[Corpora-List] BSNLP-2013: Final Call for Papers

[Roman Yangarber]

BSNLP 2013:
The 4th Biennial International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural
Language Processing

Sofia, Bulgaria
8 August 2013

Held in conjunction with ACL 2013:
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational 
Linguistics
5-9 August 2013

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Workshop Site:

http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2013/

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IMPORTANT DATES

      Paper submissions due:     11 May 2013
      Notification of acceptance: 3 June 2013
      Camera-ready versions due: 13 June 2013
      Workshop:                   8 August 2013

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Organizing Committee

      Jakub Piskorski, Polish Academy of Sciences
      Lidia Pivovarova, University of Helsinki,
                        and St.Petersburg State University, Russia
      Hristo Tanev, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission,
                    Ispra, Italy
      Roman Yangarber, University of Helsinki, Finland


Invited Speakers:
- Kiril Simov: "Ontologies and Linked Open Data for Acquisition
                 and Exploitation of Language Resources"
- TBA
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THEME and MOTIVATION

The languages from the Balto-Slavic group play an important role due to
their diverse cultural heritage and widespread use -- with over 400
million speakers. The recent political and economic developments in
Central and Eastern Europe have brought Balto-Slavic societies and 
their
languages into focus in terms of rapid technological advancement and
rapidly expanding consumer markets.

This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the
Balto-Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention
include, but are not limited to:

    - Morphological analysis and generation,
    - Syntactic and semantic tagging,
    - Named-entity recognition,
    - Information extraction,
    - Co-reference resolution,
    - Question-answering,
    - Information retrieval,
    - Text summarization,
    - Machine translation.

Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of many
Balto-Slavic languages is still in its early stages. The linguistic
phenomena specific to Balto-Slavic languages -- such as rich
morphological inflection and free word order -- make the construction 
of
NLP tools for these languages a challenging and intriguing task.

The goal of this Workshop is to bring together academic researchers and
industry practitioners working on NLP for Balto-Slavic languages. In
particular, the Workshop will serve as an instrument to further
stimulate the research on NLP techniques for Balto-Slavic languages, 
and
to foster the creation of tools for these languages. The Workshop will
provide an forum for exchanging ideas and experience, discussing
difficult-to-tackle problems in this field of research, and making the
available resources more widely-known. One fascinating aspect of this
sub-family of languages is the striking structural similarity, as well
as an easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory
spanning the entire group of languages -- despite a lack of mutual
intelligibility -- which creates a special environment in which
researchers can fully appreciate the shared problems and solutions and
communicate naturally.

This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the previous
BSNLP Workshops:

    - the First BSNLP Workshop,
      held in conjunction with ACL 2007 Conference in Prague;
    - the Second BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with IIS 2009:
      Intelligent Information Systems, in Kraków, Poland;
    - the Third BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with TSD 2011,
      14th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue in
      Plzeň, Czech Republic.

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SUBMISSION

BSNLP 2013 welcomes two types of submissions: (a) full papers, and (b)
short papers. We accept only electronic submissions via the submission
page.

Long papers should describe original unpublished work and should
indicate the state of completion of the reported results. In 
particular,
overlap with previously published work should be clearly mentioned. The
authors should indicate along with their submission if the paper has
been submitted elsewhere.

Short papers should describe work in progress and/or interactive
software demos.

All submissions, both long and short papers, will be judged on
correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation,
usability, and significance/relevance to the Workshop. Submissions will
be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee.

The reviewing will be blind. Therefore, the paper should not include
the authors' names and affiliations. Self-citations and other 
references
that reveal the authors' identity should be avoided.

In particular, submissions describing systems, resources or solutions
that are made available to the wider public would be strongly
encouraged, as this would help to promote computational linguistics
applications for these languages.

Long paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2013
proceedings not exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2)
additional pages for references. Short paper submissions should follow
the same format, and should not exceed four (4) pages for content plus
two (2) additional pages for references. Submissions must conform to 
the
official style guidelines of ACL 2013, which are contained in the style
files, and must be in PDF.

Note: It should be clearly indicated if a submission to BSNLP 2013 had
been previously submitted to ACL 2013 Main Conference and rejected
therefrom. All resubmitted papers must clearly demonstrate how they 
have
addressed the ACL reviewers' criticisms.

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the workshop is English.

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PUBLICATION

The papers accepted for BSNLP 2013 will be published in ACL Workshop
Proceedings.

After the Workshop, we intend to make a selection of the best papers
based on this year's and previous years' Workshops, and to publish
expanded versions of these papers in a volume on Balto-Slavic NLP as a
book with a reputable publisher or in a special journal issue. No such
unified reference work for Balto-Slavic NLP exists to date.




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