Online proceedings (LNAI 12037)
March 2, 2020
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Tutorial 1 (Room 118), OpenCor (Room 120) |
| 11:00- 11:30 | Coffee (Room 129 Antigo Refeitório ) |
| 11:30-13:00 | Tutorial 1 (Room 118), OpenCor (Room 120) |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 | Tutorial 2 (Room 120), POP2 (Room 131 - Anfiteatro), DHandNLP (Room 118) |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee (Room 129 Antigo Refeitório ) |
| 16:30-18:00 | Tutorial 2 (Room 120), POP2 (Room 131 - Anfiteatro), DHandNLP (Room 118) |
| 18:00- | Welcome Reception |
March 3, 2020
Main Conference – Room 131 Anfiteatro
| 9:00-9:30 | Opening | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Session 1: NLP Tasks | Chair: Fernando Batista |
| Luana Belisário, Luiz Ferreira and Thiago Pardo | Evaluating Methods of Different Paradigms for Subjectivity Classification in Portuguese | |
| Fernando Nóbrega, Alípio Jorge, Pavel Brazdil and Thiago Pardo | Sentence Compression for Portuguese | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Key note 1 - João Graça | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee (Room 129 Antigo Refeitório ) | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Session 2: Semantics | Chair: Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira |
| Denis Araujo, Sandro Rigo, Paulo Quaresma and João Henrique Muniz | A Portuguese dataset for evaluation of Semantic Question Answering | |
| Rafael Anchieta and Thiago Pardo | Exploring the Potentiality of Semantic Features for Paraphrase Detection | |
| Ruan Chaves Rodrigues, Jéssica Rodrigues da Silva, Pedro Vitor Quinta de Castro, Nádia Félix Felipe da Silva and Anderson da Silva Soares | Portuguese Language Models and Word Embeddings: Evaluating on Semantic Similarity Tasks | |
| Sandra Collovini, Patricia Gonçalves, Guilherme Cavalheiro, Joaquim Neto and Renata Vieira | Relation Extraction for Competitive Intelligence | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Key note 2 - Cícero dos Santos | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Coffee (Room 129 Antigo Refeitório ) -- Posters 1 Demos | |
| Marcelo Inuzuka, Hugo Alexandre Dantas Do Nascimento and Acquila Santos | Segmentation of words written in the Latin alphabet: a systematic review | |
| Tiago Sousa, Ana Alves and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira | Exploring Portuguese Word Embeddings for Discovering Lexical-Semantic Relations | |
| Roney Santos and Thiago Pardo | Fact-Checking for Portuguese: Knowledge Graph and Google Search-based Methods | |
| Brenda Santana and Leandro Wives | Extraction and Use of Structured and Unstructured Features for the Recommendation of Urban Resources | |
| Gonçalo Melo and Luísa Coheur | Towards a Conversational Agent with “Character” | |
| Luis Duarte, Luis Macedo and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira | Emoji prediction for Portuguese | |
| Plinio Barbosa, Sandra Madureira, Mario Fontes and Paulo Menegon | Speech Breathing and Expressivity: an experimental study in reading and singing styles | |
| Francisco Oliveira, Alberto Abad and Isabel Trancoso | A Multiplayer Voice-Enabled Game Platform for the Elderly | |
| Anna Maria Pompili, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, José Fonseca and Isabel Pavão Martins | Evaluation and Extensions of an Automatic Speech Therapy Platform | |
| Heliana Mello, Tommaso Raso, Lucia Ferrari, Eckhard Bick and Henrique Chaves | Demo: C-ORAL-BRASIL and its resources | |
| Francielle Alves Vargas and Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo | Demo: An Automatic Explicit and Implicit Opinion Aspect Clustering Tool for Portuguese | |
| Voice interaction | Demo: Voice Interaction | |
| 15:45-17:00 | Session 3 - NLP Applications | Chair: Evandro Eduardo Seron Ruiz |
| Rodrigo Santos, João Silva and António Branco | Making the Most Out of Synthetic Data: Portuguese-Chinese Neural Machine Translation Enhanced with Back-Translation | |
| José Santos, Ana Alves and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira | Leveraging on Semantic Textual Similarity for developing a Portuguese Dialogue System | |
| Emerson Yoshiaki Okano, Zebin Liu, Donghong Ji and Evandro Ruiz | Fake news detection on Fake.Br using hierarchical attention networks | |
| Rafael Faria de Azevedo, Rafael Rodrigues Pereira de Araujo, Rodrigo Guimarães Araújo, Régis Moreira Bittencourt, Rafael Ferreira Alves da Silva, Gabriel de Melo Vaz Nogueira, Thiago Marques Franca, Jair Otharan Nunes, Klailton Ralff da Silva and Emmanuelle Regiane Cunha de Oliveira | Screening of Email Box in Portuguese with SVM at Banco do Brasil | |
| Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur and Paulo Quaresma | Back to the feature, in entailment detection and similarity measurement for Portuguese | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Panel DefinedCrowd: Bridging the resource gap between industry and academia, moderator Christopher Shelby | |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner/Awards | Dinner at Pousada dos Loios |
March 4, 2020
Main Conference – Room 131 Anfiteatro
| 9:00-10:00 | Session 4 - Speech Processing | Chair: Fernando Perdigão |
| Samuel Silva, Conceição Cunha, António Teixeira, Arun Joseph and Jens Frahm | Towards Automatic Determination of Critical Gestures for European Portuguese Sounds | |
| Mariana Julião, Alberto Abad and Helena Moniz | Comparison of heterogeneous feature sets for intonation verification | |
| Margarida Grilo, Isabel Guimarães, Mariana Ascensão, Alberto Abad, Ivo Anjos, João Magalhães and Sofia Cavaco | The BioVisualSpeech European Portuguese sibilants corpus | |
| Sebastiao Quintas and Isabel Trancoso | Evaluation of Deep Learning Approaches to Text-to-Speech Systems for European Portuguese | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Key note 3 - Isabel Trancoso | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee (Room 129 Antigo Refeitório ) | |
| 11:30- 12:30 | Session 5 - Multilinguality | Chair: Thiago Pardo |
| Marcio Inácio and Helena Caseli | Word Embeddings at Post-Editing | |
| João Rodrigues and António Branco | Argument Identification in a Language without Labeled Data | |
| Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Marcio Inácio, Ana Carolina Rodrigues, Edresson Casanova and Rogério Figueredo de Sousa | Natural Language Inference for Portuguese using BERT and Multilingual Information | |
| João Vitor Andrioli de Souza, Lucas Emanuel Silva E Oliveira, Yohan Bonescki Gumiel, Deborah Ribeiro Carvalho and Claudia Maria Cabral Moro | Exploiting Siamese Neural Networks on Short Text Similarity tasks for multiple domains and languages | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Key note 4 - Fernando Pereira | |
| 15:00-15:45 | Coffee (Room 129 Antigo Refeitório ) Posters 2 Demos | |
| Gabriela Wick-Pedro, Roney Santos, Carolina Scarton, Kalina Bontcheva, Oto Vale and Thiago Pardo | Linguistic analysis model for monitoring user reaction on satirical news for Brazilian Portuguese | |
| Juliana C. Carvalho de Araújo, Cláudia Freitas, Marco Aurélio C. Pacheco and Leonardo A. Forero-Mendoza | An investigation of pre-trainedembeddings in dependency parsing | |
| Livy Real, Erick Fonseca and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira | The ASSIN 2 shared task: a quick overview | |
| Alexandre Rademaker, Lucas Ribeiro Coutinho and Jaqueline Porto Zuline | The construction of a corpus from the Brazilian Historical-Biographical Dictionary | |
| Anabela Barreiro, Ida Rebelo-Arnold, Fernando Batista, Isabel Garcez and Tanara Zingano Kuhn | One Book, Two Language Varieties | |
| Arley Prates, Luis Emanuel Jesus, Daniela Claro, Jacyra Mota, Silvana Ribeiro, Marcela Paim and Josane Oliveira | Vitality analysis of the Linguistic Atlas of Brazil on Twitter | |
| Bruno Cabral, Rafael Glauber, Marlo Souza and Daniela Claro | CrossOIE: Cross-lingual classifier for Open Information Extraction | |
| Cecília Carvalho, Vladia Pinheiro and Lívio Freire | A Deep Learning Model of Commonsense Knowledge for Augmenting Natural Language Processing Tasks in Portuguese Language | |
| Daniela Schmidt, Avner Dal Bosco, Cássia Trojahn, Renata Vieira and Paulo Quaresma | Aligning IATE criminal terminology to SUMO | |
| Heliana Mello, Tommaso Raso, Lucia Ferrari, Eckhard Bick and Henrique Chaves | Demo: C-ORAL-BRASIL and its resources | |
| Francielle Alves Vargas and Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo | Demo: An Automatic Explicit and Implicit Opinion Aspect Clustering Tool for Portuguese | |
| Voice interaction | Demo: Voice Interaction | |
| 15:45-16:45 | Session 6 - Resources and Evaluation | Chair: Livy Real |
| Nathan Hartmann, Gustavo Paetzold and Sandra Aluísio | A Dataset for the Evaluation of Lexical Simplification in Portuguese for Children | |
| Paula Carvalho, Bruno Martins, Hugo Rosa, Silvio Amir, Jorge Baptista and Mário J. Silva | Situational Irony in Farcical News Headlines | |
| Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo, Teofilo De Campos and Marcelo Magalhães Silva de Sousa | Inferring the source of official texts: can SVM beat ULMFiT? | |
| Iria del Rio | Native Language Identification on L2 Portuguese | |
| 16:45 - 17:15 | Technological Infra Structure - CLARIN | António Branco, Amália Mendes, Paulo Quaresma |
| 17:15 | Community Meeting | |
| 18:00 | Closing Session |