GoTAL: First Call for Papers









GoTAL - 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing



Gothenburg, Sweden



25-27 August 2008



[www.cse.chalmers.se/gotal http://www.cse.chalmers.se/gotal.html]



The GoTAL conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 25-27 August, 2008.

The conference is hosted by

Chalmers University of Technology jointly with

Gothenburg University, as part of the activities of

the Centre for Language Technology (CLT).

GoTAL is the sixth in the series of the TAL conferences, following

FracTAL (Besançon, France, 1997),

VexTAL (Venice, Italy, 1999),

PorTAL (Faro, Algarve, Portugal, 2002),

EsTAL (Alicante, Spain, 2004), and

FinTAL (Turku, Finland 2006).

The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together

scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related fields,

sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational linguistics

and natural language processing.





==SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE==



Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished research

on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural language and speech

processing, including, but not limited to:

- Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax, and the Lexicon

- Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology

- Speech Recognition

- Speech Synthesis

- Natural Language Generation

- Ontologies, Semantic Networks, and Lexical Resources

- Corpus Linguistics

- Linguistic, Mathematical, and Psychological Models of Language

- Anaphora Resolution

- Word Sense Disambiguation

- Corpus-based Language Modeling

- Machine Translation and Translation Aids

- Text and Speech Interfaces

- Dialogue systems

- Language Learning and Therapy

- Simulation and Visualization

- Knowledge Acquisition and Representation

- Information Extraction

- Information Retrieval

- Question Answering

- Text Summarization

- Text and Speech Classification

- Systems Evaluation





==PAPER SUBMISSION==



We welcome submissions both from academia and the industry on any topic that

is of interest to the NLP community, particularly encouraging research

emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of NLP and the interplay between

linguistics, computer science and application domains such as biomedicine,

communication systems, public services, and educational technology.



Submitted papers should describe original work, emphasizing completed or

well advanced, rather than intended, research. The state of completion of

the reported work must be clearly indicated. Where appropriate, results

should be rigorously evaluated; the assessment of statistical significance

for quantitative results is encouraged. Submissions should contain original

material that has not been previously presented to the scientific community.

A parallel submission to other publication fora as well as a significant

overlap in contents with previously published work should be clearly

indicated to the program committee.



All submissions will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.

The submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, technical quality,

and presentation. Papers can be submitted in two categories:

- **full papers**, describing substantial research with well-evaluated results

- **short papers**, typically describing ongoing research and preliminary results





All accepted papers in both categories will be published in the conference

proceedings. At the conference, full papers will be presented as a talk

and short papers will be presented as a poster.



Submissions will be made using EasyChair. The URL will be given here as soon

as the GoTAL submission service opens (in January). Also the lengths and styles

of submissions will be specified then.







==PROCEEDINGS==



The previous three TAL conferences had proceedings published in LNCS/LNAI.

For GoTAL, this has not yet been confirmed (as of 20 December 2007).





==KEYNOTE SPEAKERS==



There will be three keynote speakers, whose names will be announced here

later.



==PROGRAM COMMITTEE==



Chair

- Aarne Ranta, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden





Members

- Olli Aaltonen, University of Turku, Finland

- Walid El Abed, Nestle Corp., Switzerland

- Jan Alexandersson, DFKI, Germany

- Jorge Baptista, University of Algarve, Portugal

- Patricio Martinez Barco, University of Alicante, Spain

- Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany

- Chris Biemann, University of Leipzig, Germany

- Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine

- Lars Borin, Gothenburg University, Sweden

- Johan Bos, La Sapienza, Italy

- Johan Boye, TeliaSonera, Sweden

- Caroline Brun, Xerox Corp., France

- Sylviane Cardey, University of Franche-Comté, France

- Rolf Carlson, KTH, Sweden

- Lauri Carlson, University of Helsinki, Finland

- Alexander Clark, Royal Holloway University of London, UK

- Robin Cooper, Gothenburg University, Sweden

- Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium

- Rodolfo Delmonte, University of Venice, Italy

- Elisabet Engdahl, Gothenburg University, Sweden

- Jan van Eijck, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland

- Peter Greenfield, University of Franche-Comté, France

- Philippe de Groote, INRIA Lorraine, France

- Ã?ystein Haug Olsen, Fast, Norway

- Viggo Kann, KTH, Sweden

- Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland

- Hans Leiss, LMU Munich, Germany

- Oliver Lemon, University of Edinburgh, UK

- José Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain

- Adeline Nazarenko, University Paris-Nord, France

- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala and Växjö University, Sweden

- Bengt Nordström, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

- Pierre Nugues, University of Lund, Sweden

- Guy Perrier, INRIA Lorraine, France

- Elisabete Ranchhod, University of Lisbon, Portugal

- Manny Rayner, Powerset Inc, USA

- Tapio Salakoski, University of Turku, Finland

- Karl-Michael Schneider, Textkernel

- Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University, Australia

- Laurent Spaggiari, Airbus, France

- Izabella Thomas, Université de Franche-Comté, France

- Simo Vihjanen, Lingsoft Ltd., Finland

- Annie Zaenen, Palo Alto Research Center, USA







==IMPORTANT DATES==



- 4 April: submission deadline

- 16 May: notification of acceptance

- 25-27 August: conference





==LOCATION AND CONFERENCE FEES==



The conference will be held on the campus of Chalmers University of

Technology. The fees, appr. 300 EUR

(senior participant, early registration until 1 June),

will be announced later. They will cover the conference lectures,

a copy of proceedings, lunches, coffee, two dinners, and an excursion

to the Gothenburg archipelago.