CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
              Slovenian Language Technologies Society
                    Information Society - IS 2006

              Fifth Slovenian and First International
                   LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE
                             IS-LTC 2006

                         October 9 - 10, 2006
                         Ljubljana, Slovenia
                      http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc06/

The Slovenian Language Technologies Society invites contributions to
its
biennial conference to be held in the scope of the Information Society
-
IS 2006, taking place October 9 - 13, 2006 at the JoE>ef Stefan
Institute
in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

This event is the fifth in the series of Slovenian Language
Technologies
Conferences, now for the first time organised as an international
conference, with an international programme committee.

The official languages of the conference are English and Slovene. The
conference will be organised in two tracks, one for contributions in
English, and the other for those in Slovenian. The accepted papers
will
be published in printed proceedings, as well as on-line, on the
conference
Web site http://nl.ijs.si/is-ltc06/.

Conference Topics
=================
We invite papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas
of
traditional interest to the HLT community, as well as related fields,
including but not limited to:
   * development, standardisation and use of language resources
   * speech technologies
   * machine translation and other multi- and cross-lingual processing
   * semantic web and knowledge representation related HLT
   * statistical and machine learning of language models
   * information retrieval and extraction, question answering
   * HLT applications
   * presentations of HLT related projects

Invited speakers
================
  Nick Campbell
   Chief Researcher, Media Information Science Laboratories
   ATR, Japan
   Title of talk: TBA

  Steven Krauwer
   Coordinator of ELSNET (European Network of Excellence in Human
   Language Technologies)
   Utrecht University, Netherlands
   Title of talk: Strengthening the smaller languages in Europe

Guidelines for Submissions
==========================
Submitted papers should present original research relevant to the
field
of human language technologies. Overview papers on HLT research and
applications are also welcome.

The contributions should be written in English or Slovene. They should
be 4 or 6 pages long and formatted according to the conference style
guidelines, which are available from the conference Web site.

The papers will be published in printed proceedings, as well as
on-line,
on the conference Web site. Some papers will be chosen for
re-submission
to the journal Informatica.

Important Dates
===============
   June 25th      paper submission deadline
   August 20th    notification to authors
   September 15th camera ready submission
   October 9 - 10 conference

Programme Committee
===================
   * Jan CernockC=, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno Technical
     University (Czech Republic)
   * Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech
     Communication, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (Germany)
   * TomaE> Erjavec (chair), Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, JoE>ef
     Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
   * Sadaoki Furui, Graduate School of Information Science and
     Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
   * Carmen Garcia-Mateo, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo University
   (Spain)
   * Vojko Gorjanc, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
   (Slovenia)
   * Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College (USA)
   * Bojan Imperl, Iskratel Ltd (Slovenia)
   * Ivo IpsiDf Tokyo (Japan)
   * Cvetana Krstev, Arts Faculty, University of Belgrade (Serbia and
     Montenegro)
   * Siegfried Kunzmann, EMEA voice technology Development, IBM
     (Germany)
   * Gianni Lazzari, Interactive Sensory Systems Division, ITC-irst
     (Italy)
   * Jean-Pierre Martens, Department of Electronics and Information
     Systems, University of Gent (Belgium)
   * Dunja MladeniD!iD
, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana
     (Slovenia)
   * Marko TadiD