PROPOR 2026: CALL FOR BEST PhD/MSc DISSERTATION AWARD

The PROPOR 2026 Best PhD / MSc Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding dissertations in academic research and development topics relevant to the computational processing of Portuguese and Galician. This award intends to recognize excellent young researchers in their early careers and highlight theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician. The award is managed by the Best PhD / MSc dissertation committee.

Award winners will be invited to publish their thesis/dissertation extended abstracts in the PROPOR 2026 proceedings. They will receive a free registration to the main conference as part of the award. The two award winners and runners-up will be invited to prepare a presentation of their work for the main conference, using a particular format (A0 poster for poster presentation or slides for oral presentation).

The Award Ceremony will take place during the PROPOR 2026 Conference.

Submission Criteria and Procedure:

Eligible submissions are those from candidates who have successfully defended their Master and PhD Thesis dissertations within the three years preceding the contest submission deadline, except for thesis submitted to the previous contest held during PROPOR 2024. A letter from the primary dissertation advisor must be submitted with the extended abstract, stating that the candidate meets this eligibility criterion.

The dissertation must focus on some aspect of the written or spoken processing of any variety of Portuguese (including the language varieties of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé, Macau, Timor) or Galician.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution)
• Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
• Natural language generation
• Information extraction and information retrieval
• Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
• Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation)
• Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars)
• NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
• Distributional semantics and language modeling
• Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe)
• Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician

Important Dates

• Full and short paper submission deadline: Jan 9th, 2025 (23:59 GMT-12)Dec 12th, 2025 (23:59 GMT-12)
• Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: Feb 28th, 2026
• Camera-ready papers due: Mar 15th, 2026
• Conference: April 13th - 16th, 2026

Submissions

Each submission, consisting of two PDF files, must comply with the following:

• An extended abstract
• Letter from the primary dissertation/thesis supervisor.

Extended Abstract

The document must be in the form of an extended abstract that includes the nature of the problem researched, relevant theory, hypotheses tested, method, analysis and results and impacts (social, economical, technological, scientific, environmental).

Inclusion of publications, formal reports written by the author and other academic or nonacademic results from the PhD or MSc are particularly relevant and should be included in the extended abstract.

Extended abstracts must include URLs for the PDF of the complete MSc / PhD Thesis/Dissertation. We suggest placing it at the end, before references, and use of tinyurl.com for long URLs.

Extended abstracts are limited to 6 pages, including all figures, tables, and references and should begin with an abstract of 250 words or less. The abstract must be submitted in PDF format, following the same style as PROPOR 2026.

While recent editions have only accepted submissions in English, this year we are pleased to also accept papers written in Portuguese, reaffirming our commitment to promoting scientific exchange in our language.

Submissions must be sent through the CMT submission system bellow, selecting the PROPOR2026 Best Dissertations track:

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The overall purpose of a workshop is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and discuss novel research ideas on active and emerging topics of computational processing of Portuguese, Galician and their variants.

Workshops can take on several forms including (but not limited to) being organized around emerging research areas, challenge problems and industrial applications. The organizers of approved workshops are required to announce the workshop and call for papers, gather submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final workshop program. They must also prepare a set of workshop proceedings in an electronic version. They may choose to form organizing or program committees for assistance in these tasks.

The workshop organizers are responsible for:

• Creating and distributing call-for-papers, call-for-participation and any other relevant advertising. The calls should make it clear that at least one author of any accepted paper must attend the event and that papers will be withdrawn if no such participation is secured with the payment of the workshop dues. The call should clearly describe the review and selection process. Finally, the calls must be framed to encourage as broad a participation as possible.
• Creating and publishing (on time) a website with all the relevant information about the workshop.
• Provide an extended abstract for the conference program.
• Review (at least two independent reviewers) and select the submitted papers.
• Schedule the presentations within the workshop.
• It should be noted that the conference organization does not budget for free registration, accommodation, or travel expenses for the workshop organizers or their invited speakers. The workshop organizers should therefore secure any source of funding/sponsorship deemed necessary for their invited speakers.
• Prepare electronic proceedings volumes by March 27 2026.
• Attend the workshop and select any required session chairs.

Important Dates

• Workshop proposals due: Dec 1st, 2025
• Notification of decision: Dec 15th, 2025
• Workshop web pages available and CFP: Dec 20, 2025
• Deadline for paper submission: Feb 2nd, 2026
• Notification to authors: Mar 10th, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: Mar 20, 2026
• Prepare electronic proceedings volumes: Mar 27th, 2026 - strict deadline

Proposal Details

Proposals should be no more than three pages in length and must include

• Description of the workshop: title, abstract, objectives, relevance and its potential impact on the NLP community and society.
• Motivation: why a PROPOR workshop on this topic is needed.
• Description of the target audience
• List of core committed program committee members (2 to 3 members).
• Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)
• For workshops previously held at PROPOR or other conferences, details on venue, attendance, and number of submissions from previous years should be provided.
• For new workshops, a list of potential attendees/submissions and/or a justification of the expected attendees and submissions.
• Relevant experience of the organizing committee.
• Duration of the workshop (full day or half day).
• Contact information (address, email, and phone - WhatsApp) for all organizers.
• A draft Call for Papers.
• Designation of a main contact person.

Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to propor2026wtst@gmail.com

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS

Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics of language and speech processing including but not limited to the topics of the conference as stated in the call for papers. Especially encouraged are tutorials focusing on the computational processing of Portuguese, Galician and their variants.

Tutorial Speaker Responsibilities

Accepted tutorial speakers must provide an abstract of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material. The description should be in the ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website. Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials, at least containing copies of the course slides, and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. Each tutorial will be granted one registration to the main conference.

Important Dates

• Tutorial proposals due: Jan 8th, 2026
• Notification of decision: Jan 18th, 2026
• Tutorial descriptions to be included in the event web page: Jan 28th, 2026
• Tutorial course material due: Mar 25th, 2026
• Expected Tutorial date: Apr 13th, 2026

Submission Details

Proposals for tutorials should contain:

• A title and a brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the PROPOR community (not more than 2 pages).
• A brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in a two- or three-hour slot (including a coffee break).
• The names, affiliations, email addresses, and websites of the tutorial instructors, including a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise.
• A list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere.
• A description of special requirements for technical equipment (e.g., Internet access).

Submissions will be done via email to propor2026wtst@gmail.com

PROPOR 2026: CALL FOR PAPERS ON NLP R&D IN THE INDUSTRY

As part of its effort to strengthen ties between academic research, industry, and the broader community, PROPOR includes an Industry Track dedicated to scientific work originating in industrial settings. The track welcomes research contributions that build on scientific advances, address applied scenarios, and report substantive results involving Portuguese and Galician.

The Industry Track is intended for complete research contributions, whether or not they are directly linked to deployed products, and may optionally include demonstrations to support the presentation of results. Submissions focused exclusively on product demonstrations should be directed to the Demo Track. However, joint submissions to both tracks are encouraged when work combines a strong research component with demonstrable artifacts.

The goal of the Industry Track is to showcase successful industry-driven research, highlight NLP impact in real-world contexts, and foster collaboration between academia and industry. Submissions may rely on proprietary or NDA-protected data, provided that sensitive information is appropriately anonymized and that motivation, methodology, and results are clearly described in line with PROPOR’s quality standards.

Submissions must be 4-page papers (English or Portuguese) describing objectives, methodology, data, and results. Accepted papers will receive one additional page to address reviewer feedback and will be presented in a dedicated Industry Track session. At least one author must be registered for the conference. Presentation details will be communicated upon acceptance.

Topics of interest:

The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not limited to, the same topics as for the conference paper submission:

• Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution)
• Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
• Generative AI use cases that present innovation and research value focused on written/spoken Portuguese or Galician
• Information extraction and information retrieval
• Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
• Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation)
• Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars)
• NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
• Distributional semantics and language modeling
• Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe)
• Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician

Important Dates

• Industry track submission: Feb 6, 2026(23:59 GMT-12)
• Notification of acceptance or rejection: Mar 2nd, 2026
• Camera-ready papers due: Mar 15th, 2026
• Conference: April 13th - 16th, 2026

Submissions

Submissions should consist of an anonymous paper up to four pages of content with one extra page for references. Authors must outline the main objectives of their projects, the methodology, and the results achieved, along with a brief discussion on the impacts of these results within the company and the discoveries made in NLP. Data sources that are under NDA or customer PII can be replaced by an anonymized sample of the data and a description of the content for reviewers to be able to evaluate work goals and results.

All submissions will be blind reviewed by at least 2 evaluators and notification of acceptance will be available in the designated period.

All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files that meet these requirements. They can be found at:

• LaTeX stylesheet
• Overleaf Template
• Paper Formatting Guidelines

Submissions must be written in Portuguese or English in PDF format. For the final version, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to consider reviewers' suggestions. Keep in mind that demonstrations have their own track, please refer to Demo Track for its purpose.

Publication

Accepted papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology as part of the PROPOR 2026 proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2026 by the early registration deadline.

Presentation format

Accepted papers will be presented at a designated Industry Track session in oral format with optional slide deck presentation - a designated time will be given to the audience to give feedback and ask questions regarding the presentation. The industry track will contact the main author after the notification of acceptance to give more information on presentation format and duration, as well as provide internet access and a projector for presentation.

Submissions must be sent through the CMT submission system bellow, selecting the PROPOR2026 Industry Track papers track:

PROPOR 2026: CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS

The PROPOR 2026 Demonstration Track invites submissions presenting systems, tools, or products related to the computational processing of Portuguese and/or Galician. In line with previous editions, this track aims to foster interaction between academia and industry by offering a forum that goes beyond written or spoken descriptions of research. Demonstrations should enable attendees to engage with and test the systems during the dedicated demo session, which will provide an informal and interactive environment. Both early-stage research prototypes and mature, fully developed systems are welcome.

Topics of interest:

The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not limited to:

• Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution)
• Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis)
• Natural language generation
• Information extraction and information retrieval
• Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding)
• Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation)
• Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars)
• NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis
• Distributional semantics and language modeling
• Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe)
• Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician

The systems may be of the following kinds:

• Natural Language Processing systems or system components
• Application systems using language technology components
• Software tools for computational linguistics research
• Software for demonstration or evaluation
• Development tools

Important Dates

• Demos submission deadline: Feb 6, 2026(23:59 GMT-12)
• Notification of acceptance or rejection: Mar 2nd, 2026
• Camera-ready papers due: Mar 15th, 2026
• Conference: April 13th - 16th, 2026

Submissions

Submissions should consist of a non-anonymous brief description document of up to three pages of content, including references. Developers must outline the main characteristics of their system/product/tool, provide sufficient details to allow its evaluation, and give information on how they plan to demonstrate it. Developers are encouraged to focus their description on the relevance of the computational processing component of Portuguese or Galician in the proposed system.

Submissions should be written in English or Portuguese.

At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final version, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings.

All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files that meet these requirements. They can be found at:

• LaTeX stylesheet
• Overleaf Template
• Paper Formatting Guidelines

Publication

Accepted papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology as part of the PROPOR 2026 proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2026 by the early registration deadline.

Presentation format

Accepted demos will be presented at a designated demo session with an optional accompanying poster. Developers should make sure they can run their demos properly. Thus, it is the authors' responsibility to provide the necessary technical conditions (i.e. equipment) for the demo at the conference. Note that the local organizers will not provide any hardware or software. Free high-speed Internet access will be available.

There will be a best demo award for the best-presented project.

Further details on the date, time, and instructions of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date.

Submissions must be sent through the CMT submission system bellow, selecting the PROPOR2026 Demo Track papers track: