18.423, Confs: Computational Ling/Poland

Wed Feb 7 18:14:14 UTC 2007

LINGUIST List: Vol-18-423. Wed Feb 07 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.423, Confs: Computational Ling/Poland

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Date: 05-Feb-2007
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject: 3rd Language & Technology Conference 

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Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:09:42
From: Helene Mazo < mazo at elda.org >
Subject:  3rd Language & Technology Conference 

3rd Language & Technology Conference 
Short Title: 3rd LTC 

Date: 05-Oct-2007 - 07-Oct-2007 
Location: Poznan, Poland 
Contact: Zygmunt Vetulani 
Contact Email: vetulani at amu.edu.pl 
Meeting URL: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

At the beginning of the 7th Framework Program, recently launched by the European
Commission, Human Language Technologies continue to be a challenge for computer
science, linguistics and related fields as these technologies become an ever
more essential element of our everyday technological environment. Since
Ajdukiewicz, Tarski, Turing and Chomsky (i.e. since the very beginning of the
Computer Age) these fields have influenced and stimulated each other.
Technological, social and cultural globalization has created a favouable climate
for the intensive exchange of novel ideas, concepts and solutions across
initially distant disciplines. We aim at further contributing to this exchange
and we invite you to join us at LTC'07 in October, 2007. 

Conference Topics

The conference program will include (without being limited to) the following topics:

electronic language resources and tools
formalisation of natural languages
parsing and other forms of NL processing
computer modelling of language competence
NL user modelling
NL understanding by computers
knowledge representation
man-machine NL interfaces
Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing
speech processing
NL applications in robotics
text-based information retrieval and extraction
question answering
tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems
translation enhancement tools
methodological issues in HLT
prototype presentations
language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages
other than English)

HLT standards
HLT support  for foreign language teaching
communicative intelligence
legal problems connected with HLTs (problems and challenges) contribution of
HLTs to the homeland security problems (applications and legal aspects)

vision papers in the field of HLT
HLT related policies

You will have noted that we intend to continue traditional HLT interest areas
(cf. L&TC'05 topics). You may also have observed that we have included a new
dimension at the frontier between HLTs and the Homeland Security field. We
invite authors working in this domain to contribute either on theoretical issues
(e.g. legal aspects of development and exploitation of HLTs) or technical
developments (applications, software, language infrastructure and tools).
Political and mature vision papers in this field are also welcome. 

This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. 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 (vetulani at amu.edu.pl).

Programme Committee

Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) - Chair

Victoria Arranz (ELRA, France)
Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK)
Janusz Bie? (Warsaw University, Poland)
Christian Boitet (IMAG, France)
Leonard Bolc (IPI PAN, Poland)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR, Italy)
Nick Campbell (ATR, Japan)
Julie Carson-Berndsen (University College Dublin, Irland)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, France)
Adam D?browski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Elzbieta Dura (University of Goeteborg/Lexware Labs, Sweden)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Cédrick Fairon (University of Louvain, Belgium)
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)
Aleksander Gerd (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Stefan Grocholewski (PTI/Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Franz Guenthner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, München, Germany)
Roland Hausser (University Erlangen, Germany)
Waclaw Iszkowski (PIIT, Poland)
Margaret King (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Orest Kossak (Technical University Lviv/Ericpol Telecom, Ukraine)
Eric Laporte (University Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Gerard Ligozat (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State University, Russia)
Wies?aw Lubaszewski (AGH/UJ, Poland)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Denmark)
Joseph Mariani (Ministry of Research, France)
Václav Matou?ek (University of West Bohemia, Czech Rep.) 
Jacek Martinek (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Keith J. Miller (MITRE, USA)
Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun Ltd, UK)
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Czech Rep.)
Pavel S. Pankov (National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyzstan)
Marcin Paprzycki (Oklahoma State University, USA)
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Emil P?ywaczewski (Bia?ystok University, Poland)
Adam Przepiórkowski (IPI PAN, Poland)
Reinhard Rapp (University Mainz, Germany)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Justus Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, Fedex Inst. of Technology, USA)
Frédérique Ségond Xerox, France)
Marek Swidzinski (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (AGH, Poland)
Dan Tufis (RCAI, Romania)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Germany)
Tom Wachtel (Independent Consultant, UK/Italy)
Jan W?glarz (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Karol Wituszy?ski (MICROSOFT Poland, Poland)
Richard Zuber (CNRS, France)

Organizing Committee 

Zygmunt Vetulani - Chair 
Filip Grali?ski 
Pawe? Konieczka 
Maciej Lison - Secretary
Jacek Marciniak
Tomasz Obrebski 
Przemys?aw Rzepecki 
Justyna Walkowska 

All of Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland.

Contact: ltc at amu.edu.pl

A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers is planned
for publication in the Springer Verlag Series ''Lecture Notes in AI'' (LNAI). 

Contact

Address: 
Zygmunt Vetulani, LTC'07 Chair
The 3rd Language & Technology Conference (LTC'07) 
Adam Mickiewicz University 
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science 
Department of Computer Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence 
ul. Umultowska 87 
PL 61-614 Poznan 

E-mail: ltc at amu.edu.pl 

WWW: www.ltc.amu.edu.pl 

Important Dates/Deadlines
April 30, 2007 
Deadline for submission of papers for review.

May 31, 2007 
Acceptance/Rejection notification.

June 30, 2005
Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers.

Registration 
Registration will be exclusively via the conference website
(www.ltc.amu.edu.pl). In case of problems, please do contact the Chair or the
Secretary. All participants, irrespective of category or mode of payment, are
requested to register in order to qualify for the receipt of conference
documents. Electronic registration must be completed by September  3, 2007 for
those who wish having their names included in conference documents.

The following two steps are mandatory for full registration of regular attendees:
1. Electronic registration using ConfTool (via www.ltc.amu.edu.pl).
2. Payment of the conference fee.
Only full registration entitles people to participation in the conference.

Conference Fees 
Regular non-student participants: 
Early registration (payment before  April 30, 2007)  100 EURO
Regular registration (payment before July 1, 2007) 130 EURO 
Late registration (payment after June 30, 2007) 160 EURO 

Regular student participants: 
Early registration (payment before April 30, 2007)  60 EURO 
Regular registration (payment before July 1, 2007)  70 EURO
Late registration (payment after June 30, 2007)  100 EURO

To be entitled to student rates the participant must present a student identity
card valid on October 5, 2007.

The detailed instructions for payment will be announced shortly on the
conference website.

The conference fee covers: 
	Participation in the scientific programme
	Conference materials
	Proceedings on CD and paper
	Social events (banquet,...)
	Coffee during session breaks

Exhibitions

A book exhibition is planned to run throughout the conference (the call for
exhibitors is currently in preparation). Also, the conference participants are
invited to bring hard copies of their papers and books. We plan to make special
presentations of the achievements of the conference participants, irrespective
of whether they are directly related to the conference topic.

Special Events
Besides the standard conference presentation of papers, the Organizers are open
to various kinds of initiatives (expos, demos, satellite workshops, panels,
awards).    A program of special events is now under construction. You are
welcome to contact us with your suggestions.

Special Award For Students

Special awards will be granted to the three best students papers  As at the 2nd
Language and Technology Conference (2005) special awards will be granted to the
3 best student papers. Those who are regular students or PhD students on the
date of submission are eligible. 

In 2005 the Jury, composed of the Program Committee members present at the
conference, awarded this distinction to:

Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig),
Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe),
Marcin Woli?ski (IPI PAN, Warsaw).

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