Call for papers
17th Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (Conference on Natural Language Processing)
Université de Montréal and École Polytechnique de Montréal
Montréal
19 to 22 July 2010
PRESENTATION OF THE CONFERENCE
Organized by the Université de Montréal and l’École Polytechnique de Montréal, the TALN’10 Conference will be held in Montreal from July 19 to 22, 2010. TALN’10 is organized under the auspices of ATALA and will be held jointly with the Conference for junior researchers RECITAL’10 and followed by the DEFT workshop (DÉfi Fouille de Texte).
The TALN’10 Conference will include oral presentations on research work, positions papers, posters, invited talks and demos.
The official language of the Conference is French. However, papers in English will be accepted for participants who are not native speakers of French.
PAPERS
Two different formats have been defined for the Conference: full papers (8 to 10 pages) and short papers (4 to 6 pages).
Participants are invited to submit to types of papers:
- Papers presenting innovative research work
- Position papers presenting viewpoints on the state of the art in Natural Language Processing (NLP), based on a solid experience in the field
Full papers will be presented orally; short papers will be presented orally or as posters. Please note that submission dates were defined so as to allow participants who submitted full papers that were rejected after the first submission round to resubmit a short paper.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full papers:
- Submissions: 15 February 2010 22 February 2010 1 March 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 5 April 201015 april 2010
- Final version: 3 May 2010
Short papers:
- Submissions: 26 April 20103 May 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 28 May 2010
- Final version: 16 June 2010
Demos:
- Submissions: 17 May 2010 24 May 2010
- Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2010 7 June 2010
- Final version : 21 June 2010
Dates of the Conference: 19 - 23 July 2010
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Papers can address any usual topic related to NLP or issues that can be applied to NLP, including (but not limited to):
- Analysis and generation in the following areas:
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Discourse
- Development of linguistic resources for NLP:
- Lexicons
- Grammars
- Databases including information on morphology, syntax, semantics and/or phonology
- Ontologies
- Applications of NLP
- Automatic summarization
- Natural human/machine dialog
- Machine translation
- Automatic indexing
- Information retrieval and extraction
- E-learning
- Question-answering systems
- Anaphora resolution
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Lexical disambiguation
- Automatic categorization or classification
- Semantic Web
- Approaches
- Formal linguistics to support the automatic processing of language
- Symbolic representations
- Logic representations
- Statistical approaches to NLP
- Approaches based on machine learning
The programme committee will select two accepted papers and recommend that an extended version be published in the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.).
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the field.
The following criteria will be applied to research papers:
- The importance and originality of the contribution
- Scientific and technical content
- Critical discussion of results, and discussion considering other work in the field
- Contribution against the background of international research in the field
- Organization of content and clarity of writing
- Compatibility with the topics of the Conference
The following criteria will be applied to position papers:
- Broadness of perspective and consideration of the state of the art
- Originality and importance of the viewpoint presented
Papers selected will be published in the proceedings of the Conference.
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Refer to Soumission for the submissions guidelines.
