============================================================================ JADT 2000 WEB SITE : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000/gb ============================================================================ J A D T 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 9-11, 2000 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lausanne, Switzerland --------------------------------------------------------------------- Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), and Nice (1998), the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Lausanne, on March 9-11, 2000. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence, is open to all scholars working in the vast field of textual data analysis; ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Switzerland will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: September 10th, 1999 Notification: October 15th, 1999 Camera ready papers: December 10th, 1999 Conference: March 9-11, 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------- THEMES OF INTEREST The themes of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: * Exploratory Textual Data Analysis * Discourse Analysis * Computational Linguistics * Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions * Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis * Stylometry * Frequency Dictionaries * Lemmatization * Text Corpora and Text Encoding * Textual Classification * Information Retrieval * Hypertext * Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis --------------------------------------------------------------------- LANGUAGES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage the authors to include in their papers proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference. Participants wishing to submit a paper or present a poster should send to the program committee (address below) a short version for review by September 10th, 1999, giving the following information: * Name of author; * Affiliation; * Full postal address with fax and/or e-mail * Title of the proposed paper with keywords; * An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) * A short version (3 pages min./4 pages max.) of the paper emphasizing the purpose of the paper, the problem addressed and the results obtained; * Bibliographical references. Notification of acceptance will be send to the authors by October 15, 1999. Final camera-ready papers should conform to the format that will be provided to the authors and reach the committee (address below) no later than December 10, 1999. --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Monica Becue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya Sergio Bolasco Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza' Etienne Brunet Univ. de Nice Sophia Antipolis Annibale Elia Univ. de Salerno Dominique Labbe Univ. de Grenoble Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8 Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice Charles Muller Univ. de Strasbourg Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse Jacques Rouault CRISS Grenoble Andre Salem Univ. Paris 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT / ADDRESS JADT 2000 Martin Rajman EPFL DI-LIA IN (Ecublens) CH-1015 Lausanne Suisse Tel : +41 21 693 27 35 Fax : +41 21 693 52 25 Email: jadt2000@lia.di.epfl.ch Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000 ============================================================================ FURTHER DETAILS ON THE CONFERENCE WEB PAGE http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000/gb