Appel: RANLP-2011

Wed Mar 16 08:29:34 UTC 2011

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:04:57 +0200
From: galja at lml.bas.bg
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                  RANLP 2011 Second Call for Papers

         RECENT  ADVANCES  IN  NATURAL  LANGUAGE  PROCESSING
                   http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011

                 Augusta SPA hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria

          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 8th RANLP
conference will be held in Augusta hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria (12-14
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 submissions on any NLP
topic including but not limited to 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; opinion mining; dialogue systems;
speech processing; computer-aided language learning; language
resources; evaluation; and theoretical and application-orientated
topics related to NLP.

PC CHAIR: Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
OC CHAIR: Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE members are distinguished experts from all
over the world:
Guadalupe Aguado de Cea (Polytechnic University Madrid, Spain)
Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA)
Gloria Corpas (University of Malaga, Spain)
Dan Cristea ("Al. I. Cuza" University of Iasi, Romania)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza (University of Basque Country, Spain)
Alexander Gelbukh (Nat. Polytechnic Inst., Mexico)
Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA)
Catalina Hallett (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto, Canada)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Richard J. Evans (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Frances Johnson (Manchester Metrop. University, UK)
Dimitar Kazakov (University of York, UK)
Alma Kharrat (Microsoft, USA)
Richard Kittredge (CoGenTex, USA)
Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Lori Lamel (LIMSI - CNRS, France)
Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan)
Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, USA)
Andrei Mikheev (Infogistics Ltd & Daxtra Tech. Ltd, UK)
Andres Montoyo (University of Alicante, Spain)
Rafael Munoz Guillena (University of Alicante, Spain)
Makoto Nagao (National Diet Library, Japan)
Preslav Nakov (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Roberto Navigli (Univ. di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
Ani Nenkova (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Javier Perez Guerra (University of Vigo, Spain)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
John Prager (IBM, USA)
Gabor Proszeky (MorphoLogic, Hungary)
Stephen Pulman (Oxford University, UK)
Allan Ramsay (University of Manchester, UK)
Horacio Rodriguez (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain)
Frederique Segond (Xerox Research Centre, France)
Khaled Shaalan (British Univ. in Dubai, U. Arab Emirates)
Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan)
Kristina Toutanova (Microsoft, USA)
Dan Tufis (Research Institute for AI, Romania)
L. Alfonso Urena Lopez (University of Jaen, Spain)
Karin Verspoor (Los Alamos National Lab., USA)
Manuel Vilares Ferro (University of Corunna, Spain)
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies BV, The Netherlands)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, UK)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong Univ. S&T, Hong Kong)

RANLP-2011 will feature six KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Roberto Cencioni (European Commission, DG INFSO)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Patrick Hanks (University of the West of England, Bristol
                           and University of Wolverhampton)
Inderjeet Mani (Children's Organization of Southeast Asia)
Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Hans Uszkoreit (University of Saarland)

Six pre-conference tutorials will be given on 10-11 September 2011 by
the following TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine)  
Patrick Hanks (University of the West of England, Bristol
                           and University of Wolverhampton)
Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tubingen)
Zornitsa Kozareva (ISI, University of Southern California)
    & Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore)
Inderjeet Mani (Children's Organization of Southeast Asia)
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton)

WORKSHOPS 15-16 September 2011: Post-conference workshops will be
organised on 15-16 September 2011. The selected workshops will be
announced at 28 March 2011 at the conference site.

SUBMISSION of PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS
The submission will be maintained by conference management software
START, see details at the conference site at
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011.  Submissions should follow strictly
the ACL based stylesheets, available at the RANLP 2011 conference
site, and should not exceed 8 pages (poster and demo submissions
should be no longer than six pages), including cover page, figures,
tables and references. Poster and demo papers are presented at the
conference in joint poster/demo sessions.

The review process will be anonymous. Double submissions are allowed,
but authors will be asked to declare these explicitly. 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. The proceedings will be uploaded at the ACL
Anthology shortly after the event.

IMPORTANT DATES
11 April 2011: Abstract submission & registration at START
             (not mandatory but would be helpful to plan the review)
18 April 2011: Conference paper submission deadline at START
15 June 2011: Conference paper acceptance notification
20 July 2011: Camera-ready versions of the conference papers at START 20
July 2011: Abstracts for the RANLP 2011 Book of Abstracts at START

LOCATION
RANLP 2011 will be held in AUGUSTA SPA hotel (
http://www.augustaspa.com), Hissar. Hissar or Hisarya
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria) has been a well-known
resort since ancient times; it boasts 22 mineral springs with water
temperatures between 37°C and 52°C.  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 motorway 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 2011
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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