26.1688, Calls: Baltic, Slavic Subgroup, Computational Ling, General Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Bulgaria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-26-1688. Mon Mar 30 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.1688, Calls:  	Baltic, Slavic Subgroup, Computational Ling, General Ling, Semantics, Text/Corpus Ling, Translation/Bulgaria

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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:41:30
From: Jakub Piskorski [jpiskorski at gmail.com]
Subject: 5th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing

Full Title: 5th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: BSNLP 2015 

Date: 10-Sep-2015 - 11-Sep-2015
Location: Hissar, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Jakub Piskorski
Meeting Email: bsnlp at cs.helsinki.fi
Web Site: http://bsnlp-2015.cs.helsinki.fi 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation 

Language Family(ies): Baltic; Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 26-Jun-2015 

Meeting Description:

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.

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 to stimulate the research on NLP techniques for Balto-Slavic languages, and to foster the creation of tools for these languages. The Workshop will provide a 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 subfamily 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 the lack of mutual intelligibility which creates a special environment, in which researchers can fully appreciate the shared problems and solutions and communicate naturally.

The workshop will consists of: presentations of accepted papers, invited talks by prominent researchers in BaltoSlavic NLP, a  session dedicated to the organisational matters of the recently, created ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing (SIGSLAV), and a discussion on potential shared tasks for Slavic languages.

Programme Committee:

http://bsnlp-2015.cs.helsinki.fi/committees.html

Call for Papers:

The 5th Biennial Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing (BSNLP 2015), officially sponsored by ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic Natural Language Processing (http://sigslav.cs.helsinki.fi) addresses NLP for the Balto-Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include, but are not limited to:

- Morphological analysis and generation
- Morphosyntactic tagging and parsing
- Semantic parsing
- Lexical semantics
- Named-entity recognition 
- Coreference resolution
- Information extraction
- Question answering
- Information retrieval 
- Text summarization
- Machine translation
- Sentiment analysis

Submission:

We accept two types of submissions: (a) full papers and (b) short papers.

Long papers should describe original unpublished work and should indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Short papers should describe work in progress, small focused contributions and/or interactive software demonstrations.

Overlap with previously published work should be clearly mentioned. The authors should indicate along with their submission if the paper has been submitted elsewhere, e.g., for the main conference. In particular, in case the paper is rejected by the main conference, it should be indicated in the submission.

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.

Reviewing will be blind. Therefore, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Self citations and other references that reveal the authors' identities should be avoided.

Long paper submissions should follow the two-column format of RANLP 2015 proceedings not exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) additional pages for references. Short paper submissions should follow the same format, and should not exceed five (5) pages for content plus two (2) additional pages for references. Submissions must conform to the official style guidelines of RANLP 2015, which are contained in the style files, and must be in PDF.

Camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be provided in LaTeX format.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 26 June, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 25 July, 2015
Camera-Rready Papers Due: 6 August, 2015
Workshop: 10-11 September 2015

Organizers:

Jakub Piskorski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 
Jan Šnajder, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Hristo Tanev, Joint Research Centre of the EC, Ispra, Italy
Roman Yangarber, University of Helsinki, Finland

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