<div dir="ltr">Apologies for cross-posting<br><br><br>=========================<br>HLT2014 - Call for Papers<br>=========================<br><br>The Sixth Baltic Conference<br>HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES - THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVE<br>
KAUNAS, Lithuania, September 26-27, 2014<br>
<br>Motivation<br>-------------------------<br>The Sixth Baltic
Conference is a great opportunity for researchers in the Baltics and
surrounding regions to meet and discuss problems, issues, challenges,
and achievements, as well as to foster cooperation in the area of
natural language processing and human language technologies. <br>
<br>The event is also important for gathering and consolidating ideas for the following reasons:<br>- a great urge for Baltic countries to establish and join international research infrastructures;<br>-
potential participation in the EU Research and Innovation programme
Horizons 2020 and in the new period of the EU structural funds
(2014-2020).<br>
<br>History<br>-------------------------<br>The conference is the
successor of the five previous Baltic HLT conferences held in Riga
(2004), Tallinn (2005), Kaunas (2007), Riga (2010), and Tartu (2012).<br><br>Invitation for submission<br>
-------------------------<br>Organizers of the Sixth Baltic Conference
invite the submission of abstracts on substantial, original, and
unpublished research in the area of natural language processing and
language technologies, including but not limited to the following
topics:<br>
<br>- Compilation of language and speech resources<br>- Corpus-based research<br>- Discourse and dialogue<br>- Information retrieval and extraction<br>- Machine learning methods for language technologies<br>
- Stylometry and authorship attribution<br>- Sentiment analysis<br>- Text summarization<br>- Question answering<br>- Machine translation<br>- Applications of Language technologies<br>- New language processing tools<br>
- Speech recognition and synthesis<br><br>We especially welcome original research works on 3 Baltic languages (Lithuanian, Estonian, and Latvian).<br><br>Invited speakers<br>-------------------------<br>Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp<br>
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical computing Ltd.<br>Steven Krauwer, CLARIN ERIC<br><br>Organizers<br>-------------------------<br>The Conference is organized by the Center of Computational Linguistics, Vytautas Magnus University and the company ViaConventus.<br>
<br>Programme Committee<br>-------------------------<br>Chair of the
Programme Committee is Gintarė Grigonytė. The full list of updated
programme committee members is available at the conference website.<br><br>Local Organizing Committee:<br>
-------------------------<br>Andrius Utka (chair)<br>Sigita Dereškevičiūtė<br>Jurgita Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė<br>Jolanta Kovalevskaitė<br>Erika Rimkutė<br>Jurgita Vaičenonienė<br><br>Venue<br>-------------------------<br>Park Inn Hotel by Radisson<br>
K. Donelaičio str. 27<br>Kaunas, Lithuania<br><br>Website<br>-------------------------<br><a href="http://tekstynas.vdu.lt/hlt2014" target="_blank">http://tekstynas.vdu.lt/hlt2014</a><br><br>Proceedings<br>-------------------------<br>
The conference will consist primarily of oral presentations, posters and
demo sessions. Abstracts of papers (500–1000 words) will be blind
reviewed by at least two members of the Programme Committee.<br>
Accepted papers selected by an international programme committee will be
published in the official conference proceedings by IOS Press, Online
Open Access, Book series: Frontiers in AI and Applications ([ <a href="http://www.frontiersinai.com/" target="_blank">http://www.frontiersinai.com/</a> ]<a href="http://www.frontiersinai.com" target="_blank">www.frontiersinai.com</a>).<br>
<br>Important dates<br>-------------------------<br>- April 22, 2014 - Abstracts<br>- May 20, 2014 - Notification of acceptance<br>- July 15, 2014 - Camera-ready copies<br>- July 21, 2014 - Early registration<br>- September 26-27, 2014 - Conference<br>
<br>Language<br>-------------------------<br>The conference language for presentations and publications is English.<br><br>Contact<br>-------------------------<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:hlt2014@hmf.vdu.lt" target="_blank">hlt2014@hmf.vdu.lt</a></div>