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SLATE 2012 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
http://slate.di.uminho.pt/
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21 and 22 June, 2012
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal


** CALL FOR PAPERS ** DEADLINE EXTENSION ** 28th MARCH **


We often use languages. First, to communicate between
ourselves. Later, to communicate with computers. And more recently,
with the advent of networks, we found a way to make computers
communicate between themselves. All these different forms of
communication use languages, different languages, but that still share
many similarities. In SLATE we are interested in discussing these
languages.

SLATE is born from a group of researchers that share the fascination
by the way languages work, being them natural or artificial. This
group organized over a decade two different conferences: XATA, with
interest in XML as the de facto language for computer interaction; and
CoRTA, with interest in Compilers and related techniques to understand
computer languages. SLATE arrives as the generalization of these two
conferences into the abstraction of languages.

Being languages such a broad subject, SLATE is organized in three main
tracks:
1. HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages
2. CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages
3. HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages

A detailed topic list for each one of these tracks is presented below.

HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages
- Programming language concepts and methodologies.
- Language and Grammars, design, formal specification and quality
- Design of novel language constructs and their implementation;
- Domain Specific Languages design and implementation;
- Programming tools;
- Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
- Dynamic and static analysis: Program Slicing
- Program Comprehension
- Compilation and interpretation techniques;
- Code generation and optimization;
- Runtime techniques and Memory management;
- Virtual machines;


CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages
- Semantic Web and Ontologies;
- Methodologies for specification in XML;
- XML compression, serialization and merging;
- XML Parsing and Querying;
- XML Structuring;
- XML Transformation;
- XML Security;
- Web Services -- Architectures and Practical Cases;
- Web Technologies and Frameworks;
- XML Libraries and digital repositories;
- E-learning systems, standards and interoperability;
- Serialization languages.


HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages
- Computational morphology, syntax and semantics;
- Machine translation and tools for computer assisted translation;
- Computational terminology and lexicography;
- Speech synthesis and understanding;
- Information extraction and automatic question answering;
- Corpora linguistics;
- NLP system evaluation;
- Public tools and resources for NLP;
- Ontologies and knowledge representation;
- Statistical Methods applied to NLP;
- Language teaching support tools.

SLATE Publication Policy and Authors Information All accepted papers
will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN
reference, on paper and digital support. They will also integrate the
OASIcs series (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/).

Selected papers’ authors should have the opportunity to publish
extended versions of their papers in a special issue of ComSIS:
Computer Science and Information Systems.

Papers should be written using the OASIcs LaTeX template, using the
English language, and should not exceed 16 pages. Please refer to our
website (http://slate.no-ip.org/submissions) for details about the
document preparation.


Relevant Dates
- Paper Submission: **March 28, 2012**
- Authors Notification: May 13, 2012
- Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 27, 2012
- SLATE Symposium: June 21-22, 2012


Contact and Updates
- Updates are regularly posted in the symposium webpage and notified
through different social networks (check the symposium webpage for
details);
- Organizers can be contacted using “org” at “slate.di.uminho.pt”;


Symposium Chair
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)


Program Co-Chairs
- Daniela da Cruz (Universidade do Minho, Portugal - HCL Track)
- Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal - CCL Track)
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal - HHL Track)


Program Committee


HCL Track
- Alda Lopes Gançarski (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
- António Menezes Leitão (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Bastian Cramer (Universitãt Paderborn, Germany)
- Bostjan Slivnik (Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia)
- Casiano Rodriguez-Leon (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
- Daniela da Cruz (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Ian Kóllar (Technical University Kosice, Slovakia)
- Ivan Lukovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Jean-Cristophe Filliatre (Lab. de Recherche en Informatique, France)
- José João Almeida (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- João Lourenço (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
- João Paiva Cardoso (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- João Saraiva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Josep Silva (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
- Maria João Varanda Pereira (Inst. Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
- Mario Beron (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
- Marjan Mernik (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)
- Matej Crepinsek (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)
- Mirjana Ivanovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Nuno Rodrigues (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Portugal)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Rafael Linz (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)
- Rogério Paulo (Efacec, Portugal)
- Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
- Simão Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
- Tomaz Kosar (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)


CCL Track
- Ademar Aguiar (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Alda Lopes Gançarski (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
- Alexander Paar (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
- Cristina Ribeiro (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Gabriel David (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Giovani Librelotto (Universidade Federal Santa Maria, Brazil)
- João Correia Lopes (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- José Carlos Ramalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- José Paulo Leal (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Luis Ferreira (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Portugal)
- Marta Jacinto (Instituto das Tecnologias de Informação na Justiça, Portugal)
- Miguel Ferreira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
- Rui Lopes (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)


HHL Track
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- António Teixeira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
- Cristina Mota (Linguateca, Portugal)
- Hugo Oliveira (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
- Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweeden)
- Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)
- José João Almeida (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Lluís Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Luísa Coheur (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
- Piek Vossen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Philipp Koehn (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
- Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
- Yorick Wilks (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA)


Organization Committee
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Daniela da Cruz (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Nuno Carvalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Nuno Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Pedro Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
- Sara Fernandes (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)