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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>28th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SEPLN 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>September 5-7, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Universidad Jaume I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://krono.act.uji.es/sepln2012">http://krono.act.uji.es/sepln2012</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The 28th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in the University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jaume I of Castellón on September<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>5, 6 and 7, 2012. We also expect to organize associated workshops on 7<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>September 2012 evening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The huge amount of information available in digital format and in<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>different languages demands systems that enable us to access this vast<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>library in an increasingly more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>structured way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>information accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>environments. Many of the formal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>foundations for dealing appropriately with these necessities have<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>been, and are still being established in the area of Natural Language<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Processing and its many branches:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Information extraction and retrieval, Questions answering systems,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Machine translation, Automatic analysis of textual content, Text<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>summarization, Text generation, and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Speech recognition and synthesis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>communication where the latest research work and developments in the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>field of Natural Language Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>(NLP) can be presented by scientific and business communities. The<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>conference also aims at exposing new possibilities of real<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>applications and R&D projects in this field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>identifying future guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>software applications, in order to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference intends<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>to be an appropriate forum in helping new professionals to become<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>active members in this field.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>project abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>topic including but not limited to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Machine learning in NLP.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Computational lexicography and terminology.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Corpus linguistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Development of linguistic resources and tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Semantics, pragmatics and discourse.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Lexical ambiguity resolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Monolingual and multilingual text generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Machine translation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Speech synthesis and recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Dialogue systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Audio indexing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Language recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Question answering systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Evaluation of NLP systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Automatic textual content analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Sentiment and opinion analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Plagiarism detection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Negation and speculation processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Text mining in blogosphere and social networks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Text summarization.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* Image retrieval.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* NLP in biomedical domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* NLP-based generation of teaching resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* NLP for languages with limited resources.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>* NLP industrial applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>---------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> March 15, 2012: Deadline for submitting workshop and tutorial proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> April 15 , 2012: Deadline for submitting papers, projects and demos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> May 30, 2012: Notification of acceptance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> June 13, 2012: Deadline for submitting the final version.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> September 5,6 y 7, 2012: 28th SEPLN Conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> </span>September 7, 2012: Workshops.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>