TALN'99 Cargese (Corsica, France) 12 - 17 July 1999 LAST CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION ********************************************************************** * * * EXTENDED DEADLINE : FEBRUARY, 21 1999 * * * ********************************************************************** The Sixth Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN'99) will be held at the Institute for Scientific Studies at Cargese, Corsica, France, 12. - 17. July, 1999. TALN'99 will last a whole week, and will include both workshops and tutorials. TALN'99 is organized under the auspices of ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, Association for NLP) and will take place jointly with the RECITAL'99 conference (call for papers to be issued separately). The official languages of the conference are French and English. Papers are invited for thirty minute talks, question period included, in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) : lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing text generation abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation logical,symbolical and statistical approaches TALN'99 also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as those submissions emphasize their NLP dimension. cognitive aspects terminology, knowledge acquisition information extraction documentary retrieval corpus linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning mathematical linguistics NLP tools for linguistic modelization Also, TALN'99 invites submissions focusing on NLP applications which have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Demos can also be proposed, in addition to a standard paper. A scheduled session for these demos is planned as part of the conference. Moreover, the programme committee will select two papers among the papers accepted. An extended version of these two papers will be published in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L.). CALENDAR extended submission deadline : February, 21 1999 notification to authors : April, 12 1999 final version due : May, 10 1999 conference: July, 12-17 1999 SELECTION Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research work.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 work - clarity of the exposition - relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the author's name, nor any self-reference. Their maximum length is ten pages, in Times 12, single spaced (approx. 3000 words), including figures, examples and references. A LaTeX style file and a Word template are or will be shortly available on the web site of the conference (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/). Three hard-copies of the paper must be received by February, 21 1999. Authors are also encouraged to send an electronic version of their paper. AUTHORS ARE ASKED TO SPECIFY ONE OR SEVERAL THEMES, TO BE CHOSEN AMONG THE THEMES CITED ABOVE, AND A LIST OF KEY WORDS. email address : taln99@linguist.jussieu.fr postal address : TALaNa - UFRL - Universite de Paris 7 case 7003 - 2, pl. Jussieu 75251 Paris Cedex 05 - France Guidelines for electronic submission : Electronic submissions MUST be accompanied by a standard, mail submission. Authors should send their submission (neither compressed nor encoded) via email as an attached file to taln99@linguist.jussieu.fr, specifying "TALN submission" as the subject. A separate identification page (with the following information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal address, email address, fax and telephone number) should also be attached. Papers MUST be sent in one of the following formats : - self-contained LaTeX source (including non standard or non TALN'99 styles) AND PostScript version. OR - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript version. IMPORTANT : All the PostScript versions must be in A4 format, and not US Letter. PRACTICAL INFORMATION Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference web site (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/) and in a further call. Please note that members of the ATALA association will benefit from reduced registration fees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMITE DE PROGRAMME / PROGRAMME COMMITTEE : Pascal Amsili, TALaNa (Paris) (president/chairman) Anne Abeille, TALaNa (Paris) Nicholas Asher, University of Texas (Austin) Philippe Blache, LPL (Aix-en-Provence, France) Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA (Grenoble) Andree Borillo, ERSS (Toulouse) Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO (Geneve) Myriam Bras, IRIT (Toulouse) Jo Calder, CCS & HCRC (University of Edinburgh) Beatrice Daille, IRIN (Nantes) Laurence Danlos, TALaNa (Paris) Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne Claire Gardent, Universitat des Saarlandes (Saarbruecken) Damien Genthial, CLIPS-TRILAN (Grenoble) Benoit Habert, ENS Fontenay (Fontenay-aux-Roses, France) Pierre Isabelle, DIRO (Montreal) Christian Jacquemin, IUT de Nantes Daniel Kayser, LIPN (Paris) Geert-Jan Kruijff, Univerzita Karlova (Praha) Eric Laporte, CERIL, Universite de Marne-la-Vallie Piet Mertens, CCL K.U. Leuven Detmar Meurers, Universitat Tuebingen Georges Moracchini, Universite de Corse, Corte Fiammetta Namer, Universite de Nancy II (France) Cecile Paris, CSIRO (Sidney) Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI (Paris) Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA (Nancy, France) Alain Polguere, Universite de Montreal Owen Rambow, Cogentex (Ithaca, NY) Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Gerard Sabah, LIMSI (Paris) Louisa Sadler, University Essex (Colchester, UK) Max Silberztein, GRELIS (Besancon) Evelyne Tzoukermann, Bell-Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) Jacques Vergne, GREYC (Caen, France) Jean Veronis, LPL (Aix-en-Provence) Bernard Victorri, ELSAP (Caen, France) Eric Wehrli, LATL (Geneve) Annie Zaenen, XRCE (Grenoble) Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM (Paris) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMITE D'ORGANISATION/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Anne Abeille Pascal Amsili (President/President) Marie-Helene Candito Patrick Caudal Lionel Clement Laurence Danlos Veronika Gendner Kim Gerdes Sylvain Kahane Alexandra Kinyon Manuela Leahu Laurent Roussarie et les autres membres de l'equipe TALaNa and the other members of the TALaNa team ********************************************************************** * TALN'99 * * mailto:taln99@linguist.jussieu.fr * * http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99 * * TALaNa - UFRL - Universite Paris 7 * * case 7003 - 2, place Jussieu Til. : (33) 1 44 27 53 70 * * 75251 Paris Cedex 05 - France Fax : (33) 1 44 27 79 19 * **********************************************************************