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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;background:white'> *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CEC-TAL'13*</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><br><span style='background:white'>*International Colloquium for students Researchers in Natural Language</span><br><span style='background:white'>Processing and its Applications*</span><br><span style='background:white'>*September 5-6, 2013, Montréal, Canada*</span><br><span style='background:white'>*</span></span><a href="http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/index.htm*" target="_blank" id="yui_3_7_2_1_1358666979160_3939"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2862C5;background:white'>http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/index.htm*</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><br><span style='background:white'>**</span><br><span style='background:white'>*Call for papers*</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>The first Colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language</span><br><span style='background:white'>Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13).</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>The first colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language</span><br><span style='background:white'>Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13) will be held in Montreal from</span><br><span style='background:white'>September 5th to September 6th 2013.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers from related</span><br><span style='background:white'>disciplines (language resources development, analysis and generation,</span><br><span style='background:white'>natural language processing and NLP application) and experts from industry</span><br><span style='background:white'>and companies that deploy extraction methods and knowledge management to</span><br><span style='background:white'>provide quality work and to exchange and fertilize new ideas.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>*Types of communication*</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Authors are invited to submit 3 types of communications:</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>1) Articles presenting original research.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>2) Articles presenting a point of view on the state of research in NLP,</span><br><span style='background:white'>based on a solid experience in the field.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>3) Articles presenting a dissertation ongoing work.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Accepted papers will be presented as an oral communication.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Communication (in English or French) will be for 20 minutes, followed by 10</span><br><span style='background:white'>minute for questions.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>*Terms of submission*</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Articles should be submitted in pdf format only without a mention of the</span><br><span style='background:white'>author (s) or its affiliate and will absolutely use the format available at:</span><br><br></span><a href="http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/FormatCEC-TAL.doc" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2862C5;background:white'>http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/FormatCEC-TAL.doc</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><br><br><span style='background:white'>Submissions that do not exceed 4 pages will be considered as short papers.</span><br><span style='background:white'>Submissions between 4 and 8 pages will be considered as long papers.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Articles must be submitted by EasyChair :</span><br><br></span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cectal13*" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2862C5;background:white'>https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cectal13*</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545;background:white'> ** *</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#454545'><br><span style='background:white'>*Selection criteria*</span><br><span style='background:white'>**</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Authors must be PhD student(s), Master student(s) or young doctor(s) who</span><br><span style='background:white'>defended their thesis within the last three years.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Authors are invited to submit original research that has not been published</span><br><span style='background:white'>previously. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the</span><br><span style='background:white'>field. We considered in particular:</span><br><br><span style='background:white'> - The importance and originality of the contribution.</span><br><span style='background:white'> - Correcting the scientific and technical content.</span><br><span style='background:white'> - Critical discussion of the results, particularly in relation to other</span><br><span style='background:white'> work in the field.</span><br><span style='background:white'> - The status of work in the context of international research.</span><br><span style='background:white'> - The organization and clarity of presentation.</span><br><span style='background:white'> - The adequacy of the conference themes.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following</span><br><span style='background:white'>the opinion of the program, presentations will be made only in oral form.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>*Terms of publication*</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Authors of accepted papers will subsequently be invited to submit their</span><br><span style='background:white'>articles for publication in the Proceedings of CEC-TAL'13.</span><br><br><span style='background:white'>Authors can write their articles in both official languages of Canada</span><br><span style='background:white'>(English or French).</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wajdi Zaghouani<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Research Associate<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PO Box 24866, Doha, Qatar<br><b>Office</b>: CMU-Q 1210, <b>Phone</b>: (+974) 4454-8646<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Email</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>: <a href="mailto:wajdiz@qatar.cmu.edu"><span style='color:blue'>wajdiz@qatar.cmu.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>