[Corpora-List] Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'2007) - First Call for Papers

[Kalina Bontcheva]

First Call for Papers

"RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING"
International Conference RANLP-2007
September 27-29, 2007
Borovets, Bulgaria
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 



Supported by the European Commission through project BIS-21++, INCO
grant 016639/2005

Further to the successful and highly competitive 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and
5th conferences 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing'
(RANLP), we are pleased to announce the sixth RANLP conference to be
held in September 2007.

The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote
speakers plus peer-reviewed individual papers. All accepted papers will
be published in the conference proceedings. In addition, volumes of
RANLP selected papers are traditionally published by John Benjamins
Publishers; currently the volume of Selected RANLP-05 papers is under
print. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions.

The conference will be preceded by tutorials (23-25 September 2007) and
workshops (26 September 2007).

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:
Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)

CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all over
the world. The list of PC members will be announced in the Second Call
for Papers.

TUTORIALS 23-25 September 2007
The list of tutorial lecturers includes:
Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP Athens)
Frederique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Grenoble)

WORKSHOPS 26 September 2007
Several one-day workshops will be organised on 26 September 2007. A Call
for Workshop proposals will be published in December 2006.

SUBMISSION of PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
For the first time, the submission will be maintained by conference
management software. Further instructions will be published at the
conference web site at http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007 in January 2007.

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 free conversions to PDF see
https://createpdf.adobe.com/index.pl?BP=NS

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. Guidelines for producing camera-ready versions and demo
text will be also available at the conference web site at
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007. The full conference proceedings will be
distributed at the event.

IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Workshop proposals: December 2006;
Deadline of workshop proposals: 31 January 2007;
Workshop selection: early March 2007;
Conference paper submission deadline: 31 March 2007
Conference paper acceptance notification: 10 June 2007;
Workshop paper submission deadline: 15 June 2007
Workshop paper acceptance notification in July 2007;
RANLP-07 tutorials, workshops and conference: 23-29 September 2007

LOCATION
The picturesque resort of Borovets is located in the Rila mountains and
is one of the best known 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 the
International airport of Sofia can serve as arrival/departure point. 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.

ORGANISERS and SPONSORS
The main local organizer is the Linguistic Modelling Department,
Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
(www.lml.bas.bg). The conference will be partially supported by the
European Commission via the project BIS-21++ "Bulgarian IST Centre of
Competence in 21 Century" http://bis-21pp.acad.bg/, INCO grant
016639/2005 awarded to the Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences.


THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-07
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair of the
Org. Committee)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (Chair of the Programme
Committee)
Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA (Editor of volume with selected papers)
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop Coordinator)