[Corpora-List] Deadline extension: STIL 2011 - 8th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology (June 29)

Lucia Specia lspecia at gmail.com
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*********** DEADLINE EXTENSION: JUNE 29, 2011 ***********

*********** CALL FOR PAPERS: STIL 2011: 8th Brazilian Symposium
in Information and Human Language Technology ***********

http://www.ufmt.br/stil2011/

October 24-26, 2011
Cuiabá, Brazil

Submission Deadline: June 29, 2011

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Invited speakers

- Dr. Edward Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, University of
Southern California)
- Dr. Christian Nunes Aranha (Cortex Intelligence)

Tutorials

- Extração de informações semânticas a partir da Wikipédia (in
Portuguese) by MSc. Clarissa Castelã Xavier (PhD Student at PUCRS)

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STIL 2011 is a Language Technology event organized by the Special
Interest Group on Natural Language Processing of the Brazilian
Computer Society (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/) and supported by
the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) (http://www.sbc.org.br/).

The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad
spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as
Linguistics, Computer Science, Psycholinguistics, Information Science,
among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and
industrial participants working on those areas.

STIL-2011 welcomes research work in human language technology in
general (and not only Portuguese) in various fields. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

- Natural Language Processing Applications
- Natural Language Resources&  Tools
- User Studies and Evaluation Methods
- Corpus Linguistics
- Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation
- Terminology, Lexicology and Lexicography
- Lexical Semantics
- Grammar Formalisms, Syntax and Parsing
- Semantics, Semantic Representations and Semantic Parsing
- Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics
- Information Extraction&  Retrieval
- Question Answering
- Human and Machine Translation, Multilinguality
- Summarization and Generation
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Text Classification
- Text/Web Mining
- Spoken Language Processing
- Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Language Processing
- Semantic web
- Ontologies
- NLP for Web 2.0
- Natural language interfaces
- Computer-aided writing tools
- Psycholinguistics
- Information filtering and retrieval
- Digital libraries
- Document and knowledge management
- Knowledge representation and modelling

**** Important Dates

   * Submission Deadline: June 29, 2011
   * Notification:        August 20, 2011
   * Camera Ready         Deadline: September 04, 2011
   * Conference:          October 24-26, 2011


**** Submission Information

Papers can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish.

Submissions will be accepted only through the JEMS SBC system
(https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1406).


**** Length

We accept submissions of long and short papers. Long papers should
describe complete work with significant results. Short papers can
report work in progress, negative results, position papers,
application papers.

Long papers may have up to eight (8) pages of content (including
tables and pictures), with two (2) additional pages of references, and
will be presented orally. Short papers should have up to four (4)
pages of content, and one (1) additional page of references, and will
be presented as posters. Authors should also indicate whether they
accept their long paper to be reallocated as a short paper should the
reviewers recommend so.


**** Format

Paper formatting must follow the SBC guidelines available at this
address: http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=finish&cid=38&catid=32

The reviewing will be double blind and therefore papers should not
display any information regarding their authorship in the header or
body of the text. Self-references that reveal the author's identity,
e.g., "As we previously showed (Silva, 2005)...", must be avoided.
Instead, authors such use "Silva previously showed (Silva, 2005) ...".

All accepted papers (long and short) will be published in the
conference proceedings. Authors of selected papers will be invited to
submit extended versions to one of the following:
- the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
(http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/13173) and
- a specialized journal of Artificial Intelligence and Natural
Language Processing (TBA)

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