Applications: Information Handling -- Improving IdSay: A Characterization of Strengths and Weaknesses in Question Answering Systems for Portuguese -- Assessing the Impact of Stemming Accuracy on Information Retrieval -- Exploiting Multilingual Grammars and Machine Learning Techniques to Build an Event Extraction System for Portuguese -- Formalizing CST-Based Content Selection Operations -- Applications: Text Processing -- Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences -- Challenging Choices for Text Simplification -- Comparing Sentence-Level Features for Authorship Analysis in Portuguese -- Language Processing -- A Machine Learning Approach to Portuguese Clause Identification -- A Hybrid Approach for Multiword Expression Identification -- Out-of-the-Box Robust Parsing of Portuguese -- LXGram: A Deep Linguistic Processing Grammar for Portuguese -- Language Resources -- InferenceNet.Br: Expression of Inferentialist Semantic Content of the Portuguese Language -- Comparing Verb Synonym Resources for Portuguese -- Auxiliary Verbs and Verbal Chains in European Portuguese -- P-AWL: Academic Word List for Portuguese -- Speech Recognition -- Automatic Phone Clustering Based on Confusion Matrices -- An Open-Source Speech Recognizer for Brazilian Portuguese with a Windows Programming Interface -- A Baseline System for Continuous Speech Recognition of Brazilian Portuguese Using the West Point Brazilian Portuguese Speech Corpus -- Speech Synthesis -- Voice Quality of European Portuguese Emotional Speech -- Prosodic Prediction in Brazilian Portuguese: A Contribution to Speech Synthesis -- The Role of Morphology in Generating High-Quality Pronunciation Lexica for Regional Variants of Portuguese.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2010, held in Portp Alegre, Brazil, in April 2010.The 21 revised full papers and 8 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information handling, text processing, language processing, language resources, speech recognition, and speech synthesis.