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First Call for Papers

SEPLN 2005
XXI CONGRESO DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE 
NATURAL (SEPLN)
(21th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing  
SEPLN)

September 14-16, 2005
Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos
Granada (Spain)

Introduction

The 21th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing 
(SEPLN) will take place on September 14-16, 2005 in Granada (Spain). As in 
previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is to promote the 
dissemination of research, development and innovation activities conducted 
by Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of Natural Language 
Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a forum for discussion and 
communication to facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge and 
scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the publication of 
relevant work and the establishment of means of collaboration with national 
and international Institutions that are active in this field.

Objectives

The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and 
scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest 
research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing, 
as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and 
to know about new projects. Consequently, the 21th SEPLN Conference is a 
meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the 
present state of development in this field of knowledge.

Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in 
previous editions, of identifying future 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

Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project 
abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics:

    * Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language
    * Corpus linguistics
    * Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
    * Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
    * Computational Lexicography
    * Monolingual and multilingual text generation
    * Machine translation
    * Speech synthesis and recognition
    * Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
    * Word sense disambiguation
    * NLP industrial applications
    * Automatic textual content analysis

Structure of the Conference

The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting 
papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or 
products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific 
activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing 
attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural 
dimensions of Granada.

Communications

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to 
be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than April 22, 2005. 
Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements

Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in 
electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the 
complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail.

Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final 
version, please check the “publication format” section):

    * The proposals will be presented in Spanish or English.
    * Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words).
    * Related topic.
    * Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract).
    * The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate 
files will be submitted, one will only include the title and author 
details, the other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal.
    * Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the 
style requirements that are described in the publication format section.

Authors will submit their proposals through a web system that will be 
communicated in the Second Call for Papers.

Projects and Demos

As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral 
presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of 
oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose. Proposals 
must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations.

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 project director
    * 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 May 20, 2005.

Publication Format

The final version of the article will be sent before June 3, 2005 through 
the same web system.
    * Documents must not include headers or footings.
    * Maximum length will be 8 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included 
references and figures.
    * In the case of demonstrations and projects, maximum length will be 2 
pages.

Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format.

LaTeX format

Authors using LaTeX format will download from the Conference website (URL 
to be communicated in the Second Call for Papers) the following style 
package zip file: latex_new.zip which will contain document and 
bibliography styles, as well as an example showing existing editing 
possibilities.

Word format

Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible will download from the 
Conference website the following zip file: word_new.zip which will include 
a pattern file in RTF format and an example showing existing editing 
possibilities.

Important Dates

Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance:

- Deadline for submitting abstracts: April 22, 2005
- Notification of acceptance: May 24, 2005
- Deadline for submitting the final version: June 3, 2005
- Deadline for submitting projects and demos: May 20, 2005

Program Committee

Chairmen:

Prof. Ramón López-Cózar Delgado (Universidad de Granada)
Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén)

Members:

    * Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla)
    * Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
    * Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
    * Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universitat de Barcelona)
    * Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
    * Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez (Universitat d’Alacant)
    * Prof. Mikel Forcada Zubizarreta (Universitat d’Alacant)
    * Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
    * Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
    * Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo)
    * Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a 
Distancia)
    * Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
    * Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
    * Prof. Ramón López-Cózar Delgado (Universidad de Granada)
    * Prof. Javier Macías Guarasa (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
    * Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
    * Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universitat de Barcelona)
    * Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)
    * Prof. Lluis Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
    * Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universitat d’Alacant)
    * Prof. José Manuel Pardo Muñoz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
    * Prof.ª Natividad Prieto Sáez (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)
    * Prof. Germán Rigau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
    * Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
    * Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
    * Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén)
    * Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a 
Distancia)
    * Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidade de Vigo)

Organising Committee

Chairman: Prof. Ramón López-Cózar Delgado (Universidad de Granada)

Members:

    * Prof.ª María V. Hurtado (Universidad de Granada)
    * Prof. José María Guirao (Universidad de Granada)
    * Prof.ª Nuria Medina (Universidad de Granada)
    * Prof. Marcelino J. Cabrera (Universidad de Granada)
    * Prof. Miguel Gea (Universidad de Granada)
    * Dña. Zoraida Callejas (Universidad de Granada)

Further Information

Full information will be available at the official website of the Conference.

http://cedi2005.ugr.es/

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L. Alfonso Ureña López
Departamento de Informática
Escuela Politécnica Superior (A3-129)
Universidad de Jaén
Campus Las Lagunillas. Phone: +34 953 21 28 95
23071 - Jaén - Spain      Fax:     +34 953 21 24 72
e-mail: laurena at ujaen.es
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