<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Corpora Members!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">We are pleased to announce the call for participation in Samsung HLT Young Researchers Symposium:</span></p>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION</span></p>
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Samsung HLT Young Researchers Symposium</span></p>
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(co-located with PolTAL - 9th International Conference</span></p>
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on Natural Language
Processing)</span></p>
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Warsaw,
Poland</span></p>
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<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">18 September 2014</span></span></span></p>
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<a href="http://rd.samsung.pl/hlt/workshop" target="_blank">http://rd.samsung.pl/hlt/workshop</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">Samsung R&D Institute Poland invites young
researchers, postdocs, and students (all levels) to participate in Samsung
Young Researchers Symposium in the area of human language technologies. This
event will take place on <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">18 September 2014</span></span> in Warsaw, Poland, and will be
co-located with the PolTAL conference (see <a href="http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl" target="_blank">http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl</a>
for more details).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">The Symposium is a great opportunity to present your
research and early results and to receive feedback from the audience comprising
academics and industry engineers. The author of the best presentation (voted by
the audience) will be awarded a Galaxy smartphone. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">This event will also be a chance to meet and talk to
researchers and engineers who work day-to-day on human language technologies
including, but not limited to, machine translation, automatic speech
recognition, speech synthesis, dialogue agents, text mining, sentiment
analysis, handwriting recognition, finite methods, language modelling, and big
data. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">In order to participate in the event, you are asked to
submit a long abstract (up to four A4 pages plus references) describing your
research and results in the area of human language technologies. The abstract
must be written in English, indicate its author, and be concluded with 2-5
questions to the audience. Your abstract and questions will be displayed in the
workshop conference room before the event to allow the audience to learn about
your research and think about your questions before coming to your
presentation. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">To submit your work, please send an email to <a href="mailto:aigroup@samsung.com" target="_blank">aigroup@samsung.com</a>. The subject line
should read “Submission to Samsung HLT Feedback Session: [lastname firstname]”.
Attach your abstract as a PDF file. Submitted abstracts must follow the LNCS
formatting specifications; see <a href="http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/submission" target="_blank">http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/submission</a>
for more information. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">The accepted and revised abstracts will be publicly
available on the event website (<a href="http://rd.samsung.pl/hlt/workshop" target="_blank">http://rd.samsung.pl/hlt/workshop</a>).
All participants will also receive a printed copy of the abstracts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">The programme committee will accept well-prepared
submissions which present a novel and interesting piece of work in the area of
human language technologies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT DATES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">31 July</span></span> – Submission deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">11 August</span></span> – Acceptance notification</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">1 September</span></span> – Final submission of revised versions</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">17-19 September</span></span> – PolTAL 2014 conference</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"><span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">18 September</span></span> – Samsung HLT Young Researchers Symposium</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">LOCATION AND VENUE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">Warsaw, Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">For more information, see <a href="http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl" target="_blank">http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* Krzysztof Jassem, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* Krzysztof Marasek, Polish-Japanese Institute of
Information Technology, Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Technology,
Poland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">* and researchers of the Artificial Intelligence Group
at Samsung R&D Institute Poland.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">FEES</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">Free for PolTAL attendees. €50 for others; the fee
includes access to all PolTAL sessions as well as coffee and lunch breaks.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">MORE INFORMATION</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">For more information see the event website <a href="http://rd.samsung.pl/hlt/workshop" target="_blank">http://rd.samsung.pl/hlt/workshop</a>.
You may also contact the organizing committee by sending an email to <a href="mailto:aigroup@samsung.com" target="_blank">aigroup@samsung.com</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US">Best regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Courier New'" lang="EN-US"> Bartosz Broda<br></span></p></div>