Final CFP: SEPLN 2000, XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

Miguel A. Alonso Pardo alonso at DC.FI.UDC.ES
Mon Mar 20 16:31:16 UTC 2000


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                         Final CALL FOR PAPERS
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                              SEPLN 2000
XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
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                         September 26-28  2000
                             Vigo, Spain

                   Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo

			 with the support of

			 Caixavigo e Ourense
	   Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

                 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/



Following the XV SEPLN Conference that took place in Lleida in September 1999,
the XVI SEPLN Conference shall be held in Vigo in September 2000. The event
shall take place after TAPD 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/)
which is a conference centered upon applications of tabulation technologies
for syntactic analysis and deduction.

MOTIVATIONS:

The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the
field of Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent
work, to share their experimental results, and to discuss a range of
problems which must be treated. Moreover, an important objective of
this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions for
future basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the
actual needs of the society.

PROJECTS AND DEMOS:

The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects
and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, some
session may be reserved to this purpose.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information
must be included:
- Project title
- Funding institution
- Participant groups in the project
- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the
  project.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included,
  as indicated below.

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:

- Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
- Abstract (2 pages maximum).
- Time estimation for the whole presentation.

This information must be received by June 4, 2000.

CONFERENCE FORMAT:

The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for
individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as
project an demos presentations and group discussions.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

  -- Daniel Tapias Merino        Telefonica investigación y desarrollo (Spain)
  -- Christopher S. Butler       Univ. of Wales Swansea

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors are invited to submit an abstract about a system to be
presented, or a paper concerning a theoretical
contribution. Submission and paper reviews shall be handled
exclusively electronically (PostScript or PDF format). Submission
should include a separate file with the title, authors, affiliations,
addresses, and e-mail. Papers, in a second file, should be anonymous,
excluding autoreferences in the text. Accepted works must be presented
at the congress and adhere to certain rules:

- They must include an abstract (150 word maximum).
- The proposed area of interest must be included.
- Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included.
- Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the
  conference web page (http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/).

Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ei.uvigo.es

SCHEDULE:

- XVI SEPLN Conference: September 26-28 2000
- Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000
- Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2000
- Final versions due: June 30, 2000
- Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000
- Early registration: before July 14, 2000
- Late registration: after July 14, 2000

AREAS OF INTEREST AND COMMITTEE:

1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages
	Miguel A. Alonso Pardo          Univ. of A Coruña
	Toni Badia                      Univ. Pompeu Fabra
2. Corpus linguistics
	José Mª García-Miguel Gallego   Univ. of Vigo
	Guillermo Rojo Sanchez          Univ. of Santiago de Compostela
3. Information extraction and retrieval
	Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez     Univ. Europea de Madrid
	María Felisa Verdejo Maillo     UNED
4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
	Manuel Palomar Sanz             Univ. of Alicante
	Manuel Vilares Ferro            Univ. of Vigo
5. Computational lexicography
	Margarita Alonso Ramos          Univ. of A Coruña
	Xabier Artola                   Univ. of País Vasco
	Jorge Graña Gil                 Univ. of A Coruña
6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation
	Lydia Moreno Boronat            Univ. Politécnica de Valencia
7. Machine translation
	Ines Diz                        Univ. of Vigo
	Javier Gómez Guinovart          Univ. of Vigo
8. Speech synthesis and recognition
	Carmen García Mateo             Univ. of Vigo
	Joaquim Llisterri               Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona
9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
	Joseba Abaitua                  Univ. of Deusto
	M. Antonia Martí Antonín        Univ. of Barcelona

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Chair:

Manuel Vilares Ferro            Univ. of Vigo

Members:

David Cabrero Souto             Univ. of Vigo
Víctor Darriba Bilbao           Univ. of A Coruña
Javier Gómez Guinovart          Univ. of Vigo
Manuel J. Maña                  Univ. of Vigo
David N. Olivieri               Univ. of Vigo
Javier Pérez Guerra             Univ. of Vigo
Francisco José Ribadas Pena     Univ. of A Coruña
Leandro Rodríguez Liñares       Univ. of Vigo

LOCATION:

Sala de Conferencias del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense
Policarpo Sanz, 13
Vigo

FURTER INFORMATION:

Further information will be available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/.
For any information related to the organization, please contact:

Secretaría SEPLN'2000
Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática
Campus As Lagoas, s/n
32004 Ourense
España

E-mail: sepln-secret at ei.uvigo.es
Fax:    +34 988-387001



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