Portuguese Semantics in Industry and University
SEMAPRO 2019 | Porto, Portugal | September, 26, 2019
SEMAPRO 2019 | Porto, Portugal | September, 26, 2019
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.
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)
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)
Submission: July 26, 2019
Notification: August 16, 2019
Registration: August 26, 2019
Camera-ready: August 26, 2019
Event: September 26, 2019
(see http://www.iaria.org/conferences2019/CfPSEMAPRO19.html, in the FORMATS section)
https://www.iariasubmit.org/conferences/submit/newcontribution.php?event=SEMAPRO+2019+Special
Please select Track Preference as PSIU
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