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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">30th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE<br>
PROCESSING (SEPLN 2014)<br>
September 17-19, 2014<br>
Universitat de Girona<br>
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INTRODUCTION<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
The 30th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural
Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in Universitat de Girona, Girona,
Spain on 17-19 September 2014.<span style> </span>We also expect
to organize associated workshops.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
The huge amount of information available in digital format and in different
languages calls for systems to enable us to access this vast library in an
increasingly more structured way.<br>
<br>
In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving information
accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual environments. Many
of the formal foundations for dealing appropriately with these necessities have
been, and are still being established in the area of Natural Language
Processing and its many branches: Information extraction and retrieval,
Questions answering systems, Machine translation, Automatic analysis of textual
content, Text summarization, Text generation, and Speech recognition and
synthesis.<br>
<br>
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the field of
Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by scientific and business
communities. The conference also aims at exposing new possibilities of real
applications and R&D projects in this field.<br>
<br>
Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of identifying future
guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen software applications, in
order to compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference intends
to be an appropriate forum in helping new professionals to become active
members in this field.<br>
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<br>
TOPICS</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology topic including
but not limited to the following:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language.<br>
* Machine learning in NLP.<br>
* Computational lexicography and terminology.<br>
* Corpus linguistics.<br>
* Development of linguistic resources and tools.<br>
* Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis.<br>
* Semantics, pragmatics and discourse.<br>
* Lexical ambiguity resolution.<br>
* Monolingual and multilingual text generation.<br>
* Machine translation.<br>
* Speech synthesis and recognition.<br>
* Dialogue systems.<br>
* Audio indexing.<br>
* Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.<br>
* Question answering systems.<br>
* Evaluation of NLP systems.<br>
* Automatic textual content analysis.<br>
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.<br>
* Plagiarism detection.<br>
* Negation and speculation processing.<br>
* Text mining in blogosphere and social networks.<br>
* Text summarization.<br>
* Image retrieval.<br>
* NLP in biomedical domain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* NLP-based generation of teaching resources.<br>
* NLP for languages with limited resources.<br>
* NLP industrial applications.<br>
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CONTACT<br>
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All information related to the conference can be found in the web:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
<a href="http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html">http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html</a><br>
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<br>
STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE<br>
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The conference will last three days, and will consist of sessions devoted to
presenting papers, posters, tutorials, ongoing research projects and prototype
or product demonstrations connected with topics addressed in the conference.
Besides, we expect to organize associated workshops.<br>
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SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS<br>
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Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented proposals
related to NLP. The proposals must include the following sections:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* The title of the communication.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">of keywords.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* The paper can be written in Spanish or English. Its overall maximum length<br>
will be 8 pages, including references.<br>
* The documents must not include headers or footers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* Papers should NOT include the names of the authors. <br>
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The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and can be
accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications, depending on
the program necessities. However, no distinction will be made between
communications and posters in the printed version of the SEPLN journal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">*** IMPORTANT NOTE ON CAMERA READY ****</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together
with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were
implemented in the final version.<span style> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Please, send your proposals using the following link::<br>
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<a href="http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln53/">http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln53/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en">http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en</a><br style>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following
requirements, depending on whether they pare papers, demos or projects. </span></p>
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PROJECTS AND DEMOS<br>
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As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral<br>
presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related to the<br>
NLP field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted, the<br>
following information must be included:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* Project title.<br>
* Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of the project<br>
director.<br>
* Funding institutions.<br>
* Groups participating in the project.<br>
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US"><br>
For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">* Demo title.<br>
* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.<br>
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).<br>
* Time estimation for the whole presentation.<br style>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">**** SEE NOTE ON CAMERA READY ABOVE ****<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Deadline for full papers, demos, and projects: 10th April 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Notifications: 26th May 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"" lang="EN-US">Camera Ready: 7th June 2014</span></p>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Horacio Saggion<br>TALN / DTIC<br>Universitat Pompeu Fabra<br><a href="http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/" target="_blank">http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~hsaggion/</a><br>
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