[Corpora-List] Ranlp-03 CfP

Fri May 2 13:57:57 UTC 2003

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Call for papers

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       "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"

             International Conference RANLP-2003
                    10-12 September 2003
                      Borovets, Bulgaria

               http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003/

Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd and 3rd
conferences on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP),
we are pleased to announce the fourth RANLP conference to be held this
year.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will
be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will
also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.

The conference will be preceded by tutorials (7-9 September 2003) and a
workshop on "Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and
Eastern European Languages" (8-9 September 2003).

TOPICS

We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural
Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of
areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics,
syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation;
multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation,
translation aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS
tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition;
terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution;
information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation; term
recognition; text categorisation; question answering; visualisation;
dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning;
language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-oriented
papers related to NLP of every kind.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The list of conference keynote speakers includes
      Shalom Lappin (King's College)
      Stephen Pulman (Oxford University)
      Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarland)
      Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University)

TUTORIAL LECTURERS

The list of tutorial lecturers includes

      Dan Cristea (University of Iasi)
      Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield University)
      Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
      Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies BV.)

PC CHAIR

      Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

      Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
      Galia Angelova (LMD, CLPP, BAS, Sofia)
      Amit Bagga  (Avaya Labs Research)
      Branimir Boguraev (IBM)
      Kalina Boncheva  (Sheffield University)
      Nicoletta Calzolari (University of Pisa)
      Sylviane Cardey  (University of FrancheComte, Besancon)
      Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence)
      Dan Cristea (University of Iasi)
      Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield University)
      Walter Daelemans  (University of Antwerp)
      Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
      Robert Dale  (Macquarie University)
      Hercules Dalianis  (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
      Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic University, Mexico)
      Ralph Grishman (New York University)
      Walther von Hahn  (University of Hamburg)
      Jan Hajic  (Charles University, Prague)
      Sanda Harabagiu  (University of Texas, Dallas)
      Graeme Hirst  (University of Toronto)
      Ed Hovy  (ISI, University of Southern California)
      Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania)
      Martin Kay  (Stanford University)
      Alma Kharrat  (Microsoft)
      Manfred Kudlek  (University of Hamburg)
      Shalom Lappin  (King's College, London)
      Anke Luedeling  (Humboldt University, Berlin)
      Nuno Mamede  (INESC, Lisbon)
      Carlos Martin-Vide  (University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
      Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
      Beata Megyesi  (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
      Rada Mihalcea  (University of North Texas)
      John Nerbonne  (University of Groningen)
      Nicolas Nicolov  (IBM)
      Kemal Oflazer  (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
      Constantin Orasan  (University of Wolverhampton)
      Chris Paice  (Lancaster University)
      Manuel Palomar  (University of Alicante)
      Gerarld Penn  (University of Toronto)
      Fabio Pianesi  (IRST, Trento)
      Stelios Piperidis (ISLP, Athens)
      Gabor Proszeky  (MorphoLogic, Budapest)
      Stephen Pulman  (Oxford University)
      James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
      Jose Quesada  (University of Seville)
      Dragomir Radev  (University of Michigan)
      Allan Ramsay (UMIST)
      Lucia Rino  (Sao Carlos Federal University)
      Anne de Roeck  (Open University)
      Laurent Romary  (INRIA, Lorraine)
      Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
      Richard Sproat  (AT&T Labs Research)
      Keh-Yih Su  (Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan)
      Kristina Toutanova (Stanford University)
      Isabel Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
      Jun'ichi Tsujii  (University of Tokyo)
      Hans Uszkoreit  (University of Saarland)
      Piek Vossen  (Irion Technologies BV.)
      Yorick Wilks  (Sheffield University)
      Michael Zock  (CNRS)

FOR SUBMISSION DETAILS, see http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003/

SCHEDULE
      Paper Submission Due: ***20 May 2003***
      Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2003
      Camera-ready Paper Due: 5 August 2003
      Tutorials: 7-9 September 2003
      IESL Workshop: 8-9 September 2003
      Conference: 10-12 September 2003

LOCATION

The picturesque resort of Borovets is located in the Rila mountains and
is one of the most famous winter resorts in South-East Europe, a
frequent meeting place for the elite in world skiing. The resort is 1350
m above sea level, at the foot of peak Moussala (2925 m) - the highest
on the Balkan Peninsula. The resort of Borovets is 73 km from Sofia and
126 km from Plovdiv (see the map at the conference site), which means
that both Sofia and Plovdiv with their international airports can serve
as arrival/departure points. In addition to regular public transport,
the organisers will provide daily shuttle buses from Sofia airport to
the conference location at an inexpensive rate. A taxi from Sofia to
Borovets is relatively cheap, so it is also possible to take a taxi from
the international airport in Sofia to the conference venue.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be obtained from Galia Angelova (OC Chair)
galia at lml.bas.bg

ORGANIZERS and SPONSORS

Tha main local organizer is the Linguistic Modelling Department, Central
Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(www.lml.bas.bg). The workshop on "Information Extraction for Slavonic
and other Central and Eastern European Languages" aims at gathering
researchers from EU and the candidate countries and is supported by the
European Commission under contract ICA1-2000-70016.

CONFERENCE MAILING LIST

If you would like to receive information, please subscribe to the
conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to ranlp03 at lml.bas.bg

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-03

Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair)
Nicolas Nicolov, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria