Santos, Diana2026-04-202026-04-202024-05-16http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/62797This paper presents four initiatives for fostering and jointly evaluating the progress of Portuguese language processing, organized for a decade (2002-2012) by Linguateca, concerning a) morphological analysis, b) named entity recognition, c) (crosslingual) information retrieval and question-answering, and d) Wikipedia search. In addition to summarize, for an international audience, the most important data and results coming from these activities, I discuss some issues critically and reflect on what was learned, also about the challenges of organizing language-specific venues.engmanuscript