28.745, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-745. Tue Feb 07 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.745, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:51:14
From: Rafael Valencia-García [valencia at um.es]
Subject: XXXIII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

Full Title: XXXIII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: SEPLN 2017 

Date: 20-Sep-2017 - 22-Sep-2017
Location: http://sepln2017.um.es/en_version/, Spain 
Contact Person: Rafael Valencia-García
Meeting Email: valencia at um.es
Web Site: http://sepln2017.um.es 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

The 33rd International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN) will be held from 20 to 22 September 2017 at the
Universidad de Murcia (Murcia, Spain).

The huge amount of information available in digital format in different
languages calls for systems enabling the access to this vast library in an
increasingly more structured way. Furthermore, there is a renewed interest in
improving information accessibility and information exploitation in
multilingual environments. Most of the formal foundations for dealing
appropriately with these necessities have been, and are still being,
established in the area of Natural Language Processing and its many branches:
Information Extraction and Retrieval, Question Answering Systems, Machine
Translation, Automatic Analysis of Textual Content, Text Summarization, Text
Generation, and Speech Recognition and Synthesis. 

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the field of
Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by scientific and business
communities. The conference also aims to present new possibilities of real
applications and R&D projects in this field. 

Moreover, like in previous years, this conference intends to identify future
guidelines or paths for basic research and expected software applications, in
order to compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference
provides a useful forum for the exchange of views and ideas, being especially
beneficial to new professionals who intend to become active members in the
field. 

Likewise, this year a Doctoral Symposium has been organised again, which will
provide doctoral students investigating issues in natural language processing
with a unique opportunity to have interaction with other researchers and
receive feedback regarding their research.

Call for Papers:

XXXIII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN 2017)
September 20-22, 2017 – Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
http://sepln2017.um.es

Topics: 

Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations on topics related to language technology,
including but not limited to: 

- Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language 
- Machine learning in NLP 
- Computational lexicography and terminology 
- Corpus linguistics 
- Development of linguistic resources and tools 
- Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis 
- Semantics, pragmatics and discourse 
- Lexical ambiguity resolution 
- Monolingual and multilingual text generation 
- Machine translation 
- Speech synthesis and recognition 
- Dialogue systems 
- Audio indexing 
- Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval 
- Question answering systems 
- Evaluation of NLP systems 
- Automatic textual content analysis 
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining 
- Plagiarism detection 
- Negation and speculation processing 
- Text mining in blogosphere and social networks 
- Text summarization 
- Image retrieval 
- NLP in biomedical domain 
- NLP-based generation of teaching resources 
- NLP for languages with limited resources 
- NLP industrial applications 

Submission of Contributions:

All contributions must be submitted electronically using the Myreview system
available at http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln59/

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented proposals
related to NLP. The proposals must include the following sections and
features:

- The title of the communication
- An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list of
keywords
- The paper can be written in either Spanish or English. Its overall maximum
length will be 8 pages, including references
- The documents must not include headers or footers
- Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.

The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and can be
accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications, depending on
the program necessities. However, no distinction will be made between
communications and posters in the printed version of the SEPLN journal.

Important Note on Camera Ready Papers:

The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together
with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were
implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in
order to accept or finally reject the selected paper.

Manuscript submission guidelines for the SEPLN journal must be followed:
http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en

In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following
requirements, depending on whether they are papers, demos or projects.

Projects and Demos:

Like in previous years, the organizers encourage participants to give oral
presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related to the NLP
field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted, the following
information must be included:

- Project title
- Author name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number
- Funding institutions
- Research Groups participating in the project
- Abstract
- Maximum length: 4 pages (including references).

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

- Demo title
- Author name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number
- Abstract
- Maximum length: 4 pages including references
- Estimated time and length for the whole presentation.

Doctoral Symposium:

The Doctoral Symposium intends to provide a venue for student researchers in
Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to present their
work. Students will receive feedback and mentorship from an experienced
researcher in the field based on the topic of their submission.

All PhD students are invited to submit short papers (4 pages) describing their
thesis projects. The paper must be signed by a single author (doctoral
candidate) and must follow the SEPLN format. The article submitted will be the
basis for the detailed discussions in the Symposium. In order to initiate
discussion, the document should include:

- Reason for the proposed research
- Background and related work (including important references)
- Description of the proposed research, including the main hypotheses for
research
- Methodology and the proposed experiments (if necessary)
- Specific issues of research to be discussed.

Papers for the Doctoral Symposium will be selected according to their quality
and potential impact on future research within the field of Natural Language
Processing. The selected works will not be published in the SEPLN journal, but
they will be included in an electronic version of the conference proceedings.
Therefore, PhD students could send an extended version of their research in
order to be considered for the main conference.

Contact:

All information related to the conference can be found at
http://sepln2017.um.es

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