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Call for Papers
STIL 2009 is
the annual Language Technology event supported by the
Brazilian
Computer Society (http://www.sbc.org.br/) (SBC) and by the
Brazilian
Special Interest Group on Natural
Language Processing
(http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/cepln/).
The conference
has a multidisciplinary nature and covers
a broad
spectrum of
disciplines related to Human Language Technology, such as
Linguistics,
Computer Science, Psychology, and Information Science,
among others. It
aims at bringing together both academic and industry
participants that
work on those areas.
STIL-2009
welcomes research work in human language
technology in
general
(and not only Portuguese) in various
fields. Topics of
interest include,
but are not limited to:
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Computer science: text mining, semantic web, information
extraction,information retrieval, natural language interfaces,
written and spoken language processing, tagging, parsing,
summarization, machine translation, writing tools, anaphora
resolution, statistical language processing, NLP resources,
applications and evaluation.
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Linguistics: terminology, lexicology and lexicography, grammar
formalisms,discourse analysis, ontologies, translation, corpus
linguistics,psycholinguistics.
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Information science: information filtering and retrieval, digital
libraries,document and knowledge management, knowledge modelling.
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Natural language understanding and generation.
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Others: work on Philosophy or Human sciences in general, related
to language processing.
The authors of the best papers will be
invited to submit an extended version of their papers to a Special
Issue of the Linguamática
Journal.
Submissions:
Papers can be
written in English, Portuguese or Spanish.
Submissions will be
accepted in PDF format only through the JEMS SBC system
(https://submissoes.sbc.org.br).
Authors should chose between
full papers for oral presentation or short papers to be presented
as posters, and should also indicate whether they accept their full
paper to be reallocated as a poster should the reviewers recommend so.
Full papers should
describe complete work with significant results and cannot exceed 8
pages in length (including tables, pictures and references.) Short
papers (posters) may describe ongoing research with partial results,
software demos etc. and should not exceed 4 pages in length (including
tables, pictures and
references.)
Paper
formatting must follow the SBC guidelines available
at this address:
http://www.sbc.org.br/index.php?language=1&subject=60&content=downloads (for
papers in English or Spanish) and at this address http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/stil09/sbc_pt.zip (for papers in Portuguese).
As papers will be
blind-reviewed, they should not display any information regarding their
authorship in the header or body of the text.
All accepted papers (full and short) will be published in the
conference proceedings.
Important Dates
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Paper/Poster
submission due
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24 May
2009
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| Paper
notification of acceptance |
13
July
2009 |
| Camera
ready copy |
24
July 2009 |
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