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Dear Colleagues,<br>
I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Language and
Technology Conference 2009, Poznañ, Poland, in November 6-8.<br>
Please do notice that the Conference is extended to November 5 by
Less-Resourced Languages Workshop (LRL 2009) co-organised by FlaReNet
and Elra/Elda (see below).<br>
<br>
We hope to see you in Poznañ.<br>
Best regards<br>
Zygmunt Vetulani, LTC 2009 Chair<br>
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Call for papers and participation<br>
<br>
The 4th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language Technologies
as a Challenge<br>
for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2009), a meeting organized by
the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznañ, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz
University Foundation (co-organizer), will take place on November 6-8,
2009.<br>
<br>
Human Language Technologies (HLT) continue to be a challenge for
computer science, linguistics and related fields as these areas become
an ever more essential element of our everyday technological
environment. Since the very beginning of the Computer and Information
Age these fields have influenced and stimulated each other. The
European Union strongly supports HLT under the 7th Framework Program.
These efforts as well as technological, social and cultural
globalization have created a favorable climate for the intensive
exchange of novel ideas, concepts and solutions across initially
distant disciplines. We aim at further contributing to this exchange
and invite you to join us at LTC in November 2009, as well as at the
FlaReNet workshop (LRL 2009) on the theme "Getting Less-Resourced
Languages on-Board!".<br>
<br>
Zygmunt Vetulani<br>
LTC 2009 Chair<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vetulani@amu.edu.pl">vetulani@amu.edu.pl</a><br>
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<br>
CONFERENCE TOPICS<br>
<br>
The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not
significative):<br>
- electronic language resources and tools,<br>
- formalisation of natural languages,<br>
- parsing and other forms of NL processing,<br>
- computer modelling of language competence,<br>
- NL user modelling,<br>
- NL understanding by computers,<br>
- knowledge representation,<br>
- man-machine NL interfaces,<br>
- Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing,<br>
- speech processing,<br>
- NL applications in robotics,<br>
- text-based information retrieval and extraction,<br>
- question answering,<br>
- tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems,<br>
- translation enhancement tools,<br>
- corpora-based methods in language engineering,<br>
- WordNet-like ontologies,<br>
- methodological issues in HLT,<br>
- language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially
for languages other than English),<br>
- HLT standards,<br>
- HLTs as a support for foreign language teaching,<br>
- communicative intelligence,<br>
- legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges),<br>
- contribution of HLTs to the Homeland Security problems (technology
applications and legal aspects),<br>
- visionary papers in the field of HLT,<br>
- HLT's for the Less-Resourced Languages<br>
- HLT related policies,<br>
- system prototype presentations.<br>
<br>
This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals.
Please do not hesitate to contact us in order to feed us with you
suggestions and ideas of how to satisfy your expectation concerning the
program. The Program Committee is also open to suggestions concerning
accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions,
ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by
email (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:vetulani@amu.edu.pl">vetulani@amu.edu.pl</a>).<br>
<br>
<br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
<br>
Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznañ, Poland) - chair<br>
<br>
Victoria Arranz (ELRA, France)<br>
Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK)<br>
Janusz S. Bieñ (Warsaw University, Poland)<br>
Christian Boitet (IMAG, France)<br>
Leonard Bolc (IPI PAN, Poland)<br>
Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)<br>
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR, Italy)<br>
Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)<br>
Julie Carson-Berndsen (University College Dublin, Ireland)<br>
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, France)<br>
Adam D¹browski (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)<br>
El¿bieta Dura (University of Skovde, Sweden)<br>
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Ko³aczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University,Poland)<br>
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)<br>
Cedrick Fairon (University of Louvain, Belgium)<br>
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)<br>
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)<br>
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)<br>
Stefan Grocholewski (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)<br>
Franz Guenthner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany)<br>
Hans Guesgen (Massey University, New Zealand)<br>
Eva Hajièová (Charles University, Czech Republic)<br>
Roland Hausser (Erlangen, Germany)<br>
Eric Laporte (University Marne-la-Vallee, France)<br>
Yves Lepage (University Caen Basse-Normandie, France)<br>
Gerard Ligozat (LIMSI/CNRS, France)<br>
Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State University, Russia)<br>
Wies³aw Lubaszewski (AGH/UJ, Poland)<br>
Bente Maegaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark)<br>
Bernardo Magnini (ITC IRST, Italy)<br>
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France)<br>
Jacek Martinek (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)<br>
Gayrat Matlatipov (Urgench State University,Uzbekistan)<br>
Keith J. Miller (MITRE, USA)<br>
Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun Ltd., UK)<br>
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)<br>
Pavel S. Pankov (National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyzstan)<br>
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, France)<br>
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)<br>
Emil P³ywaczewski (University of Bialystok, Poland)<br>
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary)<br>
Adam Przepiórkowski (IPI PAN, Poland)<br>
Reinhard Rapp (University Mainz, Germany)<br>
Zbigniew Rau (PPBW, Poland)<br>
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)<br>
Justus Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)<br>
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, Fedex Inst. of Technology, USA)<br>
Rafa³ Rzepka (University of Hokkaido, Japan)<br>
Frédérique Ségond (Xerox, France)<br>
Zhongzhi Shi (Institute of Computing Technology / Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China)<br>
W³odzimierz Sobkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)<br>
Hanna Szafrañska (Adam Mickiewucz Foundation, Poland)<br>
Marek Œwidziñski (Warsaw University, Poland)<br>
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (AGH, Poland)<br>
Dan Tufiº (RCAI, Romania)<br>
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI,Germany)<br>
Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)<br>
Tom Wachtel (Independent Consultant, Italy)<br>
Jan Wêglarz (Poznañ University of Technology, Poland)<br>
Richard Zuber (CNRS, France)<br>
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<br>
LANGUAGE<br>
<br>
The conference language is English.<br>
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<br>
PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
<br>
The conference accepts papers in English. Papers (5 formatted pages)
are due by July 31, 2009 (midnight, any time zone) and should not
identify the author(s)in any manner. In order to facilitate submission
we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as
possible at this stage. Please, however, do observe the following:<br>
<br>
1. Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier
is recommended for program listings. Character size for the main text
should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).<br>
<br>
2. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm
between columns (gutter).<br>
<br>
3. The paper size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.<br>
<br>
4. The use of PDF format is strongly recommended, although MS Word will
also be accepted.<br>
<br>
Detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will be
<br>
published on the conference Web site by September 10, 2009 (acceptance <br>
notification date).<br>
<br>
<br>
All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2009 web
submission system. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by
September 1, 2009.<br>
<br>
PUBLICATION POLICY<br>
<br>
<br>
Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous
submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The
abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via
the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full
electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full
registration) by at least one of the co-authors by October 1, 2009. (In
case of more than one accepted paper a special regulation will be
applied. This regulation will be announced later on.)<br>
<br>
A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers will
be published.<br>
<br>
The LTC 2007 post-conference volume is going to appear in the Springer
Verlag series LNAI (vol. 5603).<br>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES<br>
<br>
- Deadline for submission of papers for review: July 31, 2009.<br>
- Acceptance/Rejection notification: September 10, 2009.<br>
- Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: October
1, 2009.<br>
- Conference: November 6-8, 2009.<br>
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REGISTRATION<br>
<br>
Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be provided
later on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl">www.ltc.amu.edu.pl</a>.<br>
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CONFERENCE FEES<br>
<br>
Non-student participants:<br>
- Regular registration (payment by October 4, 2009) 160 EURO<br>
- Late registration (payment after October 4, 2009) 190 EURO<br>
<br>
Student participants:<br>
- Regular registration (payment before October 4, 2009) 100 EURO<br>
- Late registration (payment after October 4, 2009) 120 EURO<br>
<br>
Extra 40 Euro will be charged for the LRL Workshop participation
(5.11.2009, cf below).<br>
<br>
Student registrations must be accompanied by a proof of full-time
student status valid on the payment date. Registrants are requested to
scan and e-mail their proof of student status to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ltc@amu.edu.pl">ltc@amu.edu.pl</a>. The
e-mail subject field must have the following format: <br>
LTC-09-StudentStatus-< Name_of_participant > <br>
(e.g. LTC-09-StudentStatus-VETULANI)<br>
<br>
The conference fee covers:<br>
- Participation in the scientific programme.<br>
- Conference materials.<br>
- Proceedings on CD and paper.<br>
- Social events (banquet,...).<br>
- Coffee breaks.<br>
<br>
PAYMENT<br>
<br>
The payment methods will be detailed shortly.<br>
<br>
<br>
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AWARDS<br>
<br>
As at the 2nd and 3rd Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007)
special awards will be granted to the best student papers. Regular or
PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are eligible.<br>
<br>
In 2005 the Jury, composed of the Program Committee members present at
the conference, awarded this distinction to:<br>
- Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig),<br>
- Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe),<br>
- Marcin Woliñski (IPI PAN, Warsaw). <br>
<br>
In 2007 this distinction went to Daria Fišer (University of Ljubljana)<br>
<br>
Other awards will be announced.<br>
<br>
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LRL WORKSHOP: Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!<br>
<br>
Name: Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!<br>
<br>
Date: 5.11.2009, half-day (13h30 – 18h00) + cocktail<br>
<br>
Theme:<br>
Language Technologies (LT) provide an essential support to the
challenge of Multilingualism. In order to develop them, it is necessary
to have access to Language Resources (LR) and to assess LT
performances. To this regard, the situation is very different across
the different languages. Little or sparse data exist for languages in
countries or regions where limited efforts have been devoted to such
issues in the past, also known as Less-Resourced Languages (LRL). The
workshop aims at reporting the needs, at presenting achievements and at
proposing solutions for the future, both in terms of LR and of LT
evaluation, especially in the European, Euro-Mediterranean and regional
frameworks. This will allow to identity the factors that have an impact
on a potential and shared roadmap towards supplying LR and LT for all
languages.<br>
<br>
Topics:<br>
- Experience in the production, validation and distribution of LR
for less-resourced languages<br>
- Experience in the evaluation of LT for less-resourced languages<br>
- Infrastructures for making available LR and LT in less-resourced
languages<br>
- Alternative approaches (comparable corpora, pivot languages,
language clustering…)<br>
- To be completed…<br>
<br>
Co-Chairs: Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI-CNRS), Khalid
Choukri(ELRA & ELDA), Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznan)<br>
<br>
LRL Workshop Program Committee:<br>
<br>
Nuria Bel (Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Spain) <br>
Gerhard Budin (Univ. Wienna, Austria)<br>
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILS, Italy) <br>
Daffyd Gibbon (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)<br>
Jan Hajic (Charles Univ., Czech Republic)<br>
Alfed Majewicz (UAM, Poland)<br>
Asunción Moreno (UPC, Spain)<br>
Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endengered Languages, UK) <br>
Stellios Piperidis(ILSP, Greece)<br>
Mohsen Rashwan (Cairo Univ., Egypt)<br>
Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Univ. del Pas Vasco, Spain)<br>
Marko Tadiæ (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia)<br>
Cristina Vertan (Univ. Hamburg, Germany)<br>
<br>
<br>
Paper submission deadline: August 15.<br>
<br>
Sponsors: FLaReNet, ELRA<br>
<br>
Inscriptions: as for the general LTC (+ cc to workshop chairs) <br>
<br>
Fees: inscription fees to the LTC + extra 40 Euros or 80 Euros for the
Workshop-only attenders. <br>
<br>
Paper submission: as for the general LTC(EasyChair) + to the workshop
chairs <br>
<br>
Presentation: publication in the LTC proceedings (paper + CD) <br>
<br>
Reviewing: up to the workshop chairs + scientific committee<br>
<br>
Program: The workshop will comprise presentations (including keynote
talks) and a panel session, including a EC representative (tentative).
In addition, selected speakers will be invited to <br>
present their papers to a larger audience at the main LTC conference.<br>
<br>
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E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ltc@amu.edu.pl">ltc@amu.edu.pl</a><br>
<br>
WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/">http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/</a><br>
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