FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth International Conference
HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES — THE BALTIC PERSPECTIVE RIGA, Latvia, October 7–8,
2010
AIMS AND SCOPE
The main aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the sharing of new
ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote
cooperation between the research communities of computer science and
linguistics from the Baltic countries and the rest of the world.
The conference aims to bring together scientists, developers, providers and
users to discuss state-of-the-art of HLT in the Baltic countries, to exchange
information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and to promote
initiatives for international cooperation.
Central themes of the conference are:
- Language resources and technology for the Humanities
- Building and using corpora for Machine Translation
The conference is the successor of the three previous Baltic HLT conferences
held in Riga (2004), Tallinn (2005) and Kaunas (2007).
CONFERENCE TOPICS
HLT in the Baltic countries — overview, policy, cooperation, opportunities:
- HLT in the Baltic countries — overview, policy, opportunities
- Research infrastructures for humanities
- Cooperation in HLT in the Baltic Sea area and in the EU
Human language technologies and language resources
Original contributions dealing with both theory and applications of human
language processing are invited. The wide range of topics to be addressed in
the conference includes, but is not limited to:
* Methods and tools for language processing
* Machine translation and translation aids
* Corpora and linguistic resources
* Speech synthesis, processing and recognition
* Speech corpora and their annotation
* Information extraction and retrieval
* Lexicons, terminology and ontologies
* Standards and copyrights for written and spoken language resources
* Discourse and dialogue
* Language technology for education and learning
* New applications of HLT
IMPORTANT DATES
April 9, 2010 Abstracts due (500 1000 words) May 1, 2010 Notification of
acceptance June 30, 2010 Camera-ready copy due (about 4000 words) October 7–8,
2010 — Baltic HLT Conference
SUBMISSIONS
The conference will consist primarily of paper presentations, posters and
demonstrations sessions. Abstracts of papers of about 500 1000 words should be
submitted as a PDF file via the EasyChair conference tool:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4thbaltichltconference. Papers will
be blind reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Therefore,
authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the abstract. Accepted
papers selected by an international programme committee will be published in
the official conference proceedings.
LANGUAGE
The conference language for presentations and publications is English.
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Please contact conference organizers for sponsorship opportunities.
CONFERENCE ORGANISERS
• Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia
• Tilde company
• CLARIN project (FP7)
• ACCURAT project (FP7)
• LetsMT! project (CIP ICT-PSP)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nick Campbell, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland Rolf Carlson, KTH
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Robert Gaizauskas, University of
Sheffield, UK Steven Krauwer, CLARIN project, The Netherlands Bente Maegaard,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark Rūta Marcinkevičienė, Vytautas Magnus
University, Lithuania Einar Meister, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia Joakim
Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden Tiit Roosma, University of Tartu, Estonia
Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia / Tilde Jurģis Šķilters, National Library of Latvia / University of
Latvia Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway Andrejs Spektors,
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia Gregor
Thurmair, Linguatec, Germany Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala University, Sweden Andrejs
Vasiļjevs, Tilde, Latvia Jolanta Zabarskaitė, Institute of the Lithuanian
Language, Lithuania
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Gunta Nešpore, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of
Latvia Ināra Opmane, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University
of Latvia Baiba Saulīte, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science,
University of Latvia Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer
Science, University of Latvia / Tilde Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb Andrejs
Vasiļjevs, Tilde
CONTACT INFORMATION
For up-to-date information about the workshop and contact details see:
www.lumii.lv/hlt2010
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
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