This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th
International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese
Language, PROPOR 2008, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2008. The
21 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections on speech analysis; ontologies, semantics
and anaphora resolution; speech synthesis; machine learning applied to
natural language processing; speech recognition and applications;
natural language processing tools and applications; posters.