[Corpora-List] LTC 2009 - Call for papers and important information

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LTC 2009 - Call for papers and important information

Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the Language and 
Technology Conference 2009, Poznań, Poland, in November 6-8.
I hope to see you in Poznań.
Best regards
Zygmunt Vetulani, LTC 2009 Chair

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Call for papers and participation

The 4th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language Technologies 
as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2009), a 
meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of 
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland in cooperation with the Adam 
Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 6-8, 2009.

Human Language Technologies (HLT) continue to be a challenge for 
computer science, linguistics and related fields as these areas become 
an ever more essential element of our everyday technological 
environment. Since the very beginning of the Computer and Information  
Age these fields have influenced and stimulated each other. The European 
Union strongly supports HLT under the 7th Framework Program. These 
efforts as well as technological, social and cultural globalization have 
created a favorable climate for the intensive exchange of novel ideas, 
concepts and solutions across initially distant disciplines. We aim at 
further contributing to this exchange and invite you to join us at LTC 
in November 2009, as well as at the planned FlaReNet workshop (details 
soon) that will be co-located with the LTC'09.

Zygmunt Vetulani
LTC 2009 Chair
vetulani at amu.edu.pl


CONFERENCE TOPICS

The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not 
significative):
   - electronic language resources and tools,
   - formalisation of natural languages,
   - parsing and other forms of NL processing,
   - computer modelling of language competence,
   - NL user modelling,
   - NL understanding by computers,
   - knowledge representation,
   - man-machine NL interfaces,
   - Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing,
   - speech processing,
   - NL applications in robotics,
   - text-based information retrieval and extraction,
   - question answering,
   - tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems,
   - translation enhancement tools,
   - corpora-based methods in language engineering,
   - WordNet-like ontologies,
   - methodological issues in HLT,
   - language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for 
languages other than English),
   - HLT standards,
   - HLTs as a support for foreign language teaching,
   - communicative intelligence,
   - legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges),
   - contribution of HLTs to the Homeland Security problems (technology 
applications and legal aspects),
   - visionary papers in the field of HLT,
   - HLT related policies,
   - system prototype presentations.

This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. 
Please do not hesitate to contact us in order to feed us with you 
suggestions and ideas of how to satisfy your expectation concerning the 
program. The Program Committee is also open to suggestions concerning 
accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, 
ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by 
email (vetulani at amu.edu.pl).


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) - chair

Victoria Arranz (ELRA, France)
Anja Belz (University of Brighton, UK)
Janusz S. Bień (Warsaw University, Poland)
Christian Boitet (IMAG, France)
Leonard Bolc (IPI PAN, Poland)
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR, Italy)
Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Julie Carson-Berndsen (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, France)
Adam Dąbrowski (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Elżbieta Dura (University of Skovde, Sweden)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Tomaz Erjavec (Josef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Cedrick Fairon (University of Louvain, Belgium)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Stefan Grocholewski (PTI/Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Franz Guenthner (Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Germany)
Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Roland Hausser (Erlangen, Germany)
Eric Laporte (University Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Yves Lepage (University Caen Basse-Normandie, France)
Gerard Ligozat (LIMSI/CNRS, France)
Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State University, Russia)
Wiesław Lubaszewski (AGH/UJ, Poland)
Bente Maegaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jacek Martinek (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Gayrat Matlatipov (Urgench State University,Uzbekistan)
Keith J. Miller (MITRE, USA)
Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun Ltd., UK)
Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Pavel S. Pankov (National Academy of Sciences, Kyrgyzstan)
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
Emil Pływaczewski (University of Bialystok, Poland)
Adam Przepiórkowski (IPI PAN, Poland)
Reinhard Rapp (University Mainz, Germany)
Zbigniew Rau (PPBW, Poland)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Justus Roux (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Vasile Rus (University of Memphis, Fedex Inst. of Technology, USA)
Rafał Rzepka (University of Hokkaido, Japan)
Frédérique Ségond (Xerox, France)
Zhongzhi Shi (Institute of Computing Technology / Chinese Academy of 
Sciences, China)
Włodzimierz Sobkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (AGH, Poland)
Dan Tufiş (RCAI, Romania)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI,Germany)
Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Tom Wachtel (Independent Consultant, Italy)
Jan Węglarz (Poznań University of Technology, Poland)
Richard Zuber (CNRS, France)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Zygmunt Vetulani - Chair

Marek Kubis
Piotr Kuszyk
Jacek Marciniak
Tomasz Obrębski
Jędrzej Osiński
Justyna Walkowska
(all from the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)


Contact: ltc at amu.edu.pl


LANGUAGE

The conference language is English.


PAPER SUBMISSION

The conference accepts papers in English. Papers (5 formatted pages) are 
due by July 15, 2009 (midnight, any time zone) and should not identify 
the author(s)in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have 
decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at 
this stage. Please, however, do observe the following:

1. Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier is 
recommended for program listings. Character size for the main text 
should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).

2. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm 
between columns (gutter).

3. The paper size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.

4. The use of PDF format is strongly recommended, although MS Word will 
also be accepted.

Detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will be 
published on the conference Web site by September 1, 2009 (acceptance 
notification date).


All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2009 web 
submission system. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by 
September 1, 2009.

PUBLICATION POLICY


Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous 
submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the 
conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The 
abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via 
the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full 
electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full 
registration) by at least one of the co-authors by September 22, 2009. 
(In case of more than one accepted paper a special regulation will be 
applied. This regulation will be announced later on.) A post-conference 
volume with extended versions of selected papers will be published.

The LTC 2007 post-conference volume is going to appear in the Springer 
Verlag series LNAI (vol. 5603).

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES

- Deadline for submission of papers for review:  July 15, 2009.
- Acceptance/Rejection notification: September 1, 2009.
- Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: 
September 21, 2009.
- Conference: November 6-8, 2009.

REGISTRATION

Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be provided 
later on www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.

CONFERENCE FEES


Non-student participants:
   - Regular registration (payment by October 4, 2009) 160 EURO
   - Late registration (payment after October 4, 2009) 190 EURO

Student participants:
   - Regular registration (payment before October 4, 2009)  100 EURO
   - Late registration (payment after October 4, 2009)  120 EURO

Student registrations must be accompanied by a proof of full-time 
student status valid on the payment date. Registrants are requested to 
scan and e-mail their proof of student status to ltc at amu.edu.pl. The 
e-mail subject field must have the following format:
   LTC-09-StudentStatus-< Name_of_participant >  
   (e.g. LTC-09-StudentStatus-VETULANI)

The conference fee covers:
   - Participation in the scientific programme.
   - Conference materials.
   - Proceedings on CD and paper.
   - Social events (banquet,...).
   - Coffee breaks.

PAYMENT

The payment methods will be detailed here shortly.
    

EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS


Hyde Park Corner. We will arrange "A Hyde Park style Speakers' Corner" 
for non-reviewed presentations and  positions. A limited number of 
presentations (depending on the available space) will be accepted. The 
content must meet the conference scope and aims. Both form and content 
must conform to Polish and International Law. Texts will be presented on 
the sole responsibility of the authors/presenters and will
not be published or reproduced in the Conference documents.

Book exhibition (call for exhibitors in preparation).
Authors are invited to bring hard copies of their papers and books. We 
plan to make special presentations
of the achievements of the conference participants, irrespective of 
whether they are directly related to the conference topic.

Other special events. Besides the standard conference presentation of 
papers, the Organizers are open to various kinds of initiatives (expos, 
demos, satellite workshops, panels, awards).  A program of special 
events is now under construction. You are welcome to contact us with 
your suggestions.

CONFERENCE LOCATION

Poland, The City of Poznań. More information soon.

AWARDS

As at the 2nd and 3rd Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007) 
special awards will be granted to the best student papers. Regular or 
PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are eligible. In 2005 the 
Jury, composed of the Program Committee members present at the 
conference, awarded this distinction to:
   - Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig),
   - Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe),
   - Marcin Woliński (IPI PAN, Warsaw).  

In 2007 this distinction went to Daria Fišer (University of Ljubljana)

VISAS

Participants from some non-EU countries may need visas to enter Poland. 
Visa delivery is exclusively in competence of the appropriate Visa 
Authorities (of Poland or other Schengen countries). If you have any 
doubts, we recommend you to check your situation with the nearest Polish 
Consulate in your country of residence. If necessary, we can confirm 
that we have accepted your paper for presentation at the conference and 
that you are expected to present your paper personally. Upon request, we 
may also write a confirmation letter (in Polish) directly to the Polish 
Consulate indicated by you. To do this we will need a request letter 
(e-mail) from you in which you will provide us with the address of the 
Consulate you wish us to contact. To get information about countries 
whose citizens are not required to have a visa when entering Poland and 
to find important telephone numbers you may also visit the web site of 
the Polish Ministry of Foreign

Affairs http://www.msz.gov.pl/index.php?document=2 (see Consular 
Information
http://www.msz.gov.pl/Consular,Information,2345.html).

CONTACT

Address:
The 4-th Language and Technology Conference
Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Department of Computer
Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
ul. Umultowska 87
PL 61-614 Poznań

E-mail: ltc at amu.edu.pl

WWW: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/

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