The Department of Romance Languages
Faculty of Philosophy, University of South Bohemia
in cooperation with
Le laboratoire ELLIADD de l'Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
and
The NOOJ association
are glad to invite you to the
NooJ 2016 International Conference
held in
České Budějovice (Czech Republic),
9-11 June 2016.
NooJ is both a corpus processing tool and a linguistic development environment that allows linguists
to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena:
 typography and spelling;
 syllabification, phonemic and prosodic transcription;
 lexicons of simple words, multiword units, and discontinuous expressions;
 inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology;
 local and structural syntax;
 transformational syntax and paraphrase generation;
 semantic analysis and machine translation.
NooJ provides linguists with regular grammars, context-free grammars, context-sensitive grammars
and unrestricted grammars as well as their graphical equivalent (finite-state, recursive and contextual
graphs) to enable the description of each phenomenon. NooJ’s multi-layer approach allows linguists
to accumulate elementary descriptions and describe phenomena that cross linguistic levels. As a
corpus processing tool, NooJ allows users to apply sophisticated linguistic queries to large corpora in
real time, in order to construct indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically and perform
semantic and statistical analyses, etc.
NooJ is open-source, freely available at www.nooj4nlp.net and over 20 linguistic modules can
already be freely downloaded, as well as a manual, video tutorials, references, etc.
The NooJ conference intends to:
 give NooJ users and researchers in Linguistics and in Computational Linguistics the
opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers;
 present to NooJ users the latest linguistic resources and NLP applications developed for/with
NooJ, its latest functionalities, as well as its future developments;
 offer researchers and graduate students two tutorials (one basic and one advanced) to help
them parse corpora and build NLP applications using NooJ;
 provide an occasion to present and discover the recent developments of NooJ itself (v5).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Linguistic resources: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic transcription,
Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis,
Paraphrase Generation, Semantic annotations, Semantic analysis.
Corpus processing: Corpus Linguistics, Information extraction, Discourse Analysis, Business
Intelligence, NLP applications.
SUBMISSION
We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 24 January 2016. The abstracts should contain
the title, name, institution and email of the author(s). Abstracts should not exceed one page (length
between 300 and 600 words, references not included) and should be sent via EasyChair. All
proposals will be reviewed by the scientific committee and authors will be given notice of acceptance
of their papers no later than 31 March 2016.
Further information about the conference can be found at the Nooj2016 home conference website.
You can also contact the organizing committee at radimsky@ff.jcu.cz for any additional information.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: February 4, 2016
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2016
Registration: until 15 April 2016
CAMERA-READY
The camera-ready versions of the abstracts should be submitted electronically in an open
format (DOCX, ODT).
The deadline for the submission of the final version of abstracts is 30 April 2016.
All camera-ready abstracts will enter the “NooJ 2016 Book of Abstracts”.