First Call for Papers  (!!! DATES UPDATED !!!)
SEPLN 2007

XXIII CONGRESO DE 
LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN)

(23th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing)

September 10-12, 2007
Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Informática (ETSII) de la 
Universidad de Sevilla.  
Sevilla (Spain)


Introduction

The 23th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing
(SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2007 in Sevilla (Spain). As in
previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is to promote the
dissemination of research, development and innovation activities conducted
by Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of Natural Language
Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a forum for discussion and
communication to facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge and
scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the publication of
relevant work and the establishment of means of collaboration with national
and international Institutions that are active in this field.

Objectives

The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and
scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest
research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing,
as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and
to know about new projects. Consequently, the 23th SEPLN Conference is a
meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the
present state of development in this field of knowledge.

Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in
previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and
foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market
needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in
helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

Topics

Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics:

    * Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language
    * Corpus linguistics
    * Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
    * Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis
    * Computational Lexicography
    * Monolingual and multilingual text generation
    * Machine translation
    * Speech synthesis and recognition
    * Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
    * Word sense disambiguation
    * NLP industrial applications
    * Automatic textual content analysis


Structure of the Conference

The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting
papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or
products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific
activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing
attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural
dimensions of Sevilla.

Communications

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to
be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than May 4, 2007.
Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements

Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in
electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the
complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail.

Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final
version, please check the "publication format" section):

    * The proposals will be presented in Spanish or English.
    * Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words).
    * Related topic.
    * Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract).
    * The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate
files will be submitted, one will only include the title and author
details, the other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal.
    * Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the
style requirements that are described in the publication format section.

Authors will submit their proposals through an EasyChair web system whose 
link is http://www.easychair.org/SEPLN2007/.  


Projects and Demos

As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral
presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of
oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose. Proposals
must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations.

For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information
must be included:
    * Project title
    * Funding institution
    * Participant groups in the project
    * Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the project director
    * Abstract (2 pages maximum)
    * If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be
included, as indicated below

For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:
    * Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors
    * Abstract (2 pages maximum)
    * Time estimation for the whole presentation

This information must be received by June 1, 2007 using an EasyChair web 
system whose link is http://www.easychair.org/SEPLN2007/.  



Publication Format

The final version of the article will be sent before June 22, 2007 through
the same web system.
    * Documents must not include headers or footings.
    * Maximum length will be 8 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included
references and figures.
    * In the case of demonstrations and projects, maximum length will be 2
pages.

Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format.


LaTeX format

Authors using LaTeX format will download from the Conference website (URL
to be communicated in the Second Call for Papers) the following style
package zip file: latex_new.zip which will contain document and
bibliography styles, as well as an example showing existing editing
possibilities.


Word format

Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible will download from the
Conference website the following zip file: word_new.zip which will include
a pattern file in RTF format and an example showing existing editing
possibilities.


Important Dates

Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance:

- Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 4, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: Jun 6, 2007
- Deadline for submitting the final version: June 22, 2007
- Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 1, 2007


Program Committee

Chairman:

* Prof. Víctor J. Díaz Madrigal (Universidad de Sevilla) [vjdiaz@us.es]

Members

* Prof. Ferrán Pla (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia) 
* Profª. Raquel Martínez (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
* Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla)
* Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
* Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
* Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universitat de Barcelona)
* Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
* Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez (Universitat d'Alacant)
* Prof. Mikel Forcada Zubizarreta (Universitat d'Alacant)
* Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
* Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo)
* Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
* Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Prof. Ramón López-Cózar Delgado (Universidad de Granada)
* Prof. Javier Macías Guarasa (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
* Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universitat de Barcelona)
* Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia)
* Prof. Lluis Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
* Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universitat d'Alacant)
* Prof. Ricardo de Córdoba (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Prof. Juan Manuel Montero(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
* Prof. Germán Rigau (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
* Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
* Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea)
* Prof. Emilio Sanchís (Universitat Politécnica de Valencia)
* Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén)
* Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)
* Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidade de Vigo)


More information is available at the official website of the Conference.
http://www.lsi.us.es/~sepln2007

E-mail: sepln2007@lsi.us.es