PROPOR 2018
The Conference will be held at the Serra Nevada Hotel, in Canela (Brazil).
Monday, September 24
| 07:30-08:20 | Foyer: Registration |
Tutorials and Workshops
| 08:30-10:30 | Room Andorinha – T1: Linguística Forense Computacional: processamento de textos forenses em português (PART I) |
| Rui Sousa-Silva | |
| Room Bem Te Vi – T3: Mining the Opinion of Twitter Users in Portuguese with Python (PART I) | |
| Ellen Souza & Douglas Vitório | |
| Room Colibri – OpenCor: Latin American and Iberian Languages Open Corpora Forum (PART I) | |
| Livy Real & Ivan Vladimir Meza | |
| 10:30-10:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:00-12:30 | Room Andorinha – T1: Linguística Forense Computacional: processamento de textos forenses em português (PART II) |
| Rui Sousa-Silva | |
| Room Bem Te Vi – T3: Mining the Opinion of Twitter Users in Portuguese with Python (PART II) | |
| Ellen Souza & Douglas Vitório | |
| Room Colibri – OpenCor: Latin American and Iberian Languages Open Corpora Forum (PART II) | |
| Livy Real & Ivan Vladimir Meza | |
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH |
| 13:30-15:00 | Room Andorinha – T1: Linguística Forense Computacional: processamento de textos forenses em português (PART III) |
| Rui Sousa-Silva | |
| Room Bem Te Vi – T3: Mining the Opinion of Twitter Users in Portuguese with Python (PART III) | |
| Ellen Souza & Douglas Vitório | |
| Room Colibri – POP: Por Outras Palavras (PART I) | |
| Anabela Barreiro, Jorge Baptista, Paulo Quaresma & Renata Vieira | |
| 15:00-15:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 15:30-18:00 | Room Andorinha – T2: Processamento de Linguagem Natural por meio de redes neurais profundas: Teoria e Aplicações |
| Fabiano Luz, Felipe Salvatore & Marcelo Finger | |
| Room Bem Te Vi – SRW: Student Research Workshop | |
| Livy Real, Daniel Beck & Amália Mendes | |
| Room Colibri – POP: Por Outras Palavras (PART II) | |
| Anabela Barreiro, Jorge Baptista, Paulo Quaresma & Renata Vieira | |
| 19:00 | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, September 25
Main Conference
| 07:30-08:20 | Room Colibri – Registration |
| 08:30-08:40 | Room Caracol – Main conference opening – Slides |
| 08:40-09:30 | Room Caracol – Oral session – Speech processing |
| Chair: Andre Adami | |
| 08:40-09:05 | Inner Speech in Portuguese: Acquisition methods, database and first results (51) |
| Carlos Ferreira, Alexandre Sayal, Bruno Direito, Marco Simões, Catarina Oliveira, Paula Martins, Miguel Castelo-Branco and António Teixeira – Slides | |
| 09:05-09:30 | Automatic detection of prosodic boundaries in Brazilian Portuguese spontaneous speech (14) |
| Bárbara Teixeira, Tommaso Raso and Plínio Barbosa – Slides | |
| 09:30-10:30 | Room Caracol – Invited Talk: Speech technologies as an aide for large-scale linguistic exploration |
| Lori Lamel – Slides | |
| 10:30-10:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:50-12:30 | Room Caracol – Oral Session – Language resources |
| Chair: Marcos Zampieri | |
| 10:50-11:15 | SIMPLEX-PB: A Lexical Simplification Database and Benchmark for Portuguese (33) |
| Nathan Hartmann, Gustavo Paetzold and Sandra Aluisio – Slides | |
| 11:15-11:40 | Using a discourse bank and a lexicon for the automatic identification of discourse connectives (39) |
| Amália Mendes and Iria Del Rio – Slides | |
| 11:40-12:05 | SICK-BR: a Portuguese corpus for inference (56) |
| Livy Real, Ana Rodrigues, Andressa Vieira e Silva, Beatriz Albiero, Bruna Thalenberg, Bruno Guide, Cindy Silva, Guilherme de Oliveira Lima, Igor C. S. Câmara, Milos Stanojevic, Rodrigo Souza, Valeria de Paiva – Slides | |
| 12:05-12:30 | Creating a Portuguese context sensitive lexicon for sentiment analysis (67) |
| Mateus T. Machado, Evandro Ruiz and Thiago Pardo – Slides | |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-15:00 | Room Caracol – Invited Talk: Natural language processing and the intelligent machines |
| Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr – Slides | |
| Chair: Thiago Pardo | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Room Andorinha – Poster & demo session A |
| Chair: Carlos Ramisch | |
| Learning Word Embeddings from Portuguese Lexical-Semantic Knowledge Bases (4) | |
| Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira | |
| Imitating broadcast news style: commonalities and differences between French and Brazilian professionals (5) | |
| Plinio Barbosa and Philippe Boula de Mareüil | |
| PassPort: A dependency parsing model for Portuguese (19) | |
| Leonardo Zilio, Rodrigo Wilkens and Cedrick Fairon | |
| RulingBR: A Summarization Dataset for Legal Texts (28) | |
| Diego Feijo and Viviane Moreira | |
| Challenges of an Annotation Task for Open Information Extraction in Portuguese (31) | |
| Rafael Glauber, Leandro Souza de Oliveira, Cleiton Fernando Lima Sena, Daniela Claro and Marlo Souza | |
| When, Where, Who, What or Why? A Hybrid Model to Question Answering Systems (34) | |
| Eduardo G. Cortes, Vinicius Woloszyn and Dante Barone | |
| Analysing Semantic Resources for Coreference Resolution (37) | |
| Thiago Lima, Sandra Collovini, Ana Luisa Leal, Evandro Fonseca, Xiaoxuan Han, Huang Olivia and Renata Vieira | |
| Indexing Names of Persons in a Large Dataset of a Newspaper (38) | |
| Elias Oliveira, Juliana Pirovani and Matheus Nogueira | |
| Annotation of a Corpus of Tweets for Sentiment Analysis (41) | |
| Allisfrank Dos Santos, Jorge Daniel Barros Júnior and Heloisa de Arruda Camargo | |
| ACA – Learning with Alternative Communication (42) | |
| Maria Renata Gobbo, Cinthyan Barbosa, José Luiz Mioni and Fernanda Mafort | |
| Semi-supervised sentiment annotation of large corpora (60) | |
| Henrico Bertini Brum and Maria Das Graças Volpe Nunes | |
| Sentence segmentation and disfluency detection in narrative transcripts from neuropsychological tests (98) | |
| Marcos Treviso and Sandra Aluísio | |
| Personality Recognition from Facebook Text (99) | |
| Barbara Silva and Ivandré Paraboni | |
| Pragmatic Information Extraction in Brazilian Portuguese Documents (100) | |
| Cleiton Fernando Lima Sena and Daniela Barreiro Claro | |
| Demo: LX-SemanticSimilarity | |
| João Silva, Marcos Garcia, João Rodrigues, and António Branco | |
| Demo: A computational grammar for Portuguese | |
| Bruno Cuconato and Alexandre Rademaker | |
| Demo: TEITOK: TEI for corpus linguistics | |
| Maarten Janssen | |
| Demo: DeepBonDD: a Deep neural approach to Boundary and Disfluency Detection | |
| Marcos Treviso, Anderson Smidarle, Lilian Hubner, and Sandra Aluisio | |
| 16:00-16:20 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:20-18:00 | Room Caracol – Oral Session – NLP applications |
| Chair: Alexandre Rademaker | |
| 16:20-16:45 | Aspect clustering methods for sentiment analysis (11) |
| Francielle Alves Vargas and Thiago Pardo – Slides | |
| 16:45-17:10 | Finding Opinion Targets in News Comments and Book Reviews (22) |
| Leonardo Gabiato Catharin and Valéria Feltrim – Slides | |
| 17:10-17:35 | Text-image alignment in Portuguese news (21) |
| Wellington Cristiano Veltroni and Helena De Medeiros Caseli – Slides | |
| 17:35-18:00 | Automatically Grading Brazilian Student Essays (73) |
| Erick Fonseca, Ivo Medeiros and Dayse Kamikawachi – Slides | |
| 18:00-18:10 | Room Caracol – Best Dissertation on Language Technology for Portuguese Award |
| Chairs: Vera Strube de Lima and António Teixeira | |
| 20:00 | Conference dinner |
Wednesday, September 26
| 08:30-08:50 | Room Caracol – Best PhD Thesis |
| Chairs: Vera Strube de Lima and António Teixeira
Nominal Coreference Resolution using Semantic Knowledge Evandro Fonseca, Aline Aver Vanin and Renata Vieira – Slides |
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| 08:50-10:30 | Room Caracol – Oral session – NLP tasks |
| Chair: Rodrigo Wilkens | |
| 08:50-09:15 | Effective Sequence Labeling with Hybrid Neural-CRF Models Hybrid Neural-CRF Models for Sequence Labeling (26) |
| Pablo Botton Da Costa and Gustavo Paetzold – Slides | |
| 09:15-09:40 | Portuguese Named Entity Recognition using LSTM-CRF (53) |
| Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Nádia Félix Felipe Da Silva and Anderson Da Silva Soares – Slides | |
| 09:40-10:05 | LeNER-Br: a Dataset for Named Entity Recognition in Brazilian Legal Text (57) |
| Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Teófilo de Campos, Renato Oliveira, Matheus Oliveira, Samuel Couto and Paulo Bermejo – Slides | |
| 10:05-10:30 | Temporal Tagging of Noisy Clinical Texts in Brazilian Portuguese (63) |
| Rafael Faria de Azevedo, Joao Pedro Santos Rodrigues, Mayara Regina da Silva Reis, Claudia Maria Cabral Moro and Emerson Cabrera Paraiso – Slides | |
| 10:30-10:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:50-12:30 | Room Caracol – Oral Session – Syntax and parsing |
| Chair: Pablo Gamallo | |
| 10:50-11:15 | SMILLE for Portuguese: Annotation and analysis of grammatical structures in a pedagogical context (58) |
| Leonardo Zilio, Rodrigo Wilkens and Cedrick Fairon – Slides | |
| 11:15-11:40 | Concordance Comparison as a Means of Assembling Local Grammars (16) |
| Juliana Pirovani, Elias Oliveira and Eric Laporte – Slides | |
| 11:40-12:05 | Dependency graphs and TEITOK: exploiting dependency parsing (3) |
| Maarten Janssen – Slides | |
| 12:05-12:30 | Tagsets and datasets: some experiments based on Portuguese language (55) |
| Claudia Freitas, Luiza F. Trugo, Fabricio Chalub, Guillherme Paulino-Passos and Alexandre Rademaker – Slides | |
| 12:30-14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00-15:00 | Room Caracol – Invited Talk: Computational pragmatics: a case study of “speaker commitment” |
| Marie-Catherine de Marneffe – Slides | |
| Chair: Aline Villavicencio | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Room Andorinha – Poster & demo session B |
| Chair: Helena De Medeiros Caseli | |
| Identifying Intensification Processes in Brazilian Sign Language in the Framework of Brazilian Portuguese Machine Translation (7) | |
| Francisco Aulisio Dos Santos Paiva, José Mario De Martino, Plinio Barbosa, Pablo Faria, Ivani Silva and Luciana Rosa | |
| Task-Oriented Evaluation of Dependency Parsing with Open Information Extraction (35) | |
| Pablo Gamallo and Marcos Garcia | |
| What weighs for word stress? Big data mining and analyses of phonotactic distributions in Brazilian Portuguese (47) | |
| Amanda Post Da Silveira, Eric Sanders, Gustavo Mendonça and Ton Dijkstra | |
| The Other C: Correcting OCR Words in the Presence of Diacritical Marks (49) | |
| Sergio Mergen and Leonardo Schmidt | |
| Querying an Ontology using Natural Language (52) | |
| Ana Marisa Salgueiro, Catarina Bilé Alves and Joao Balsa | |
| Analyzing the rhetorical structure of opinion articles in the context of a Brazilian college entrance examination (54) | |
| Karina Soares Dos Santos, Mariana Soder, Bruna Stefany Batista Marques and Valeria Feltrim | |
| Contributions to the Study of Fake News in Portuguese: New Corpus and Automatic Detection Results (61) | |
| Rafael Monteiro, Roney Santos, Thiago Pardo, Tiago Almeida, Evandro Ruiz and Oto Vale | |
| CNN-based phonetic segmentation refinement with a cross-speaker setup (64) | |
| Luis Gustavo Depra Cuozzo, Diego Augusto Silva, Mario Uliani Neto, Flavio Olmos Simoes and Edson Jose Nagle | |
| Disambiguating Open IE: identifying semantic similarity in Relation Extraction by word embeddings (69) | |
| Leandro Manuel Pereira Sanches, Victor Soares Cardel, Larissa Soares Machado, Marlo Vieira Santos Souza and Lais Nascimento Salvador | |
| Analyzing Actions in Play-by-Forum RPG (78) | |
| Artur De Oliveira Da Rocha Franco, José Wellington Franco Da Silva, Vládia Célia Monteiro Pinheiro, José Gilvan Rodrigues Maia, Fernando Carvalho and Miguel Franklin de Castro | |
| Development of a Brazilian Portuguese Hotel’s Reviews Corpus (79) | |
| Joana Gabriela Ribeiro de Souza, Alcione Oliveira and Alexandra Moreira | |
| A Corpus Study of Verbal Multiword Expressions in Brazilian Portuguese (81) | |
| Carlos Ramisch, Renata Ramisch, Leonardo Zilio, Aline Villavicencio and Silvio Ricardo Cordeiro | |
| Syntactic Knowledge for Natural Language Inference in Portuguese (90) | |
| Erick Fonseca and Sandra Aluisio | |
| Technical implementation of the Vocabulário Ortográfico Comum da Língua Portuguesa (95) | |
| Maarten Janssen and José Pedro Ferreira | |
| Demo: Automatically Generating Temporal Proto-Narratives From Portuguese Headlines | |
| Arian Pasquali, Vítor Mangaravite, Ricardo Campos, Alípio Mário Jorge, and Adam Jatowt | |
| Demo: SMILLE: Supporting Portuguese as Second Language | |
| Leonardo Zilio, Rodrigo Wilkens, Maria José Finatto, and Cédrick Fairon | |
| Demo: CL-CONLLU – Universal Dependencies in Common Lisp | |
| Alexandre Rademaker, Fabricio Chalub, Bruno Cuconato, Henrique Muniz, Guilherme Passos | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Room Andorinha – 2nd Job-shop and Innovation Forum |
| Klooks | |
| Sentimonitor | |
| Stilingue | |
| Stoodi | |
| 16:00-16:20 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:20-17:10 | Room Caracol – Oral Session – Multilinguality |
| Chair: António Branco | |
| 16:20-16:45 | A Parallel Corpus of Theses and Dissertations Abstracts (77) |
| Felipe Soares, Gabrielli Yamashita and Michel Anzanello – Slides | |
| 16:45-17:10 | Portuguese Native Language Identification (13) |
| Shervin Malmasi, Iria Del Rio and Marcos Zampieri – Slides | |
| 17:10-18:00 | Room Caracol – Community Business Meeting & Closing |