[Corpora-List] CLIN 2003 - Call for Registration

[Bart Decadt]

		     ** CALL FOR REGISTRATION **

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			      CLIN 2003
		      The fourteenth meeting of
	     Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands

		      Friday, December 19th 2003
			University of Antwerp

		   http://cnts.uia.ac.be/clin2003/

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			   ** CLIN 2003 **

On Friday, December 19th 2003, the fourteenth meeting of Computational
Linguistics in The Netherlands will be held at the University of
Antwerp (Campus Drie Eiken, Wilrijk). It will be organized by the
Language Technology Group of the Centre for Dutch Language and Speech
(http://cnts.uia.ac.be/), in co-operation with SIKS
(http://www.siks.nl/). CLIN 2003 is sponsored by CLIF
(http://clif.uia.ac.be/).

All info on CLIN 2003 can be found at: http://cnts.uia.ac.be/clin2003/.


			** KEYNOTE LECTURE **

	 Natural Language Processing in Information Retrieval

			   Thorsten Brants
			   Google Inc., USA

			       Abstract

Typical information retrieval (IR) systems are based on the bag-of-
words model and use little to no natural language processing (NLP).
Stemming is regularly used, but applying syntactic and semantic
processing to improve results significantly remains an extremely hard
task. This talk aims at identifying promising ways of using NLP in IR,
and at identifying IR tasks that are likely to benefit from NLP.


		       ** PLENARY PROGRAMME **

The plenary programme consists of several parallel presentation
sessions and one poster session. The main topics of this year's
meeting are:
	- Parsing
	- Multi-word Recognition
	- Machine Learning
	- Syntax
	- Semantics
	- Morphology
	- Speech Recognition
	- Natural Language Processing Applications

			For a time schedule :
	http://cnts.uia.ac.be/clin2003/abstracts/schedule.html

	       For the presentation/poster abstracts :
      http://cnts.uia.ac.be/clin2003/abstracts/abstractslist.html

			  ** REGISTRATION **


Registration is required to attend the fourteenth CLIN meeting. You
can register using the on-line registration form
(http://cnts.uia.ac.be/clin2003/registration.htm) or by sending an
email to Bart Decadt (bart.decadt at ua.ac.be). The registration fee is
35 EUR. This fee includes:
	- entrance to the conference
	- the conference proceedings of CLIN 2002
	- welcome drink (coffee)
	- two coffee breaks
	- walking lunch with sandwiches and soup
	- a drink (wine, soda) after the conference
	- transport by bus to the railway station after the conference

There is a fixed number of places for SIKS Ph.D. students: they can
register for free. These Ph.D. students have to indicate that they
belong to SIKS when registering.

The registration fee can only be paid cash on the conference site.
Please try to bring with the exact amount.
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