XV SEPLN CONGRESS
Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
September, 8, 9 and 10, 1999
Universitat de Lleida (Spain)
http://www.udl.es/dept/dal/sepln/

The XV SEPLN Congress is organized by the Spanish Society for Natural
Language Processing. The congress focuses on general aspects of NLP and
this year, more specifically on information retrieval and
information extraction. 
The aim of the congress is to bring together researches working in the field
of computational linguistics, thus providing them with  the opportunity to
communicate results and exchange information. It also provides them with the
possibility to interchange opinions about future guidelines of basic research
and of applications foreseen by experts. 


Important Dates:
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- Paper submissions deadline: April 23, 1999
- Notification of acceptance: May 24-29, 1999
- Camera ready papers due: June 5, 1999
- XV SEPLN Congress: September 8-10, 1999


Thematic Areas and Coordinators:
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1. Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language: Sebastia Serrano
2. Corpus linguistics: Toni Badia and German Rigau
3. Information retrieval and information extraction: Felisa Verdejo
4. Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis:
Lluis Padro and Manuel Palomar
5. Computational lexicography: Kepa Sarasola
6. Monolingual and bilingual textual generation: Lydia Moreno
7. Machine translation: Gabriel Amores
8. Recognition and synthesis of spoken language: Joaquim Llisterri
9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse: Joseba Abaitua


Projects and Demos:
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The SEPLN committee invites proposals for the presentation of projects with
the possibility of a demo. 


Submission Information: 
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- 3 copies of each paper should be sent to the area coordinator.
- The name of the author and contact address must be enclosed on a separate sheet.
- The thematic area which the paper is ascribed to must be stated.
- References to other articles by the author or his/her work group should be omitted.
- Maximum length is 3.500 words, including the abstract that must not exceed 150 words.
- A copy of the evaluation will be sent to the authors by e-mail.
- The accepted papers must conform to the style sheet provided on the congress web
page (http://www.udl.es/dept/dal/sepln/).


Coordinators addresses:
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1. Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language:   

Sebastia Serrano
Universitat de Barcelona
Departament de Filologia  Romanica
Seccio de Linguistica General
Gran Via de les  Corts Catalanes, 585
E-08007 Barcelona


2. Corpus linguistics:

Toni Badia
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Departament de Traduccio
La Rambla, 30-32
E-08002 Barcelona

German Rigau 
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics
Modul C6 - Campus Nord UPC
Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3
E-08034 Barcelona


3. Information retrieval and information extraction:

Felisa Verdejo 
UNED
ETSI Industriales       
Depto. IEEC          
Ciudad Universitaria, s/n
E-28040 Madrid 


4. Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis:

Lluis Padro
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics 
Modul C6 - Campus Nord  
Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3  
E-08034 Barcelona 

Manuel Palomar
Universidad de Alicante
Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informaticos
Apdo. de correos 99
E-03080 Alicante


5. Computational lexicography:

Kepa Sarasola 
Euskal Herriko   Univ. del   
Informatika Fakultatea (UPV/EHU)
Lengoaia eta Sistema Informatikoen Saila
P.K. 649  20080 Donostia (Basque Country)


6. Monolingual and bilingual textual generation: 

Lydia Moreno 
Universtitat Politecnica de Valencia
Dep. Inf. de Sist. i Computadores
Cami de Vera, s/n
E-46022 Valencia


7. Machine translation:

Gabriel Amores 
Universidad de Sevilla
Departamento de Lengua Inglesa 
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
E-41004 Sevilla


8. Recognition and synthesis of spoken language: 

Joaquim Llisteri
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Departament de Filologia Espanyola
Edifici B
E-08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
 

9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse: 

Joseba Abaitua
Universidad de Deusto
Facultad de Filosofia y Letras
Apartado 1
E-48080 Bilbao


** Projects and Demos:

Felip Manya
Universitat de Lleida
Departament d'Informatica
Jaume II, 69
E-25001 Lleida


Organizing Comittee:
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* Universitat de Lleida (UdL):

        - Department of English and Linguistics:
          Jaume Tio, Mariona Sabate, Gloria Vazquez
        - Computer Science and Industrial Engineering Department:
          Teresa Alsinet, Ramon Bejar


* Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Romance Philology: 
  Antonia Marti, Irene Castellon

* Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Department of English Philology:
  Anna Fernandez


Contact addresses:
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- Jaume Tio:
e-mail: jtio@dal.udl.es
Phone: 34 973 70 20 00 (ext. 30 40)


- Gloria Vazquez: 
e-mail: gvazquez@dal.udl.es
Phone: 34 973 70 20 00 (ext. 30 40)


- Olga Rovira
Secretary of the Department of English and Linguistics (UdL)
e-mail: Olga.Rovira@dal.udl.es
Phone: 34 973 70 21 44
Fax: 34 973 70 21 41