CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The conference will take place at Auditório Fernão S. Rodrigues Germano (room 6-001), USP-ICMC. Regarding the proceedings:
- Springer online proceedings (for the main event) are available here.
- The papers of the associated workshops are available at BDBComp (Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Computação).
Monday, October 6
09:00 Registration
10:00 Welcome coffee
10:40 Opening
11:00 Invited talk 1
Meeting Recognition and Understanding: Past, Present and a Guess at the Future
Andreas Stolcke (Microsoft Research)
12:40 Lunch break
14:40 TECHNICAL SESSION 1 - Text Processing (chair: Brett Drury)
Tagging and Labeling Portuguese Modal Verbs
Paulo Quaresma,Amália Mendes,Iris Hendrickx,Teresa Gonçalves
JMorpher: a Finite-State Morphological Parser in Java for Android
Leonel F. de Alencar,Mardônio França,Katiuscia Andrade,Philipp Costa,Henrique Vasconcelos,Francinaldo Madeira
Training State-of-the-Art Portuguese POS Taggers without Handcrafted Features
Cícero dos Santos,Bianca Zadrozny
16:00 Coffee break
16:20 TECHNICAL SESSION 2 - Speech Processing (chair: Michael Riley)
Acoustic Similarity Scores for Keyword Spotting
Arlindo Veiga,Carla Calado Lopes,Luís Sá,Fernando Perdigão
Improving Speech Recognition through Automatic Selection of Age Group Specific Acoustic Models
Annika Hamalainen,Hugo Meinedo,Michael Tjalve,Thomas Pellegrini,Isabel Trancoso,Miguel Dias
17:20 Demo session
18:00 Welcome reception (at the conference venue)
Tuesday, October 7
09:00 Registration
09:20 TECHNICAL SESSION 3 - Speech Processing (chair: Andreas Stolcke)
Rule-based Algorithms for Automatic Pronunciation of Portuguese Verbal Inflections
Vanessa Marquiafável,Christopher Shulby,Arlindo Veiga,Jorge Proença,Sara Candeias,Fernando Perdigão
Characterizing Parkinson's Disease Speech by Acoustic and Phonetic Features
Jorge Proença,Arlindo Veiga,Sara Candeias,João Lemos,Cristina Januário,Fernando Perdigão
Automatically Recognising European Portuguese Children's Speech: Pronunciation Patterns Revealed by an Analysis of ASR Errors
Annika Hamalainen,Hyongsil Cho,Sara Candeias,Thomas Pellegrini,Alberto Abad,Michael Tjalve,Isabel Trancoso,Miguel Dias
10:40 Coffee break
11:20 Invited talk 2
Text Simplification: A challenge for all Computational Linguists?
Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen)
12:40 Lunch break
14:40 TECHNICAL SESSION 4 - Text Processing (chair: Vládia Pinheiro)
Using Cross-linguistic Knowledge to Build VerbNet-style Lexicons: Results for a (Brazilian) Portuguese VerbNet
Carolina Scarton,Magali Duran,Sandra Aluísio
Extending a Lexicon of Portuguese Nominalizations with Data from Corpora
Valeria de Paiva,Cláudia Freitas,Livy Real,Alexandre Rademaker,Anne de Araujo Correia da Silva
Body-Part Nouns and Whole-Part Relations in Portuguese
Ilia Markov,Nuno Mamede,Jorge Baptista
16:00 Coffee break
16:20 TECHNICAL SESSION 5 - Phd/MSc contest (chair: Helena Caseli)
The creation of Onto.PT: a wordnet-like lexical ontology for Portuguese
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
Investigation of General Purpose Word Sense Disambiguation Methods for Nouns in Portuguese
Fernando Antônio Nóbrega
17:20 Poster session
20:30 Conference dinner at Café Tropical
(the bus to the dinner venue will leave from Hotel Anacã at 20h)
Wednesday, October 8
09:00 TUTORIAL
An overview of Text Summarisation research
Advaith Siddharthan (University of Aberdeen)
11:00 Coffee break
11:20 Invited talk 3
Challenges in Voice Search
Michael Riley (Google Inc.)
12:40 Lunch break
14:40 TECHNICAL SESSION 6 - Text Processing (chair: Magali Sanches Duran)
Automatic Alignment of News Texts and their Multi-document Summaries: Comparison among Methods
Verônica Agostini,Roque E. Lopez Condori,Thiago Pardo
Using Rhetorical Structure Theory and Entity Grids to Automatically Evaluate Local Coherence in Texts
Márcio Dias,Valéria Feltrim,Thiago Pardo
Proverb Variation: Experiments on Automatic Detection in Brazilian Portuguese Texts
Amanda Rassi,Jorge Baptista,Oto Vale
16:00 Coffee break
16:20 Award ceremony, closing and community meeting
Thursday, October 9
ToRPorEsp Workshop: Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish