SLATE 2017 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
(http://www.slate-conf.org)
26th - 27th June 2017
Media Arts and Design Superior School – Polytechnic Institute of Porto (Portugal)

SLATE is an international symposium about languages.
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/


Extended version of best papers: Special Issues on Languages Processing - Journal: Information (MDPI) - Scimago Journal (ISI, SCOPUS).
Link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/languages_processing


SLATE 2017 is organized in three different tracks:

1) HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages The HCL track is where researchers, developers and educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic or industrial work on language design, processing, assessment and applications.

2) CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages The CCL track main goal is to provide a broad space for discussion about the XML mark-up language: examples of usage and associated technologies.

3) HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages The HHL track is dedicated to the discussion of research projects and ideas involving natural language processing and their industrial application.

Paper types:
Full papers - 8 to 14 pages, presented in 20+5 minutes, complete work, including a validation or discussion;

Short papers - 6 to 8 pages, presented in 10+5 minutes, ongoing work, well anchored in the literature, but not yet fully validated;

Lightning talks - no publication, presented in 3 to 5 minutes, research ideas or work that has just started.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and digital support. In addition, we are currently envisioning several publication follow-ups for SLATE’17 (more information will be posted later on the conference website).

Important dates:

Full papers
Paper Submission: March 5, 2017
Paper Authors' Notification: April 23, 2017
Final Paper Submission: May 21, 2017

Short Papers
Paper Submission: April 30, 2017
Paper Authors' Notification: May 14, 2017
Final Paper Submission: May 21, 2017

Other Dates
Accepted Paper's Author's Registration Deadline: May 31, 2017
Conference: June 26 and 27, 2017


The program committee (preliminary) is the following:


Symposium Chairs
* Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
* Mário Pinto (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)

Organization Committee
* Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
* José Paulo Leal (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
* Maria João Varanda (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
* Mário Pinto (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
* Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
* Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)

Track chairs
* Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal - HHL Track)
* José Paulo Leal (Universidade do Porto, Portugal - CCL Track)
* Maria João Varanda (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal – HCL Track)