[Corpora-List] Balo-Slavic Natural Language Processing, second call for papers

[Hristo Tanev]

Fourth Biennial International Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language 
Processing (BSNLP 2013)

Sofia, Bulgaria
8 August 2013

http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2013/
This year's BSNLP will be held in conjunction with ACL 
2013: the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5-9 August, 2013. 


THEME and MOTIVATION
The languages from the Balto-Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage 
and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers. The recent political and economic developments in 
Central and Eastern Europe have brought Balto-Slavic societies and their languages into focus in terms 
of rapid technological advancement and rapidly expanding consumer markets.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Balto-Slavic languages. 
The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include, but are not limited to: 
    * morphological analysis and generation, 
    * syntactic and semantic tagging, 
    * named-entity recognition, 
    * information extraction, 
    * co-reference resolution, 
    * question-answering, 
    * information retrieval, 
    * text summarization, 
    * machine translation. 
Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of many Balto-Slavic languages is 
still in its early stages. The linguistic phenomena specific to Balto-Slavic languages — such as rich 
morphological inflection and free word order — make the construction of NLP tools for these languages a 
challenging and intriguing task.
The goal of this Workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industry practitioners working on 
NLP for Balto-Slavic languages. In particular, the Workshop will serve as an instrument to further stimulate 
the research on NLP techniques for Balto-Slavic languages, and to foster the creation of tools for these languages. 
The Workshop will provide an forum for exchanging ideas and experience, discussing difficult-to-tackle problems 
in this field of research, and making the available resources more widely-known. One fascinating aspect of this 
sub-family of languages is the striking structural similarity, as well as an easily recognizable core vocabulary
and inflectional inventory spanning the entire group of languages — despite a lack of mutual intelligibility — 
which creates a special environment in which researchers can fully appreciate the shared problems and solutions 
and communicate naturally.

This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the previous BSNLP Workshops:
    * the First BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with ACL 2007 Conference in Prague; 
    * the Second BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with IIS 2009: Intelligent Information Systems, in Cracow, Poland; and 
    * the Third BSNLP Workshop, held in conjunction with TSD 2011, 14th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue in Plzen, Czech Republic. 

SUBMISSION
BSNLP 2013 welcomes two types of submissions: (a) full papers, and 
(b) short papers.  We accept only electronic submissions via the submission page.
Long papers should describe original unpublished work and should
indicate the state of completion of the reported results. In
particular, overlap with previously published work should be clearly
mentioned. The authors should indicate along with their submission if
the paper has been submitted elsewhere. 
Short papers should describe work in progress and/or interactive software demos. 
All submissions, both long and short papers, will be judged on 
correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation,
usability, and significance/relevance to the Workshop. Submissions will 
be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. 
The reviewing will be blind. Therefore, the paper should not include
the authors' names and affiliations. Self-citations and other 
references that reveal the authors' identity should be avoided. 
In particular, submissions describing systems, resources or solutions
that are made available to the wider public would be strongly 
encouraged, as this would help to promote computational linguistics
applications for these languages. 
Long paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2013 proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two
extra pages for references. Short paper submissions should also follow
the two- column format of ACL 2013 proceedings, and should not exceed
four (4) pages including references. Submissions must conform to
the official style guidelines of ACL 2013,
which are contained in the style files, and they must be in PDF. 
Note: It should be clearly indicated if a submission to BSNLP 2013 had
been previously submitted to ACL 2013 Main Conference and rejected
therefrom.  All resubmitted papers must clearly demonstrate how
they have addressed the ACL reviewers' essential criticisms. 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the workshop is English.

PUBLICATION
The papers accepted for BSNLP 2013 will be published in ACL Workshop Proceedings.
After the Workshop, we intend to make a selection of the best papers based on this year's 
and previous years' Workshops, and to publish expanded versions of these papers in a 
volume on Balto-Slavic NLP as a book with a reputable publisher or in a special journal 
issue. No such unified reference work for Balto-Slavic NLP exists to date.

IMPORTANT DATES
    * Paper submissions due: 26 April 2013
    * Notification of acceptance: 24 May 2013
    * Camera-ready versions due: 7 June 2014
    * Workshop: 8 August 2013

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To be extended)

    * Tania Avgustinova (University of Saarland, Germany) 
    * Damir Ćavar (University of Zadar, Croatia)
    * Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
    * Pavel Braslavski (Kontur labs / Ural Federal University, Russia)
    * Boris Dobrov (Moscow State University, Russia)
    * Tomaž Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
    * Katja Filippova (Google, Zurich, Switzerland)
    * Radovan Garabik (Comenius University in Bratislava)
    * Tatiana Gornostay (Tilde, Riga, Latvia)
    * Maxim Gubin (Facebook Inc., Menlo Park CA)
    * Mikhail Kopotev (University of Helsinki, Finalnd)
    * Vladislav Kuboň (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
    * Olga Mitrofanova (St.Petersburg State University, Russia)
    * Karel Pala (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
    * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
    * Maciej Piasecki (Wrocław University of Technology, Poland) 
    * Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
    * Lidia Pivovarova (Univeristy of Helsinki/St.Petersburg State University, Russia)
    * Adam Przepiórkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
    * Agata Savary (Université François Rabelais, Tours, France)
    * Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) 
    * Vladimir Shirokov (The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
    * Joseph Steinberger (University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, Czech Republic)
    * Pavel Straňák (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
    * Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) 
    * Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
    * Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy)
    * Duško Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia) 
    * Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finalnd)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
    * Jakub Piskorski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
    * Lidia Pivovarova (University of Helsinki, and St.Petersburg State University, Russia)
    * Hristo Tanev (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy)
    * Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland)

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