Appel: NLPCS_2012

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:56:15 +0800
From: Michael Zock <Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <4F0EF48F.5040307 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 9 th International Workshop on Natural
Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS 2012,
http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx), to be held at Wroclaw (Poland) on june
28, 2012.


Bernadette Sharp & Michael Zock

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive
Science , NLPCS 2012

28 June, 2012 - Wroclaw, Poland
http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

In conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems - ICEIS 2012


CO-CHAIRS

Bernadette Sharp,
Staffordshire University, United Kingdom, b.sharp at staffs.ac.uk

Michael Zock,
CNRS-LIF, université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), France,
michael.zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr


SCOPE of the workshop

The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and
practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive
Science perspective.

What characterizes this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is
considered from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, statistics,
computer science, artificial intelligence), and that a deliberate effort
is made to reconcile or integrate these viewpoints into a coherent
whole.

We believe that this is necessary, as the modeling of the process is
simply too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter
whether we deal with a natural system (people), an artificial system
(computers) or a combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on
many types of very different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary
considerably depending on the person (novice, expert), on the available
knowledge (internal and external), and on the nature of the information
processor : man, machine or both (man-machine communication, interactive
NLP).

This being so, any of the following aspects are welcomed : structure,
representation and processing of information by different agents
(natural, artificial or both) and in different communication modes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    -    Ontologies
    -    Text mining
    -    Conceptualisation
    -    Meaning construction
    -    Electronic Dictionaries
    -    Evolutionary NLP
    -    Discourse processing
    -    Social cognition of language
    -    Multi-Lingual Processing
    -    Speech Processing
    -    Pragmatics and NLP
    -    Tools and Resources in NLP
    -    Evaluation of NLP Systems
    -    Embodied and situated NLP
    -    Computational Models of NLP
    -    Emotion and language processing
    -    Translation and Machine Translation
    -    Multimodality in speech / text processing
    -    Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
    -    Text Summarization and Information Extraction
    -    Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems


IMPORTANT DATES

    -    Paper Submission:     March 30, 2012
    -    Authors' Notification: April 20, 2012
    -    Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 4, 2012 


WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE


  * M. Aretoulaki, Dialogconnection.com, UK
  * J. Ball, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
  * J. Barnden, Birmingham University, UK
  * M. Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
  * D. Cristea, University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania
  * C. Day, Keele University, UK
  * R. Delmonte, University of Texas, USA
  * B. Endres-Niggemeyer, Fachhochschule Hanover, Germany
  * O. Ferret, CEA, France
  * I. Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany
  * N. Hernandez, LINAS, University of Nantes, France
  * S. Higgins, Nottingham University, UK
  * O. Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany
  * G. Lapalme, University of Montréal, Canada
  * D. Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
  * W. R. Murray, Boeing Research and Technology, USA
  * A. Neustein, International Journal of Speech Technology, USA
  * K. Netter, Consulting GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany B.
  * R. Rapp, University of Leeds, UK
  * P. Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
  * C. Roche, Université de Savoie, France
  * R. Schwitter, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  * F. Sedes, Université de Toulouse, France
  * B. Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK
  * D. Schwab, LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France
  * G. Thompson, Liverpool University, UK
  * D. Tufis, University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania
  * T. Wandmacher, SYSTRAN, Paris, France
  * M. Zock, LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France


PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics
listed above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and
Latex formats) are available at:
http://www.iceis.org/papertemplates.aspx

Please also check the Submission Guidelines (http://www.iceis.org/
submissionguidelines.aspx). Papers should be original and their
submission should be done electronically via the following link:
http://www.insticc.org/ Primoris


PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in a
special section of the conference proceedings book ?under an ISBN
reference and on CD-ROM support? and submitted for indexation by Thomson
Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI
(Elsevier Index).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

ICEIS Workshops - NLPCS 2012
e-mail: iceis.workshops.secretariat at insticc.org

Previous best papers were published in two special issues of the
"International Journal of Speech Technology":


 1. Rethinking Natural Language Processing for Speech Technology,
    vol. 11, 1-4, 2008

 2. Expositions of Romanian scientists on the design of text-to-speech
    synthesis and natural language understanding and generation systems,
    vol.  12, 2-3, 2009

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