Student Research Workshop associated with RANLP 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

First Call for Papers
Student Research Workshop associated with RANLP 2011
12-14 September, Hissar, Bulgaria

RANLPStud 2011 http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/ranlpStud2011/
RANLP 2011 http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011

Further to the first successful and highly competitive Student Research
Workshop associated with the conference 'Recent Advances in Natural Language
Processing' (RANLP 2009), we are pleased to announce the second edition of
the workshop which will be held during the main RANLP 2011 conference days on
12-14 September 2011. This year the conference and the workshop will take
place in a new location (Hissar, Bulgaria) which is worth to be visited.

The International Conference RANLP 2011 would like to invite students at all
levels (Bachelor-, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing work
at the Student Research Workshop. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate
the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent
opportunity to present and discuss their work in progress or completed
projects to an international research audience and receive feedback from
senior researchers. The research being presented can come from any topic area
within natural language processing and computational linguistics, including
but not limited to the following topic areas:

Anaphora Resolution, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse, Electronic Dictionaries,
Evaluation, Finite-State Technology, Formal Grammars and Languages,
Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Lexical Knowledge Acquisition,
Lexicography, Machine Learning, Machine Translation, Mathematical Models and
Complexity, Morphology, Multilingual NLP, Natural Language Generation,
Natural Language in Multimodal and Multimedia Systems, Natural Language
Interraction, Natural Language Processing in Computer-Assisted Language
Learning, Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Texts, Ontologies,
Opinion Mining, Parsing, Part-of-Speech Tagging, Phonology, Post-Editing,
Pragmatics and Dialogue, Question Answering, Semantics, Speech Recognition,
Statistical Methods, Sublanguages and Controlled Languages, Syntax, Temporal
Processing, Term Extraction and Automatic Indexing, Terminology, Text
categorization, Text Complexity, Text Data Mining, Text Segmentation, Text
Simplification, Text Summarization, Text Understanding, Text-to-Text
Generation, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Textual Entailment, Translation
Technology, Tree-Adjoining Grammars, Word Sense Disambiguation,
Application-orientated Topics related to NLP.

All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions during
the main conference days: 12-14 September 2011. The articles will be issued
in a special Student Session electronic proceedings and uploaded to the ACL
Anthology.

Important dates
Submission deadline: 22 July
Acceptance notification: 20 August
Camera-ready deadline: 1 September
Workshop: 12-14 September 2011 (the concrete dates and sessions will be
adjusted depending on the type and quantity of the accepted submissions)

Submission Requirements

All papers must be submitted in .doc or .pdf format through the conference
management system START (https://www.softconf.com/ranlp11/ranlpStud2011/) and
must be 4-8 pages long (including references). For format requirements please
refer to the main RANLP website at
http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php, Submission Guidelines Section.
Each submission will be reviewed by 3 reviewers from the Programme Committee,
who will feature experienced researchers from all areas of NLP. The final
decisions will be made based on these reviews. The submissions will have to
specify the student's level (Bachelor-, Master-, or PhD). All authors of the
article must be students. Submission with non-student authors will not be
considered for review.

The list of Programme Committee members includes:
Chris Biemann (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
Kevin Bretonnel Cohen (University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA)
Atefeh Farzindar (NLP Technologies Inc., Canada)
Corina Forascu (University of Yasi, Romania)
Laura Hasler (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Sobha Lalitha Devi (AU-KBC Research Centre, India)
Wolfgang Maier (University of Tubingen, Germany)
Preslav Nakov (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Ivandre Paraboni (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Marta Recasens (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Georg Rehm (DFKI, Berlin, Germany)
Thamar Solorio (The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
Lucia Specia (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Torsten Zesch (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)

Organising Committee
Irina Temnikova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Ivelina Nikolova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Natalia Konstantinova (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

More Information
RANLPStud 2011 http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/ranlpStud2011/
RANLP 2011 http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011

Please feel free to contact us at:
stud-ranlp2011@lml.bas.bg