8th Symposium in Information and Human Language Technology
October 24-26, 2011
Cuiaba, Brazil
Early registration ends October 10, 2011
We cordially invite you to participate in STIL 2011. STIL is the annual Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language Processing. In 2011 it will take place at the Federal University of Mato Grosso in Cuiabá, MT, Brazil. The conference has a multidisciplinary nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both academic and industry participants that work on those areas.
This year's programme includes 16 oral presentations and 17 poster presentations. For a list with the accepted papers visit http://www.ufmt.br/stil2011/ under 'Accepted Papers'. Besides the technical sessions, STIL 2011 includes two invited talks and two tutorials. The invited speakers are Dr. Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California) and Dr. Christian Nunes Aranha (Technology Manager, Cortex Intelligence). The tutorials will be given by Dr. Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California), and Clarissa Castellã Xavier (PhD Student at PUCRS). Please visit http://www.ufmt.br/stil2011/ under 'Preliminary Program' for details.
Helena de Medeiros Caseli and Lucia Specia (STIL 2011 Program Co-Chairs)