CALL FOR PAPERS

               PorTAL - PORTUGAL for NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

                              Faro, Portugal

                           June 23rd-26th, 2002


                 URL: http://label.ist.utl.pt/portal


PorTAL - PORTUGAL  for NATURAL LANGUAGE  PROCESSING will  be held
at FARO (Algarve, Portugal), in June 23-26, 2002.  PorTAL follows
the  FracTAL  conference,  held  in  Besançon  (France), December
1997, and VexTAL held in Venice (Italy), November 1999.


SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Papers  are  invited  on  substantial, original,  and unpublished
research on  all aspects of  natural language  processing related
areas, including, but not limited to:

   * spoken and written language analysis and generation;
   * pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, morphology and
     lexical acquisition;
   * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of
     language;
   * language-oriented information retrieval and information
     extraction;
   * knowledge acquisition;
   * corpus-based and statistical language modelling;
   * machine translation and translation aids;
   * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
   * message and narrative understanding systems;
   * computational lexicography;
   * Internet applications;
   * 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.


ORGANISATION

- Laboratório de Engenharia da Linguagem (CAUTL-IST)
- Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (INESC-ID Lisboa - IST)
- Universidade do Algarve
- Departamento de Linguística (FLUL)
- Centre Lucien Tesnière (Université Franche-Comté)


Program Chairs: Elisabete Ranchhod (Universidade de Lisboa /
                    CAUTL-IST)
                Nuno J. Mamede (Technical University of Lisbon
                    Spoken Language Systems Laboratory (INESC-ID Lisboa)

Local Organization Chair: Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alex Monaghan (Ireland)
Caroline Hagège (France)
Claire Gardent (France)
Diamantino Freitas (Portugal)
Éric Laporte (France)
Fernando Martins (Portugal)
Franz Gunthener (Germany)
Gabriel Bès (France)
Graça Nunes (Brasil)
Hans Uszkoreit (Germany)
Inês Duarte (Portugal)
Irene Rodrigues (Portugal)
Isabel Trancoso (Portugal)
Jacqueline Léon (France)
João Paulo Neto (Portugal)
Jorge Baptista (Portugal)
Julia Pazj (Hungary)
Krzysztof Bogacki (Poland)
Lauri Karttunen (USA)
Luís Caldas Oliveira (Portugal)
Maria Céu Viana (Portugal)
Max Silberztein (USA)
Peter Greenfield (France)
Pierre-Andre Buvet (France)
Richard Sproat (USA)
Rodolfo Delmonte (Italy)
Ruslan Mitkov (U.K.)
Stéphane Chaudiron (France)
Steve Abney (USA)
Sylviane Cardey (France)
Tony Berber Sardinha (Brasil)
Xavier Blanco (Spain)
Yorick Wilks (U.K.)


GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

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.

1.Papers should not exceed  3000 words(including  references), must
   contain  a  5  lines  abstract,  and must  be submitted  in adobe
   acrobat  (.pdf),  postscript (.ps) or  rich text  (.rtf) formats.
   All papers will be submitted electronically.

2.The reviewing  of papers  will be blind.  Hence the  paper should
   not  include  the authors'  names and  affiliations. Furthermore,
   self-references  that  reveal  the  author's  identity  should be
   avoided.

3.All  submissions  will  be   peer-reviewed  by   the  program
   committee and published both in print  and electronically  in the
   conference proceedings. All accepted papers must be  presented at
   the conference by at least one of their authors.

4.At  least one  author must register  as participant  of PORTAL.
   The early registration fees apply to authors of  accepted papers.

5.Submission Procedure

All papers will be submitted electronically:

        http://label7.ist.utl.pt/portal/submission/



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IMPORTANT DATES

February 4th 2002 - Deadline for submitting papers
March    4th 2002 - Notification of acceptance
April    8th 2002 - Camera ready paper dues
May     31st 2002 - Final program of the conference
June    23rd 2002 - The conference begins