31.551, Calls: English; App Ling, Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Lithuania

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Subject: 31.551, Calls: English; App Ling, Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Lithuania

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Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:00:13
From: Andrius Utka [andrius.utka at vdu.lt]
Subject: The 9th international conference Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective

 
Full Title: The 9th international conference Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective 
Short Title: BALTIC HLT 2020 

Date: 22-Sep-2020 - 23-Sep-2020
Location: Kaunas, Lithuania 
Contact Person: Jurgita Vaicenoniene
Meeting Email: jurgita.vaicenoniene at vdu.lt
Web Site: https://klc.vdu.lt/hlt/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 16-Apr-2020 

Meeting Description:

The 9th international conference Human Language Technologies - the Baltic
Perspective (Baltic HLT 2020), organized by the Centre of Computational
Linguistics and the  CLARIN-LT centre  at Vytautas Magnus University in
Kaunas, Lithuania.
The long established aim of the conference, which takes place every two years
in one of the Baltic countries, is to gather the community of researchers
working with human language technologies to share their experience and
knowledge, which could promote interdisciplinary and international cooperation
in human language research, resources, technologies and processing within and
beyond the Baltic states.
This year, the conference will include a special subsection on language
learning resources with the focus on Baltic languages as lesser used and
taught as well as any similar languages with rich morphology. The subsection
is targeted at scholars working on corpus-based language learning, developing
corpora/tools/resources for language learning and teaching, applying NLP for
the purposes of teaching and learning foreign language, among other topics.


Call for Papers: 

We invite you to submit papers to the 9th international conference Human
Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective (Baltic HLT 2020), organized by
the Centre of Computational Linguistics and the CLARIN-LT centre at Vytautas
Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Important Dates:
- April 16: deadline for extended abstracts (1000-1500 words)
- May 21: notification of acceptance
- July 10: camera-ready full papers (to prepare a manuscript please follow the
IOS Press instructions for authors at: style)
- September 22-23: conference

Conference Website: https://klc.vdu.lt/hlt/

Topics:
We 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:
- Compilation of language and speech resources
- Language learning resources and NLP
- Corpus-based research
- Discourse and dialogue
- Information retrieval and extraction
- Machine learning methods for language technologies
- Stylometry and authorship attribution
- Sentiment analysis
- Text summarization
- Question answering
- Machine translation
- Applications of Language technologies
- New language processing tools
- Speech recognition and synthesis

Keynote Speakers:
- Jan Rybicky, the Pedagogical University of Kraków, Poland
- Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Czech Republic

Submissions:
The conference will consist primarily of oral presentations, posters and demo
sessions. Abstracts of papers (1000–1500 words) will be anonymously
peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Programme Committee. The
submissions of extended abstracts should be written in English and anonymized
for review. All extended abstracts should be submitted via EasyChair system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=baltichlt2020:
- as plain text (1000-1500 words including references) or
- as PDF files (1000-1500 words including references)
by using MS Word or LaTeX template files provided by IOS Press style.

Proceedings:
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 indexed by SCOPUS and
Web of Science.

Language: The conference language for presentations and publications is
English.

Programme Committee:
The chair of the Programme Committee is Andrius Utka. The full list of
programme committee is being updated and will be available at the conference
website.

Local Organising Committee:
Andrius Utka (chair)
Agnė Bielinskienė
Danguolė Kalinauskaitė
Jolanta Kovalevskaitė
Mindaugas Petkevičius
Erika Rimkutė
Jurgita Vaičenonienė

Contact: jurga.vaicenoniene at vdu.lt




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