Appel: 14th International Symposium on Social Communication, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 2015

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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:49:57 -0500
From: "Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares" <leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu>
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Dear colleague,

Please, find enclosed the announcement of the
14th International Symposium on Social Communication.

It will be a pleasure to welcome you in Santiago de Cuba.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares
President Organizing Committee
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Web site of our International Symposiums on Social Communication:

http://www.santiago.cu/hosting/linguistica/index.php?id=en (Getting
up-to-date)

Web site of the Centre for Applied Linguistics:

http://www.linguistica.santiago.cu/inicio

Web site of our Basic School Dictionary:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/dbe/index.html

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FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTRE FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, JANUARY 19-23, 2015
(Dedicated to the 500 years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's
city)

The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba’s branch of
the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to
announce the Fourteenth International Symposium on Social
Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba, January 19
through the 23, 2015 and in this occasion will be dedicated to the 500
years of the foundation of the Santiago de Cuba's city. This
interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes
from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics,
Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore.

In the context of the XIV Symposium, will be held also the Workshop
"Resources and tools of the Spanish and Portuguese languages and his
variants in Latin America" sponsored by the Centre for Applied
Linguistics and the Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing
(SEPLN). The aims of the workshop are to know the new tools on NLP
developed in the Spanish-speaking countries and Portuguese of Latin
America and to know about Linguistic studies on Latin-America where
NLP's instruments are applied.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

- University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

- Pedagogical University "Frank Pais Garcia" Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

- Provincial Branch of Writers and Artists Association of Santiago de
  Cuba, Cuba

- University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

- Basque Country University, Spain

- Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck
  Innsbruck, Austria

- Centre of Lexicography Aarhus University, Denmark

- University of Würzburg Würzburg, Germany

- Centre Tesnière Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, France

- Spanish Association on Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)

- Magister on Latinoamerican Studies University of La Serena La Serena,
  Chile

- Latino Education and Advocacy Days Organization California State
  University San Bernardino, USA

Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the
following disciplines:

1- Linguistics:

- Applied Linguistics

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Quantitative Linguistics

- Morphology and Syntax

- Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics

- Sociolinguistics

- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Terminology

- Translations

- Linguistics Rights

- Linguistics Policy

2- Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistics research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Electronic dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign
  languages

- Information extraction and its applications

- Speech recognition and synthesis

- Related issues

3- Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social
   Communication in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaryngology

- Stomatology

4- Mass Media:

- Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and
  radio and television announcers

- Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and
  electronic media articles

5- Art, Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Keynote speeches

- Books presentation

- Cultural activities

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by
prestigious specialists- The seminars will take place Monday, January
19th, 2015.

The courses are the following:

"Modelling language"
Prof- Dr- Sylviane Cardey
Centre Tesnière
Université de Franche-Comté
Besançon, France

"Automatic learning for the NLP.  Two practical cases: the resolution of
the correferencia and tagging of semantic roles"
Dr- Olatz Arregi Uriarte
IXA Group- Basque Country University
Basque Country, Spain

Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want
to take part in- An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos
(CUC) will be charged for each seminar- Participation certificates will
be available.

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered- Until
now are confirmed:

Prof- Dr- Nancy Morejon
Director
Cuban Academy of Language
Havana, Cuba

"Before words emerge: Findings, Insights and Future Directions from
Thirty Years of Infant Research"
Prof- Dr- Kathleen Wermke
Würzburg University
Würzburg, Germany

"Incongruity Humor in Language and Beyond"
Prof- Dr- Anton Nijholt
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

"Successful on-line communication of touristic service providers"
Prof- Dr- Dieter Fensel
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
University of Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria

"State of the Art on Corpus Linguistics in Europe"
Prof- Dr- Ann Bertels
University of Leuven - KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

The deadline of submission of papers is August 1st, 2014- The papers
should not exceed 5 pages- Notification of acceptance of a paper by the
Symposium’s Scientific Committee will be sent before August 31st, 2014.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of
the Symposium’s documentation -as we did since 1997-, accepted papers
must be sent before September 15, 2014 if the Scientific Committee had
done some observations.

Requirements for papers:

1- The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and
   bibliography.

2- It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent
   to the Symposium’s Executive Secretary via e-mail as attached file.

3- Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and
   bottom margin of 2.5 cm.

4- The paper must be written in one of the event’s official languages:
   Spanish, English, French or Portuguese.

5- The pages of the text should be unnumered.

Instructions for paper submission:

1- Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top
   of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word
   6.0 or 7.0)- Under the author's name(s) should appear in bold (only
   initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail
   address.

2- In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be
   written in Arial bold, italics, 10 points size letters.

3- The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9
   points size and leaving one space between lines.

4- Paragraphs will have no indentation.  Spaces between paragraphs will
   be of 1.5 points.

5- Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and
   sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size.

6- Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size
   letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:

Prof- Dr- Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary of the Organizing Committee
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Telephone: 53-22-646390
E-mail: simposio at cla.ciges.inf.cu

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers and Delegates
200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Companions
100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos)

Payment of the fee must be sent via bank transfer to the bank account to
be announce opportunely and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where
your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event,
speaker’s certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities-
Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the
Proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star
hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Papers submission deadline: August 1st, 2014

- Notification on paper’s approval by Scientific Committee: by August
  31, 2014

- Delivery of papers by e-mail: September 15, 2014 (in case of the
  observations done by the Scientific Committee)

- Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2015

- 14th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20
  through 23, 2015

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 km from Havana, is Cuba's second
largest city- Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban
history is unquestionable.  Santiago is also the capital of the province
with the same name.  Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra
Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography
and beautiful landscape- Its surroundings make the city one of the most
important tourist attractions on the entire island- The Organizing
Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer
visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the
city's beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Pedro Beaton Soler
Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the
Environment
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez
Executive Secretary
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez
Emeritus Academic
Academy of Science of Cuba
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares
Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics
President of the Organizing Committee
14th International Symposium on Social Communication
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Celia Maria Perez Marques
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Alex Munnoz Alvarado
Investigador
Centro de Linguistica Aplicada
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez
Researcher
Centre for Applied Linguistics
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba

Anton Nijholt
Professor and Researcher
Twente University
Enschede, The Netherlands

Innaki Alegría Loinaz
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Artola Zubillaga
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

Xabier Arregi Iparragirre
Professor and Researcher
Basque Country University
Spain

L- Alfonso Urenna Lopez
President of the NLP Spanish Association (SEPLN)
Jaen University
Jaen, Spain

Dieter Fensel
Director and Researcher
Semantic Technology Institute (STI)
Innsbruck, Austria

Martha Cordies Jackson
Director and Researcher
African Cultural Centre "Fernando Ortiz"
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Lucia Marconi
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

Paola Cutugno
Researcher
Institute for Computational Linguistics
Pisa, Italy

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FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms- ___________________________

University: ________________________

Address: __________________________________

City: ______________

Phone: _______________

E-Mail:____________________

Paper title: __________________________

Date: ________________

Signature: ___________

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