[Corpora-List] Second call for Papers: The Fourth International conference HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES - THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVE

[Everita Andronova]

SECOND 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 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 Baltic countries, to
exchange information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and
to promote initiatives for international cooperation.

Two 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 three previous Baltic HLT conferences
held in Riga (2004), Tallinn (2005) and Kaunas (2007).

CONFERENCE TOPICS

HLT in Baltic countries - overview, policy, cooperation, opportunities:
	- HLT in 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 systems

IMPORTANT DATES
April 9, 2010 -     Abstracts (for blind review) due
May 1, 2010 -       Notification of acceptance
June 30, 2010 -     Camera-ready copy due
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, Sweden
  •Robert Gaizauskas, Sheffield University, UK
  •Steven Krauwer, CLARIN project, The Netherlands
  •Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  •Ruta Marcinkeviciene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
  •Einar Meister, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia
  •Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
  •Tiit Roosma, University of Tartu, Estonia
  •Inguna Skadina, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia / Tilde, Latvia
  •Jurgis Skilters, National Library of Latvia / University of Latvia, Latvia
  •Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
  •Andrejs Spektors, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University
of Latvia, Latvia
  •Gregor Thurmair, Linguatech, Germany
  •Jorg Tiedemann, Uppsala University, Sweden
  •Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde, Latvia
  •Jolanta Zabarskaite, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
  *  Gunta Nespore, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia
  * Inara Opmane, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia
  * Baiba Saulite, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia
  * Inguna Skadina, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia / Tilde
  * Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb
  * Andrejs Vasiljevs, 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





_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora