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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">In conjunction with TALN 2003 Conference :</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Batz-sur-Mer, France</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Saturday, 14 June 2003.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">INTRODUCTION</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Multilingualism is a concern that is increasingly taken into account in the design and development of natural language processing applications. Anticipating the adaptation of linguistic software to different language families has repercussions not only on linguistic data representation but also on architecture of systems.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to discuss about the consequences of multilingualism on NLP applications. The workshop topics concern both linguistic data and software; a non exhaustive list is:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Representation of linguistic data and genericity of formats.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Overview of the major linguistic problems in this domain.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Creation of linguistic resources from multilingual parallel corpora.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Architectures of NLP technologies for different language families.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Techniques or methods for adapting NLP technologies to new languages.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Applications and NLP tools taking into account the multilingual dimension.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Applications taking into account the encoding formats of documents and multilingual corpora.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Experiments related to this domain.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- ...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Our workshop mainly concentrates on problems related to the combination of NLP systems and linguistic diversity. This problematic does not concern machine translation in itself, but could deal with the adaptation of MT systems to several language pairs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">IMPORTANT DATES</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Papers due: Thursday, 20 March 2003</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Notification of acceptance/rejection : Monday, 07 April 2003</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Deadline for camera-ready copy: Monday, 28 April 2003</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">SUBMISSION FORMAT</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Languages : French or English.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Size : maximum 10 pages.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Style : Times 12, single-spaced.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Document format : RTF, DOC, PS, PDF.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Printing format : A4 (not US Letter)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Christian Boitet, GETA, University of Grenoble (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Emilie Guimier De Neef, France Telecom R&D (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Yannis Haralambous, ENST Bretagne (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (Pays-Bas)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Guy Lapalme, RALI, University of Montreal (Canada)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Jean Véronis, DELIC, University of Provence (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Jérôme Vinesse, France Telecom R&D (France)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- Rémi Zajac, Systran Software (USA)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">DOCUMENT TEMPLATES</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Document templates can be downloaded: </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">French Latex: <A HREF="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">English Latex: <A HREF="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">French Word: <A HREF="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot</A></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">English Word: <A HREF="http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot">http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">E-MAILS FOR SUBMISSION SENDING :</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- malek.boualem@rd.francetelecom.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">AND</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">- emilie.guimierdeneef@rd.francetelecom.com </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The object of the message should be :</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">"Submission NLP-Multilingualism - Surname and name of the main author"</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">CONTACT</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">For further information, please contact:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Malek Boualem</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">AND/OR</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Emilie Guimier-De-Neef</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">France Télécom R&D - DMI/GRI</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Natural Language Processing group</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 / (33)(0)2.96.05.19.87</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Email: malek.boualem@rd.francetelecom.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Email: emilie.guimierdeneef@rd.francetelecom.com</FONT>
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