31st. CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
SEPLN 2015
Location: 
University of Alicante
Wednesday, 16 September 2015 to Friday, 18 September 2015
Country: 
Spain
City: 
Alicante
Contact: 
Patricio Martínez-Barco
Borja Navarro-Colorado
Sonia Vázquez
Submission Deadline: 
Sunday, 15 March 2015

The 31st. edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in the University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain) on 16-18 September 2015.
The huge amount of information available in digital format and in different languages calls for systems to enable us to access this vast library in an increasingly more structured way.
In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving information accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual environments. Many of the formal foundations for dealing appropriately with these necessities have been, and are still being established in the area of Natural Language Processing and its many branches: Information extraction and retrieval, Questions answering systems, Machine translation, Automatic analysis of textual content, Text summarization, Text generation, and Speech recognition and synthesis.
The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and communication where the latest research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by scientific and business communities. The conference also aims at exposing new possibilities of real applications and R&D projects in this field.
Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of identifying future guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in helping new professionals to become active members in this field.
This year we will offer a Doctoral Symposium. It will provide doctoral students investigating topics in natural language processing with a unique opportunity to have interaction with other researchers and receive feedback regarding their proposed research.

TOPICS
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Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology topic including but not limited to the following:
Linguistic mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language,
Machine learning in NLP,
Computational lexicography and terminology,
Corpus linguistics,
Development of linguistic resources and tools,
Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis,
Semantics, pragmatics and discourse,
Lexical ambiguity resolution,
Monolingual and multilingual text generation,
Machine translation,
Speech synthesis and recognition,
Dialogue systems,
Audio indexing,
Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval,
Question answering systems,
Evaluation of NLP systems,
Automatic textual content analysis,
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining,
Plagiarism detection,
Negation and speculation processing,
Text mining in blogosphere and social networks,
Text summarization,
NLP in biomedical domain,
NLP-based generation of teaching resources,
NLP for languages with limited resources,
NLP industrial applications

CONTACT
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All information related to the conference can be found in the web:
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/sepln15/

STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
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The conference will last three days, and will consist of sessions devoted to presenting papers, posters, tutorials, ongoing research projects and prototype or product demonstrations connected with topics addressed in the conference.
Besides, we expect to organize associated workshops.

SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
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Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented proposals related to NLP. The proposals must include the following sections:
The title of the communication.
An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list of keywords.
The paper can be written in Spanish or English. Its overall maximum length will be 8 pages, including references.
The documents must not include headers or footers.
Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.
All contributions must be submitted electronically using the Myreview system available at:

http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln55/

The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and can be accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications, depending
on the program necessities. However, no distinction will be made between communications and posters in the printed version of the SEPLN journal.

* IMPORTANT NOTE ON CAMERA READY **
The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were
implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be taking in mind in order to accept or finally reject the seleted paper.
The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:
http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en

In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following requirements, depending on whether they pare papers, demos or projects.

PROJECTS AND DEMOS
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As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related to the NLP field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted, the following information must be included:
Project title.
Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of the project
director.
Funding institutions.
Groups participating in the project.
Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).
For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory:
Demo title.
Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).
Time estimation for the whole presentation.
SEE NOTE ON CAMERA READY ABOVE

PROGRAM COMMITEE
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Manuel de Buenaga. Universidad Europea de Madrid (España)
Sylviane Cardey-Greenfield. Centre de recherche en linguistique et traitement automatique des langues, Lucien Tesnière. Besançon (Francia).
Irene Castellón. Universidad de Barcelona (España)
Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza. Universidad del País Vasco (España)
Antonio Ferrández. Universidad de Alicante (España)
Alexander Gelbukh. Instituto Politécnico Nacional (México)
Koldo Gojenola. Universidad del País Vasco (España)
Xavier Gómez Guinovart. Universidad de Vigo (España)
José Miguel Goñi. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (España)
Bernardo Magnini. Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italia)
Nuno J. Mamede. Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa (Portugal)
M. Antonia Martí Antonín. Universidad de Barcelona (España)
M. Teresa Martín Valdivia. Universidad de Jaén (España)
Patricio Martínez-Barco. Universidad de Alicante (España)
Raquel Martínez. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)
Leonel Ruiz Miyares. Centro de Linguistica Aplicada de Santiago de Cuba (Cuba)
Ruslan Mitkov. University of Wolverhampton (Reino Unido)
Manuel Montes y Gómez. Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (México)
Lidia Moreno. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (España)
Lluís Padro. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (España)
Manuel Palomar. Universidad de Alicante (España)
Ferrán Pla. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (España)
German Rigau. Universidad del País Vasco (España)
Horacio Rodriguez. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (España)
Kepa Sarasola. Universidad del País Vasco (España)
Emilio Sanchís. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (España)
Thamar Solorio. University of Houston (EE.UU.)
Maite Taboada. Simon Fraser University (Canadá)
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno. Laboratoire Informatique d’Avignon /Université d’Avignon (Francia)
José Antonio Troyano Jiménez. Universidad de Sevilla (España)
L. Alfonso Ureña López. Universidad de Jaén (España)
Rafael Valencia García. Universidad de Murcia (España)
Felisa Verdejo. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (España)
Manuel Vilares. Universidad de la Coruña (España)
Luis Villaseñor-Pineda. Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica. (México)

IMPORTANT DATES
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Deadline for full papers, demos, and projects: March 15 2015
Notifications: May 1 2015
Camera Ready: May 15 2015
Conference: September 16-18 2015
Workshops and Tutorials: September 14-15 2015