12th Conference on Natural Language Processing - TALN 2005 The official language is French, but English papers are accepted from not-French-speaking people. TOPICS Papers are requested in all areas of NLP, including (but not restricted to) : - lexicon - morphology - syntax - semantics - pragmatics - discourse - parsing - generation - summarization - dialogue - machine translation - logical, symbolical and statistical approaches - NLP approaches for information retrieval - cognitive approaches for NLP - architecture for NLP - learning for NLP All selected papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition, the scientific committee will select two papers, which will be recommended to be published in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L.). SELECTION Authors are invited to submit original research work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : - importance and originality of the paper - soundness of the scientific and technical content - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant works - clarity of the exposition - relevance to the topics of the conference SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submitted papers must not exceed ten pages, in Times 12, single spaced (about 3000 words), including figures, examples and references. Papers have to be written in French for French-speaking people, in English for not-French-speaking people. A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be shortly available on the web site of the conference: http://www.limsi.fr/taln05. Submissions must be electronic. One of the next formats MUST be used: PS, PDF, RTF (Word). The authors have to send their paper attached in an e-mail to taln05@limsi.fr whose title is "TALN soumission" and whose content is the title of the paper, the name, affiliation, adress, e-mail, phone number and fax number of the main author. The submission must be anonymous, without any author name. In case of impossibility, we accept to receive a printed version of the submission. In this case, three hard-copies of the paper must be sent to: Michele Jardino - TALN 2005 Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex France Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex tel. 01 69 85 80 03, fax 01 69 85 80 88 et Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise (IIE) 18 allee Jean Rostand, 91025 Evry Cedex tel. 01 69 36 73 44, fax 01 69 36 73 09 mail : grau@iie.cnam.fr