Appel: 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

Tue May 20 10:07:12 UTC 2003

Call for Projects and Demonstrations
19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN)

SEPLN 2003
19th  Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN)
10, 11 and 12 September, 2003
University of Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Spain
Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at
Instituto Cervantes

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 (Madrid, 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 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.

Projects and Demos

As in previous editions, depending on the number of proposals, it
is planned to organise oral presentations of projects and product
demos in any of the Conference topics. Proposals must meet
certain format and style requirements for presentations.

The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations
of projects and product demos

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 10, 2003

Publication Format

The final version of the article will be sent before June 27,
2003 through a web system:
https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html
Documents must not include headers or footings
Maximum length will be 2 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included
references and figures.
Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format.

LaTeX format

Authors using LaTeX format may download from the Conference
website the following style package zip file: latex_new.zip which
contains document and bibliography styles, as well as an example
showing existing possibilities.

Word format

Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible may download from the
Conference website the following zip file: word_new.zip which
includes a pattern file in RTF format and an example showing
existing editing possibilities.

Important Dates

Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003
Deadline for submitting final versions: June 27, 2003

Program Committee

Chairman: Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universitat d'Alacant)

Members:

Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla)
Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universitat de Barcelona)
Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez (Universitat d'Alacant)
Prof. Mikel Forcada Zubizarreta (Universitat d'Alacant)
Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de
Madrid)
Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea)
Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo)
Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a
Distancia)
Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Prof. Javier Macías Guarasa (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal (Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya)
Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universitat de Barcelona)
Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universitat Politècnica de
Valencia)
Prof. Lluis Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universitat d'Alacant)
Prof. José Manuel Pardo Muñoz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Prof.ª Natividad Prieto Sáez (Universitat Politècnica de
Valencia)
Prof. Germán Rigau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universitat Politècnica de
Catalunya)
Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén)
Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de
Educación a Distancia)
Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidade de Vigo)

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

Collaborators:

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

Advisors:

Ms. Esmeralda de Luis Martínez, Chief at the Department of
External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes
Ms. Gloria Gamarra Alonso, Technician at the Department of
External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes

Further Information

Full information is 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: sepln at cervantes.es
Conference website: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln

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Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información
C/ Libreros, 23
28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26
informaoesi at cervantes.es
http://oesi.cervantes.es

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