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.