[Apologies for multiple postings] *********** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: STIL 2011: 8th Brazilian Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology ***********
http://www.ufmt.br/stil2011/ October 24-26, 2011 Cuiabá, Brazil Submission Deadline: June 15, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWS Invited speakers - Dr. Edward Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California) - Dr. Christian Nunes Aranha (Cortex Intelligence) Tutorials - Extração de informações semânticas a partir da Wikipédia (in Portuguese) by MSc. Clarissa Castelã Xavier (PhD Student at PUCRS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ STIL 2011 is a Language Technology event organized by the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing of the Brazilian Computer Society (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/) and supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) (http://www.sbc.org.br/). The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psycholinguistics, Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industrial participants working on those areas. STIL-2011 welcomes research work in human language technology in general (and not only Portuguese) in various fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing Applications - Natural Language Resources & Tools - User Studies and Evaluation Methods - Corpus Linguistics - Phonology/Morphology, Tagging and Chunking, Word Segmentation - Terminology, Lexicology and Lexicography - Lexical Semantics - Grammar Formalisms, Syntax and Parsing - Semantics, Semantic Representations and Semantic Parsing - Discourse, Dialogue and Pragmatics - Information Extraction & Retrieval - Question Answering - Human and Machine Translation, Multilinguality - Summarization and Generation - Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining - Text Classification - Text/Web Mining - Spoken Language Processing - Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Language Processing - Semantic web - Ontologies - NLP for Web 2.0 - Natural language interfaces - Computer-aided writing tools - Psycholinguistics - Information filtering and retrieval - Digital libraries - Document and knowledge management - Knowledge representation and modelling **** Important Dates * Submission Deadline: June 15, 2011 * Notification: August 20, 2011 * Camera Ready Deadline: September 04, 2011 * Conference: October 24-26, 2011 **** Submission Information Papers can be written in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Submissions will be accepted only through the JEMS SBC system (https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=1406). **** Length We accept submissions of long and short papers. Long papers should describe complete work with significant results. Short papers can report work in progress, negative results, position papers, application papers. Long papers may have up to eight (8) pages of content (including tables and pictures), with two (2) additional pages of references, and will be presented orally. Short papers should have up to four (4) pages of content, and one (1) additional page of references, and will be presented as posters. Authors should also indicate whether they accept their long paper to be reallocated as a short paper should the reviewers recommend so. **** Format Paper formatting must follow the SBC guidelines available at this address: http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?option=com_jdownloads&Itemid=195&task=finish&cid=38&catid=32 The reviewing will be double blind and therefore papers should not display any information regarding their authorship in the header or body of the text. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "As we previously showed (Silva, 2005)...", must be avoided. Instead, authors such use "Silva previously showed (Silva, 2005) ...". All accepted papers (long and short) will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the following: - the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/13173) and - a specialized journal of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (TBA) _______________________________________________ Mt-list mailing list