Appel: 19th Conf. of the Spanish Soc. for NLP

Tue Mar 11 16:29:22 UTC 2003

__________First Call for Proposals___________________

SEPLN 2003

XIX CONGRESO DE
LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN)

(19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
- SEPLN)

September 10-12, 2003
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln

Introduction

The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcalá de
Henares (Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this
Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and
innovation activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in
the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will
provide a forum for discussion and communication to facilitate an
effective exchange of knowledge and scientific materials that are
necessary for promoting the publication of relevant work and the
establishment of means of collaboration with national and international
Institutions that are active in this field.

Objectives

The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and
scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest
research work and developments in the field of Natural Language
Processing, as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these
solutions and to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN
Conference is a meeting place for presenting results and exchanging
ideas concerning the present state of development in this field of
knowledge.

Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in
previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and
foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the
market needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum
in helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

Topics

Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications,
project abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following
topics:

- Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language
- Corpus linguistics
- Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
- Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
- Computational Lexicography
- Monolingual and multilingual text generation
- Machine translation
- Speech synthesis and recognition
- Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
- Word sense disambiguation
- NLP industrial applications
- Automatic textual content analysis

Structure of the Conference

The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to
presenting papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product
demonstrations or products connected with topics addressed in the
conference. Scientific activities will be complemented by social and
tourist activities, allowing attendants to gain a better understanding
about the social and cultural dimensions of Alcalá de Henares.

Communications

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals,
to be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than April 30,
2003.

Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in
electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title,
the complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and
e-mail.

Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final
version, please check the "publication format" section):

- Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words)
- Related topic
- Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract)
- The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate
files will be submitted, one will only include the title and author
details, the other will only include the title and the rest of the
proposal
- Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the
style requirements that are described in the publication format section
in this website

The proposals will be sent through a web-based system. The exact address
of this system will be published in the official website of the
Conference.

Any files with a size larger than 4 MB, must be compressed into any of
the following formats: zip, rar, tar or gz.

Projects and Demos

As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give
oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated
number of oral presentations, any 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 project director
- 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 29, 2001

Important Dates

Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance:

- Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 16, 2003
- Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2003
- Deadline for submitting the final version: June 27, 2003
- Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003

Program Committee

Chairman:

Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universidad de Alicante)

Members:

Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla)
Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universidad de Pompeu Fabra)
Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universidad de Barcelona)
Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Universidad del País Vasco)
Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez(Universidad de Alicante)
Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Universidad del País Vasco)
Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidad de Vigo)
Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia)
Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universidad de Barcelona)
Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Prof. Lluis Padró (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña)
Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universidad de Alicante)
Prof.ª Natividad Prieto Sáez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Prof. Germán Rigau (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña)
Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña)
Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Universidad del País Vasco)
Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén)
Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia)
Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidad de La Coruña)

Organising Committee

Chairman:

Mr. Jesús Antonio Cid Martínez, Academic Director at Instituto Cervantes

Coordinator:

Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio, Responsible for the Bureau of Spanish in the
Information Society - OESI - at Instituto Cervantes

Members:

Ms. Eva Mª García García, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes
Ms. Raquel Tapias Aparicio, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes
Mr. John Michael Urresti Graña, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Collabators:

Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes
Ms. Eva Mª Gómez Gómez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes

Further Information

Further information will be soon available at the official website of
the Conference: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln.

You may also contact the coordinator at any of the following addresses:

Secretary of the 19th SEPLN Conference
Conference coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio
Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información
C/ Libreros, 23
28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Spain
Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94
Fax: +34 91 888 18 26
E-mail: oesi at cervantes.es

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