[Corpora-List] TALN 2003: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

[Beatrice Daille]

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                           TALN 2003
          Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                     Batz-sur-Mer (44) - France
                          June 11-14 2003

organised by IRIN, Université de Nantes
in collaboration with the laboratories ACIDORE and VALORIA of the
Université de Bretagne and IRISA, INRIA Rennes and under the aegis
of ATALA (French Association for Computational Linguistics).

http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/
mailto:taln2003 at irin.univ-nantes.fr



********** TALN 2003: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **********

----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, February 7th 2003 <----

The 10th annual conference TALN 2003
will be held at Batz-sur-Mer  (44) France on June 11 - 14 2003,
organized by IRIN  (Computer Sciences Institute of University of Nantes)
in collaboration with the laboratories ACIDORE and VALORIA
of the University of Bretagne-Sud and IRISA, INRIA, Rennes and
under the aegis of ATALA (French Association for Computational
Linguistics).

TALN 2003 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (French Association for
Computational Linguistics) and will be held jointly with
the young researcher conference RECITAL 2003.
The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials
and software demonstrations.

The official conference languages are French and English.

********** TOPICS **********

Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):
  lexicon
  morphology
  syntax
  semantics
  pragmatics
  discourse
  parsing
  generation
  abstraction/summarisation
  dialogue
  translation
  logical, symbolic and statistical approaches

TALN 2003 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an
important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP
dimension:
  text processing
  cognition
  terminology
  knowledge acquisition
  information extraction
  information retrievial
  corpus-based linguistics
  mathematical linguistics
  management and acquisition of linguistic resources
  computer assisted learning
  NLP tools for linguistic modelization

TALN 2003 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that
have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the
scientific aspects and conclusions drawn.
Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in
connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will
be scheduled in the conference.


********** CALENDAR **********

----> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, February 7th 2003 <----
Notification to authors: April 7th 2003
Final version due (camera-ready): April 30th 2003
Conference: June 11-14, 2003

********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE **********

The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced,
including figures, examples and references.

Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before
February, 7th 2003, sent to: taln2003@@irin.univ-nantes.fr

If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper
must reach the organizing committee at the following address:

TALN 2003
Béatrice Daille
IRIN
2, rue de la Houssinière
BP 92208
F-44322 NANTES Cedex 3

********** FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS **********

Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail
(rtf, ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing
the following informations: submission title and author's names.
The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site:
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/

********** SELECTION CRITERIA **********

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain.
Decisions will be based on the following criteria :
  Importance and originality of the paper
  Accuracy of the scientific and technical content
  Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work
  Layout and clarity of the paper
  Relevance to the topics of the conference

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference.

********** DEMOS AND POSTERS **********

One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120
cm)  will be scheduled in the conference.
The demo or poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper
submission, BUT they should not exceed 6 pages.

********** TALKS **********

Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for
questions.
It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a video-projector.

********* PROCEEDINGS **********

The conference proceedings will be given to all participants.

The editorial board of the international journal "Traitement Automatique
des Langues" (TAL) will select two papers for
publication.

**********  PROGRAMME COMMITTEE  **********

(the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing
committee)


Jean-Yves Antoine, VALORIA, Université de Bretagne Sud
Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS Aix en Provence
Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Université de Grenoble
Béatrice Daille, IRIN, Université de Nantes (Présidente)
Alexandre Dikovsky, IRIN, Université de Nantes
Brigitte Grau,  CNRS-LIMSI, Paris
Pierre Isabelle, Xerox
Daniel Kayser, LIPN, Université de Paris-Nord
Philippe Langlais, RALI/DIRO, Université de Montréal
Dominique Laurent, Synapse Toulouse
Denis Maurel, LI Université de Tours
Jean-Marie Pierrel, ATILF & LORIA ? UHP Nancy 1
Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA
Jean Veronis, DELIC Université de Provence
Leo Wanner, Université de Stuttgart
François Yvon,  ENST
Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM Paris



****LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE  (Common with RECITAL) ********

Jean-Pierre Angoujard (AAI/Université de Nantes)
Jean-Yves Antoine (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Denis Bechet (IRISA)
Béatrice Daille (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Alexande Dikovsky (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Chantal Enguehard (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Fabrice Even (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Annie Foret (IRISA/Université de Rennes 1)
Nordine Fourour (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Olga Galatanu (CALD/Université de Nantes)
Jérome Goulian (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Erwan Moreau (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Emmanuel Morin (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Freddy Perraud (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Frank Poirier (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Igor Schadle (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Pascale Sébillot (IRISA/Université de Rennes 1)
Annie Tartier (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Geoffrey Williams (ACIDORE/Université de Bretagne-Sud)