<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Corpora members,</div><div>The deadline for the 4th Biennal International Workshop on Balto-Slavic NLP was extended to 11 May 2013</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Hristo Tanev<br></div><h2>Call for papers</h2>
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<div><a href="http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2013/">
<b>BSNLP 2013:
the 4<sup>th</sup> Biennial International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing</b></a>
<br>Sofia, Bulgaria
<br> 8 August 2013
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<a href="http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2013/"><b>http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2013/</b></a></div>
<div>Held in conjunction with:
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<a href="http://www.acl2013.org/"><b>ACL 2013: the 51<sup>st</sup> Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics</b></a>
<br> 5-9 August 2013
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<h2>Organizing Committee</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://piskorski.waw.pl/">Jakub Piskorski</a>, Polish Academy of Sciences</li><li><a href="http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/people/pivovaro">Lidia
Pivovarova</a>, University of Helsinki, and St.Petersburg State University, Russia</li><li><a href="http://tanev.dir.bg/">Hristo Tanev</a>,
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy</li><li><a href="https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/en/people/yangarbe">Roman Yangarber</a>, University of Helsinki, Finland</li></ul>
<h3>THEME and MOTIVATION</h3>
<div>The languages from the Balto-Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage
and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers. The recent political and economic developments in
Central and Eastern Europe have brought Balto-Slavic societies and their languages into focus in terms
of rapid technological advancement and rapidly expanding consumer markets.</div>
<div>This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Balto-Slavic languages.
The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include, but are not limited to:
</div><ul><li> morphological analysis and generation,
</li><li> syntactic and semantic tagging,
</li><li> named-entity recognition,
</li><li> information extraction,
</li><li> co-reference resolution,
</li><li> question-answering,
</li><li> information retrieval,
</li><li> text summarization,
</li><li> machine translation.
</li></ul>
<div>Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of many Balto-Slavic languages is
still in its early stages. The linguistic phenomena specific to Balto-Slavic languages — such as rich
morphological inflection and free word order — make the construction of NLP tools for these languages a
challenging and intriguing task.</div>
<div>The goal of this Workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners working on
NLP for Balto-Slavic languages. In particular, the Workshop will serve as an instrument to further stimulate
the research on NLP techniques for Balto-Slavic languages, and to foster the creation of tools for these languages.
The Workshop will provide an forum for exchanging ideas and experience, discussing difficult-to-tackle problems
in this field of research, and making the available resources more widely-known. One fascinating aspect of this
sub-family of languages is the striking structural similarity, as well as an easily recognizable core vocabulary
and inflectional inventory spanning the entire group of languages — despite a lack of mutual intelligibility —
which creates a special environment in which researchers can fully appreciate the shared problems and solutions
and communicate naturally.</div>
<div>This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the previous BSNLP Workshops:</div>
<ul><li> the <a href="http://piskorski.waw.pl/bsnlp2007"><b>First BSNLP Workshop</b></a>, held in conjunction with ACL 2007 Conference in Prague;
</li><li> the <a href="http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr:8080/index.jsp?perso=kupsc&subURL=bsnlp"><b>Second BSNLP Workshop</b></a>, held in conjunction with IIS 2009: Intelligent Information Systems, in Kraków, Poland; and
</li><li> the <a href="http://nlp.pwr.wroc.pl/BSNLP11"><b>Third BSNLP Workshop</b></a>, held in conjunction with TSD 2011, 14th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue in Plzeň, Czech Republic.
</li></ul>
<h3>SUBMISSION</h3>
<div>BSNLP 2013 welcomes two types of submissions: (a) full papers, and
(b) short papers. We accept only electronic submissions via the <a href="https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/BSNLP2013/" target="_blank">submission page</a>.</div>
<div><b>Long papers</b> should describe original unpublished work and should
indicate the state of completion of the reported results. In
particular, overlap with previously published work should be clearly
mentioned. The authors should indicate along with their submission if
the paper has been submitted elsewhere.
</div><div><b>Short papers</b> should describe work in progress and/or interactive software demos.
</div><div>All submissions, both long and short papers, will be judged on
correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation,
usability, and significance/relevance to the Workshop. Submissions will
be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee.
</div><div><b>The reviewing will be blind.</b> Therefore, the paper should not include
the authors' names and affiliations. Self-citations and other
references that reveal the authors' identity should be avoided.
</div><div>
In particular, submissions describing systems, resources or solutions
that are made available to the wider public would be strongly
encouraged, as this would help to promote computational linguistics
applications for these languages.
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Long paper submissions should follow the two-column <a href="http://www.acl2013.org/site/call.html" target="_blank">format of ACL
2013 proceedings</a>
not exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2)
additional pages for references.
Short paper submissions should follow
the same format,
and should not exceed four (4) pages for content plus two (2)
additional pages for references.
Submissions must conform
to <a href="http://www.acl2013.org/site/call.html" target="_blank">the official style
guidelines of ACL 2013</a>,
which are contained in the style files, and must be in PDF.
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<b>Note:</b> It should be clearly indicated if a submission to BSNLP 2013 had
been previously submitted to ACL 2013 Main Conference and rejected
therefrom. All resubmitted papers must clearly demonstrate how
they have addressed the ACL reviewers' criticisms.
</div><h3>OFFICIAL LANGUAGE</h3>
<div>The official language of the workshop is English.</div>
<h3>PUBLICATION</h3>
<div>The papers accepted for BSNLP 2013 will be published in ACL Workshop Proceedings.</div>
<div>After the Workshop, we intend to make a selection of the best papers based on this year's
and previous years' Workshops, and to publish expanded versions of these papers in a
volume on Balto-Slavic NLP as a book with a reputable publisher or in a special journal
issue. No such unified reference work for Balto-Slavic NLP exists to date.</div>
<h3>IMPORTANT DATES</h3>
<ul><li>Paper submissions due: <b>11 May 2013</b></li><li>Notification of acceptance: <b>3 June 2013</b></li><li>Camera-ready versions due: <b>13 June 2014</b></li><li>Workshop: <b>8 August 2013</b></li></ul><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>