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# C A L L F O R P A P E R S
# SLATE - 13th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
# Águeda, Portugal, July 4-5, 2024
# http://slate-conf.org
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# CONTEXT
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We often use languages. Earlier, 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 they still share many
similarities. In SLATE, we are interested in discussing these
languages, organized in three main tracks:

* HHL Track:
Processing Human-Human Languages, dedicated to the presentation
and discussion of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and
applications.

* HCL Track:
Processing Human-Computer Languages, where researchers, developers,
and educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic
or industrial work on the design, processing, assessment, and
applications of programming languages.

* CCL Track:
Processing Computer-Computer Languages, broad space for discussing
(mark-up) languages for communication between computers, including
those used for visualization and presentation of information to the
end-user.



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# IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2024
- Paper Authors' Notification: May 24, 2024
- Final Paper Submission: May 31, 2024
- Conference: July 4 and 5, 2024

- Submissions are OPEN and will be managed through the UNAVE online system at: https://unave.sci-meet.org/register/SLATE2024

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# LIST OF TOPICS
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* Human-Human Languages (HHL) track
- Computational approaches to Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics;
- Machine translation and tools for Computer Assisted Translation;
- Computational terminology and lexicography;
- Information Retrieval and Automatic Question Answering;
- Information Extraction;
- Natural Language Understanding;
- Corpus Linguistics;
- Statistical Methods for NLP;
- Tools and resources for NLP;
- Natural Language Generation;
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis;
- NLP system and resource evaluation;
- Language teaching support tools.

* Human-Computer Languages (HCL) track
- Programming language concepts, methodologies and tools;
- Language and Grammars, design, formal specification and quality;
- Domain Specific Languages design and implementation;
- Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
- Dynamic and static analysis of programs;
- Program Comprehension and program visualization;
- Compilation and interpretation techniques;
- Code generation and optimization;
- Programming languages teaching methods and tools;
- Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces
(modelware, grammarware, ontologies, etc);
- High level visual languages for Low-code development.

* Computer-Computer Languages (CCL) track
- Semantic data description frameworks;
- Semantic Web languages;
- Ontology engineering;
- IoT data protocols;
- XML Databases and Big Data;
- Publishing and document storage formats;
- HTML5 and web formatting;
- Industry-specific XML based standards;
- Web APIs and service marketplaces;
- Service-Oriented Architectures;
- E-learning systems, standards, and interoperability;
- Data and graph visualization languages.



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# SLATE PUBLICATION POLICY
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All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

* 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;

- Both full and short papers should be written in English, using the OASIcs
template. Please refer to our website (http://slate-conf.org/2024/submissions)
for details about the document preparation.



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# COMMITTEES
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* SLATE 2024 General Chair
- Mário Rodrigues (IEETA and ESTGA, University of Aveiro, Portugal)

* Organizing Committee

- Mário Rodrigues (IEETA and ESTGA, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
- Alberto Simões (2Ai Laboratory, School of Technology, IPCA, Portugal)
- António Teixeira (IEETA and DETI, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
- Fábio Marques (IEETA and ESTGA, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
- Gabriel Silva (IEETA and DETI, University of Aveiro, Portugal)


* Scientific Committee
- Alberto Simões (2Ai Lab - IPCA)
- Alexander Paar (Duale Hochschule Schleswig-Holstein)
- Antoni Oliver (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
- Antonio Leitao (Universidade de Lisboa)
- António Miguel Cruz (ESTG, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo)
- António Teixeira (University of Aveiro)
- Bostjan Slivnik (University of Ljubljana)
- Brett Drury (Liverpool Hope University)
- Cristina Ribeiro (INESC TEC- Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto)
- David Martins de Matos (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
- Diana Santos
- Dietmar Seipel (Univ. Wuerzburg, Dept. of Computer Science)
- Dušan Kolář (Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology)
- Fernando Batista (INESC-ID & ISCTE-IUL)
- Filipe Portela (Algoritmi, University of Minho)
- Gergő Balogh (Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged)
- Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (University of Coimbra)
- Hugo Peixoto (University of Minho)
- Irene Rodrigues (Universidade de Evora - Portugal)
- Ivan Luković (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences)
- Jakub Swacha (University of Szczecin)
- Jan Janousek (Czech Technical University Prague)
- Jaroslav Porubän (Technical University of Košice)
- Jose Luis Sierra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Josep Silva (Universitat Politècnica de València)
- José Carlos Paiva (University of Porto)
- José Carlos Ramalho (University of Minho)
- João Cordeiro (INESC TEC & HULTIG / University of Beira Interior)
- João Saraiva (University of Minho)
- Luis Morgado Da Costa (Nanyang Technological University)
- Luís Ferreira (IPCA)
- Luís Filipe Costa Cunha (University of Minho)
- Luís Matos
- Maria João Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança)
- Mario Berón (National University of San Luis)
- Mario Pinto (ESMAD.IPP)
- Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Paulo Matos (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho)
- Renato Preigschadt de Azevedo (Federal University of Santa Maria)
- Ricardo Queirós (ESMAD- P.PORTO & CRACS - INESC TEC)
- Ricardo Rocha (University of Porto)
- Ricardo Rodrigues (Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of
Coimbra & College of Education of the Polytechnic of Coimbra)
- Salvador Abreu (LISP & CRI / University of Evora)
- Simão Melo-de-Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior)
- Teresa Guarda (Universidad Estatal da Peninsula de Santa Elena - UPSE)
- Teresa Pereira
- Tiago Pereira
- Tomaz Kosar (none)
- Vladimir Ivančević (University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences)



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# VENUE
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* The 2024 SLATE edition will be held at the Águeda School of Technology and Management - University of Aveiro, Águeda Portugal. More details can be found on the conference homepage. 40.574339 N -8.4439831 W


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# CONTACTS
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* All questions about submissions should be emailed to: slate2024@ua.pt