====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPLN 2000 XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 26-28 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo with the support of Caixavigo e Ourense Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Xunta de Galicia http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ Following the XV SEPLN Conference that took place in Lleida in September 1999, the XVI SEPLN Conference shall be held in Vigo in September 2000. The event shall take place after TAPD 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/) which is a conference centered upon applications of tabulation technologies for syntactic analysis and deduction. MOTIVATIONS: The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be treated. Moreover, an important objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions for future basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the actual needs of the society. PROJECTS AND DEMOS: The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose. 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 director of the project. - 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 4, 2000. CONFERENCE FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as project an demos presentations and group discussions. INVITED SPEAKERS: -- Daniel Tapias Merino Telefonica investigación y desarrollo (Spain) -- Christopher S. Butler Univ. of Wales Swansea -- Eric de la Clergerie INRIA SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit an abstract about a system to be presented, or a paper concerning a theoretical contribution. Submission and paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or PDF format). Submission should include a separate file with the title, authors, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. Papers, in a second file, should be anonymous, excluding autoreferences in the text. Accepted works must be presented at the congress and adhere to certain rules: - They must include an abstract (150 word maximum). - The proposed area of interest must be included. - Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included. - Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the conference web page (http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/). Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit@ei.uvigo.es SCHEDULE: - XVI SEPLN Conference: September 26-28 2000 - Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000 - Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2000 - Final versions due: June 30, 2000 - Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000 - Early registration: before July 14, 2000 - Late registration: after July 14, 2000 AREAS OF INTEREST AND COMMITTEE: 1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages Miguel A. Alonso Pardo Univ. of A Coruña Toni Badia Univ. Pompeu Fabra 2. Corpus linguistics José Mª García-Miguel Gallego Univ. of Vigo Guillermo Rojo Sanchez Univ. of Santiago de Compostela 3. Information extraction and retrieval Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez Univ. Europea de Madrid María Felisa Verdejo Maillo UNED 4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis Manuel Palomar Sanz Univ. of Alicante Manuel Vilares Ferro Univ. of Vigo 5. Computational lexicography Margarita Alonso Ramos Univ. of A Coruña Xabier Artola Univ. of País Vasco Jorge Graña Gil Univ. of A Coruña 6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation Lydia Moreno Boronat Univ. Politécnica de Valencia 7. Machine translation Ines Diz Univ. of Vigo Javier Gómez Guinovart Univ. of Vigo 8. Speech synthesis and recognition Carmen García Mateo Univ. of Vigo Joaquim Llisterri Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona 9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse Joseba Abaitua Univ. of Deusto M. Antonia Martí Antonín Univ. of Barcelona ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Manuel Vilares Ferro Univ. of Vigo Members: David Cabrero Souto Univ. of Vigo Víctor Darriba Bilbao Univ. of A Coruña Javier Gómez Guinovart Univ. of Vigo Manuel J. Maña Univ. of Vigo David N. Olivieri Univ. of Vigo Javier Pérez Guerra Univ. of Vigo Francisco José Ribadas Pena Univ. of A Coruña Leandro Rodríguez Liñares Univ. of Vigo LOCATION: Auditorio del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense C/Marqués de Valladares Vigo FURTER INFORMATION: Further information will be available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/. For any information related to the organization, please contact: Secretaría SEPLN'2000 Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática Campus As Lagoas, s/n 32004 Ourense España E-mail: sepln-secret@ei.uvigo.es Fax: +34 988-387001