EsTAL - ESPAÑA for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING October 20-22, 2004, Alicante, Spain http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/estal04/ Hosted by University of Alicante, Spain. EsTAL continues the series of TAL conferences FracTAL (Besançon,France, December 1997); VexTAL (Venice, Italy, November 1999) and PorTAL( Faro, Algarve, Portugal, June 2002). SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing related areas, including, but not limited to the following topics: Computational linguistics research: * Spoken and Written Language Analysis and Generation * Pragmatics, Discourse, Semantics, Syntax and Morphology. * Lexical Resources * Word Sense Disambiguation * Linguistic, Mathematical, and Psychological Models of Language * Knowledge Acquisition and Representation. Theories and Formalisms. * Corpus-based and Statistical Language Modelling * Machine Translation and Translation Aids * Computational Lexicography Monolingual and Multilingual Intelligent language processing and applications: * Information Retrieval * Information Extraction * Question Answering * Automatic Summarization * Document Categorization * Natural Language Interfaces * Dialogue systems * Evaluation of Systems. We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical NLP applications. We also invite people from industry working on NLP to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate their latest applications. Submitted papers should describe original work, completed or in progress, rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Due: 14 May 2004 Notification of Acceptance: 20 June 2004 Camera-ready Paper Due: 1 July 2004 Conference: 20-22 October 2004 PAPER SUBMISSION The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series . Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in parallel with the printed version, so the electronic source of accepted papers will be required (LaTeX 2e format is preferred). Authors should submit original manuscripts via the EsTAL 2004 Web site, as PostScript or PDF files. Papers may not exceed 5000 words. Use at least an 11-point font and no more than 20 double-spaced pages. (Typically published papers are 14 pages in LNCS format.) The EsTAL2004 home page (http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/estal04/) contains further details. CONFERENCE CHAIR Patricio Martinez Barco, University of Alicante, Spain PROGRAM CHAIR José Luis Vicedo, University of Alicante, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alfonso Ureña University of Jaen, Spain Bernardo Magnini ITC-irst, Italy Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas, USA German Rigau University of the Basque Country, Spain Hans Uszkoreit Saarland University at Saarbrücken, Germany Henri Zingle University of Nice, France Horacio Rodríguez Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Horacio Saggion University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Igor Melcuk University of Montreal, Canada Julio Gonzalo Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UNED, Spain Lidia Moreno University of Valencia, Spain Manuel de Buenaga European University of Madrid, Spain Manuel Palomar University of Alicante, Spain Massimo Poesio University of Essex,United Kingdom Nuno Mamede INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal Pierre-André Buvet University Paris 13, France Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Sanda Harabagiu University of Texas at Dallas, USA Stephane Chaudiron Ministry of Technology and Research, France Sylviane Cardey Research Centre Lucien Tesnière, Univ. of Franche-Comté, France Victor Díaz University of Sevilla, Spain Werner Winiwarter University of Vienna, Austria