CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002

6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

March 13-15, 2002
Palais du Grand Large
St-Malo / France

The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data
provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer
scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data
analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political
discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from
computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of
data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier
(1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th
International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march
13-15 2002.

Important Dates
   Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001
   Notification: October 30, 2001
   Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001
   Conference: March 13-15, 2002

Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt
e-mail address: jadt2002@irisa.fr

Submission:

Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should
include background survey and/or reference to previous works.
Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization
committee (via email jadt2002@irisa.fr) a first version of their paper
for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information:
 - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors
 - Title of the proposed paper with keywords
 - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose
of the paper
 - An abstract in the paper language
 - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
 - Bibliographical references

Topics:

Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of
statistical models and tools in the following domains:
 - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
 - Textual Statistics
 - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
 - Natural Language Processing
 - Stylometry
 - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
 - Textual Classification
 - Text Corpora and Text Encoding
 - Frequency Dictionaries
 - Lemmatization, automatic categorization
 - Information Retrieval
 - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis

Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30,
2001.

Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that
will be provided to the authors (12 pages max.) and reach the committee
no later than December 15, 2001.

Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the
participants at the start of the conference.

Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of
these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian
All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract.
As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.


Program Committee:

Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain
Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nimegue, The Netherlands
Monica Becue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain
Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy
Etienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy
Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France
Dominique Labbe, Univ. of Grenoble, France
Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (President)
Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comte, France
Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France
Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France
Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France
Andre Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, France
Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK


Organization Committee:

Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr
organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes