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 8, 2014

    - Notification : March 29, 2014

    - Camera ready paper due : May 2, 2014

2. Short paper

    - Paper submission deadline : April 12, 2014

    - Notification : May 10, 2014

    - Camera ready paper due : May 26, 2014

3. Demonstrations

    - Submission deadline : April 21, 2014

    - Notification : May 10, 2014

    - Camera ready paper due : May 26, 2014

PRÉSENTATION

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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 organised 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 (Président)

                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