Appel: DEADLINE EXTENSION, SEPLN 2014

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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 16:11:08 +0200
From: "BURGA DIAZ, ALICIA" <alicia.burga at upf.edu>
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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS:

30th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY

FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING (SEPLN 2014)
September 17-19, 2014
Universitat de Girona
http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/es/index.html

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*** INFORMATION ABOUT THE INDUSTRY TRACK BELOW ***

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION FOR PAPER SUBMISSION ***

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INTRODUCTION
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The 30th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in Universitat de
Girona, Girona, Spain on 17-19 September 2014.  We also expect to
organize associated workshops.

The huge amount of information available in digital format and in
different languages calls for systems to enable us to access this vast
library in an increasingly more structured way.

In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving information
accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual environments.
Many of the formal foundations for dealing appropriately with these
necessities have been, and are still being established in the area of
Natural Language Processing and its many branches: Information
extraction and retrieval, Questions answering systems, Machine
translation, Automatic analysis of textual content, Text summarization,
Text generation, and Speech recognition and synthesis.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the
field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by
scientific and business communities. The conference also aims at
exposing new possibilities of real applications and R&D projects in this
field.

Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of identifying
future guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen software
applications, in order to compare them against the market
needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in
helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

TOPICS
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Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology topic
including but not limited to the following:

* Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language.
* Machine learning in NLP.
* Computational lexicography and terminology.
* Corpus linguistics.
* Development of linguistic resources and tools.
* Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis.
* Semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
* Lexical ambiguity resolution.
* Monolingual and multilingual text generation.
* Machine translation.
* Speech synthesis and recognition.
* Dialogue systems.
* Audio indexing.
* Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.
* Question answering systems.
* Evaluation of NLP systems.
* Automatic textual content analysis.
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
* Plagiarism detection.
* Negation and speculation processing.
* Text mining in blogosphere and social networks.
* Text summarization.
* Image retrieval.
* NLP in biomedical domain.

* NLP-based generation of teaching resources.
* NLP for languages with limited resources.
* NLP industrial applications.

CONTACT
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All information related to the conference can be found in the web:

http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html

STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
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The conference will last three days, and will consist of sessions
devoted to presenting papers, posters, tutorials, ongoing research
projects and prototype or product demonstrations connected with topics
addressed in the conference. Besides, we expect to organize associated
workshops.

SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
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Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented
proposals related to NLP. The proposals must include the following
sections:

* The title of the communication.

* An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list of
  keywords.

* The paper can be written in Spanish or English. Its overall maximum
  length will be 8 pages, including references.

* The documents must not include headers or footers.

* Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.

The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and
can be accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications,
depending on the program necessities. However, no distinction will be
made between communications and posters in the printed version of the
SEPLN journal.

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ON CAMERA READY ****

The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted
together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the
reviewers were implemented in the final version.

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Please, send your proposals using the following link::

http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln53/

The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:

http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en

In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following
requirements, depending on whether they pare papers, demos or projects.

PROJECTS AND DEMOS
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As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give
oral presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related
to the NLP field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted,
the following information must be included:

* Project title.
* Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of the project
  director.
* Funding institutions.
* Groups participating in the project.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is
mandatory:

* Demo title.
* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).
* Time estimation for the whole presentation.

INDUSTRY TRACK
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http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/cfp_industrial_en.htm

The goal of the NLP industry track is to bring together researchers,
practitioners, analysts, and consumers and to achieve knowledge transfer
across the boundaries.

In recent years interest in practical natural language processing
applications has intensified from an industrial perspective.

Among others, some examples of NLP applied to business needs are:

   - Construction and use of Language Resources (extraction and
     acquisition of knowledge, use of ontologies, etc).
   - Language Resources in systems and applications (information
     extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia
     search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided
     Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication,
     machine translation, speech translation, summarization, web
     services, semantic search, text mining, etc.)
   - Analyzing linguistic properties for Text Categorization and
     Clustering.
   - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining for smart Brand Monitoring
     and Big Data Analytics.
   - Use of Machine Translation to reduce localization time and/or cost.
   - Portal search using Natural Language.
   - Integrating NLP techniques to enhance eLearning.
   - Virtual Assistant products able to process Natural Language.
   - Assisting human interaction with Natural Language Understanding
     techniques.
   - NLP to process multimedia information and multimodal communication.
   - Online services using Open-source NLP tools.

The SEPLN Industry track aims to bring together industrial participants
to present current tools, systems, and ideas for the application of
natural language processing in real settings. We invite proposals
highlighting how natural language processing techniques have been
implemented in real systems, services, or demonstrator. We welcome
papers discussing for example the maturity of the solutions (strength
and limitations), efficiency, need for further research, business
opportunities, etc.

Contributions should have:

- a title

- should be 4 pages long (including references)

- the names and affiliations of the authors

Authors of accepted papers will give an oral presentation in a focused
session at the conference.

**** SEE NOTE ON CAMERA READY ABOVE ****

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for full papers (including those for the Industry Track),
demos, and projects: *** 15th April 2014 (EXTENDED) ***

Notifications: 26th May 2014

Camera Ready: 7th June 2014