TALN 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

TALN'08 15eme conférence sur le      Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse Avignon du 9 au 13 Juin 2008 http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/jep-taln08/

IMPORTANT DATES ---  Submission deadline:         February 11th, 2008 Notification to authors:    March 28th, 2008 Conference:                 June 9-13, 2008

PRESENTATION

Organized by the LIA (Computer Lab of the University of Avignon), JEP-TALN-RECITAL'08 groups together the 27th edition of the Spoken Language Conference JEP'08, the 15th edition of the Natural Language Processing conference TALN'08 and the 10th edition of the Student NLP conference RECITAL'08.

For the third time, after Nancy in 2002 and Fes in 2004, the French speech association AFCP and the French NLP association ATALA are jointly organising their main conference in order to group together the two research community working in the fields of Speech and Natural Language Processing.

The conference will include oral and poster communications, invited conferences, workshops and tutorials. Workshop and tutorials will be held on June 13, 2008.

The official languages are French and English.

TOPICS -- Papers are requested in all areas of NLP, including (but not restricted to) :

o Lexicon : databases containing morphological, syntactic, semantic, and/or phonological information o Analysis, generation and lexicons in the following domains : - Phonetics and phonology - Morphology - Syntax - Semantics o NLP applications - Text analysis - Text summarization - Text generation - Natural language interfaces - Machine translation - Information retrieval - CALL o Logical, symbolic and statistical approaches

All selected papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition, the scientific committee will select two papers, which will be recommended for publication in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L.).

SELECTION - Authors are invited to submit original research work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria :

- importance and originality of the paper - scientific and technical soundness - comparison of the results obtained with those found in relevant works - clarity of the presentation - relevance to the conference topics

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors or English for non-French-speaking authors.

Papers should not exceed 10 pages, in Times 12, single-spaced (approx. 3,000 words), including figures, examples and references.

A LaTeX style file and a Word template are available on the conference website. The page format is A4. An interactive form for the subsmission of articles is provided on the conference website. Papers should be uploaded in PDF format.

Instructions for the conversion of Word documents into PDF format are available on the conference website.

Practical information can be found on the conference website.

Contact : taln08@atala.org

PROGRAM COMITEE --- Jean-Yves Antoine         LI, Universite de Tours Frederic Bechet           LIA, Universite d'Avignon Lamia Belguith            Universit de Sfax, Tunisie Patrice Bellot            LIA, Universite d'Avignon Philippe Blache           CNRS & Université de Provence Beatrice Daille           LINA, Universite de Nantes Géraldine Damnati         France Télécom R&D (Orange Labs) Laurence Danlos           Université Paris 7, Lattice Eric de La Clergerie      INRIA, Atoll Claude de Loupy           Syllabs Marc El-Bèze              LIA, Universite d'Avignon Cédrick Fairon            Université Catholique de Louvain Nuria Gala                DELIC Universit Aix Marseille 3 Claire Gardent            CNRS, Nancy LORIA Eric Gaussier             LIG, Universit Joseph Fourier Nabil Hathout             CNRS, Université Toulouse Le Mirail (CLLE) Sylvain Kahane            Modyco, Université Paris 10 Mathieu Lafourcade        LIRMM, Montpellier Philippe Langlais         Université de Montral (RALI), Canada Dominique Laurent         Synapse Développement Piet Mertens              Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique Philippe Muller           Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT Adeline Nazarenko         LIPN, Université Paris Nord Alexis Nasr               LIF, Université de la Mediterranée Patrick Paroubek          LIMSI-CNRS, Paris Giuseppe Riccardi         Université de Trento, Italie Owen Rambow               Université de Columbia (CCLS), USA Pascale Sebillot          Université de Rennes 1 (IRISA) Eric Werhli               Université de Geneve, Suisse François Yvon             LIMSI-CNRS, Paris Imed Zitouni              IBM Watson Research Center, USA Pierre Zweigenbaum        LIMSI-CNRS, Paris

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Frédéric BECHET (Co-President) - Patrice BELLOT - Jean-Francois BONASTRE (Co-President) - Tania JIMENEZ

LOCAL ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Stanislas Oger     Frederic Duvert Fabrice Lefevre    Laurianne Sitbon Corinne Fredouille Christophe Levy Eric Charton       Pascal Nocera Georges Linares    Loic Barrault Marie-jean Meurs   Nathalie Camelin This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP