Corpora: JADT 2000, 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

JADT 2000 (jadt2000@lia.di.epfl.ch)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:08:59 +0200 (MET DST)

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5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

March 9-11, 2000

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

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Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), and Nice
(1998), the 5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of
Textual Data will be held in Lausanne, on March 9-11, 2000. This biennial
conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first
occurrence, is open to all scholars working in the vast field of textual
data analysis; ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political
discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from
computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data
to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the
three-day conference in Switzerland will continue to provide a
workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and
panel discussions.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: September 10th, 1999
Notification: October 15th, 1999
Camera ready papers: December 10th, 1999
Conference: March 9-11, 2000

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THEMES OF INTEREST

The themes of interest of the conference concern the application of
statistical models and tools in the following domains:

* Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
* Discourse Analysis
* Computational Linguistics
* Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
* Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
* Stylometry
* Frequency Dictionaries
* Lemmatization
* Text Corpora and Text Encoding
* Textual Classification
* Information Retrieval
* Hypertext
* Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Monica Bécue Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya
Sergio Bolasco Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza'
Étienne Brunet Univ. of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
Yadolah Dodge Univ. of Neuchâtel
Annibale Elia Univ. of Salerno
Benoit Habert ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
Rémi Jolivet Univ. of Lausanne
Dominique Labbé Univ. of Grenoble
Ludovic Lebart CNRS, ENST Paris
Alain Lelu Univ. Paris 8
Sylvie Mellet CNRS, Nice
Charles Muller Univ. of Strasbourg
Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne
Max Reinert CNRS Toulouse
Jacques Rouault CRISTAL Grenoble 3
André Salem Univ. Paris 3

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ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Martin Rajman EPF Lausanne
Marie Decrauzat EPF Lausanne
Jean-Cédric Chappelier EPF Lausanne

This confernce is organized by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of
EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) with the support of EuroStat, Quantos and la
Société Française de Statistique.

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LANGUAGES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS

Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of
these languages:

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract.

As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.

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SUBMISSION

Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should
include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors
should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their
work. We encourage the authors to include in their papers proposals and
discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference.

Participants wishing to submit a paper or present a poster should send to
the program committee (address below) a short version for review by
September 10th, 1999, giving the following information:

* Name of author;
* Affiliation;
* Full postal address with fax and/or e-mail
* Title of the proposed paper with keywords;
* An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
* A short version (3 pages min./4 pages max.) of the paper emphasizing
the purpose of the paper, the problem addressed and the results
obtained;
* Bibliographical references.

Notification of acceptance will be send to the authors by October 15, 1999.
Final camera-ready papers should conform to the format that will be provided
to the authors and reach the committee (address below) no later than
December 10, 1999.

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PRESENTATIONS

Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each.

An overhead projector will be available for the display of data-bases and/or
software directly from the computer screen. Connection to Internet will be
supplied for speakers on request.

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PROCEEDINGS

All accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the
participants at the start of the conference.

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HOTELS

For accomodation during the conference, please contact the Lausanne Tourist
Office under reference ORG/JADT 2000 at:
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Switzerland)
Tel: + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax: + 41 21 616.86.47
Email: wandfluh@lausanne-tourisme.ch
Web: http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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CONTACT / ADDRESS

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

Tél : +41 21 693 27 35
Fax : +41 21 693 52 25
Email: jadt2000@lia.di.epfl.ch
Web : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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PRE REGISTRATION FORM

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This pre-registration form should be returned to

JADT 2000
Martin RAJMAN
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

Registration will be effective on receipt of payment (Details for payment
are provided bellow).

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Student : 150 CHF (approx. 93 Euros), copy of the student card
Early : 300 CHF (approx. 186 Euros), BEFORE DECEMBER 10TH
Normal : 375 CHF (approx. 233 Euros), after December 10th

PAYMENT:
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Registration fees include registration to the conference, coffee-breaks and
(except for students) lunch and proceedings.

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