First Call for Papers

Student Research Workshop
14-15 September 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria
associated with the International Conference RANLP-2009

RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/stud-ranlp09


The International Conference RANLP 2009 would like to invite students at all
levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing work
at the Student Research Workshop. This will provide an excellent opportunity
to present and discuss your work in progress or completed projects to an
international research audience and receive feedback from senior
researchers. The research being presented can come from any topic area
within natural language processing and computational linguistics including,
but not limited to, the following topic areas:

Anaphora Resolution, Complexity, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse, Evaluation,
Finite-State Technology, Formal Grammars and Languages, Information
Extraction, Information Retrieval, Lexical Knowledge Acquisition,
Lexicography, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Morphology, Natural
Language Generation, Natural Language in Multimodal and Multimedia Systems,
Natural Language Interraction, Natural Language Processing in
Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Natural Language Processing for
Biomedical Texts, Ontologies, Opinion Mining, Parsing, Part-of-Speech
Tagging, Phonology, Post-Editing, Pragmatics and Dialogue, Question
Answering, Semantics, Speech Recognition, Statistical Methods, Sublanguages
and Controlled Languages, Syntax, Temporal Processing, Term Extraction and
Automatic Indexing, Text Data Mining, Text Segmentation, Text
Simplification, Text Summarisation, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Translation
Technology, Tree-Adjoining Grammars, Word Sense Disambiguation.

All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions
during the main conference days: 14-16 September 2009. The articles will be
issued in special Student Session electronic proceedings.


Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 25 July
Acceptance notification: 20 August
Camera-ready deadline: 1 September


Submission Requirements
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All papers must be submitted in .doc or .pdf format and must be 4-8 pages
long (including references). For format requirements please refer to the
main RANLP website at http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009, Submission Info
Section. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 reviewers from the Programme
Committee, who will feature both experienced researchers and PhD students
nearing the completion of their PhD studies. The final decisions will be
made based on these reviews. The submissions will have to specify the
student's level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD).


Programme Committee
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To be announced in the Second Call for Papers.


Organising Committee
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Irina Temnikova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Ivelina Nikolova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Natalia Konstantinova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)


For More Information
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http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2009/stud-ranlp09
stud-ranlp09@lml.bas.bg