[Corpora-List] Final CFP: IS-LTC, Ljubljana, Slovenia !! Extended paper submission deadline

[Tomaz Erjavec]

                           FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
                Slovenian Language Technologies Society
                      Information Society - IS 2006

                Fifth Slovenian and First International
                     LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE
                               IS-LTC 2006

                           October 9 - 10, 2006
                           Ljubljana, Slovenia
                        http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc06/

Paper submission deadline extended to !!!July 3rd, 2006!!!

The Slovenian Language Technologies Society invites contributions to its
biennial conference to be held in the scope of the Information Society -
IS 2006, taking place October 9 - 13, 2006 at the Jožef Stefan Institute
in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

This event is the fifth in the series of Slovenian Language Technologies
Conferences, now for the first time organised as an international
conference, with an international programme committee.

The official languages of the conference are English and Slovene. The
conference will be organised in two tracks, one for contributions in
English, and the other for those in Slovenian. The accepted papers will
be published in printed proceedings, as well as on-line, on the 
conference Web site http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc06/.

Conference Topics
=================
We invite papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of
traditional interest to the HLT community, as well as related fields,
including but not limited to:
     * development, standardisation and use of language resources
     * speech technologies
     * machine translation and other multi- and cross-lingual processing
     * semantic web and knowledge representation related HLT
     * statistical and machine learning of language models
     * information retrieval and extraction, question answering
     * HLT applications
     * presentations of HLT related projects

Invited speakers
================
    Nick Campbell
     Chief Researcher, Media Information Science Laboratories
     ATR, Japan
     Title of talk: TBA

    Steven Krauwer
     Coordinator of ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Human
     Language Technologies)
     Utrecht University, Netherlands
     Title of talk: Strengthening the smaller languages in Europe

Guidelines for Submissions
==========================
Submitted papers should present original research relevant to the field
of human language technologies. Overview papers on HLT research and
applications are also welcome.

The contributions should be written in English or Slovene. They should
be 4 or 6 pages long and formatted according to the conference style
guidelines, which are available from the conference Web site.

The papers will be published in printed proceedings, as well as on-line,
on the conference Web site. Some papers will be chosen for re-submission
to the journal Informatica.

Important Dates
===============
     July 3rd       paper submission deadline
     August 20th    notification to authors
     September 15th camera ready submission
     October 9 - 10 conference

Programme Committee
===================
     * Jan Cernocký, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno Technical
       University (Czech Republic)
     * Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech
       Communication, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (Germany)
     * Tomaž Erjavec (chair), Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef
       Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
     * Sadaoki Furui, Graduate School of Information Science and
       Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
     * Carmen Garcia-Mateo, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo University (Spain)
     * Vojko Gorjanc, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
     * Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College (USA)
     * Bojan Imperl, Iskratel Ltd (Slovenia)
     * Ivo Ipsić, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka (Croatia)
     * Zdravko Kačič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer
       Science, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
     * Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd (UK)
     * Jin-Dong Kim, Tsujii Laboratory, University of Tokyo (Japan)
     * Cvetana Krstev, Arts Faculty, University of Belgrade (Serbia and
       Montenegro)
     * Siegfried Kunzmann, EMEA voice technology Development, IBM
       (Germany)
     * Gianni Lazzari, Interactive Sensory Systems Division, ITC-irst
       (Italy)
     * Bente Maegaard, Centre for Language Technology, University of
       Copenhagen (Denmark)
     * Jean-Pierre Martens, Department of Electronics and Information
       Systems, University of Gent (Belgium)
     * Dunja Mladenić, Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan
       Institute (Slovenia)
     * France Mihelič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of
       Ljubljana (Slovenia)
     * Joao Paulo Neto, Spoken Language Laboratory, INESC-ID (Portugal)
     * Elmar Nöth, Technical Faculty, Friedrich-Alexander University
       Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
     * Karel Pala, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (Czech
       Republic)
     * Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
     * Marko Stabej, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
     * Tomaž Šef, Dept. for Intelligent Systems, Jožef Stefan Institute
       (Slovenia)
     * Rastislav Šuštaršič, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
       (Slovenia)
     * Marko Tadić, Department of linguistics, University of Zagreb
       (Croatia)
     * Jörg Tiedemann, Alfa-Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
       (Netherlands)
     * Dan Tufiş, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
       Romanian Academy (Romania)
     * Tamás Váradi, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of
       Sciences (Hungary)
     * Špela Vintar, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
     * Andreja Žele, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language,
       ZRC-SAZU (Slovenia)
     * Jerneja Žganec Gros (chair), Alpineon Ltd (Slovenia)

Organising Committee
====================
Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute
Vojko Gorjanc, University of Ljubljana
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon

Information
===========
Up to date information is available at http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc06/
or email hlt-conf at ijs.si.


-- 
Tomaz Erjavec                | Dept. of Knowledge Technologies
email: tomaz.erjavec at ijs.si  | Jozef Stefan Institute
www:   http://nl.ijs.si/et/  | Jamova 39
fax:   (+386 1) 477-3131     | SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia