First Workshop on
Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing
RASLAN 2007

December 14-16, 2007

http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2007

Organized by the NLP Centre of the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno.

Topics | Important dates | Committees | Author Instructions | Program

Call for Papers

First Workshop on Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, RASLAN 2007
			 December 14th - 16th 2007
		     Karlova Studanka, Czech Republic
		http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2007/cfp.html

The workshop is organized by the NLP Centre of the Faculty of Informatics,
Masaryk University, Brno.

VENUE: Karlova Studanka, Czech Republic

The RASLAN Workshop is an event dedicated to exchange of information
between research teams working on projects of computer processing of
Slavonic languages and related areas. RASLAN is focused on theoretical as
well as technical aspects of the project work, presentations of verified
methods are welcomed together with descriptions of development trends. The
workshop also serves as a place for discussion about new ideas.


TOPICS

Topics of the Workshop will include (but are not limited to):

    * text corpora and tagging
    * syntactic parsing
    * sense disambiguation
    * machine translation
    * semantic networks and ontologies
    * semantic web
    * knowledge representation
    * applied systems and software


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    * Karel Pala (chair)
    * Pavel Rychlý
    * Aleš Horák

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP

The workshop program will include oral presentations with sufficient time
for discussions of the issues raised. Papers will be presented in plenary
or topic oriented sessions.

Social events will allow for additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper of 4 to 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally at the workshop. The authors are asked to submit
their papers by e-mail to xrambous@fi.muni.cz.


IMPORTANT DATES

Please register as early as possible otherwise the accommodation cannot be
guaranteed.

October 26 2007 ............ Submission of papers
November 1 2007 ............ Notification of acceptance
November 7 2007 ............ Final papers (camera ready)
December 14-16 2007 ........ Workshop date

The contributions to the workshop will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
workshop.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The workshop papers will be in English and the presentations can be in
English or Czech.


CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee is 6500,- CZK.

The conference fee includes:
    * one copy of RASLAN 2007 proceedings
    * access to the workshop sessions
    * social events
    * breakfast and dinner
    * accommodation 

The details of conference fee payment can be found at the RASLAN web pages.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange accommodation at the workshop
venue. Please note that the number of accommodation places is limited, so
we can guarantee the accommodation only for early registrations.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the workshop should be
addressed to
    
    Dana Hlavackova, RASLAN 2007
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 33 29
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: ydana@aurora.fi.muni.cz

The official RASLAN 2007 homepage is: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/raslan/2007/