Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language : 7th International Workshop PROPOR 2006 Itatiaia Brazil May 13 17 2006 Proceedings Since 1993 PROPOR Workshops have become an important forum for searchers involved in the Computational Processing of Portuguese both written and spoken. This PROPOR Workshop follows previous workshops held in 1993 (Lisbon Portugal) 1996 (Curitiba Brazil) 1998 (Porto Alegre Brazil) 1999 ´ (Evora Portugal) 2000 (Atibaia Brazil) and 2003 (Faro Portugal). The wo shop has increasingly contributed to bringing together researchers and industry partners from both sides of the Atlantic. The constitution of an international Program Committee and the adoption of high standard referee procedures demonstrate the steady development of the eld and of its scientic community. In 2006 PROPOR received 56 paper submissions from 11 dierent countries: Brazil Portugal Spain Norway USA Italy Japan France Canada Denmark and the UK from which 9 are represented in the accepted papers. Each submitted paper underwent a careful triple blind review by the P gram Committee. All those who contributed are mentioned in the following pages. The reviewing process led to the selection of 20 regular papers for oral presentation and 17 short papers for poster sections which are published in this volume. The workshop and this book were structured around the following main t ics seven for full papers: (i) automatic summarization; (ii) resources; (iii) au matic translation; (iv) named entity recognition; (v) tools and frameworks; (vi) systems and models; and another ve topics for short papers; (vii) information extraction; (viii) speech processing; (ix) lexicon; (x) morpho syntactic studies; (xi) web corpus and evaluation. Summarization Modeling and Evaluating Summaries Using Complex Networks SABio: An Automatic Portuguese Text Summarizer Through Artificial Neural Networks in a More Biologically Plausible Model Resources Building a Dictionary of Anthroponyms REPENTINO – A Wide Scope Gazetteer for Entity Recognition in Portuguese Translation Using Natural Alignment to Extract Translation Equivalents Open Source Portuguese–Spanish Machine Translation Weighted Finite State Transducer Inference for Limited Domain Speech to Speech Translation Named Entity Recognition A Golden Resource for Named Entity Recognition in Portuguese Functional Aspects in Portuguese NER SIEMÊS – A Named Entity Recognizer for Portuguese Relying on Similarity Rules Tools and Frameworks Tools for Nominalization: An Alternative for Lexical Normalization A Framework for Integrating Natural Language Tools Methods and Tools for Encoding the WordNet.Br Sentences Concept Glosses and Conceptual Semantic Relations A Multi agent Approach to Question Answering Systems and Models Adaptation of Data and Models for Probabilistic Parsing of Portuguese A Set of NP Extraction Rules for Portuguese: Defining Learning and Pruning Resolving Portuguese Nominal Anaphora Design of a Multimodal Input Interface for a Dialogue System Review and Evaluation of DiZer – An Automatic Discourse Analyzer for Brazilian Portuguese Classroom Lecture Recognition Information Extraction Semi supervised Learning for Portuguese Noun Phrase Extraction Automatic Extraction of Keywords for the Portuguese Language Semi automatically Building Ontological Structures from Portuguese Written Texts Speech Processing On the Use of Machine Learning and Syllable Information in European Portuguese Grapheme Phone Conversion A Model to Computational Speech Understanding Phonetic Sequence to Graphemes Conversion Based on DTW and One Stage Algorithms Lexicon Very Strict Selectional Restrictions: A Comparison Between Portuguese and French Towards a Formalization of Tense and Aspect for the Generation of Portuguese Sentences The Need for Application Dependent WSD Strategies: A Case Study in MT A Lexical Database of Portuguese Multiword Expressions Morpho syntactic Studies Dedicated Nominal Featurization of Portuguese Part of Speech Tagging of Portuguese Based on Variable Length Markov Chains From Syntactical Analysis to Textual Segmentation Syntactical Annotation of COMPARA: Workflow and First Results Web Corpus and Evaluation A Complex Evaluation Architecture for HAREM What Kinds of Geographical Information Are There in the Portuguese Web Corpus Based Compositionality.