[Corpora-List] Deadline extension and Final CfP: Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages - Slovko 2005

[Alexander Horak]

**** Deadline Extension *****

The deadline of abstract submission is extended to July 15th 2005.


[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement]

**** Deadline Extension *****



Second Call for Papers

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              Third International Seminar
Computer Treatment of Slavic and East European Languages
                      Slovko 2005
Ľ. Štúr Linguistics Institute (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
       Faculty of Education (Comenius University)
       10–12 November 2005, Bratislava, Slovakia
       http://korpus.juls.savba.sk/~slovko
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DESCRIPTION
The seminar will provide a meeting point for people working
on various aspects of the relationship between languages and
computers.With this broad thematic framework in mind, papers
are invited describing activities concerning any Slavic or
East European language, as well as those dealing with bi- and
multi-lingual projects involving at least one Slavic or Central
European language.

TOPICS
The topics may include – but are not limited to:
Tools for linguistic text analysis
Creation and use of language resources
Linguistic components of information systems
Linguistic databases
Speech analysis and synthesis
Computer-aided translation, localization and lexicography
Computer-aided language learning

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Josef Psutka (University of Western Bohemia, Pilsen)

PROGRAM COMMITEE
František Čermák (Charles University, Prague)
Jan Hajič (Charles University, Prague)
Vladimír Petkevič (Charles University, Prague)
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Brno)
Ivan Kopeček (Masaryk University, Brno)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Tamás Varádi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)
Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Zagreb)
Milan Rusko (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Slavo Ondrejovič (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Alexandra Jarošová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)
Peter Ďurčo (University of st. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava)

ORGANIZING COMMITEE
Mária Šimková
Radovan Garabík
Vladimír Benko
Alexander Horák

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
The papers may be presented in any Slavic language as well as in
English. The language for submitting a paper is English.
If you intend to present a paper, please send an abstract in a plain
text file by June 30, 2005. The deadline for camera-ready version
of the paper is September 12, 2005.
The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in LaTeX
format, using the llncs2e document class. Please refer to the
instructions found on Springer website
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings
Alternatively, if you prefer to work in WYSIWIG environment,
you can submit your article in OpenOffice 1.1 format, with standard
fonts. If you need to use any special fonts, make sure they are
Truetype fonts with correct unicode table, and include the font with
your article. As a last resort, authors can submit their articles
using MS WORD (at least version 97), but they must use the LNCS
template for WORD, and be aware that the article will be converted
into OpenOffice, with any eventual loss of formatting being a sole
responsibility of the author. A PDF or PostScript version with all
fonts embedded should be enclosed with the paper.
We expect proceedings to be published in 2006. Proceedings from
the previous seminar Slovko03 will be published prior to the beginning
of the seminar.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline:     July 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance:       July 30, 2005
Camera-ready papers due:          September 15, 2005
Slovko05 conference:              November 10 – 12. 2005

CONFERENCE VENUE
Center for advanced studies
University of Economics
Palisády St. 22
811 06 Bratislava 1, Slovakia

ACCOMODATION
Center for advanced studies, Palisády 22
2 appartmens available á 1200 SKK (30€)

Center of university services, Konventná 1 (3 minutes from the 
conference venue)
2–4 bed rooms á 500 SKK (13€)
1 appartment á 1000 SKK (25€)

CONFERENCE FEES
The seminar fee is planned to be 50 € (students 20 €) and includes one
copy of the proceedings, refreshment, social event and organizing costs.
The conference fee should be payed before July 30, 2005. After this date
the conference fee is 50% higher.

Bank transfer to:
Narodna banka Slovenska
Imricha Karvasa 1
813 25 Bratislava
SWIFT Code: NBSB SKBX
Account Number: SK23 8180 0000 0070 0000 6607

Note that the payment for the accomodation will be done at the beginning
of the conference.


REGISTRATION
If you intend to take part in the seminar, please fill in the registration
form and send it (by e-mail, fax or snail-mail) to the address:

Alexander Horák
Department of Slovak National Corpus
Ľ. Štúr Linguistics Institute  
Panská 26, 813 64 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA
phone:+421-2-54410304
fax:+421-2-54410307
<alexh at korpus.juls.savba.sk>