26.4326, Calls: Comp Ling/Germany

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Subject: 26.4326, Calls: Comp Ling/Germany

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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:32:39
From: Stefanie Dipper [dipper at linguistics.rub.de]
Subject: Conference on Natural Language Processing

 
Full Title: Conference on Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: KONVENS 2016 

Date: 19-Sep-2016 - 21-Sep-2016
Location: Bochum, Germany 
Contact Person: Stefanie Dipper
Meeting Email: konvens at linguistics.rub.de
Web Site: http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-May-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Conference on Natural Language Processing (''Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache,'' KONVENS) aims at offering a broad perspective on current research and developments within the interdisciplinary field of natural language processing. It allows researchers from all disciplines relevant to this field of research to present their work.


The conference languages are English and German. 

Call for Papers: 

We welcome original, unpublished contributions on research, development, applications and evaluation, covering all areas of natural language processing, ranging from basic questions to practical implementations of natural language resources, components and systems.

The special theme of the 13th KONVENS is: ''Processing non-standard data -  commonalities and differences.''

A wide range of data can be considered ''non-standard'' because it deviates in one way or the other from standard written data such as newspaper texts. 

Examples include:

- data produced by language learners
- historical data
- data from social media
- (transcriptions of) spoken data

We especially encourage the submission of contributions comparing different types of non-standard data and their properties, focusing on their impact for natural language processing. For example, a feature common to many types of non-standard data is the use of non-standard spelling. However, spelling variation in learner data as compared to historical data is due to very different reasons and, most likely, resulting in very different types of non-standard spellings.

Topics that we would like to see addressed include:

- common properties of (many) non-standard data, e.g. non-standard spelling, data sparseness, features of orality
- impact of the commonalities and differences of non-standard data on the methods and tools that are applied to the data, e.g. normalization vs. tool adaptation, evaluation without gold standard, etc.

Important Dates:

- May 30, 2016 - Paper submissions due
- July 15, 2016 - Notification of acceptance
- August 15, 2016 - Camera-ready copy due
- September 19-21, 2016 - Conference

Formatting: 

We welcome two types of contributions:

- Full papers for oral presentation (8 pages plus references)
- Short papers for presentation as posters (4 pages plus references)

Short papers/posters can be combined with a system demonstration. Reviews will be anonymous. Accepted full and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Submissions must conform to the formatting guidelines, and must be made electronically through the conference website. (Links will follow shortly.)

The conference languages are English and German. We encourage the submission of contributions in English.




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