[Corpora-List] Call for papers : TALN-04

[Philippe Blache]

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                       -    T A L N ' 0 4     -

              Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel

                         Palais des Congrès
                            Fez  (Morocco)
                        April 19 - 22, 2004

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                --- In conjunction with JEP'04  ---


                        CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:            15 january  2004
Notification to authors:       20  february 2004
Camera-ready:                   8  march    2004
Conference:                  19-22 april    2004


   Jointly  organized  by  the  LPL (Laboratoire  Parole  et  Langage,
Aix-en-Provence,  France), the  University  of  Fez   and  the   Ecole
Normale Supérieure  of Fez , the  11th  Conference on Natural Language
Processing (TALN'04) will be held at  the  Palais  des  Congrès,  Fez,
Morocco, 19. - 22. April, 2004.   The conference will include oral and
poster communications, invited conferences, workshops and tutorials.

Official languages are French and English.

   TALN'04 is organized under the aegis of  ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues,  Association for NLP)  and will be
held jointly  with  JEP'04  (Journées d'Etude sur la Parole)  and  the
conference  for  young  researchers  RECITAL'04  conference  (call for
papers to be issued separately). Common  sessions  will  be  organized.
The  participants will  receive  the  proceedings of the   conferences
on CD-ROM.

TOPICS
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   Papers  are invited for  thirty minute  talks, including questions,
in all areas of NLP, including (but not restricted to) :

      . lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics
      . pragmatics, discourse, parsing, text generation
      . abstraction/summarization, dialogue, machine translation
      . logical, symbolical and statistical approaches

   Moreover, TALN' 04 encourages submissions in the following fields:

      . techniques for speech and language processing
      . applications for Arabic language

   All  selected  papers  will  be  published  in  the proceedings. In
addition, the  programme  committee  will select two  papers, extended
version which will be published in the journal "Traitement Automatique
des Langues" (T.A.L.).


SELECTION
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    Authors are  invited  to  submit original,  previously  unpublished
research work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists
of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria :

      . importance and originality of the paper
      . soundness of the scientific and technical content
      . comparison of the results obtained with other relevant works
      . clarity of the exposition
      . relevance to the topics of the conference

   Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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   Submitted  papers  must not  exceed ten  pages, in  Times 12, single
spaced  (about 3000 words), including figures, examples and references.
Posters or demo papers should not exceed 6 pages.

   A  LaTeX style file and a  Word template will be shortly  available
on the web site of the conference:

      http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/

   Papers are to be submitted before January 15, 2004 through the online
submission procedure available on the Website :

      http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/

   Papers  MUST  be sent  in  PDF.  In particular cases, we may accept
submissions in RTF (Word) format.


IMPORTANT:
All the PostScript versions must be in A4 format, and not US Letter.

   In case of impossibility, we accept to receive a printed version of
the submission. In this case, three hard-copies of the  paper  must be
received by January 15, 2004 by:

    Philippe Blache -  TALN 2004
    LPL, Université de Provence
    29, Avenue Robert Schuman
    13621 Aix-en-Provence
    France

    e-mail: taln2004 at lpl.univ-aix.fr

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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   Practical  information will be  detailed  shortly on the conference
web  site  (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/)  and in  a further
call.  Please note that members of the  ATALA association will benefit
from reduced registration fees.