[Corpora-List] TALN2006: Call for papers

[Cédrick Fairon]

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                          TALN 2006

          Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                       Leuven, Belgium

                      April 10-13, 2006


URL: http://www.taln.be
mail: taln06 at tedm.ucl.ac.be
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                        CALL FOR PAPERS

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:        December 19, 2005
Notification to authors:    January 23, 2006
Final version:              February 2, 2006
Conference:                 April 10-13, 2006


The 13th Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2006) will be
held in Leuven, Belgium, on April 10-13, 2006. The conference is
organized by the "Centre de traitement automatique du langage" (CENTAL)
of the University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve) and by the  
Centre for Automatic Linguistic Analysis (ALA) of the University of
Leuven (KULeuven).

TALN 2006 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues, Association for NLP) and will be held
jointly with RECITAL 2006, the conference for young researchers (call for
papers to be issued separately, see the conference website).

The conference will include oral and poster communications, invited
conferences, workshops and tutorials.

The official language is French.

TOPICS
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Papers are requested in all areas of NLP, including (but not restricted to) :

     - Lexicon : databases containing morphological, syntactic, semantic,
       and/or phonological information
     - Analysis, generation and lexicons in the following domains :
         - Phonetics and phonology
         - Morphology
         - Syntax
         - Semantics
     - NLP applications
         - Text analysis
         - Text summarization  
         - Text generation
         - Text-to-speech synthesis
         - Natural language interfaces
         - Machine translation
         - Information retrieval
         - CALL
     - Logical, symbolic and statistical approaches
    
All selected papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition, the
scientific committee will select two papers, which will be recommended for
publication in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L.).

SELECTION
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Authors are invited to submit original research work. Submissions will be
reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. Decisions will be based
on the following criteria :
      - importance and originality of the paper
      - scientific and technical soundness
      - comparison of the results obtained with those found in relevant works
      - clarity of the presentation
      - relevance to the conference topics

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors and 
in English for authors who don't master French.

Papers should not exceed 10 pages, in Times 12, single-spaced (approx.
3,000 words), including figures, examples and references.  

A LaTeX style file and a Word template are available on the  
conference website. The page format is A4.

An interactive form for the subsmission of articles is provided on 
the conference website. Papers should be uploaded in PDF format.

Instructions for the conversion of Word documents into PDF format
are available on the conference website.

The final versions should be sent either in Latex format or in RTF 
format (Word), to the email address indicated in the message of
acceptance.
 
In case of impossibility of electronic submission, three hard copies
of the paper must be sent to:

     Cedrick Fairon
     UCL - CENTAL
     1, place Blaise Pascal
     1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
     Belgique
  
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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Practical information can be found on the conference website.


ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Piet Mertens, ALA, Département de Linguistique, K.U.Leuven
Cédrick Fairon, CENTAL, Université de Louvain (UCL)
Bernadette Dehottay, CENTAL, UCL
Claude Devis, CENTAL, UCL
Anne Dister, CENTAL, UCL
Laurent Kevers, CENTAL, UCL
Bastien Kindt, CGN, UCL
Michel Thomas, CENTAL, UCL
Patrick Watrin, CENTAL, UCL
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Cédrick Fairon
Directeur du CENTAL
Centre de traitement automatique du langage
Université de Louvain
Place Blaise Pascal, 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgique
tel: +32 10 47 37 88
fax: +32 10 47 26 06

http://cental.fltr.ucl.ac.be
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