Appel: RANLP-2011, First Call for Papers, Change of location

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:53:33 +0200 (EET)
From: galja at lml.bas.bg
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Apologies for multiple postings

                      First Call for Papers

                            RANLP-11
         RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

              Augusta SPA hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria
               http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011

Tutorials: September 10-11, 2011 (Saturday-Sunday)
Main Conference: September 12-14, 2011 (Monday-Wednesday)
Workshops: September 15-16, 2011 (Thursday-Friday)

RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the
most established and competitive NLP conferences. The event is held
biennially and grew out of the International summer schools
"Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics", which were
organised for many years as training events. Selected papers from most
RANLP conferences are traditionally published in a volume as part of
John Benjamins’ series “Current Trends of Linguistic Research”. The
papers accepted at RANLP-09 and the associated workshops are included
in the ACL Anthology.

We are pleased to announce the 8th RANLP conference to be held in
September 2011. The conference will take the form of addresses from
invited keynote speakers plus presentations of peer-reviewed
individual papers. There will also be an exhibition area for poster
and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by two days of
tutorials (10-11 September 2011). Post-conference workshops will be
held on 15-16 September 2011.

TOPICS
We invite papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of
Natural Language Processing (NLP). We encourage the representation of
a broad range of areas including but not limited to the following:
pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics,
phonology, and morphology; mathematical models and complexity; text
understanding and generation; multilingual NLP; machine translation,
machine-aided translation, translation memory systems, translation
aids and tools; corpus-based language processing; POS tagging;
parsing; electronic dictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology;
word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval;
information extraction; text summarisation; term recognition; text
categorisation; question answering; textual entailment; visualisation;
dialogue systems; speech processing; computer-aided language learning;
language resources; evaluation; and theoretical and
application-oriented papers related to NLP.

CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all
over the world. The list of PC members will be announced in the Second
Call for Papers.

WORKSHOPS 15-16 September 2011
Several workshops will be organised on 15-16 September 2011. A Call
for Workshop proposals will be published in December 2010.

SUBMISSION of PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
The submission will be maintained by conference management
software. For further instructions please follow the submission
information at the conference site at
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011. The review process will be
anonymous. Double submission is allowed, but authors will be asked to
send explicit notification about it. Submissions will be reviewed by
at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted
papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready
versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. The full
conference proceedings will be distributed at the event.

IMPORTANT DATES

Call for workshop proposals: 28 December 2010
Deadline for workshop proposals: 28 February 2011
Workshop selection: 14 March 2011

Conference paper submission notification: 11 April 2011
Conference paper submission deadline: 18 April 2011
Conference paper acceptance notification: 15 June 2011
Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 20 July 2011

Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 17 June 2011
Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 25 July 2011
Camera-ready versions of the workshop papers (suggested): 22 August 2011

RANLP-11 tutorials: 10-11 September 2011 (Saturday -Sunday)
RANLP-11 conference: 12-14 September 2011 (Monday -Wednesday)
RANLP-11 workshops: 15-16 September 2011 (Thursday-Friday)

LOCATION
This call for papers announces a new location of the conference:
RANLP-2011 will be held in AUGUSTA SPA hotel
(http://www.augustaspa.com), Hissar. Hissar or Hisarya
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria) is a famous resort
since ancient times; it boasts 22 mineral springs with water
temperatures between 37-52 degree Celsius. Archaeological research has
revealed that a town existed near the springs 5000 years BC. Many
years later Thracians, and after them Romans, settled around the warm
springs. The Roman emperor Diocletian visited the town in 293 and
built a fortified wall around it. The town was named
Diocletianopol. Famous archeological monuments such as the Thracian
Tomb of Kazanluk
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thracian_Tomb_of_Kazanlak) and the Tomb
at Starosel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starosel) are located within
20-50 km from Hissar.

TRAVEL
Hissar is situated in the centre of Bulgaria, 40 km north of the city
of Plovdiv and 160 km east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Both the
International airports of Sofia and Plovdiv can be used as
arrival/departure points for RANLP-2011. Ryanair is now operating
flights between London Stansted and Plovdiv two times per week. Sofia
Airport is connected to Plovdiv via a highway and it takes only 1 hour
and 45 minutes to reach Hissar from Sofia. In addition to the regular
public transport (trains and buses), the organisers will provide
shuttle minibuses from/to Sofia and Plovdiv airports at an inexpensive
rate.

THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-11
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) 
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair)
Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nicolas Nicolov, Microsoft, USA
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop
coordinator) Irina Temnikova, University of Wolverhampton, UK

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