Appel: PorTAL - PORTUGAL for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

[Alexis Nasr]

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

         PorTAL - PORTUGAL for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

               URL: http://label.ist.utl.pt/portal

                          Faro, Portugal

                       June 23rd-26th, 2002


PorTAL - PORTUGAL  for NATURAL LANGUAGE  PROCESSING will  be held
at FARO (Algarve, Portugal), in June 23-26, 2002.  PorTAL follows
the  FracTAL  conference,  held  in  Besançon  (France), December
1997, and VexTAL held in Venice (Italy), November 1999.


SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Papers  are  invited  on  substantial, original,  and unpublished
research on  all aspects of  natural language  processing related
areas, including, but not limited to:

   * spoken and written language analysis and generation;
   * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, morphology and
     lexical acquisition;
   * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
   * language-oriented information retrieval and information
     extraction;
   * knowledge acquisition;
   * corpus-based and statistical language modelling;
   * machine translation and translation aids;
   * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
   * message and narrative understanding systems;
   * computational lexicography;
   * Internet applications;
   * evaluation of systems.

We welcome submissions on any  topic that is  of interest  to the
NLP  community,  but we  particularly encourage  submissions that
broaden the scope of our community  through the  consideration of
practical NLP applications. We also  invite people  from industry
working  on  NLP  to  send  us  their  submissions  and  offer an
opportunity   to   discuss    and   demonstrate    their   latest
applications.


ORGANISATION

- Laboratório de Engenharia da Linguagem (CAUTL-IST)
- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (INESC-ID Lisboa - IST)
- Universidade do Algarve
- Departamento de Linguística (FLUL)
- Centre Lucien Tesnière (Université Franche-Comté)


Program Chairs: Elisabete Ranchhod
                 (Universidade de Lisboa / CAUTL-IST)
                 Nuno J. Mamede
                (Technical University of Lisbon
                 Spoken Language Systems Laboratory at INESC-ID Lisboa)

Local Organization Chair: Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alex Monaghan (Ireland)
Caroline Hagège (France)
Claire Gardent (France)
Diamantino Freitas (Portugal)
Fernando Martins (Portugal)
Franz Gunthener (Portugal)
Gabriel Bès (France)
Graça Nunes (Brasil)
Hans Uszkoreit (Portugal)
Inês Duarte (Portugal)
Irene Rodrigues (Portugal)
Isabel Trancoso (Portugal)
Jacqueline Léon (France)
João Paulo Neto (Portugal)
Jorge Bapista (Portugal)
Julia Pazj (Hungary)
Krzysztof Bogacki (Poland)
Lauri Karttunen (USA)
Luís Caldas Oliveira (Portugal)
M. Céu Viana (Portugal)
Maurice Gross (France)
Max Silberztein (USA)
Pierre-Andre Buvet (France)
Richard Sproat (USA)
Rodolfo Demonte (Italy)
Ruslan Mitkov (U.K.)
Stéphane Chaudiron (France)
Steve Abney (USA)
Sylviane Cardey (France)
Tony Berber Sardinha (Brasil)
Xavier Blanco (Spain)
Yorick Wilks (U.K.)


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submitted papers should describe original  work, completed  or in
progress, rather  than merely planned,  and clearly  indicate the
current  state  of  advancement  of   the  work.   No  previously
published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous  submission to
other conferences is allowed provided it is  explicitly indicated
on the identification page.

1. Papers should not exceed 3000 words(including references), must
    contain a 5 lines abstract, and must be submitted in PDF format.
    All papers will be submitted electronically.
    Authors are requested to first register their submission by
    January 15, 2002 (details coming soon on the Submission Procedure
    Web page).

2. The reviewing of papers will be blind. Hence the paper should
    not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore,
    self-references that reveal the author's identity should be
    avoided.

3. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee
    and published both in print and electronically in the conference
    proceedings.  All accepted papers must be presented at the
    conference by at least one of their authors.


4. Identification information will be put in a separate file
    consisting of:
    Title of the paper:
    Author(s):
    Affiliation(s):
    E-mail(s):
    Abstract:
    Keywords (5):

5. Submission Procedure

You are requested  to first register  your submission  by January
15,  2002. This  can be  done by filling  out an  electronic form
that will be soon accessible at the Paper Submission Web page.

Submitted papers and identification information  must be  sent by
January 21st 2002 (details coming soon).

Accepted papers will be notified by March 1st, together  with the
comments of the reviewers.

The  final version  of the  papers will be  prepared in  LaTeX by
April  1st,  for  publication  in  the Workshop  proceedings. The
stylesheet will be circulated in due time.

Note   that   all   workshop   participants   must   register  as
participants  of  PORTAL.  The early  registration fees  apply to
authors of accepted papers.


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IMPORTANT DATES

January 15th 2002 - Paper Registration
January 21st 2002 - Deadline for submitting papers
March   1st  2002 - Notification of acceptance
April   1st  2002 - Preparation of the final version of the paper
May     31st 2002 - Final program of the workshop
June    23rd 2002 - The workshop begins
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Nuno J. Mamede         L2F / INESC - Lab. de Sistemas de Língua Falada
Nuno.Mamede at acm.org    DEI / IST - Dept. de Engenharia Informática
Tel: (351) 213100367   Rua Alves Redol, 9
Fax: (351) 213145843   1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal
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