The 7th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2015), November 27-29, 2015, Poznań, Poland
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 7th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2015), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 27-29, 2015.
Yes, we started 20 years ago! Our tradition goes back to the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII). Among the key speakers were Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufiş (Romania), Orest Kossak (Ukraina). Now we refer to this event as the first LTC. Ten years later, we decided to meet again, and since then the conference is being organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a
Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”.
Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important challenge in the dynamically changing, information-saturated world that motivates us to invite you joining us at the LTC 2015. The meeting will take place in Poznań, in November 2015.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The conference topics include the following (the ordering is not significant):
* communicative intelligence
* computational semantics
* computer modeling of language competence
* corpora-based methods in language engineering
* electronic language resources and tools
* formalization of natural languages
* HLT related policies
* HLT standards and best practices
* HLTs as support for e-learning
* HLTs as support for foreign language teaching
* HLTs as support in solving Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects)
* knowledge representation
* language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English)
* legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges)
* Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing
* man-machine NL interfaces
* methodological issues in HLT
* NL applications in robotics
* NL understanding by computers
* NL user modeling
* NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention
* parsing and other forms of NL processing
* question answering
* sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis
* speech processing
* system prototype presentations
* technological aspects of nonverbal linguistics
* text-based information retrieval and extraction
* tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems
* translation enhancement tools
* validation in all areas of HLTs
* visionary papers in the field of HLT
* WordNet-like ontologies
This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us with new suggestions and ideas. Please help us to understand how to best satisfy your expectations concerning the program. We are open to suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by email (vetulani@amu.edu.pl <mailto:vetulani@amu.edu.pl>).
LANGUAGE: The conference language is English
CONTACT: ltc15@amu.edu.pl or vetulani@amu.edu.pl
PAPER SUBMISSION
Details (including deadlines) will be announced soon at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.
PUBLICATION POLICY
Acceptance will be based on the reviewers’ assessments (anonymous submission model). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) in the due time (dates will be presented soon at the conference site).
A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers is planned to be published. As this was the case for the last three conferences, we intend to publish them in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES
Soon at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.
REGISTRATION
Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.
AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPERS
As at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) special awards will be granted to the best student papers. The regular or PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are concerned. More details will be given at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl.
OTHER
Much more important information is or will be provided at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. Please check this site from time to time and do not hesitate to ask questions through ltc15@amu.edu.pl.
Zygmunt Vetulani and Joseph Mariani
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