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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues,<BR><BR>We are pleased to announce
an advance of the programme for the 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), which will be celebrated from September 10
to 12 at the University of Alcalá (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid,
Spain).<BR><BR>Please, find more details at the official website of the
conference: <BR><BR>http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln <BR><BR>Hoping this
information is of your interest.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Office for Spanish in
the Information
Society<BR><BR>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV align=center><BR><STRONG>SEPLN 2003</STRONG><BR></DIV>
<DIV align=center>19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural
Language Processing (SEPLN)<BR></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>10, 11 and 12 September, 2003<BR>University of Alcala <BR>Alcalá de Henares
(Madrid)<BR>Spain<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the
Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto
Cervantes<BR> <BR> <BR><STRONG>Introduction</STRONG><BR><BR>The 19th
Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will
take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain). As in
previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is to promote the
dissemination of research, development and innovation activities conducted by
Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing
(NLP). The conference will provide a forum for discussion and communication to
facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge and scientific materials that are
necessary for promoting the publication of relevant work and the establishment
of means of collaboration with national and international Institutions that are
active in this field. <BR> <BR>The conference website
(http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln) offers full information concerning the
conference, the organisers, the scientific committee, the programme, attendants,
travelling, accommodation and information about Alcalá de Henares, NLP related
links, links to previous editions of the SEPLN Conference, etc.
<BR> <BR> <BR><STRONG>Programme</STRONG><BR> <BR><U>10 September,
Wednesday</U><BR> <BR>8:30 Document Delivery<BR> <BR>9:00-
11:00<BR>Conference Room 1: Automatic textual content analysis<BR>Conference
Room 2: Semantics, pragmatics and discourse; NLP industrial
applications<BR> <BR>11:00-11:30<BR>Coffee
break<BR> <BR>11:30-12:00<BR>Opening
Session<BR> <BR>12:00-13:00<BR>Opening Lecture: Prof. Jim Cowie. Computing
Research Laboratory. New Mexico State
University<BR> <BR>13:00-14:00<BR>“The new web portal for Language
Technologies in Spain”<BR>Office for Spanish in the Information Society (OESI)
Department of Technology and Linguistic Projects, Academic Area, Instituto
Cervantes<BR> <BR>14:00-15:00<BR>Cocktail
<BR> <BR>16:00-17:30<BR>Conference Room 1: Speech synthesis and
recognition<BR>Conference Room 2: Workshop: Looking for answers: Current state
and future of technology and applications<BR> <BR>17:30-18:00<BR>Coffee
Break<BR> <BR>18:00- 19:30<BR>Conference Room 1: Speech synthesis and
recognition (cont.)<BR>Conference Room 2: Word sense
disambiguation<BR> <BR><U>11 September,
Thursday</U><BR> <BR>9:00-11:00<BR>Conference Room 1:
PROJECTS<BR>Conference Room 3: DEMOS<BR>All the demonstrations will be shown
simultaneously and will be available from 9:00 to 14:00
h.<BR> <BR>11:00-11:30<BR>Coffee Break<BR> <BR>11:30- 12:30<BR>Guest
Lecture: Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal. Technical University of
Catalonia<BR>12:30-14:00<BR>Conference Room 1: PROJECTS<BR>Conference Room 3:
DEMOS<BR> <BR>14:00-16:00<BR>Lunch<BR> <BR>16:00-17:30<BR>Conference
Room 1: Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical
analysis<BR>Conference Room 2: Workshop: Speech technology: past, present and
future. Technology for the Spanish Language <BR> <BR>17:30-18:00<BR>Coffee
Break<BR> <BR>18:00- 19:00<BR>Conference Room 1 Formalisms and grammars for
morphological and syntactical analysis (cont.)<BR>Conference Room 2: Workshop:
Speech technology: past, present and future. Technology for the Spanish Language
(cont.)<BR> <BR>19:00-19:30 SEPLN Members
Meeting<BR> <BR> <BR><U>12 September,
Friday</U><BR> <BR>9:00-11:00<BR>Conference Room 1: Corpus
linguistics<BR>Conference Room 2: Monolingual and multilingual information
extraction and retrieval<BR> <BR>11:00-11:30<BR>Coffee
Break<BR> <BR>11:30-12:30<BR>Guest Lecture: Prof. Bernardo Magnini.
Instituto Trentino di Cultura<BR> <BR>12:30-13:30<BR>Conference Room 1:
Computational Lexicography<BR>Conference Room 2: Machine
translation<BR> <BR>13:30-14:00<BR>Closing
Session<BR> <BR> <BR><STRONG>Registration
form</STRONG><BR> <BR>(This form can also be completed at the conference
website: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln)<BR> <BR>Last name*<BR>First
name*<BR>ID number*<BR>Organisation<BR>Department<BR>Position<BR>Postal
address<BR>ZIP
Code<BR>Location<BR>Province/State<BR>Country<BR>Telephone<BR>Fax<BR>E-mail*<BR>URL<BR>Student<BR>SEPLN
member<BR>Non SEPLN member<BR> <BR>*The following fields are mandatory:
first name, last name, ID number and
E-mail.<BR> <BR> <BR><STRONG>Registration
fees</STRONG><BR> <BR>SEPLN members: 60 euros<BR>Non SEPLN members*: 90
euros<BR>Students*: 30 euros<BR> <BR>*How to become a SEPLN member:
http://www.sepln.org/textSEPLN.html#socios<BR> <BR></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Payment options</STRONG><BR> <BR>Payment should be made by
bank transfer, to the following account:
<BR> <BR>Bank:
Banco Santander Central
Hispano<BR>Account:
0049-5124-65-2016001478<BR>Holder:
Instituto
Cervantes<BR>Concept:
Last name, first name, SEPLN<BR>International transfers:<BR>BIC
Code:
BSCHESMM<BR>IBAN
Code:
ES6700495124652016001478<BR>Holder:
Instituto
Cervantes<BR>Concept:
Last name, first name, SEPLN<BR> <BR>Please, revise the following
information...:</DIV>
<DIV><BR>· Your name, surname
and ID number can be clearly
understood.<BR>· You have
clearly stated the concept field (last name, first name,SEPLN) in the transfer,
otherwise it will not be possible to identify who has made the transfer.
<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Important information...:</DIV>
<DIV><BR>· Possible bank
commissions will be supported by the registrant: the Conference organisers must
receive the exact amount of the registration fee.
<BR>· Students must send a copy
a document proving their condition
<BR>· In order to allow your
registration to be processed, please send as soon as possible a copy of the bank
transfer receipt by fax (+34 91 888 1826) or to the following postal address:
<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Secretaría de la SEPLN 2003<BR>Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la
Información<BR>C/ Libreros, 23<BR>28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Spain<BR> <BR> <BR><STRONG>Important
dates</STRONG><BR> <BR>Registration deadline: dates of the
conference<BR> <BR>Dates of the 19th SEPLN Conference: 10 - 12 September,
2003<BR> <BR><STRONG></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Venue</STRONG><BR> <BR>Faculty of Law<BR>University of
Alcalá<BR>Libreros, 17<BR>Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)<BR> <BR></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Contact details</STRONG> <BR><BR>Should you need further
information, please contact:<BR> <BR>Secretaría del XIX Congreso de la
SEPLN<BR>Conference coordinator: Dª Isabel Bermejo Rubio<BR>Oficina del Español
en la Sociedad de la Información<BR>C/ Libreros, 23<BR>28801 Alcalá de Henares
(Madrid)<BR>Spain<BR>Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94<BR>Fax: +34 91 888 18 26<BR>E-mail:
sepln@cervantes.es<BR> <BR>____________________________________________________<BR><BR>Oficina
del Español en la Sociedad de la Información<BR>Dpto. de Tecnología y Proyectos
Lingüísticos<BR>Área Académica<BR>Instituto Cervantes<BR>C/ Libreros,
23<BR>28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)<BR>Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18
26<BR>informaoesi@cervantes.es<BR>http://oesi.cervantes.es</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>