MULTILINGUALISM AND NLP
SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE TAL JOURNAL
Deadline for submission: 26 February 2010
GUEST EDITORS:
Emmanuel Morin (LINA, Université de Nantes, France) and Holger Schwenk
(LIUM, Université du Maine, France)
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS:
It has now been ten years since the last issue of the TAL journal on the
subject of multilingualism and this topic has become a reality that
cannot be ignored, in particular on the Internet. While the English
language largely dominated a decade ago, the representation of Chinese,
Hindi or Spanish is tending to reveal the real importance of these
languages. Today, the Internet better reflects the diversity of national
and regional languages. Logically, the computer applications that are
developed – either in machine translation, in cross-language information
retrieval, in computer-assisted writing or language learning... – must
illustrate this reality by taking account of more and more diverse
languages, sometimes with great linguistic differences between them.
This special issue of the TAL journal (http://www.atala.org/-Revue-TAL)
aims at giving an overall picture of NLP research on multilingualism.
The following topics (this is a non-exhaustive list) will be considered:
- Mining and alignment from multilingual corpora ;
- Extraction of parallel segments from comparable corpora;
- Extraction of multilingual lexicon from multilingual corpora.
- Building and using multilingual resources;
- Using monolingual resources in multilingual systems;
- Generalization of the approaches in analysis or in machine translation;
- Building and using language typologies.
Fields of application could include:
- Automatic or semi-automatic translation methods;
- Cross-language information retrieval;
- Multilingual analysis and generation;
- Multilingual document categorization;
- Computer-assisted writing or language learning.
In addition to the suggested topics, the papers that reflect on the
generalization of practices acquired for a given pair of languages (such
as English and French) when transposing methods to unrelated languages
will be appreciated.
GUEST EDITORS:
Emmanuel Morin, LINA, Université de Nantes, France
Holger Schwenk, LIUM, Université du Maine, France
PRACTICAL ISSUES:
Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking
authors are requested to submit in French. Contributions (25 pages
maximum, PDF format) must be sent by e-mail to both editors at the
addresses below: [email protected] and
[email protected]. Style sheets are available on the
journal website: http://atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- 19 February 2010: Statement of intent to submit (detailed summary, 1 page)
- 26 February 2010: Submission deadline
- 07 May 2010: First decision of the editorial board
- 07 June 2010: Revised version of the accepted papers
- 12 July 2010: Final decision of the editorial board
- 01 September 2010: Final version of the accepted papers
- end of 2010: Publication
SPECIFIC EDITORIAL BOARD:
- Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Laurent Besacier, LIG, Université de Grenoble 1, France
- Romaric Besançon, CEA, France
- Hervé Blanchon, LIG, Université de Grenoble 1, France
- Nicola Cancedda, XRCE, France
- Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
- Pierre Isabelle, NRC-CNRC, Canada
- Eric Gaussier, LIG, Université de Grenoble 1, France
- Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
- Tony Hartley, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Kyo Kageura, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Olivier Kraif, LIDILEM, Université de Grenoble, France
- Marie-Claude L'Homme, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Aurélien Max, LIMSI, Université de Paris 11, France
- Bruno Pouliquen, WIPO, NU
- Violaine Prince, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, France
- Aarne Ranta, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Jean Senellart, Systran, France
- Michel Simard, NRC-CNRC, Canada
- Monique Slodzian, INALCO, France
- Kamel Smaïli, LORIA, Université de Nancy, France
- Eric Wehrli, LATL, Université de Genève, Switzerland
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