The Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies The Computing Research Laboratory and the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) are pleased to announce plans for the Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies (SLPLT-2). The workshop is scheduled to take place Friday, September 14, and Saturday, September 15, 2001, in Jaen, Spain, immediately following and as part of the 17th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (September 12-14, 2001). It will precedes the Machine Translation Summit VIII which will be held in Santiago de Compostella, Spain, September 18-21, 2001. The goal of the International Workshops on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies is to promote the creation of an infrastructure for carrying out research and development in the computational processing of spoken and written Spanish. They do this by bringing together researchers and developers from Europe and the Americas to present the most recent advances in the field and to catalog available resources for research and development as well as by promoting cooperative efforts among participants from the different geographical regions. The size of the workshop is limited to approximately 80 participants (at least 20 from each region) and the structure of activities emphasizes broad descriptions of research and development activities and infrastructure accompanied by ample discussions. Also integral to their success are a number of social events, which will provide a more informal context for establishing networks of contacts. Program The program consists of morning and afternoon panel sessions each day. In addition, there will be a reception after the first day's activities and a banquet after the second. Friday, September 14 9:30-1:30: Research Activities and Interests Summary reports of the research activities and interests from a number of R&D centers from each of the three regions (including text and dialog analysis, text generation and speech recognition and synthesis). There will be a 30-minute break at 11:30. 1:30-3:30: LUNCH 3:30-7:00: Technologies and Applications Summary reports on current or planned R&D efforts related to the development of specific applications (including Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Query and Dialog Systems, Expert and Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Speech Recognition and Synthesis, Text Summarization, Text Processing, Document Handling, etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00. 8:00-9:30: RECEPTION Saturday, September 15 9:30-1:30: Research and Development Infrastructure Summary reports on existing and planned infrastructure resources for supporting Spanish language processing R&D (including corpora; databases--geographical place names, company names, person names; knowledge bases--ontologies, thesauri, dictionaries; processing tools--tokenizers, POS-taggers, syntactic analyzers, lexica, text generators, corpus analysis tools, speech processing tools, etc.). There will be a 30-minute break at 11:15. 1:30-3:30: LUNCH 3:30-7:00: Funding Opportunities and Future Directions Reports from funding agencies on pending initiatives and position papers on future needs for Spanish language processing technologies and the kinds of research needed to meet those needs. There will be a 30-minute break at 5:00. 10:00: BANQUET Submissions We are requesting that those interested in participating submit a five page (2000-2500 words) paper addressing one of the above panel topics and a brief two page (800-1000 words) biographical sketch. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee each representing one of the regions. Submissions will be accepted in Spanish or in English and the presentations are expected to be in whichever language is used for the written submission. Both Spanish and English are official languages for the workshop. Submissions will be accepted in either electronic form or hard copy although the former is preferred. Format instructions will follow those for submissions to SEPLN-2001 (refer to: http://sepln2001.ujaen.es). Please send submissions to: David Farwell Computing Research Laboratory Box 30001/3CRL New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 USA E-mail: david@crl.nmsu.edu Important Dates 15 May: Submission deadline 15 June: Notification of acceptance 15 July: Submission of final drafts Organizing Committee The organizing committee includes: General Chair and North American Coordinator: David Farwell New Mexico State University European Coordinator: Antonio Ferrndez Rodrguez Universidad de Alicante Latin American Coordinator: Dina Wonsever Universidad de la Repblica, Montevideo Local Organizing Chair Patricio Martnez Barco Universidad de Alicante Program Committee The program committee includes: J. Gabriel Amores Universidad de Sevilla Alejandro Bassi Universidad de Chile Veronica Dahl Simon Fraser University Lori Levin Center for Language Technology, CMU Antonia Mart Universidad de Barcelona Ldia Moreno Universidad Politcnica de Valencia Plutarco Naranjo SIGNUM, S.A., Ecuador Manuel Palomar Universidad de Alicante Horacio Rodrguez Universidad Politcnica de Catalua Horacio Saggion University of Sheffield Ana Garca Serrano Universidad Politcnica de Madrid Randall Sharp University of British Columbia Davide Turcato Gavagai Inc., Vancouver, Canada Alfonso Urea Lpez Universidad de Jan Evelyne Viegas Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA Felisa Verdejo Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia