Language Technologies

Events

On this page you will find links to upcoming conferences, information days and workshops which are related to the work we do. This list is not exhaustive so if you know of any other interesting events please contact Susan Fraser.

For information about Information Days being organised by our Unit in connection with the current Work Programme and Calls for Proposals please see our Related Events page.

Do you want to know if there are any Calls for Papers currently open? Have a look at WikiCFP, an interesting site which lists current and upcoming Calls for Papers by order of deadline. A wide range of disciplines is covered, including Natural Language Processing.

2012

May

Cross-Lingual Language Technology in service of an integrated multilingual Europe - 20 years on
4-5 May: Hamburg, Germany

This conference, which is being organised by the University of Hamburg, is free of charge but as places are limited you must register by e-mail before 20 April 2012! Please send a mail with a short motivation to: Dr. Cristina Vertan : cristinaDOTvertanATuni-hamburgDOTde. The full programme is now available including a list of speakers.

ECLAP 2012
7-9 May: Florence, Italy

ECLAP 2012 is the International Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment. The Information Technology age has facilitated many significant changes in the field of cultural heritage and continues to offer itself as a dynamic and exciting medium through which new possibilities perpetually emerge. This wave of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of the Performing Arts, where a vast array of possibilities for digital content fruition continue to reveal themselves, constantly opening the doors to new and as-yet-unexplored synergies. The ECLAP 2012 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians and practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, and many others. The ECLAP conference aims to functions as a forum in which progress-oriented individuals and institutions within the aforementioned professions can find a place to collaborate and present results.

LREC 2012: 8th ELRA Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
23-25 May: Istanbul, Turkey

Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT). The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. This year's event has a special highlight - you can contribute to building the LREC Language Library. For full details and information please visit the website. There you will be able to find information about the conference itself, together with instructions on how to register, submit papers, and take part in the various satellite workshops and tutorials.

LREC 2012 is the 8th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference organised by ELRA biennially with the support of institutions and organisations involved in Human Language Technology. The aim of LRC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues to to technological and organisational ones. The conference is chaired by Nicoletta Calzolari. More information soon available from: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/lrec2012.htm

LREC 2012: Online Reputation Management Workshop
26 May

This Workshop is being organised by the LiMoSINe project. For more details see the project's workshop webpage.

Extended Semantic Web Conference 2012
27-31 May: Heraklion, Greece

The 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific results and technology innovations around semantic technologies. Building on its past success, ESWC is seeking to broaden its focus to span other relevant research areas in which Web semantics plays an important role. The goal of the Semantic Web is to create a Web of knowledge and services which spans unstructured, RDF as well as multimedia content and services requires the collaboration of many disciplines, including but not limited to: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Database and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks, Web Engineering, and Web Science. For the full programme and how to register, visit the website.

TAUS Translation Technology Roundtable
30 May: Paris, France

The TAUS Translation Technology Roundtable is the first ever industry meeting for forty to fifty of the world's translation technology providers aimed at discussing common opportunities and challenges for growing the market and everyone's market share. In this open forum the CEO's and executives for the translation technology companies and corporate divisions will discuss areas for collaboration. For the full description, programme and details of how to register, please visit the TTR webpage.

TAUS European Summit
31 May - 1 June: Paris, France

The provocative title of this TAUS European Summit is "Translation in the 21st Century - eight things to change". If you would like to be part of those deciding what to change, then visit the Summit website.

June

NAACL HLT 2012 : Human Language Technologies
The 12th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
3-8 June: Montreal, Canada

The conference covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction. NAACL HLT 2012 will feature long papers, short papers, demonstrations, and a doctoral consortium, as well as associated tutorials and workshops. For more information please visit the official website.

Localization World Annual Conference
4-6 June: Paris, France

Localization World is the conference for global business know-how. The conference will include dynamic tracks on business best practices, global websites, localisation and translation. The conference programme and registration details will be posted on the website as soon as they become available.

European Data Forum
6-7 June: Copenhagen, Denmark

The European Data Forum is a meeting place for industry, research, policymakers and community initiatives to discuss the challenges of Big Data and the emerging Data Economy and to develop suitable action plans for addressing these challenges. Of special focus for the EDF are Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), since they are driving innovation and competition in many data-driven economic sectors. The range of topics discussed at the European Data Forum ranges from novel data-driven business models (e.g. data clearing houses), and technological innovations (e.g. Linked Data Web) to societal aspects (e.g. open governmental data as well as data privacy and security). Full details and how to register can be found on the Forum website.

MultilingualWeb Workshop
11-13 June: Dublin, Ireland

This is workshop 5 in a series and is entitled : The Multilingual Web − Linked Open Data and MultilingualWeb-LT Requirements. The purpose of this workshop is two-fold: first, to discuss the intersection between Linked Open Data and Multilingual Technologies (11 June), and second, to discuss Requirements of the W3C MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group (12 - 13 June). Whereas the format of previous and future MultilingualWeb workshops are aimed at networking across a broad and large audience, this workshop will be smaller and work-focused. Attendees for this workshop are required to participate actively and will need to submit a position statement for the workshop registration.

The workshop is part of the MultilingualWeb-LT project, and is hosted by Trinity College Dublin (TCD) Ireland.

JADT 2012 - 11th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data
13-15 June: Liege, Belgium

The conference is organised by the LASLA – Laboratoire d’Analyse statistique des Langues anciennes of the University of Liege and by the SeSLA – Séminaire des Sciences du Langage of the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Brussels
This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining importance since its first occurrence in Barcelone (1990), is open to all scholars and researchers working in the field of textual data analysis; ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from information retrieval to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from text mining to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Liège will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. For more details please visit the website.

CERI 2012
18-19 June: Valencia, Spain

The II Spanish Information Retrieval Conference aims to be a meeting forum for practitioners, researchers and teachers in the field of inforamtion retrieval. An overview of activity in Spain (but not exclusively) will be given, together with the opportunity for people to get together and discuss the future opportunities for IR in Spain. A call for papers and posters is now open. Details on how to register are available on the conference website.

NLDB 2012 - 17th International conference on Applications of Natural Language Processing to Information Systems
26-28 June: Groningen, the Netherlands

Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modeling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). For more information please visit the official website.

August

RuSSIR 2012
6-12 August: Yaroslavl, Russia

September

The Multlingual Semantic Web
2-7 September; Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany

The goal of the seminar is to provide a forum for researchers working at the intersection of natural language processing, machine translation, multilingual information and knowledge access, Linked Data and the Semantic Web to exchange ideas on how to make the Multilingual Semantic Web a reality. The seminar organizers will produce a vision statement on the Multilingual Semantic Web based on seminar presentations and discussions. The full programme and location information can be found on the Schloss Dagstuhl website.

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
9-13 September: Portland, Oregon, USA

InterSpeech 2012 will be hosted by the Center for Spoken Language Understanding, under the sponsorship of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). InterSpeech 2012 will be the 13th conference in the annual series of Interspeech events. InterSpeech 2012 will encompass the same broad range of topics as has been the proud tradition of this conference ever since its inauguration in 1990. The study of spoken language processing is inherently interdisciplinary, and is comprised of diverse academic areas ranging from psychology, linguistics, physiology, and physics, to medicine, education, and engineering. In an effort to further enrich this tradition, it will have an area of special emphasis ("Spoken Language Processing and Biomedicine"), inviting contributions in assistive communication, language markers for neurological disorders, and computational cross-fertilization between spoken language processing and computational biology. The venue of InterSpeech 2012 will be the Portland Hilton. Details about the conference, program and registration can be found on the official website.

CLEF 2012 - Information Access Evaluation meets Multilinguality, Multimodality and Visual Analytics
17-20 September; Rome; Italy

CLEF invites submissions for the CLEF 2012 Conference on all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. A series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative/competitive evaluations are attached to the main Conference. This is the 13th edition of the CLEF initiative as a forum for Information Access Evaluation with special attention to multimodality and multilinguality. Relevant topics for the CLEF 2011 Conference include but are not limited to: Information Access in any language or modality, Visual Analytics for Information Retrieval, Evaluation initiatives, Evaluation and Technology transfer. Full details are available on the website.

LRC XVII Conference
19-21 September: Limerick, Ireland

October

IC3K 2012
4-7 October: Barcelona, Spain

This 4th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K is composed of three co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas: KDIR - International conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval; KEOD - International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development; KMIS - International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing. These three conferences are always co-located and held in parallel. Keynote lectures are plenary sessions and can be attended by all IC3K participants. Full details of all conferences and associated workshops can be accessed via the IC3K website.

TAUS User Conference
15-16 October: Seattle, USA

The TAUS User Conference is the once-a-year event focused on translation automation, localization business innovation and industry collaboration. The User Conference is combined with the TAUS Data Association Annual General Meeting. Join them in Seattle to see how leading practitioners are tackling the most pressing issues and opportunities facing the global industry. Explore the best in translation technologies and strategies. Benefit from high-value networking with the TAUS community.

SLTC 2012 – The 4th Swedish Language Technology Conference 2012
24-26 October: Lund, Sweden

The fourth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC-2012) will be held in Lund, October 2012. It will be organized by the NLP group at LTH/Lund University with support from the Swedish Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT). The program committee invites two types of contributions to the conference: Papers (Preliminary deadline: August 27, 2012) Workshop proposals (Preliminary deadline: June 4, 2012) See call for papers. More information can be found on the official website.