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Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel
Palais des Congrès
Fez (Morocco)
April 19 - 22, 2004
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--- In conjunction with JEP'04 ---
CALL FOR PAPERS
Important Dates
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Submission deadline: 15 january 2004
Notification to authors: 20 february 2004
Camera-ready: 8 march 2004
Conference: 19-22 april 2004
Jointly organized by the LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix-en-Provence, France), the University of Fez and the Ecole
Normale Supérieure of Fez , the 11th Conference on Natural Language
Processing (TALN'04) will be held at the Palais des Congrès, Fez,
Morocco, 19. - 22. April, 2004. The conference will include oral and
poster communications, invited conferences, workshops and tutorials.
Official languages are French and English.
TALN'04 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (Association pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues, Association for NLP) and will be
held jointly with JEP'04 (Journées d'Etude sur la Parole) and the
conference for young researchers RECITAL'04 conference (call for
papers to be issued separately). Common sessions will be organized.
The participants will receive the proceedings of the conferences
on CD-ROM.
TOPICS
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Papers are invited for thirty minute talks, including questions,
in all areas of NLP, including (but not restricted to) :
. lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics
. pragmatics, discourse, parsing, text generation
. abstraction/summarization, dialogue, machine translation
. logical, symbolical and statistical approaches
Moreover, TALN' 04 encourages submissions in the following fields:
. techniques for speech and language processing
. applications for Arabic language
All selected papers will be published in the proceedings. In
addition, the programme committee will select two papers, extended
version which will be published in the journal "Traitement Automatique
des Langues" (T.A.L.).
SELECTION
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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished
research work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two specialists
of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria :
. importance and originality of the paper
. soundness of the scientific and technical content
. comparison of the results obtained with other relevant works
. clarity of the exposition
. relevance to the topics of the conference
Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Submitted papers must not exceed ten pages, in Times 12, single
spaced (about 3000 words), including figures, examples and references.
Posters or demo papers should not exceed 6 pages.
A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be shortly available
on the web site of the conference:
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
Papers are to be submitted before January 15, 2004 through the online
submission procedure available on the Website :
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/
Papers MUST be sent in PDF. In particular cases, we may accept
submissions in RTF (Word) format.
IMPORTANT:
All the PostScript versions must be in A4 format, and not US Letter.
In case of impossibility, we accept to receive a printed version of
the submission. In this case, three hard-copies of the paper must be
received by January 15, 2004 by:
Philippe Blache - TALN 2004
LPL, Université de Provence
29, Avenue Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence
France
e-mail: taln2004@lpl.univ-aix.fr
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference
web site (http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/) and in a further
call. Please note that members of the ATALA association will benefit
from reduced registration fees.
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