CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

LOCAL ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
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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