[Corpora-List] First Call for Papers: Baltic HLT 2010

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourth International Conference
HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES — THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVE RIGA, Latvia, October 7–8,
2010

AIMS AND SCOPE

The main aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the sharing of new
ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote
cooperation between the research communities of computer science and
linguistics from the Baltic countries and the rest of the world.

The conference aims to bring together scientists, developers, providers and
users to discuss state-of-the-art of HLT in the Baltic countries, to exchange
information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and to promote
initiatives for international cooperation.

Central themes of the conference are:
	- Language resources and technology for the Humanities
	- Building and using corpora for Machine Translation

The conference is the successor of the three previous Baltic HLT conferences
held in Riga (2004), Tallinn (2005) and Kaunas (2007).

CONFERENCE TOPICS

HLT in the Baltic countries — overview, policy, cooperation, opportunities:
	- HLT in the Baltic countries — overview, policy, opportunities
	- Research infrastructures for humanities
	- Cooperation in HLT in the Baltic Sea area and in the EU

Human language technologies and language resources

Original contributions dealing with both theory and applications of human
language processing are invited. The wide range of topics to be addressed in
the conference includes, but is not limited to:
	* Methods and tools for language processing
	* Machine translation and translation aids
	* Corpora and linguistic resources
	* Speech synthesis, processing and recognition
	* Speech corpora and their annotation
	* Information extraction and retrieval
	* Lexicons, terminology and ontologies
	* Standards and copyrights for written and spoken language resources
	* Discourse and dialogue
	* Language technology for education and learning
	* New applications of HLT

IMPORTANT DATES
April 9, 2010  - Abstracts due (500-1000 words)
May 1, 2010    - Notification of acceptance
June 30, 2010  - Camera-ready copy due (about 4000 words)
October 7–8,2010 — Baltic HLT Conference

SUBMISSIONS
The conference will consist primarily of paper presentations, posters and
demonstrations sessions. Abstracts of papers of about 500-1000 words should be
submitted as a PDF file via the EasyChair conference tool:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4thbaltichltconference. Papers will
be blind reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Therefore,
authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the abstract.  Accepted
papers selected by an international programme committee will be published in
the official conference proceedings.

LANGUAGE
The conference language for presentations and publications is English.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Please contact conference organizers for sponsorship opportunities.

CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
	• Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia
	• Tilde company
	• CLARIN project (FP7)
	• ACCURAT project (FP7)
	• LetsMT! project (CIP ICT-PSP)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nick Campbell, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland
Rolf Carlson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK
Steven Krauwer, CLARIN project, The Netherlands
Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rūta Marcinkevičienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Einar Meister, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Tiit Roosma, University of Tartu, Estonia
Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia / Tilde
Jurģis Šķilters, National Library of Latvia / University of Latvia
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
Andrejs Spektors, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia
Gregor Thurmair, Linguatec, Germany
Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University, Sweden
Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde, Latvia
Jolanta Zabarskaitė, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Gunta Nešpore, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia
Ināra Opmane, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia
Baiba Saulīte, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia
Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia / Tilde
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb
Andrejs Vasiļjevs, Tilde

CONTACT INFORMATION
For up-to-date information about the workshop and contact details see:
www.lumii.lv/hlt2010
Contact e-mail: hlt2010 at lumii.lv




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