[Corpora-List] Call for Papers RANLP-05

Mon Jan 3 14:03:06 UTC 2005

First Call for papers

       "RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"

               International Conference RANLP-2005
                       September 21-23, 2005
                         Borovets, Bulgaria

                  http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005

Supported by the European Commission as a Marie Curie Large Conference,
contract MLCF-CT-2004-013233

Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP), we
are pleased to announce the fifth RANLP conference to be held this year.
The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be
available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. There will also be
an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.

The conference will be preceded by tutorials (18-20 September 2005). For
the first time, post-conference workshops will be held (24 September
2005).

TOPICS

We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural
Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the representation of a broad
range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse,
semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
mathematical models and complexity; text understanding and generation;
multilingual NLP; machine translation, machine-aided translation,
translation memory systems, translation aids and tools; corpus-based
language processing; POS tagging; parsing; electronic dictionaries;
knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora
resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text
summarisation; term recognition; text categorisation; question answering;
textual entailment; visualisation; dialogue systems; speech processing;
computer-aided language learning; language resources; evaluation; and
theoretical and application-oriented papers related to NLP of every kind.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

The list of conference keynote speakers includes:
      Ido Dagan (Bar-Illan University)
      Robert Dale (Macquarie University)
      Anne de Roeck (Open University)
      Ralf Grishman (New York University)

PC CHAIR
      Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

      Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
      Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)
      Amit Bagga  (Avaya Labs Research)
      Kalina Boncheva  (Sheffield University)
      Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence)
      Dan Cristea (University of Iasi)
      Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield University)
      Robert Dale  (Macquarie University)
      Walter Daelemans  (University of Antwerp)
      Alexander Gelbukh (National Polytechnic University, Mexico)
      Walther von Hahn  (University of Hamburg)
      Jan Hajic (Charles University, Prague)
      Catalina Hallett (University of Brighton)
      Graeme Hirst  (University of Toronto)
      Ed Hovy  (ISI, University of Southern California)
      Martin Kay  (Stanford University)
      Alma Kharrat  (Microsoft)
      Manfred Kudlek  (University of Hamburg)
      Shalom Lappin  (King's College, London)
      Yves Lepage (ATR)
      Anke Luedeling  (Humboldt University, Berlin)
      Carlos Martin-Vide  (University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
      Rada Mihalcea  (University of North Texas)
      Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante)
      Rafael Munos (University of Alicante)
      Masaki Murata (NICT, Kyoto)
      Preslav Nakov (University of California at Berkeley)
      Ani Nenkova (Columbia University)
      John Nerbonne  (University of Groningen)
      Nicolas Nicolov  (IBM)
      Kemal Oflazer  (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
      Constantin Orasan  (University of Wolverhampton)
      Chris Paice  (Lancaster University)
      Manuel Palomar  (University of Alicante)
      Bernardo Magnini (IRST, Trento)
      Victor Pekar (University of Wolverhampton)
      Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia)
      Stelios Piperidis (ISLP, Athens)
      Gabor Proszeky  (MorphoLogic, Budapest)
      Stephen Pulman  (Oxford University)
      James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
      Jose Quesada  (University of Seville)
      Dragomir Radev  (University of Michigan)
      Anne de Roeck  (Open University)
      Richard Sproat  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
      Keh-Yih Su  (Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan)
      Kristina Toutanova (Stanford University)
      Isabel Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
      Jun'ichi Tsujii  (University of Tokyo)
      Hans Uszkoreit  (University of Saarland)
      Piek Vossen  (Irion Technologies BV.)
      Yorick Wilks  (Sheffield University)
      Michael Zock  (CNRS)

TUTORIALS 18-20 September

The list of tutorial lecturers includes:
    Jan Hajic (Charles University, Prague)
    Bernardo Magnini (IRST, Trento)
    Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)
    John Tait (University of Sunderland)
    Michael Zock (CNRS)

NOTIFICATION OF SUBMISSION

Authors should email notification of submission with the completed form
below to <ranlp05 at lml.bas.bg> with subject line: "RANLP2005 notification
of  submission". After submitting the information below you will receive
by  email a paper ID codewhich should be used in all correspondence.

 # NAME:  Name of author for correspondence
 # TITLE: Title of the paper
 # TYPE : paper / poster / demo
 # KEYS : Keywords
 # EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence
 # PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references)
 # FILE : Name of PDF file (avoid RANLP2005.pdf and the like!!!)
 # ABSTR:
 #    Abstract of the paper
 #    ...
 # OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences? (please specify)
 # NOTE : Anything you would like to add

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS

Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven
pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages),
including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman 12
font is  preferred. The first page should state the title of the paper,
the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es), followed
by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first section of your
paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** format. For up
to three free conversions to PDF see http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS.
In exceptional circumstanceshard copies/MS-Word/PS versions may be
accepted. Guidelines for producing camera-ready versions and Demo text
can be found at the conference web site: http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005.

Please e-mail your electronic PDF submission to <ranlp05 at lml.bas.bg> with
copy to <galia at lml.bas.bg>.

Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to
produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
proceedings.

SCHEDULE
      Notification of Submission: 18 May 2005
      Paper Submission Due: ***23 May 2005***
      Notification of Acceptance: 18 July 2005
      Camera-ready Paper Due: 15 August 2005
      Tutorials: 18-20 September 2005
      Conference: 21-23 September 2005
      Post-conference workshops: 24 September 2005

LOCATION

The picturesque resort of Borovets is located in the Rila mountains and is
one of the most famous winter resorts in South-East Europe, a frequent
meeting place for the elite in world skiing. The resort is 1350 m above
sea level, at the foot of  the highest peak on the Balkan Peninsula -
Moussala (2925 m). The resort of Borovets is 73 km from Sofia and 126 km
from Plovdiv (see the map at the conference site), which means that both
Sofia and Plovdiv with their international airports can serve as
arrival/departure points. In addition to regular public transport, the
organisers will provide daily shuttle buses from Sofia airport to the
conference location at an inexpensive rate. A taxi from Sofia to Borovets
is relatively cheap; it is also possible to take a taxi from the
international airport in Sofia to the conference venue.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be obtained from Galia Angelova (OC Chair),
<galia at lml.bas.bg>.

ORGANIZERS and SPONSORS

The main local organizer is the Linguistic Modelling Department, Institute
for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (www.lml.bas.bg).
RANLP-05 will be partially supported by the European Commission as a Marie
Curie Large Conference under contract MLCF-CT-2004-013233. Several
scholarships will be available for support of young researchers,
especially for authors of accepted papers.

CONFERENCE MAILING LIST

If you would like to receive information, please subscribe to the
conference mailing list by sending an e-mail to <ranlp05 at lml.bas.bg>.

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-05

Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair)
Nicolas Nicolov, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria