********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS-2007) 12-13 June 2007 Funchal-Madeira, Portugal http://www.iceis.org/workshops_list.htm#NLPCS ********************************************************************** The workshop is co-located with the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) http://www.iceis.org organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) in collaboration with the University of Madeira ______________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Full Paper Submission: February 19, 2007 Author Notification: March 23, 2007 Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: April 9, 2007 Workshop dates: June 12-13, 2007 ______________________________________________________________________ MAIN TOPIC AREAS Papers may address one or more of the listed topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the general workshop concept. - Computational Models of NLP - Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP - Evolutionary NLP - Situated (embodied) NLP - Multimodality in speech / text processing - Text Summarization and Information Extraction - Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems - Multi-Lingual Processing - Pragmatics and NLP - Speech Processing - Tools and Resources in NLP - Ontologies - Text Mining - Electronic Dictionaries - Evaluation of NLP Systems ______________________________________________________________________ SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for oral presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only full papers in English will be accepted, and the length of the paper should not exceed 10 pages (5000 words). Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex format) are available at the ICEIS web site. Postscript/RTF versions of the manuscript should be submitted thru ICEIS web-based paper submission procedure (http://www.iceis.org/paper_submission.htm). E-mail for paper submission questions, proceedings and registrations: workshops@iceis.org ______________________________________________________________________ FORMAT The workshop will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations of previously submitted papers that went through a double peer review process. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in the form of a book ______________________________________________________________________ PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings with ISBN, in book and CD-ROM. ______________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Aretoulaki, M. (Germany), Intervoice Ltd., UK Barnden, J. (UK), Birmingham University Calvo, H. (Mexico), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Cristea, D. (Romania), University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania Day, C. (UK) , Keele University, UK Endres-Niggemeyer, B. (Germany), Fachochschule Hanover, Germany Gelbukh, A. (Korea), Chung-Ang University Helmreich, S.(USA), New Mexico State University, USA Higgins, C. A. (UK), Nottingham University Hinrichs, E. W. (Germany), University of Tuebingen Mladenic, D. (Slovenia), J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia Molla, D. (Australia), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Mota, C. (Portugal), Centro de Automática da UTL, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal Mothe, J. (France), Université de Toulouse, France Narayanan, S. (USA), University of California, Berkeley Nunes, M. G. (Brasil), Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e da Computação - USP/São Carlos, Brasil Rayson, P. (UK), Lancaster University, UK Ren, F. (Japan), University of Tokushima, Japan Roche, C. (France), Université de Savoie Schwitter, R. (Australia), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Sedes, F. (France), Université de Toulouse, France Sharp, B. (Bahrain, UK), Royal University for Women, Staffordshire University Sheremetyeva, S. (Denmark), LanA Consulting ApS Soule-Dupuy, C. (France), Université de Toulouse, France Thompson, G. (UK), Liverpool University Tufis, D. (Romania), University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania Wilks, Y. (UK), Sheffield University Windridge, P. (UK), Staffordshire University Zock, M. (France), LIF, Marseille