Speech Analysis -- Event Detection by HMM, SVM and ANN: A Comparative Study -- Frication and Voicing Classification -- A Spoken Dialog System Speech Interface Based on a Microphone Array -- Ontologies, Semantics and Anaphora Resolution -- PAPEL: A Dictionary-Based Lexical Ontology for Portuguese -- Comparing Window and Syntax Based Strategies for Semantic Extraction -- The Mitkov Algorithm for Anaphora Resolution in Portuguese -- Semantic Similarity, Ontologies and the Portuguese Language: A Close Look at the subject -- Speech Synthesis -- Boundary Refining Aiming at Speech Synthesis Applications -- Evolutionary-Based Design of a Brazilian Portuguese Recording Script for a Concatenative Synthesis System -- DIXI – A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese -- European Portuguese Articulatory Based Text-to-Speech: First Results -- Machine Learning Applied to Natural Language Processing -- Statistical Machine Translation of Broadcast News from Spanish to Portuguese -- Combining Multiple Features for Automatic Text Summarization through Machine Learning -- Some Experiments on Clustering Similar Sentences of Texts in Portuguese -- Portuguese Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning -- Learning Coreference Resolution for Portuguese Texts -- Speech Recognition and Applications -- Domain Adaptation of a Broadcast News Transcription System for the Portuguese Parliament -- Automatic Classification and Transcription of Telephone Speech in Radio Broadcast Data -- A Platform of Distributed Speech Recognition for the European Portuguese Language -- Natural Language Processing Tools and Applications -- Supporting e-Learning with Language Technology for Portuguese -- ParaMT: A Paraphraser for Machine Translation -- POSTERS -- Second HAREM: New Challenges and Old Wisdom -- Floresta Sintá(c)tica: Bigger, Thicker and Easier -- The Identification and Description of Frozen Prepositional Phrases through a Corpus-Oriented Study -- CorrefSum: Referencial Cohesion Recovery in Extractive Summaries -- Answering Portuguese Questions -- XisQuê: An Online QA Service for Portuguese -- Using Semantic Prototypes for Discourse Status Classification -- Using System Expectations to Manage User Interactions -- Adaptive Modeling and High Quality Spectral Estimation for Speech Enhancement -- On the Voiceless Aspirated Stops in Brazilian Portuguese -- Comparison of Phonetic Segmentation Tools for European Portuguese -- Spoltech and OGI-22 Baseline Systems for Speech Recognition in Brazilian Portuguese -- Development of a Speech Recognizer with the Tecnovoz Database -- Dynamic Language Modeling for the European Portuguese -- An Approach to Natural Language Equation Reading in Digital Talking Books -- Topic Segmentation in a Media Watch System.