CALL FOR PAPERS

TALN-2014
21st Conference on Natural Language Processing

http://www.taln2014.org

July 1-4 2014

Marseille, FRANCE

IMPORTANT DATES
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1. Long paper
- Paper submission deadline : February 20, 2014
- Notification : April 14, 2014
- Camera ready paper due : May 30, 2014

2. Short paper
- Paper submission deadline : April 24, 2014
- Notification : May 22, 2014
- Camera ready paper due : May 30, 2014

3. Demonstrations
- Submission deadline : April 21, 2014
- Notification : May 10, 2014
- Camera ready paper due : May 30, 2014

PRESENTATION
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Organized by the LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) and the LIF
(Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale), the 21st Conference on
Natural Language Processing (TALN) will take place from 1st to the
4th July at Faculté Saint Charles, Marseille (France).

TALN'2014 is organized under the aegis of ATALA (Association pour
le Traitement Automatique des Langues) and will be held jointly with
RECITAL'2014, the conference for young researchers(separated call
for papers).

TALN'2014 will include oral presentations of research and position
papers, posters, invited speakers and demonstrations. The official
language is French. English presentations and papers are accepted for
non-French-speaking authors.


TYPES OF COMMUNICATIONS
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Two communication formats are proposed: long papers (from 12 to 14 pages)
and short papers (from 6 to 8 pages).

Authors are invited to submit two types of communications:
- original research work
- position paper on the current state of the research work

Papers should present original works, with substantial new material when
comparing to previous publications of the same author(s). Translation of
previously published papers are not

There will be two presentation formats: Oral for long papers and Poster
for short papers.

All topics of NLP are eligible for a submission.

SELECTION CRITERIA
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Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts of the domain. For research
papers, decisions will be based on the following criteria:

- relevance to the conference topics
- importance and originality of the paper
- scientific and technical soundness
- comparison of the results obtained with those found in relevant works
- situation of the research in comparison with international work
- clarity of the presentation


For position papers, decisions will be based on the following criteria:
- originality of the point of view presented
- breadth of view and the taking into account of the state-of-the-art

The selected communications will be published in the conference proceedings.

The program committee will select one paper (TALN Best Paper) among the
accepted papers which will be recommended for publication (extended form) in
the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (T.A.L.).


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
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Papers will be written in French for French-speaking authors or English for
non-French-speaking authors.

A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be made available on the
conference website: http://wwwtaln2014.org


ORGANIZING COMMITEE
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Philippe Blache (Chair)
Carine André Frédéric Béchet
Sébastien Bermond Brigitte Bigi
Nadéra Bureau Cyril Deniaud
Stéphanie Desous Benoît Favre
Nuria Gala Joëlle Lavaud
Grégoire Montcheuil Alexis Nasr
Catherine Perrot Klim Peshkov
Laurent Prévot Carlos Ramisch
Stéphane Rauzy Claudia Starke

CONTACTS
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philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr