27.2279, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

Thu May 19 13:48:32 UTC 2016

LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2279. Thu May 19 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2279, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:48:04
From: Stefanie Dipper [dipper at linguistics.rub.de]
Subject: Conference on Natural Language Processing

Full Title: Conference on Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: KONVENS 2016 

Date: 19-Sep-2016 - 21-Sep-2016
Location: Bochum, Germany 
Contact Person: Stefanie Dipper
Meeting Email: konvens at linguistics.rub.de
Web Site: http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Jun-2016 

Meeting Description:

KONVENS 2016
http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/

The Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS) aims at offering a
broad perspective on current research and developments within the
interdisciplinary field of natural language processing. It allows researchers
from all disciplines relevant to this field of research to present their work.
The conference will take place September 19–21, 2016 in Bochum (Germany).

We are pleased to announce that John Nerbonne and Barbara Plank will give
invited talks at the conference.

Final Call for Papers:

Note: Deadline extension
Due to several requests, the submission deadline has been extended to June 7.

We welcome original, unpublished contributions on research, development,
applications and evaluation, covering all areas of natural language
processing, ranging from basic questions to practical implementations of
natural language resources, components and systems.

The special theme of the 13th KONVENS is: ''Processing non-standard data —
commonalities and differences''. 

A wide range of data can be considered ''non-standard'' because it deviates in
one way or the other from standard written data such as newspaper texts.
Examples include:

- Data produced by language learners
- Historical data
- Data from social media
- (Transcriptions of) spoken data

We especially encourage the submission of contributions comparing different
types of non-standard data and their properties, focussing on their impact for
natural language processing. For example, a feature common to many types of
non-standard data is the use of non-standard spelling. However, spelling
variation in learner data as compared to historical data is due to very
different reasons and, most likely, resulting in very different types of
non-standard spellings.

Topics that we would like to see addressed include:

- Common properties of (many) non-standard data, e.g. non-standard spelling,
data sparseness, features of orality
- Impact of the commonalities and differences of non-standard data on the
methods and tools that are applied to the data, e.g. normalization vs. tool
adaptation, evaluation without gold standard, etc.

Important Dates:

New: June 7, 2016 Paper submissions due
New: July 18, 2016 Notification of acceptance
August 15, 2016 Camera-ready copy due
September 19–21, 2016 Conference

Formats:

We welcome two types of contributions:
- Full papers for oral presentation (8 pages plus references)
- Short papers for presentation as posters (4 pages plus references)

Short papers/posters can be combined with a system demonstration. Reviews will
be anonymous. Accepted full and short papers will be published in the
conference proceedings.

Submissions must conform to the formatting guidelines, and must be made
electronically through the conference website (see
https://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/konvens16/call/index.html#formattin
g-guidelines).

The conference languages are English and German. We encourage the submission
of contributions in English.

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