JADT - 2004
7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

Call for papers

Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice
(1998), Lausanne (2000), Saint-Malo (2002) the 7th International
Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in
Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), on March 10-12, 2004. This biennial
conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its
first occurrence, is open to all scholars 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. After the success of the
previous meetings, the three-day conference in Belgium will continue
to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions,
invited talks, and panel discussions.

Important dates

    * Submission Deadline : October 31st, 2003
    * Notification : Decembre 2003
    * Camera ready papers : January 15th, 2004
    * Conference : March 10 - 12, 2004


Themes of interest

    * Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
    * Discourse Analysis
    * Computational Linguistics
    * Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
    * Stylometry
    * Information Retrieval
    * Textual Classification
    * Text Corpora and Text Encoding
    * Lemmatization
    * Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
    * Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis
    * Semantic Web
    * Text and Web mining
    * Business and strategic intelligence


Languages for the presentations

Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one
of these languages :

    * French
    * English
    * Italian
    * Spanish

As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.

Submission

Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers
should include background survey and/or reference to previous
work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no
evaluation in their work. We encourage the authors to include in their
papers proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the
theme of the conference. Participants wishing to submit a paper or
present a poster should send to Gérald Purnelle of the program
committee a short version for review by October 31st, 2004, giving the
following information :

    * Title of the proposed paper
    * Name of authors, affiliations and full postal address with fax and/or e-mail
    * Keywords
    * A first version of the paper (8 pages max.)
    * An abstract in the language of the paper
    * An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
    * Bibliographical references.


Proceedings

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

Submission format

    * English version
    * French version


Organization board

    * Cédrick Fairon - CENTAL - Université catholique de Louvain
    * Anne Dister - CENTAL - Université catholique de Louvain
    * Gérald Purnelle - CIPL - Université de Liège
    * Joseph Denooz - CIPL - Université de Liège


Local Organization: Bernadette Dehottay - Michel Thomas - Claude Devis
- Patrick Watrin - Laurent Simon

Information

Cédrick Fairon

Address:

place Blaise Pascal, 11348 Louvain-la-NeuveBelgium
Tel.: +32 (0)10/47.37.88Fax.: +32 (0)10/47.26.06Mail: fairon@tedm.ucl.ac.be

Gérald Purnelle

Address:

Quai Roosevelt, 1b4000 LiègeBelgium
Tel.: +32 (0)4/366.55.07Fax.: +32 (0)4/366.57.84Mail: gerald.purnelle@ulg.ac.be