Call for Papers
*Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese*
of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS)
JBCS https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/ invites the submission of papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of creating, adapting, using, and evaluating *Language Models for Portuguese*.
The use of Language Models in the most diverse areas of computing has raised several issues that deserve the attention of researchers. In the specific case of the Portuguese language, we face major challenges. Whereas efforts are put forward for the construction of good Portuguese models, the most diverse applications are still created using multilingual models or even models built for other languages. It is extremely important that the Portuguese-speaking scientific community makes an effort to build adequate resources to ensure safe and quality systems.
This Special Issue aims to gather original papers discussing Portuguese language models. In addition to automatic evaluation measures, submissions should also discuss the linguistic issues regarding these models' capabilities, limitations, and biases. Topics covered by this Special Issue extend to all research works involving the creation, adaptation, use and evaluation of Language Models for Portuguese processing, including the topics of interest below.
Topics of interest:
Comparative and critical analyses of language models
Social, ethical, financial, and ecological issues related to language models
Discussion on alternative solutions to language models
Domain-specific language models
Adequacy of not-so-large language models for specific tasks
Multilingual x Portuguese-specific models
Semantic issues in language models
Cultural issues in language models
Resources for training language models
Evaluation of language models
The papers must be written in English and the authors should follow the Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions using this JBCS LaTeX template https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8.
- Submission deadline: *March 1, 2025* - Review deadline (1st round): *April 30, 2025*
- Submission of revised version deadline: *May 31, 2025*
- Review deadline (2nd round): *June 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *July 31, 2025* - Decision deadline (rejection, acceptance): *August 2025* - Camera-ready submission deadline: *September 2025* - Publication: *October, 2025*
The submission for this Special Issue will be opened soon, and will be made through the JBCS website https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions.
Guest Editors:
Renata Vieira - UEVORA
Aline Paes - IC-UFF
Graça Nunes - ICMC-USP
Helena Caseli - DC-UFSCar
An initiative of Brasileiras em PLN group (https://brasileiraspln.com/) in partnership with CE-PLN https://www.sbc.org.br/, the special group in NLP of the Brazilian Computing Society https://www.sbc.org.br/.
contact email: jbcs-si-lmpt@googlegroups.com
homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jbcs-si-on-portugueselm
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