The First Call for Papers ========================= The Eighth International Conference Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages
19-21 September 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Conference website: http://www.fassbl.org
Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects concerning formal and computational approaches to South Slavic and Balkan languages, including, but not limited to: * phonetics, phonology and morphology; * word segmentation, tagging and chunking; * syntax, semantics and grammars; * pragmatics, discourse and dialogue; * lexica and ontologies; * parsing and grammatical formalisms; * generation, text planning and summarization; * language modeling, spoken language recognition and understanding; * mathematical models of language; * formal and probabilistic approaches to language acquisition; * information retrieval and extraction, text mining, text categorisation; * question answering; * machine learning for natural language; * multilingual processing; * machine translation, machine aided translation and translation aids; * computer aided language learning; * speech processing; * language and speech oriented applications, tools and resources.
Requirements
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
Important dates
Submission of extended abstracts for oral/poster papers: 2012-07-08 Notification of acceptance: 2012-07-31
Reviewing
The reviewing of the extended abstracts will be blind. Reviewing will be managed by an international Program Committee. Final technical decisions on the program will be made by the Conference Program Committee. The contributions from the conference will be published after the conference in a book prepared and edited by the Tapir Akademisk forlag (University of Trondheim Publishing house, http://www.tapirforlag.no).
Submission
The extended abstract should be of 1500 words maximum. The duration of the paper presentation should be estimated at 20 minutes. As reviewing will be blind, the abstract should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, should be avoided. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. The MS-Word/RTF document template for final version of the papers can be downloaded from here and a paper example from here. Submissions should be sent to fassbl at ffzg.hr.
Organizing Committee
Svetla Koeva (The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BG) Nikola Ljubešić (University of Zagreb, HR) Marko Tadić – chair (University of Zagreb / Croatian Language Technologies Society, HR) Mila Vulchanova (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO) Valentin Vulchanov (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO)
Program committee
Anna Cardinaletti (Cá Foscari University, Venice, IT) Dan Cristea (University of Iaşi, RO) Tomaž Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana, SI) Giuliana Giusti (Cá Foscari University, Venice, IT) Svetla Koeva (The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BG) Iliana Krapova (Cá Foscari University, Venice, IT) Nikola Ljubešić (University of Zagreb, HR) Milan Mihaljević (Old Church Slavonic Institute, Zagreb, HR) Nikos Gallos (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, GR) Melita Stavrou (Aristoteles University, Thessaloniki, GR) Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb / Croatian Language Technologies Society, HR) Dan Tufiş (The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, RO) Duško Vitas (University of Belgrade, RS) Mila Vulchanova – chair (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO) Valentin Vulchanov (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO) Chris Wilder (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO)