[Corpora-List] TALN2006: DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR CALL OF PAPERS

[Cédrick Fairon]

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                           TALN 2006

           Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                        Leuven, Belgium

                       April 10-13, 2006


URL: http://www.taln.be
mail: taln06 at tedm.ucl.ac.be
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                DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR CALL FOR PAPERS

Due to popular demand, the paper submission deadline for TALN-2006
has been extended to December 28, 2005.

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:        December 28, 2005
Notification to authors:    January 26, 2006
Final version:              February 20, 2006
Conference:                 April 10-13, 2006

INVITED SPEAKERS
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Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen
Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft Corporation


The 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2006) will be
held in Leuven, Belgium, on April 10-13, 2006. The conference is
organized by the "Centre de traitement automatique du langage" (CENTAL)
of the University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve) and by the
Centre for Automatic Linguistic Analysis (ALA) of the University of
Leuven (KULeuven).

TALN 2006 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues, Association for NLP) and will be  
held
jointly with RECITAL 2006, the conference for young researchers (call  
for
papers to be issued separately, see the conference website).

The conference will include oral and poster communications, invited
conferences, workshops and tutorials.

The official language is French.

TOPICS
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Papers are requested in all areas of NLP, including (but not  
restricted to) :

      * Lexicon : databases containing morphological, syntactic,  
semantic,
        and/or phonological information
      * Analysis, generation and lexicons in the following domains :
          - Phonetics and phonology
          - Morphology
          - Syntax
          - Semantics
      * NLP applications
          - Text analysis
          - Text summarization
          - Text generation
          - Text-to-speech synthesis
          - Natural language interfaces
          - Machine translation
          - Information retrieval
          - CALL
      * Logical, symbolic and statistical approaches

All selected papers will be published in the proceedings. In  
addition, the
scientific committee will select two papers, which will be  
recommended for
publication in the journal "Traitement Automatique des  
Langues" (T.A.L.).

SELECTION
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Authors are invited to submit original research work. Submissions  
will be
reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. Decisions will be based
on the following criteria :
       - importance and originality of the paper
       - scientific and technical soundness
       - comparison of the results obtained with those found in  
relevant works
       - clarity of the presentation
       - relevance to the conference topics

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors and
in English for authors who don't master French.

Papers should not exceed 10 pages, in Times 12, single-spaced (approx.
3,000 words), including figures, examples and references.

A LaTeX style file and a Word template are available on the
conference website. The page format is A4.

An interactive form for the subsmission of articles is provided on
the conference website. Papers should be uploaded in PDF format.

Instructions for the conversion of Word documents into PDF format
are available on the conference website.

The final versions should be sent either in Latex format or in RTF
format (Word), to the email address indicated in the message of
acceptance.

In case of impossibility of electronic submission, three hard copies
of the paper must be sent to:

      Cedrick Fairon
      UCL - CENTAL
      1, place Blaise Pascal
      1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
      Belgique

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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Practical information can be found on the conference website.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Piet Mertens, ALA, Department of Linguistics, K.U.Leuven
Cédrick Fairon, CENTAL, Université de Louvain (UCL)
Anne Dister, CENTAL, UCL
Patrick Watrin, CENTAL, UCL
Laurent Kevers, CENTAL, UCL
Bernadette Dehottay, CENTAL, UCL
Claude Devis, CENTAL, UCL
Marc Durieux, CENTAL, UCL
Michel Thomas, CENTAL, UCL
Isabelle Lecroart, CENTAL, UCL