Non-student participants:

• Regular registration fee (payment before November 10, 2013): 190EURO
• Late registration fee (payment after November 9, 2013): 240 EURO

• Regular registration fee (payment before November 10, 2013): 120 EURO
• Late registration fee (payment after November 9, 2013): 160 EURO

To be entitled to student rates the participant must present a student card (or equivalent document) valid on July 31, 2013.

Student registrations must be accompanied by proof of full-time student status (in form of scanned copy of a student ID card or equivalent document) and send by e-mail to ltc13@amu.edu.pl. The e-mail subject field must have the following format:
LTC-11-student-ID-card-'Name_of_participant'
(e.g. LTC-11-student-ID-card-Vetulani)

The conference fee covers:

• participation in the scientific program /including presentation of one paper/*)
• conference materials
• proceedings on CD and paper
• social events (banquet,...)
• coffee breaks

Conference fee for an accompanying persons is 50 EUR. The fee covers participation in non-scientific program (banquet,session coffee breaks).

The fee for one extra page (max. 2 allowed) will be charged 20 Euro.

*) In case of multiple submission the extra fee of 120 Euro for one additional paper (not covered by the conference fee paid by a co-author) is to be paid.

By credit card (recommended):
Please do follow the following 6-step procedure:

1. Download the form: [credit card form DOC] or [credit card form PDF]
2. Print the form
3. Complete the form
4. Sign the form
5. Send a copy of the signed form (pdf) by e-mail to "ltc13-payment@amu.edu.pl" (the "subject" field of your mail must have the following format "LTC13-CCForm-'your_family_name'"
6. Send the same copy by fax to: +48 61 8295315

Date: 8.12.2013, half-day (afternoon)
LTC Workshop paper submission deadline : 22.09.2013 October 6, 2013.

Many less resourced languages (LRL) that are thriving to get a place in the digital space and that could profit of the new opportunities offered by the Internet and digital devices will seriously face digital extinction if they are not supported by Language Technologies. Language Technologies (LTs, i.e. spelling and grammar checkers, electronic dictionaries, localized interfaces, voice dictations, audio transcriptions and subtitling, as well as multimedia/multimodal search engines, language translators or information extraction tools) are essential instruments to secure usability of less resourced languages within the digital world, thus ensuring those languages equal opportunities and raising their profile in the eyes of natives but also non-natives from the younger, digitally-oriented generation. However, there are many challenges to be faced to equip less resourced languages with LTs (from basic to advanced): a substantial delay in development of basic technologies, a lack of cooperation among languages communities, a chronic shortage of funding (in particular for minority languages not officially recognized, yet often the most vital ones over the Internet) and the limited economic value placed over LTs for minority languages by the market rules. At this critical time, this workshop seeks to continue the debate as to what new technologies have to offer less resourced languages, and how the research community might seek to overcome the challenges and exploit the opportunities.

Topics:

• Experiences in the development of digital applications for LRLs
• LRLs in educational and entertainment applications
• LRTs for securing access and inclusion to speakers of LRLs
• Development of LRs through crowdsourcing
• Youth-oriented applications for revitalisation of LRLs
• Experiences/models of cooperation for development of LRTs for LRLs
• Business models
• Gaps in availability of LRTs for LRLs
• LR&Ts as a booster for the adoption of LRL within the digital world
• Lessons learnt from major recent infrastructure initiatives
• Infrastructures for making available LR and LT in all languages, and especially in the less-resourced ones
• Assessing Availability, Quality, Maturity and Sustainability of LT and LR, comparing the LRLs and the major ones
• Requirements for the production, validation and distribution of LR for less-resourced languages
• ...

Program (general framework): The workshop will comprise presentations (including keynote talks) and a panel session, including an EC representative . The details of the program is in preparation and will be published soon at this site.

Co-Chairs:

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)

LRL Workshop Program Committee:

Sponsors: FLaReNet, ELRA, Meta_Net

Inscriptions: as for the general LTC (+ cc to workshop chairs)

Fees: LRL is an integral part of the LTC (with autonomous Program Committee). Fees and payment procedures are the same as for LTC and cover participation in the general program. Free for participants registered to the general LTC.

Paper submission: format and templates as for the general LTC (see the Paper Submission Section; above). Papers should be submitted using EasyChair exactly as for the general LTC but copies should also be sent to the co-chairs of the Workshop, i.e. to: Khalid Choukri, Joseph Mariani , Claudia Soria and Zygmunt Vetulani. Please also put "LRL'13 submission" as Subject of your mail and "LRL" as a key word (both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself).

Presentation: publication in the LTC proceedings (paper + CD)

Reviewing: up to the workshop chairs + Program Committee

Program:

Session 1 (Chair: K. Choukri)

Session 2 (Chair: J. Mariani)

More LRL participation details: cf. also the general program (the access to the program of both the main conference and the workshop (as well as the social program) is the same for all LTC/LRL participants).

Date: 9.12.2013, half-day

Social trend observed in networking and business activity has several roots. First - it is a challenge for many of us to share our experience and productivity and become recognizable. Second - social or crowd creativity is a process of merging efforts and distributed resources in order to produce new quality and new products. Third - utilizing social energy and productivity may give beginning to new business paradigms. Among a variety of artifacts stored in computer networks text resources play an important role. Books, articles, reports, subtitles, comments, tables of data, e-mails, passwords and other textual feeds are easy to produce, easy to transfer, relatively easy to translate and very attractive to process and analyze. 2nd SAIBS is a place where we want to discuss methods of knowledge discovery in text, its visualization and commercialization.

An important contribution of social power is software developed and hosted by volunteers and distributed on word-of-mouth recommendation. By the way... isn't nowadays word-of-mouth derived from mining textual and multimedia content delivered via the Internet? During the workshop session we want to face social contribution to business processes taking into account possible benefits and risk factors. How far can business relay on social input? What are the limits or what are the areas where introducing crowdsourced parts may increase overall risk value to unacceptable level? What are social benefits gained by mining and aggregating knowledge derived from analysis social artifacts presented in text or other forms in global computer network.

Algorithmic trading (algo trading) practiced on stock markets and Forex trading platforms arises as a new challenge for algorithm designers. This field of knowledge and practice grown from human-eye analysis of text tables collecting series of prices is a good example how far computer algorithms can outperform humans in precision, speed and accuracy. During 2nd SAIBS we would like to face the phenomenon of social trading, compare models of passive income from trading systems based on algorithmic and social recommendation and discuss algo-trading boundaries. Should algorithmic trading become a part of computing science curricula? Finally we are also interested in research works which analyze crowd behaviour collected in text tables or visualized in form of charts.

Topics:

• Translation issues and multi-language data feeds
• Recommender systems based on textual content and comments analysis
• Mining text artifacts to feed recommender systems
• Visualization of text and digital data
• Social and language issues in software specification, design and production
• New face of interactive social games based on text instructions and wordplay
• Cultural and social issues in global software development
• Social sharing and exchange systems
• Crowdsourcing and crowdfounding
• Automatic trading systems
• Optimization algorithms in trade support
• Experimental discovery of market behaviour
• Business models based on mobile applications
• Knowledge commercialization
• Business process improvement
• ...

Co-Chairs:

Adam Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)

SAIBS Workshop Program Committee:

Inscriptions: as for the general LTC (+ cc to workshop chairs)

Fees: 2nd SAIBS Workshop is an integral part of the 6th Language and Technology Conference (with autonomous Program Committee). Fees and payment procedures are the same as for LTC and cover participation in the general program. Free for participants registered to the general LTC. Single registration covers only one paper presentation.

• Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
• Control and Cybernetics
• Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

Paper submission: format and templates as for the general LTC (see the Paper Submission Section; above). Papers should be submitted using EasyChair exactly as for the general LTC but copies should also be sent to saibs@cs.put.poznan.pl. Please also put "SAIBS'13 submission" as Subject of your mail and "SAIBS" as a key word (both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself).

• October 10, 2013, Submission of papers
• October 25, 2013, Notification of acceptance
• November 2November 6, 2013, Camera-ready papers
• November 7November 9, 2013, Authors' payment and registration
• December 7-9, LTC
• December 9, SAIBS 2013

Please consider the above date as hard deadlines

Program (general framework): The details of the program is in preparation and will be published soon at this site.

Presentation: publication in the LTC proceedings (paper + CD)

Reviewing: up to the workshop chairs + Program Committee

More SAIBS participation details: cf. also the general program (the access to the program of both the main conference and the workshop (as well as the social program) is the same for all LTC/SAIBS participants).

A call for exibitions and special events in preparation.

LTC 2013 will be located in Poznań.

The first day will be held in historical university buildings: morning registration, opening and the Leonard Bolc Session in Collegium Maius, Fredry Street 10 (ul. Fredry 10) (52°24'34,86”N 16°55'08,94”E); afternoon coffe brake and the rest of the day in Cllegium Minus (Rektor's Building) at Wieniawskiego Street 1 (52°24'29,84”N 16°54'56,50”E).

The conference will continue during the 2nd and 3rd day in the Mercure Hotel (300m walk from the 1st day location and 400m from the Poznań Central Railway Station ) at Roosevelta Street 20 (52°24'26,04”N 16°55'15,04”E)

As at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011) special awards will be granted to the best student papers. The regular or PhD students (on the date of paper submission) are concerned. Co-authored papers will be considered provided that the students' contributions exceeds 60% and that the main author(s) is (are) student(s)(this fact must be documented by a written declaration signed by all co-authors).

In 2005 the Jury, composed of the Program Committee members participating in the conference, awarded this distinction to: Ronny Melz (University of Leipzig), Hartwig Holzapfel (University of Karlsruhe), Marcin Woliński (IPI PAN, Warsaw) (picture at LTC 2011).