Corpora: First Call for Papers

[L. Alfonso Ureña]

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                                 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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                                     SEPLN'2001
            XVII Congress of Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing

                                September 12-14 2001
                             University of Jaén, Spain
                             http://sepln2001.ujaen.es


MOTIVATIONS

The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the
field of Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent
work, to share their experimental results, and to discuss a range of
problems which must be treated. Moreover, an important objective of this
Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions for future
basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the actual
needs of the society.
The main objectives are motivate not only the exchange of opinions on
future research but also application development taken into account by
experts in order to meet market needs. Current topics, such as
information retrieval and information extraction, will be mainly
focused.


AREAS OF INTEREST

1. Linguistic, mathematics and psycholinguistic models of languages
2. Corpus linguistics
3. Information extraction and retrieval
4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
5. Computational lexicography
6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation
7. Machine translation
8. Speech synthesis and recognition
9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
10. Word sense disambiguation
11. Cross-language information retrieval
12. NPL Industrial Aplication
13. Automatic Textual Content Analisys

PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit an abstract about a system to be
presented, or a paper concerning a theoretical contribution. Submission
and paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically
(PostScript or PDF format). Submission must include a separate file with
the title, authors, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. Papers, in a
second file, should be anonymous, excluding autoreferences in the text.
Accepted works must be presented at the congress and adhere to certain
rules:

* They must include an abstract (150 words maximum).
* The proposed area of interest must be included.
* Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included.
* Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the
conference web page (http://sepln2001.ujaen.es).

Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ujaen.es before April 27, 2001.


PROJECTS AND DEMOS

The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of
projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral
presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following
information must be included:

* Project title
* Funding institution
* Participant groups in the project
* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the
project.
* Abstract (2 pages maximum).
* If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be
included, as indicated below.

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

* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
* Abstract (2 pages maximum).
* Time estimation for the whole presentation.

This information must be received by June 29, 2001.


CONFERENCE FORMAT

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual
presentations of the accepted contributions as well as project and demos
presentations and group discussions.


IMPORTANT DATES

- XVII SEPLN Conference: September 12-14 2001
- Submission of contributions: April 27, 2001
- Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2001
- Final versions due: June 29, 2001
- Projects and demos submission: June 29, 2001
- Early registration: before July 16, 2001
- Late registration: after July 16, 2001


PROGRAM COMMITEE

Joseba Abaitua (U. Deusto)
José G. Amores (U. Sevilla)
Toni Badia (U. Pompeu Fabra)
Manuel de Buenaga (U. Europea Madrid)
Irene Castellón (U. Barcelona)
Antonio Ferrández (U. Alicante)
Ana García Serrano (U. P. Madrid)
Koldo Gojenola (U. País Vasco)
Xavier Gómez Guinovart (U. Vigo)
Julio Gonzalo (U.N.E.D)
José Miguel Goñi (U. P. Madrid)
M. Antonia Martí (U. Barcelona)
Lidia Moreno (U. P. Valencia)
Lluis Padró (U. P. Cataluña)
Manuel Palomar (U. Alicante)
Nati Prieto (U. P. Valencia)
Horacio Rodríguez (U. P. Cataluña)
Kepa Sarasola (U. País Vasco)
L. Alfonso Ureña (U. Jaén)
Felisa Verdejo (U.N.E.D)
Manuel Vilares (U. La Coruña)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair
L. Alfonso Ureña López (U. Jaén, sepln-presid at ujaen.es)
Manuel García Vega (U. Jaén, sepln-secret at ujaen.es)

Members
Mª Teresa Martín Valdivia (U. Jaén)
Fernando Martínez Santiago (U. Jaén)
Manuel Carlos Díaz Galiano (U. Jaén)
José Ramón Balsas (U. Jaén)
Pedro González García (U. Jaén)


FURTER INFORMATION:

Further information will be available at http://sepln2001.ujaen.es. For
any information related to the organization, please contact:

Manuel García Vega
Departamento de Informática
Universidad de Jaén
Avda. de Madrid 35
23001 Jaén (Spain)
e-mail: sepln2001 at ujaen.es