*EACL 2009
12th Conference of the European Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics*
* March 30th to April 3rd 2009
Athens, Greece*
EACL 2009 is the major scientific event in Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technology research in 2009 in Europe. It covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction.
The conference is organised by the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos" - Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, with the support of the Athens University of Economics and Business - Department of Informatics and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. It will take place at the Megaron Athens International Conference Center.
*Early registration deadline: 11:59pm GMT, 27th February 2009*
The EACL 2009 registration is now open at the following web page:
http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/registration *Note that early registration is a lot cheaper. By registering early you also help us organize better the conference. Please register before February 27th.* While you're at the registration pages, you are encouraged to book also your accommodations early. Check out the accommodation information here: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/accommodation
*Note also that the main conference programme was announced. See http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/programme*
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General Chair
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK
Programme Committee Co-Chairs
Claire Gardent, CNRS LORIA, France
Joakim Nivre, Va"xjo" University and Uppsala University, Sweden
Organising Co-Chairs
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Stelios Piperidis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece
**** CONFERENCE SCHEDULE *****
Workshops March 30th-31st 2009 Tutorials March 30th-31st 2009
Main conference, System Demos and Student Research Workshop April 1-3, 2009.
**** INVITED SPEAKERS ***** http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/invitedspeakers
Ann Copestake
University of Cambridge, UK
Franciska de Jong
University of Twente, the Netherlands
* *** WORKSHOPS *** * http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/workshops
*The Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics: Virtuous, Vicious or Vacuous?* Organisers: Timothy Baldwin and Valia Kordoni
*GEMS - Geometric Models of Natural Language Semantics* Organisers: Roberto Basili and Marco Pennacchiotti * LaTeCH-SHELT&R 2009: Language Technology and Resources for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education * Organisers: Piroska Lendvai, Lars Borin, Antal van den Bosch, Martin Reynaert and Caroline Sporleder
*4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation* Organisers: Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Josh Schroeder and Christof Monz
*2nd International Workshop on Semantic Representation of Spoken Language 2009 (SRSL 2009)* Organisers: Thierry Declerck and Manuel Alcantara-Pla * 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)* Organisers: Emiel Krahmer and Mariet Theune
*Language Technologies for African Languages * Organisers: Lori Levin, John Kiango, Judith Klavans, Manuela Noske, Guy De Pauw, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and Peter Waiganjo Wagacha
*Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages* Organisers: Mike Rosner and Shuly Wintner
*Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition * Organisers: Thierry Poibeau, Afra Alishahi and Aline Villavicencio * Computational Linguistic Aspects of Grammatical Inference* Organisers: Menno van Zaanen and Colin de la Higuera
**** TUTORIALS ****
http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/tutorials
30th March [Morning session] *Constraint Conditional models for NLP * Ming-Wei Chang, Lev Ratinov, Dan Roth
30th March [Afternoon session] *Statistical Language Modeling for Information Access * Maarten de Rijke, Edgar Meij
31st March [Morning session] *Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Dialogue Systems * Oliver Lemon, Verena Rieser
31st March [Afternoon session] *Combinatory Categorial Grammars for Robust Natural Language Processing* Mark Steedman
**** MAIN CONFERENCE ****
The main conference programme is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/programme
* *** STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP ****
The list of accepted papers is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/acceptedsrwpapers
**** SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION ****
The list of accepted demos is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/accepteddemos
We look forward to seeing you at EACL 2009 !
The local organisers
Vangelis Karkaletsis Ion Androutsopoulos Stelios Piperidis
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