TALN 2003: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, February 7th 2003

The 10th annual conference TALN 2003 will be held at Batz-sur-Mer (44) France on June 11 - 14 2003, organized by IRIN (Computer Sciences Institute of University of Nantes) in collaboration with the laboratories ACIDORE and VALORIA of the University of Bretagne-Sud and IRISA, INRIA, Rennes and under the aegis of ATALA (French Association for Computational Linguistics). TALN 2003 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (French Association for Computational Linguistics) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2003. The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations.

The official conference languages are French and English.

TOPICS

Papers are invited in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to):

lexicon
morphology
syntax
semantics
pragmatics
discourse
parsing
generation
abstraction/summarisation
dialogue
translation
logical, symbolic and statistical approaches

TALN 2003 also invites contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP
dimension:

text processing
cognition
terminology
knowledge acquisition
information extraction
nformation retrievial
corpus-based linguistics
mathematical linguistics
management and acquisition of linguistic resources
computer assisted learning
NLP tools for linguistic modelization

TALN 2003 also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasizing the
scientific aspects and conclusions drawn.

Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will
be scheduled in the conference.

CALENDAR

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Notification to authors: April 7th 2003
Final version due (camera-ready): April 30th 2003
Conference: June 11-14, 2003

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12, single spaced, including figures, examples and references.

Electronic submissions must reach the organizing committee before February, 7th 2003, sent to: taln2003@@irin.univ-nantes.fr

If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee at the following address:

TALN 2003
Béatrice Daille
IRIN
2, rue de la Houssinière
BP 92208
F-44322 NANTES Cedex 3

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSIONS

Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail (rtf, ps or pdf files, A4 format and not US Letter format), containing
the following informations: submission title and author's names. The formats that MUST be used are available on the Conference web site:
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/

SELECTION CRITERIA

Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain.
Decisions will be based on the following criteria :

Importance and originality of the paper
Accuracy of the scientific and technical content
Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work
Layout and clarity of the paper
Relevance to the topics of the conference
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference.

DEMOS AND POSTERS

One or two specific sessions for the demos and the posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled in the conference. The demo or poster submissions accord to the same rules of paper submission, BUT they should not exceed 6 pages.

TALKS

Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. 10 minutes will be left for questions. It will be possible to use a overhead projector or a video-projector.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be given to all participants. The editorial board of the international journal "Traitement Automatique
des Langues" (TAL) will select two papers for publication.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

(the program committee will be supervised by a broad reviewing committee)

Jean-Yves Antoine, VALORIA, Université de Bretagne Sud
Philippe Blache, LPL-CNRS Aix en Provence
Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Université de Grenoble
Béatrice Daille, IRIN, Université de Nantes (Présidente)
Alexandre Dikovsky, IRIN, Université de Nantes
Brigitte Grau, CNRS-LIMSI, Paris
Pierre Isabelle, Xerox
Daniel Kayser, LIPN, Université de Paris-Nord
Philippe Langlais, RALI/DIRO, Université de Montréal
Dominique Laurent, Synapse Toulouse
Denis Maurel, LI Université de Tours
Jean-Marie Pierrel, ATILF & LORIA ? UHP Nancy 1
Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA
Jean Veronis, DELIC Université de Provence
Leo Wanner, Université de Stuttgart
François Yvon, ENST
Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM Paris

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (Common with RECITAL)

Jean-Pierre Angoujard (AAI/Université de Nantes)
Jean-Yves Antoine (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Denis Bechet (IRISA)
Béatrice Daille (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Alexande Dikovsky (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Chantal Enguehard (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Fabrice Even (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Annie Foret (IRISA/Université de Rennes 1)
Nordine Fourour (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Olga Galatanu (CALD/Université de Nantes)
Jérome Goulian (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Erwan Moreau (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Emmanuel Morin (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Freddy Perraud (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Frank Poirier (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Igor Schadle (VALORIA/Université de Bretagne-Sud)
Pascale Sébillot (IRISA/Université de Rennes 1)
Annie Tartier (IRIN/Université de Nantes)
Geoffrey Williams (ACIDORE/Université de Bretagne-Sud)