Manifesto

This track aims to put together researchers from industry and academia working on Portuguese semantics. Spoken by more than 220 million native speakers, Portuguese, like other languages, has received attention in the industry, although much of the applied work for Portuguese has actually received a multilingual treatment. This track aims to be a place to discuss Portuguese specific characteristics, not always covered by broad multilingual treatments. Nowadays, we observe an increase in considering semantics in many applied tasks because reaching a high-level of language understanding needs to have a solid semantic ground.

We invite researchers working both on theoretical and applied semantics of all variants of Portuguese (including the language varieties of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé, Macau or Galiza) to take part in this track and discuss the role of Portuguese in Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence, theoretical aspects of Portuguese semantics and applied solutions of Portuguese semantics processing.

Subtopics

• Theoretical semantics
• Type theory
• Lexical Semantics
• Wordnet, Ontology, Thesaurus, Terminology bases
• Semantic interfaces (Syntax, Phonology, Pragmatics)
• Semantic domains tasks
• Applied semantics
• Natural Language Inference/Recognizing Textual Entailment
• Contradictions resolution
• Knowledge Graphs
• Search and Recommendation systems
• Dialogue systems
• Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage tasks
• Temporal and Spacial Reasoning
• Distributional Semantics Models and Applications
• Natural Language Understanding
• Semantic Role Labeling

Organizing Committee

Livy Real (B2W Digital/ Group of Computational Linguistics - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Luis Trigo (LIAAD - INESC TEC, Portugal)

Pablo Gamallo (CiTIUS - University of Santiago de Compostela, Galiza - Spain)

Program Committee

Álvaro Iriarte (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

António Leal (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Claudia Freitas (Pontifícia Universidade Católica - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Fátima Oliveira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Lilian Felix (B2W, Brazil)

Ligia Negri (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)

Marcos Garcia (Universidade de a Corunha, Galiza - Spain)

Martín Pereira-Fariña (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza - Spain)

Patricia Martín-Rodilla (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza - Spain)

Purificação Silvano (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Raquel Amaro (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Valeria de Paiva (Universidade de Birmingham, UK)

William Collen (Stilingue, Brazil)

Deadlines

Submission: July 26, 2019

Notification: August 16, 2019

Registration: August 26, 2019

Camera-ready: August 26, 2019

Event: September 26, 2019

Information for the authors

• Carefully consider the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
• Have a careful proofreading of the contribution
• Carefully observe the required format: text style and size, captions, references, etc.

(see http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/CfPSEMAPRO19.html, in the FORMATS section)

• Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html
• The actual registration form will be posted in time for notification

Contribution types

• regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
• short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
• ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
• posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
• demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]

Paper Format

• See: http://www.iaria.org/format.html [both LaTex and .doc templates]
• Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
• More information on camera ready preparations will be posted after the paper notifications are sent out.

Publications

• Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
• Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
• Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Paper Submission

https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=SEMAPRO+2019+Special

Please select Track Preference as PSIU

Registration

• Each accepted paper needs at least one full registration, before the camera-ready manuscript can be included in the proceedings.
• Registration fees are available at http://www.iaria.org/registration.html

Contacts

Livy Real: livyreal at gmail.com

Pablo Gamallo: pablo.gamallo at usc.es

Luis Trigo: lptrigo at inesctec.pt

SEMAPRO Logistics: steve at iaria.org