Call for papers: 5th Human Language Technologies

Motivation

"The conference will provide a significant push for research, development and implementation of computer technologies for languages of the Baltic countries. The main goals of the conference include raising public awareness of the important role of the human language technologies in information society, sharing information about latest developments in the area of computer linguistics, building interdisciplinary ties between specialists of computational science, linguistic and information management, raising awareness about development of smaller languages in the European Union and sharing experience and establishing co-operation between different institutions of the Baltic countries and the European Union," was written in the call for papers of the First Baltic HLT Conference.

Meanwhile, six years and four Baltic HLT conferences have passed by, but the main ideas remain the same.

Main topics of this conference are (but not limited to):

  • Multilinguality in language resources
  • Human Language Technology applications

Important dates

  • April 20, 2012 Abstracts due (500 -- 1000 words)
  • May 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance
  • June 29, 2012 Camera-ready copies (up to 8 pages for regular papers and up to 4 pages for posters and demos)
  • October 3, 2012 Welcome reception: (Tartu Science Centre AHHAA, includes exposition excursion)
  • October 4-5, 2012 HLT2012 Conference

SUBMISSIONS

The conference will consist primarily of oral presentations, posters and demonstrations sessions. Abstracts of papers (about 500 -- 1000 words) should be submitted as a PDF file via the EasyChair conference tool: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hlt2012.

Papers will be BLIND reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Therefore, authors' names and affiliations SHOULD NOT APPEAR in the abstract.  

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers selected by an international programme committee will be published in the official conference proceedings by IOS Press, Online Open Access, Book series: Frontiers in AI and Applications (www.frontiersinai.com).

Invited speakers

Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands

Organisers and supporters

The Conference is organised by Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, and supported by CLARIN, META-NORD, National Programme of Estonian Language Technology and Centre of Excellence in Computer Science, EXCS

Contact

Web page: http://www.cl.ut.ee/HLT2012
E-mail: hlt2012@ut.ee