Appel: LTC2009+LRL2009 - Extended submission deadline - September 6

Mon Aug 10 14:37:07 UTC 2009

Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 06:35:10 +0200
From: LTC <ltc at amu.edu.pl>
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Dear Colleagues,
We recieved several letters asking for paper submission deadline
extension.

Due to the arrangement with the Publishers of confernce proceedings we
are now in possibility to extend the deadline.
The new deadline is September 6. Any further extension will not be
possible because of obvious technological constraints. As many authors
succeeded to send us their submissions within the initially fixed
deadline, we will start the evaluation procedure now.

Please visit time to time the conference www site (www.ltc.amu.edu.pl)
where new, important information about the conference and related
events will sistematically appear.

We hope to see you in Poznań.
Best regards
Zygmunt Vetulani, LTC 2009 Chair

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Call for papers and participation

The 4th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language
Technologies as a Challenge
for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2009), a meeting organized
by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poznań, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz
University Foundation (co-organizer), will take place on November 6-8,
2009.

Human Language Technologies (HLT) continue to be a challenge for
computer science, linguistics and related fields as these areas become
an ever more essential element of our everyday technological
environment. Since the very beginning of the Computer and Information
 Age these fields have influenced and stimulated each other. The
European Union strongly supports HLT under the 7th Framework
Program. These efforts as well as technological, social and cultural
globalization have created a favorable climate for the intensive
exchange of novel ideas, concepts and solutions across initially
distant disciplines. We aim at further contributing to this exchange
and invite you to join us at LTC in November 6-8, 2009, as well as at
the FlaReNet workshop (LRL 2009, on November 5, 2009) on the theme
"Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!".

Zygmunt Vetulani
LTC 2009 Chair
vetulani at amu.edu.pl

CONFERENCE TOPICS

The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not
significative):
- electronic language resources and tools,
- formalisation of natural languages,
- parsing and other forms of NL processing,
- computer modelling of language competence,
- NL user modelling,
- NL understanding by computers,
- knowledge representation,
- man-machine NL interfaces,
- Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing,
- speech processing,
- NL applications in robotics,
- text-based information retrieval and extraction,
- question answering,
- tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems,
- translation enhancement tools,
- corpora-based methods in language engineering,
- WordNet-like ontologies,
- methodological issues in HLT,
- language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for 
  languages other than English),
- HLT standards,
- HLTs as a support for foreign language teaching,
- communicative intelligence,
- legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges),
- contribution of HLTs to the Homeland Security problems (technology 
  applications and legal aspects),
- visionary papers in the field of HLT,
- HLT's for the Less-Resourced Languages
- HLT related policies,
- system prototype presentations.

This list is by no means closed and we are open to further
proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us in order to feed us
with you suggestions and ideas of how to satisfy your expectation
concerning the program. The Program Committee is also open to
suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits,
panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed
directly to the LTC Chair by email (vetulani at amu.edu.pl).

LANGUAGE

The conference language is English.

PAPER SUBMISSION

The conference accepts papers in English. Papers (5 formatted pages)
are due by September 6, 2009 (midnight, any time zone) and should not
identify the author(s)in any manner. In order to facilitate submission
we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as
possible at this stage. Please, however, do observe the following:

1. Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier
   is recommended for program listings. Character size for the main
   text should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).

2. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm
   between columns (gutter).

3. The paper size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.

4. The use of PDF format is strongly recommended, although MS Word
   will also be accepted.

Detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will
be published on the conference Web site no latter then September 27,
2009 (acceptance notification date).

All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2009 web submission 
system. Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent no later then 
September 27, 2009.

PUBLICATION POLICY

Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous
submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on
CD-ROM. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made
available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication
requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference
fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors by October
1, 2009. (In case of more than one accepted paper a special regulation
will be applied. This regulation will be announced later on.)

A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers
will be published. It is planed to publish them in the  Springer
series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence  (final approval
pending).

The LTC 2005 post conference selection appeared in form of Special
Issue of Archives of Control Sciences (2005, Volume 15, nb. 3 and 4)

The LTC 2007 post-conference volume (extended papers) is going to
appear in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 5603).

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES

- Deadline for submission of papers for review:  September 6, 2009.
- Acceptance/Rejection notification: September 27, 2009 (at latest*).
- Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers:
  October 12, 2009.
- LTL Workshop: November 5, 2009.
- Conference: November 6-8, 2009.

REGISTRATION

Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be
provided later on www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.

CONFERENCE FEES

Non-student participants:
- Regular registration (payment by October 12, 2009) 160 EURO
- Late registration (payment after October 12, 2009) 190 EURO

Student participants:
- Regular registration (payment by October 12, 2009)  100 EURO
- Late registration (payment after October 12, 2009)  120 EURO

Extra 40 Euro will be charged for the LRL Workshop participation
(5.11.2009, cf below).

Student registrations must be accompanied by a proof of full-time
student status valid on the payment date. Registrants are requested to
scan and e-mail their proof of student status to ltc at amu.edu.pl. The
e-mail subject field must have the following format:

LTC-09-StudentStatus-< Name_of_participant >  
(e.g. LTC-09-StudentStatus-VETULANI)

The conference fee covers:
- Participation in the scientific programme.
- Conference materials.
- Proceedings on CD and paper.
- Social events (banquet,...).
- Coffee breaks.

PAYMENT

The payment methods will be detailed shortly.

AWARDS

As at the 2nd and 3rd Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007)
special awards will be granted to the best student papers. Regular or
PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are eligible.

In 2005 the Jury, composed of the Program Committee members present at
the conference, awarded this distinction to:
- Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig),
- Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe),
- Marcin Woliński (IPI PAN, Warsaw).  

In 2007 this distinction went to Daria Fišer (University of Ljubljana)

Other awards will be announced.

LRL WORKSHOP: Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!

Name: Getting Less-Resourced Languages on-Board!

Date: 5.11.2009, half-day (13h30 – 18h00) + cocktail

Theme:
Language Technologies (LT) provide an essential support to the
challenge of Multilingualism. In order to develop them, it is
necessary to have access to Language Resources (LR) and to assess LT
performances. To this regard, the situation is very different across
the different languages. Little or sparse data exist for languages in
countries or regions where limited efforts have been devoted to such
issues in the past, also known as Less-Resourced Languages (LRL). The
workshop aims at reporting the needs, at presenting achievements and
at proposing solutions for the future, both in terms of LR and of LT
evaluation, especially in the European, Euro-Mediterranean and
regional frameworks. This will allow to identity the factors that have
an impact on a potential and shared roadmap towards supplying LR and
LT for all languages.

Topics: 

- Experience in the production, validation and distribution of LR for
  less-resourced languages

- Experience in the evaluation of LT for less-resourced languages

- Infrastructures for making available LR and LT in less-resourced
  languages

- Alternative approaches (comparable corpora, pivot languages,
  language clustering)

- To be completed

Co-Chairs: Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI-CNRS), Khalid
Choukri(ELRA & ELDA), Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznan)

Paper submission deadline: September 6.

Sponsors: FLaReNet, ELRA

Inscriptions: as for the general LTC (+ cc to workshop chairs) 

Fees: inscription fees to the LTC + extra 40 Euros or 80 Euros for the
Workshop-only attenders.

Paper submission: as for the general LTC(EasyChair) + to the workshop
chairs

Presentation: publication in the LTC proceedings (paper + CD) 

Reviewing: up to the workshop chairs + scientific committee

Program: The workshop will comprise presentations (including keynote
talks) and a panel session, including a EC representative
(tentative). In addition, selected speakers will be invited to present
their papers to a larger audience at the main LTC conference.

E-mail: ltc at amu.edu.pl

WWW: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl/

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