of renowned specialists in Natural Language Processing, Linguistics Computational Engineering, Language Engineering, and related fields, with extensive experience in Portuguese language processing and specifically on paraphrase-related topics.
The Program Committee consisted of renowned specialists in Natural Language Processing, Linguistics Computational Engineering, Language Engineering, and related fields, with extensive experience in Portuguese language processing and specifically on paraphrase-related topics.
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