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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The Department of </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR" lang="FR"><a href="http://www.helit.duth.gr/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Greek Philology</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="FR"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ES" lang="EN-GB">of the Democritus University of Thrace, the Laboratoire de Sémio-Linguistique et Didactique (</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-language: ES" lang="FR"><a href="http://laseldi.univ-fcomte.fr/php/accueil.php"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">LASELDI</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ES" lang="EN-GB">) of the University Franche-Comté and the </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.intelligence-territoriale.eu/index.php/fre/Projets/Action-de-Coordination-du-R%C3%A9seau-Europ%C3%A9en-d%E2%80%99Intelligence-Territoriale-caENTI/Participants/Universit%C3%A9-de-Franche-Comt%C3%A9-UFC-France/Maison-des-Sciences-de-l%E2%80%99Homm">Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Environnement Ledoux</a><span style="COLOR: #1f497d"> </span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ES" lang="EN-GB">organize the 2010 Nooj Conference in Komotini, Greece from 27-29 May 2010.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></font></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">NooJ is a freeware, linguistic engineering development environment used to formalize various types of textual phenomena (orthography, lexical and productive morphology, local, structural and transformational syntax) using a large gamut of computational devices (from Finite-State Automata to Augmented Recursive Transition Networks). NooJ includes tools to construct, test, debug, maintain and accumulate large sets linguistic resources, and can apply them to large texts.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Modules for a dozen languages are already available for free download: Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese Greek and Spanish. A dozen other modules are under construction.</font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">The conference intends to</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 7.5pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments; </font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-INDENT: 7.5pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">§<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">offer researchers and graduate students two tutorials (one basic and one advanced) to help them parse corpora and build NLP applications using NooJ. </font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Syntactic analysis</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">We invite the submission of papers until 17 January 2010 in English or French. The abstracts should contain the title, the name, the institution and the email of the author(s). Abstracts should not exceed one page (between 400 and 600 words) and should be submitted at the Conference web page<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span lang="EL"><a href="http://nooj2010.helit.duth.gr/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font color="#800080">http://nooj2010.helit.duth.gr/</font></span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">. All proposals will be reviewed by the scientific committee and authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 28 February 2010. </span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Further information about the conference will be found at</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EL"><a href="http://nooj2010.helit.duth.gr/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font color="#800080">http://nooj2010.helit.duth.gr/</font></span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">. </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">You can contact the organizing committee at</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:nooj2010@helit.duth.gr">nooj<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">2010@</span>helit<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">.</span>duth<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">.</span>gr</a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Abstract submission: 17 January 2010</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: FR" lang="FR"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (MIRACL, ISIM-Sfax, Tunisia)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: ES" lang="ES"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Xavier Blanco (University Autonomous Barcelona, Spain) </font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Krzysztof Bogacki (University of Warshaw, Poland)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Gisele Chevalier (University of Moncton, Canada)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Anaid Donabédian (INALCO, Paris)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">* Zoé </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US">Gavriilidou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="mso-ansi-language: ES" lang="ES"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Svetla Koeva (Sofia University, Bulgaria)<span style="COLOR: black"></span></font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland) </font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Denis Le Pesant (University Paris 10)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Peter Machonis (Intnl University of Florida, USA)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Slim Mesfar (ISI-Tunis, Tunisia) </font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Mireille Piot (University Stendhal 3, Grenoble)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Odile Piton (University Paris 1, France)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Philippe Schepens (University of Franche-Comté, France)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Max Silberztein (University of Franche-Comté, France)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">* Simona Vietri (University of Salerne, Italy)</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Zoé Gavriilidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Elina Chadjipapa, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Anna Giannakopoulou, (University Autonomous Barcelona, Spain)</font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Angeliki Efthymiou,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Democritus University of Thrace, Greece </font></font></span></p>
<p style="mso-line-height-alt: 10.5pt"><span style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Eleni Papadopoulou, (University Autonomous Barcelona, Spain)</font></font></span></p>
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