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Dear Colleagues,

The 7th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2015), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 27-29, 2015. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet, and META-NET.

Yes, we started 20 years ago! Our tradition goes back to the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII). Among the key speakers were Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufiş (Romania), Orest Kossak (Ukraina). Now we refer to this event as the first LTC. Ten years later, we decided to meet again, and since then the conference is being organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”.

Since the very beginning (1995) the meetings of the LTC series continue to address Human Language Technologies (HLT) as a challenge for computer science, linguistics and related fields. Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important mission in our dynamically changing information and knowledge society. We aim at contributing to this mission and invite you to join us at LTC'2015 in November 2015. As usual in Poznań.

Zygmunt Vetulani and Joseph Mariani
LTC 2015 Co-Chairs
vetulani@amu.edu.pl

The list of conference topics includes the following (the ordering is not significative):

• communicative intelligence
• computational semantics
• computer modeling of language competence
• corpora-based methods in language engineering
• electronic language resources and tools
• formalization of natural languages
• HLT related policies
• HLT standards and best practices
• HLTs as support for e-learning
• HLTs as support for foreign language teaching
• HLTs as support in solving Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects)
• knowledge representation
• language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English)
• legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges)
• Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing
• man-machine NL interfaces
• methodological issues in HLT
• NL applications in robotics
• NL understanding by computers
• NL user modeling
• NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention
• parsing and other forms of NL processing
• question answering
• sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis
• speech processing
• system prototype presentations
• technological aspects of nonverbal linguistics
• text-based information retrieval and extraction
• tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems
• translation enhancement tools
• validation in all areas of HLTs
• visionary papers in the field of HLT
• WordNet-like ontologies

This list is by no means closed and we are open to further proposals. Please do not hesitate to contact us in order to feed us with your suggestions and ideas of how to satisfy your expectations concerning the program. The Program Committee is also open to suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chair by email (vetulani@amu.edu.pl).

Dear Language Technology Providers,

We are pleased to announce the "Call for Demos of Language Resources (LR), LR Tools and LR-based Software at the LTC 2015. This call is addressed to all Language Technology providers for both business and research purposes. We propose to companies as well as individuals to present their novel or state-of-the-art products in form of demos. We are interested in:

• language technology based products,
• application-scale language engineering tools,
• applications for production, conservation and maintenance of HLT language resources.

The above must fit exactly to the LTC fields of interest (cf. the LTC topics as presented at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl)

Zygmunt Vetulani and Joseph Mariani
LTC 2015 Co-chairs
vetulani@amu.edu.pl


Admission:
- The author teams of accepted papers are invited to present a DEMO without any additional fee if they are in closed, direct relationship with the original results presented in the paper. This relationship will be subject of reviewing. If accepted, the presenters will be entitled to have a one page abstract in the proceedings (under the text quality requirements as for the other LTC publications).

- DEMOS NOT DIRECTLY RELATED to any LTC accepted publication of the presenters may be accepted according to the general reviewing procedure on the basis of a short demo presentation text (2-3 pages, references included) /including the short description of the presentation content/. The short paper will be published in the conference proceedings.

Technical conditions:

• provided by LTC: single standard size table, 1 poster (A0 size, vertical) support, 1 power supply socket,
• provided by the Presenter: all presentation tools and devices (computers, screens etc. are to be installed by the Presenters (no technical assistance from the LTC Organizers).

• submission deadline: October 16 October 22
• deadline for submission of final version of the abstract/short paper: October 29
• duration: as the LTC 2015, i.e. November 27-29, 2015

• LTC Exhibition Area

• all presenters need to pay the full LTC registration fee (no student discounts),
• in case of DEMOs not related to an accepted paper, the payment rules are as in case of the LTC standard papers,
• registration and payment of the due Demo Program Fees must be completed by final paper submission (at latest).

• through the EasyChair system, as for LTC papers (the demo description should be in form of a pdf document),
• "DEMO" is a mandatory keyword; it should also be used in the title/subtitle of the presentation.

• proposed demos and presentations of resources must strictly match the LTC scope and objectives,
• qualification will be based on short demo descriptions (1-3 pages, according the case - see above).

• presentations must be conform to the EU regulations concerning presentation safety. The Presenter is the sole responsible for the security of the audience during presentation.

• More information needed? Please do not hesitate to contact the LTC 2015 organizers.

The conference language is English.

The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by September 10, 2015 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, however, do observe the following:

1. Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier is recommended for program listings. Character size for the main text should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).
2. Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm between columns (gutter).
3. The accepted document size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.
4. The paper must be submitted as a PDF document, together with an editable source in MS Word or Latex. (Please no other formats.)

The Word template (ELRA/LREC based format) is available here.

The Latex template (ELRA/LREC based format) is available here.

All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC'15 web submission system (EasyChair).

Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent by October 18, 2015. At the same time, the detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will be published on the conference web site.

The deadline for final submissions is November 3, 2015.

Final papers should be sent by e-mail to ltc15@amu.edu.pl as an attachment and should conform to the following rules:

• The attached file should be named ltc-PAPERID-FirstAuthorName.pdf   /example: ltc-005-copernicus.pdf (the paper #5 with Copernicus as the submitting author).
• The subject of your e-mail should be LTC FINAL PAPER  PAPERID   /example: LTC FINAL PAPER 005.
• The template for MS Word or Latex should be used to prepare the final PDF file.

Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (anonymous submission model /blind reviewing/). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors before (*The date to be announced*). For the obvious reason that the conference fee must cover (in particular) the publication costs, the following rule is applied: "One registration fee entitles publication of one paper" (Cf. "Registration", below)

The LTC 2005 post conference selection appeared in form of Special Issue of Archives of Control Sciences (2005, Volume 15 nb. 3 and Volume 15 nb. 4)

The LTC 2007 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 5603).

The LTC 2009 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 6562).

The LTC 2011 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 8387).

The LTC 2013 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) is in preparation.

• Deadline for submission of papers for review: September 10, 2015 September 20, 2015 September 25, 2015
• Acceptance/Rejection notification: October 1,2015 October 18, 2015
• Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: October 29 November 03
• Conference: November 27-29, 2015
• LTC affiliated workshops: see the sections corresponding to respective workshops

Registration deadline for the Authors is November 6, 2015.

To register complete the following form.

The payment instructions are provided on the last page of the registration form.

The paper will not be further processed until the payment of the conference fee is completed.

Non-student participants:

• Regular registration fee (payment before November 10, 2015): 200 EURO
• Late registration fee (payment after November 9, 2015): 260 EURO

• Regular registration fee (payment before November 10, 2015): 140 EURO
• Late registration fee (payment after November 9, 2015): 190 EURO

To be entitled to student rates the participant must present a student card (or equivalent document) valid on July 31, 2015.

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 60 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 21 Euro.

*) In case of multiple submission the extra fee of 126 Euro for one additional paper of standard length (not covered by the conference fee paid by a co-author) is to be paid.

Day 1, Friday, November 27, 2015 Hotel Andersia 8:30 - 10:30 Registration / Welcome coffee 10:30 - 10:40 Opening by the Rector Magnificus 10:40 - 11:20 Digital Europe goes Multilingual for cultural, social, economical progress Invited talk by Jan Roukens PDF 11:20 - 11:50 Rediscovering 20 Years of Discoveries in Language & Technnology Joseph Mariani, Patrick Paroubek, Gil Francopoulo and Zygmunt Vetulani PDF 11:50 - 12:30 To the memory of Adam Kilgarriff Invited talk by Karel Pala and Pavel Rychlý PDF 12:30 - 14:20 Lunch break 14:20 - 15:40 TAN 1 Rafał Jaworski IR/IE Maciej Piasecki SPEECH 1 Girish Nath Jha 15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break 16:10 - 17:50 OWN Patrick Paroubek MT Krzysztof Jassem SPEECH 2 Katarzyna Klessa 19:30 - 20:30 Social program Day 2, Saturday, November 28, 2015 Hotel Andersia 8:30 - 9:50 TAN 2 Yves Lepage LRT Fumiyo Fukumoto SPEECH 3 Bartosz Ziółko 9:50 - 10:30 Presentation by the LTC sponsor PDF Introduction of Samsung R&D Institute Poland Exploring New Approaches towards Better Speech Translation 10:30 - 12:00 DEMO session & coffee 12:00 - 12:40 Machine translation and language resources for under-resourced European languages: challenges and experiences LRL Workshop invited talk by Mikel L. Forcada PDF 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 16:00 LRL Workshop EDO Workshop 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 19:30 LRL Workshop EDO Workshop SAIBS Workshop 20:15 - 00:00 Conference banquet The AMU Foundation - support for doctoral students Invited talk by Jacek Guliński PDF Day 3, Sunday, November 29, 2015 Hotel Andersia 9:15 - 10:00 Language Technologies and Endangered Language: Selected Cases Invited talk by Dafydd Gibbon 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 11:50 TAN 3 Rafał Rzepka TANO 1 Irina Illina APP Dafydd Gibbon 11:50 - 12:50 Panel discussion: Mass War Migrations and New Challenges for Language Technologies in Europe Moderator: Dafydd Gibbon 12:50 - 14:15 Lunch break 14:15 - 15:35 PAR Agnieszka Mykowiecka TANO2/SEM Elzbieta Hajnicz MWE Cvetana Krstev 15:40 - 16:20 Transfer to Porta Posnania ICHOT Porta Posnania ICHOT 16:20 - 19:00 Visit to the Historical Documentation Center (guided) Closure session with a glass of wine TECHNICAL SESSIONS Day 1: November 27, 2015 Session TAN 1: Text Analysis 1 14:20 - 15:40 3 Transformation Based Learning Algorithm in Myanmar Preposition Checker PDF Khaing Htet Win 13 Word segmentation based on proportional analogy and majority voting PDF Zhongrong Zheng and Yves Lepage 15 Improving chunker performance using a web-based semi-automatic training data analysis tool PDF István Endrédy 17 Combining various degrees of supervision in PP-attachment disambiguation PDF Katarzyna Krasnowska and Adam Przepiórkowski Session IR/IE: Information Retrieval/Information Extraction 14:20 - 15:40 21 Answer Extraction for Question Answering Game Application PDF Desmond Darma Putra, Volha Petukhova and Dietrich Klakow 38 Short Text Categorization by Smoothing Word Distribution PDF Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki 55 Extraction of part-whole relations from Polish texts based on Wikipedia and Cyc PDF Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl 86 Events Extractor for Polish in a Semantics-Driven Mode PDF Jolanta Cybulka and Jakub Dutkiewicz Session SPEECH 1: Speech Processing 14:20 - 15:40 60 On Improving Speech Recognition and Keyword Spotting With Automatically Generated Morphological Units PDF Arseniy Gorin, Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain and Thiago Fraga-Silva 6 Ortfon2 - tool for orthographic to phonetic transcription PDF Dawid Skurzok, Bartosz Ziółko and Mariusz Ziólko 9 Neural Networks for Proper Name Retrieval from Diachronic Documents PDF Irina Illina and Dominique Fohr 90 Consistency of Prosodic Annotation of Spontaneous Speech for Technology Needs PDF Jolanta Bachan, Agnieszka Wagner, Katarzyna Klessa and Grazyna Demenko Session OWN: Ontologies and Wordnets 16:10 - 17:50 54 Introducing a structure into a set of similar concepts PDF Agnieszka Mykowiecka and Malgorzata Marciniak 85 Ontology-based Generation of Event Extraction Templates and Frames PDF Jolanta Cybulka, Jakub Dutkiewicz and Michal Zetkowski 96 Exploiting Linked Linguistic Resources for Semantic Role Labeling PDF András Simonyi, Balázs Indig and Márton Miháltz 99 Wordnet-based Similarity Measure for Polish Short Texts PDF Maciej Piasecki and Anna Gut 106 A semantic similarity measurement tool for WordNet-like databases PDF Marek Kubis Session MT: Machine Translation 16:10 - 17:50 2 A novel method for finding and scoring valuable translation memory repetitions PDF Rafał Jaworski 7 Multi-processing and approximations in associative methods for faster training of PB-SMT systems PDF Yves Lepage and Baosong Yang 14 Analogy-based on-line reordering approach for machine translation PDF Hao Wang and Yves Lepage 75 Quality Estimation for English-Hungarian Machine Translation PDF Zijian Gyozo Yang and László János Laki 84 Interpreting the predicate-argument representation for the needs of the Thetos translator PDF Iuliia Romaniuk, Nina Suszczanska and Przemyslaw Szmal Session SPEECH 2: Speech Processing 16:10 - 17:50 10 Cross-Lingual Adaptation of Broadcast Transcription System to Polish Language Using Public Data Sources PDF Jan Nouza, Petr Cerva and Radek Safarík 37 Automatic Subtitling System for Transcription, Archiving and Indexing of Slovak Audiovisual Recordings PDF Ján Stas, Peter Viszlay, Martin Lojka, Tomás Koctúr, Daniel Hládek, Eva Kiktová, Matús Pleva and Jozef Juhár 45 Use case : a mobile speech assistant for people with speech disorders PDF Agnieszka Bętkowska Cavalcante and Leszek Lorens 48 Automatic differentiation between normal and disordered speech PDF Jan Felcyn and Agnieszka Bętkowska Cavalcante 70 Auto-correction of Consumer Generated Text in Semi-Formal Environment PDF Lipika Dey and Gargi Roy Day 2: November 28, 2015 Session TAN 2: Text Analysis 2 8:30 - 9:50 18 Exploiting of the time information in subtitle-like parallel multi-lingual data PDF Marek Bohác and Michal Rott 19 HunTag3: a general-purpose, modular sequential tagger -- chunking phrases in English and maximal NPs and NER for Hungarian PDF István Endrédy and Balázs Indig 44 A Lexical Approach to Acronyms and their Definitions PDF Cvetana Krstev, Dusko Vitas and Ranka Stankovic 35 SEJF - a Grammatical Lexicon of Polish Multi-Word Expressions PDF Monika Czerepowicka and Agata Savary Session LRT: Language Resources and Tools 8:30 - 9:50 32 Modular Language Processing framework for Lightweight Applications (MLPLA) PDF Adrian Zafiu, Stefan Daniel Dumitrescu and Tiberiu Boros 58 Corpus based evaluation of stemmers PDF István Endrédy 73 Grammatical Error Correction with (almost) no Linguistic Knowledge PDF Roman Grundkiewicz and Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt 83 RetroC -- A Corpus for Evaluating Temporal Classifiers PDF Filip Gralinski and Piotr Wierzchon Session SPEECH3: Speech Processing 8:30 - 9:50 87 Shallow Parsing for Automatic Speech Recognition in Polish PDF Alicja Wojcicka and Bartosz Zaborowski 11 A DNN Framework for Robust Speech Synthesis Systems Evaluation PDF Moses Ekpenyong, Udoinyang Inyang and Victor Ekong 100 Automatic Syllabification of Polish PDF Brigitte Bigi and Katarzyna Klessa DEMO Session 10:30 - 12:00 74 Combining Linguistic Knowledge with Machine Learning for Domain-Specific Named Entity Recognition /DEMO/ PDF Lukasz Kobyliński 98 DEMO: Access to a valence dictionary of Polish Walenty via Internet browser PDF Bartłomiej Nitoń, Tomasz Bartosiak, Elzbieta Hajnicz, Agnieszka Patejuk, Adam Przepiórkowski and Marcin Woliński 105 PolNet 3.0 /DEMO/ PDF Zygmunt Vetulani, Grazyna Vetulani and Bartłomiej Kochanowski 107 Opinions Corpora Acquisition Software /DEMO/ PDF Suleyman Menken, Zygmunt Vetulani and Marta Witkowska 113 Poema - Polish Sentiment Analyzer /DEMO/ PDF Antoni Sobkowicz 115 PSI-Toolkit - an Extensible and Tightly Integrated Set of NLP Tools PDF Krzysztof Jassem, Filip Graliński, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz, Paweł Skórzewski, Marcin Walas, Rafał Jaworski and Tomasz Dwojak 116 plWordNet 2.3 emo and enWordNet 1.0: a demo PDF Marek Maziarz, Maciej Piasecki, Ewa Rudnicka and Stan Szpakowicz 117 Demo of Langusta - the graph database envroiment for parsing of Polish PDF Jan Posiadała, Hubert Czaja, Eliza Szczechla and Paweł Susicki 119 XTM Cloud - modern award-winning TMS and CAT software PDF Mikołaj Lauer 121 DEMO of the latest developments in the Sketch Engine PDF Pavel Rychly and Karel Pala LRL Workshop 14:00 - 19:30 4 Using Recurrent Neural Networks for joint compound splitting and Sandhi resolution in Sanskrit PDF Oliver Hellwig 27 Normalising orthographic and dialectal variants for the automatic processing of Swiss German PDF Tanja Samardzic, Yves Scherrer and Elvira Glaser 29 The Malagasy language in the digital age Challenges and perspectives PDF Joro Ny Aina Ranaivoarison 39 Error Analysis of Named Entity Translation output for Poor-Resourced Bilingual Vietnamese-French Pair PDF Ngoc Tan Le and Fatiha Sadat 43 Requirements of Mobile Web for Indian Languages - Gap Analysis & Way ahead PDF Swaran Lata, Somnath Chandra and Prashant Verma 47 Tapadóir: Developing an SMT Engine and associate resources for Irish PDF Meghan Dowling, Lauren Cassidy, Eimear Maguire, Ankit K. Srivastava, Teresa Lynn and John Judge 52 Using TypeCraft and Annotation Pro for multilayer annotation and analysis of Tense and Aspect in Krio PDF Dorothee Beermann, Katarzyna Klessa and Beatrice Owusua Nyampong 53 National Language Technology Portals for LRLs: A Case Study PDF Delyth Prys and Dewi Bryn Jones 59 The Digital Language Diversity Project PDF Claudia Soria, Sirpa Hentula, Davyth Hicks, Eva Kuehhirt, Pertti Lampi, Justyna Pietrzak and Anneli Sarhimaa 63 (Re)thinking the BLaRK for Ancient Greek PDF Federico Boschetti, Riccardo Del Gratta, Francesca Frontini, Anas Fahad Khan and Monica Monachini 65 Pronunciation Lexicon Development for Under-Resourced Languages Using Automatically Derived Subword Units: A Case Study on Scottish Gaelic PDF Marzieh Razavi, Ramya Rasipuram and Mathew Magimai Doss 69 Looking forward by looking back: Applying lessons from 20 years of African language technology PDF Martin Benjamin and Mohomodou Houssouba 71 Issues and Challenges in Developing Statistical PoS Taggers for Sambalpuri PDF Pitambar Behera, Atul Kumar Ojha and Girish Jha 72 Quantifying the Use of Digital Welsh-language Language Resources PDF Gruffudd Prys, Delyth Prys and Dewi Bryn Jones EDO Workshop 14:00 - 19:30 40 Opinion Extraction from Editorial Articles based on Context Information and Predicate Classification PDF Yoshimi Suzuki and Fumiyo Fukumoto 103 A Tool for Corpus Based Studies on Language Expression of Opinions PDF Zygmunt Vetulani, Marta Witkowska and Suleyman Menken 1 Extracting Patterns of Harmful Expressions for Cyberbullying Detection PDF Michal Ptaszynski, Fumito Masui, Yasutomo Kimura, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki 8 Incorporation of Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Aspect-Level Sentiment into Hierarchical Dirichlet Process-Based Topic Models PDF Ming Yang and William Hsu 41 Exploiting Wikipedia-based Information-rich Taxonomy for Extracting Location and Creator Related Information for ConceptNet Expansion PDF Marek Krawczyk, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki 82 An application of automatic sentiment analysis methods in web-political discussions PDF Antoni Sobkowicz and Marek Kozlowski 91 Comparing Shallow and Dependency Syntactic Analysis for Opinion Target Extraction PDF Aleksander Wawer 97 Two-stage SVM sentiment and subjectivity classification PDF Jakub Dutkiewicz and Czeslaw Jedrzejek 102 Local Government Name Disambiguation on Japanese Regional Assembly Minutes PDF Fumitoshi Ashihara, Yasutomo Kimura and Kenji Araki 112 Cyberbullying Blocker Application for Android PDF Pawel Lempa, Michal Ptaszynski and Fumito Masui SAIBS Workshop 16:30 - 19:30 108 An approach to trading strategy optimization by perfect timing PDF Adam Wojciechowski 109 Sharing Services and Goods: the sharing economy management and perspective PDF Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni and Adam Wojciechowski 110 Orwell. From Bitcoin to secure Domain Name System PDF Michal Jabczynski and Michal Szychowiak 111 Health and assistance processes modeling and management at home and in residential structures by fusing sensor data PDF Federica Cariani, Fernando Ferri, Patrizia Grifoni, Pierpaolo Mincarone, Carlo Giacomo Leo and Saverio Sabina 114 Estimation of the number of participants in government tenders with computational intelligence PDF Yasemin Seren Demiray, Ahmet Murat Ozbayoglu and Bedri Kamil Onur Tas Day 3: November 29, 2015 Session TAN 3: Text Analysis 3 10:30 - 11:50 34 PARSEME - PARSing and Multiword Expressions within a European multilingual network PDF Agata Savary, Manfred Sailer, Yannick Parmentier, Michael Rosner, Victoria Rosén, Adam Przepiórkowski, Cvetana Krstev, Veronika Vincze, Beata Wójtowicz, Miriam Butt, Gyri Smřrdal Losnegaard, Carla Parra Escartín, Jakub Waszczuk, Matthieu Constant, Petya Osenova and Federico Sangati 89 Measuring readability of Polish texts PDF Wlodzimierz Gruszczynski, Bartosz Broda, Edyta Charzynska, Lukasz Debowski, Milena Hadryan, Bartlomiej Niton and Maciej Ogrodniczuk 56 Simplifying Basque Texts: the Shallow Syntactic Substitution Simplification PDF Itziar Gonzalez-Dios, Maria Jesus Aranzabe and Arantza Diaz De Ilarraza 76 A connectionist model of reading with error correction properties PDF Max Raphael Sobroza Marques, Xiaoran Jiang, Olivier Dufor, Claude Berrou and Deok-Hee Kim-Dufor Session TANO 1: Text Annotation 1 10:30 - 11:50 64 Hybrid lexical tagging in Serbian PDF Matthieu Constant, Cvetana Krstev and Dusko Vitas 28 Cross-lingual part-of-speech tagging for Maltese PDF Keith Lia and Héctor Martínez Alonso 68 Developing Part-of-Speech Tagger for a Resource Poor Language : Sindhi PDF Raveesh Motlani and Manish Shrivastava Session APP: Applications 10:30 - 11:50 16 Generating Nonwords for Vocabulary Proficiency Testing PDF Osama Hamed and Torsten Zesch 62 Multidimensional dialogue management for tutoring systems PDF Andrei Malchanau, Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt and Dietrich Klakow 95 Applying Code-Switching Method for E-Learning in English and Japanese Vocabulary Acquisition Systems PDF Michal Mazur, Rafal Rzepka and Kenji Araki 77 Digraph of Senegal's local languages: problematic, challenges and prospects of their transliteration PDF Nguer Elhadji Mamadou, Sokhna Bao Diop, Fall Yacoub Ahmed and Khoule Mouhamadou Session PAR: Parsing 14:15 - 15:35 22 Parsing of Polish in graph database environment PDF Jan Posiadala, Eliza Szczechla, Hubert Czaja and Pawel Susicki 33 A cluster of applications around a Deep Grammar PDF Lars Hellan and Tore Bruland 80 On genitive clusters, Kleene star, and an exploding parser PDF Tomasz Bartosiak and Marcin Wolinski 81 Formal Representation of Clitic Ordering in Serbian PDF Bojana Dordevic Session TANO2: Text Annotation 2/Semantics 14:15 - 15:35 25 Automatic annotation of medical reports using SNOMED-CT: a flexible approach based on medical knowledge databases PDF Damien De Meyere, Thierry Klein, Thomas Francois, Jean-Claude Debongnie, Cristina Radulescu, Nicole Mbengo, Maliki Ouro Koura, Yves Coppieters 't Wallant and Cedrick Fairon 88 Training & Evaluation of POS Taggers in Indo-Aryan Languages: A Case of Hindi, Odia and Bhojpuri PDF Atul Kumar Ojha, Pitambar Behera, Srishti Singh and Girish Jha 24 Study on Methods for Vector Representation of Text for Topic-based Clustering of News Articles PDF Michal Rott and Petr Cerva 31 Machine Learning for Semantic Parsing in review PDF Ahmad Aghaebrahimian and Filip Jurcícek Session MWE: Multiword Expressions 14:15 - 15:35 61 Lemmatization of Multi-Word Entity Names for Polish Language Using Rules Automatically Generated Based on the Corpus Analysis PDF Jacek Malyszko and Tomasz Wagner 36 Unsupervised Morphological Analysis of Central European Languages for Part-of-Speech Tagging PDF Daniel Hladek, Ján Stas and Jozef Juhar 23 Manual and automatic tagging of Indo-Aryan languages PDF Rafal Jaworski, Krzysztof Jassem and Krzysztof Stronski WARNING. This is not the final program. It may be subject of modifications. Please check the program table carefully and report us any bugs and errors.

EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS

Until now the following three LTC affiliated workshops have been pre-announced: The 1st Workshop on Emotions, Decisions, and Opinions (EDO 2015) (proposers: Kenji Araki, Paweł Dybała, Rafał Rzepka) The 4rd Workshop on Less Resourced Languages (LRL 2015) (proposers: Claudia Soria, Khalid Choukri, Joseph Mariani, Zygmunt Vetulani) The 3rd Workshop on Social and Algorithmic Issues in Business (SAIBS 2015) (proposer: Adam Wojciechowski) A detailed general call for exibitions and special events in preparation but the proposers are invited to contact the organisers already at ltc2015@amu.edu.pl or vetulani@amu.edu.pl.

The First Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2015)

EDO Workshop paper submission deadline : September 25, 2015. Acceptance/rejection notification: October 18, 2015. Final version submission deadline (camera ready): October 26, 2015. Workshop date: November 28, 2015 (half-day, afternoon) Organizers • Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan) • Paweł Dybała (Jagiellonian University, Poland) • Bartosz Ziółko (AGH, Poland) Program Committee • Alladin Ayesh (De Montfort University, UK) • Karen Fort (Sorbonne, France) • Dai Hasegawa (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan) • Yasutomo Kimura (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan) • Fumito Masui (Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan) • Mikołaj Morzy (Poznań University of Technology, Poland) • Koji Murakami (Rakuten, USA) • Michal Ptaszynski (Kitami Institute of Technology,Japan) • Tyson Roberts (Google, Japan) • Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University, Japan) • Marcin Skowron (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) • Yuzu Uchida (Hokkai-gakuen University, Japan) • Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) • Katarzyna Węgrzyn-Wolska (Efrei/Esigetel, France) • Adam Wierzbicki (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland) • Bartosz Ziółko (AGH, Poland) Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Affect Analysis (and its applications) • Sentiment Analysis • Decisions and NLP • Ethics and NLP • Opinion Mining • Recommendation Systems • Social Informatics • Text mining techniques • Preference models • Knowledge acquisition • Pragmatics of decision making • Cognitive aspects of decisions and opinions

Inscription procedure: as for the general LTC (+ cc to workshop chairs) Fees: The EDO Workshop 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. Single registration covers only one paper presentation (cf. the Publication Policy section). Papers: The EDO Workshop accepts papers in English only. Submitted texts should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. Format and templates are the same 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 EDO Workshop ) organizers i.e. to: Kenji Araki and Paweł Dybała. Please also put "EDO 2015 submission" as Subject of your mail and "EDO" as a key word (both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself). Presentation: publication in the LTC proceedings (paper + CD) More EDO 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/EDO participants).

The 4th LRL Workshop: "Language Technologies in support of Less-Resourced Languages"

Papers submission deadline : September 10, 2015 September 18, 2015. Workshop date: November 28, 2015 (half-day, afternoon) See also the 4th LRL website at ILC. Organizing Committee • Khalid Choukri (ELRA, ELDA, France) • Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, IMMI, France) • Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) • Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Theme and Motivation This Workshop is targeting all stakeholders somehow involved in Language Technology for less-resourced languages, either as users, developers, researchers, language activists, policy makers. As such, the Workshop broadly addresses current use and usability of Language Technologies for less-resourced languages. This year, we take the opportunity of celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Language and Technology Conference to analyze the influence of Language Technologies on Less-Resourced Languages over two decades. We will particularly welcome contributions addressing the following issues: 1) LRLs in the digital age - how well are regional/minority/less-resourced languages equipped for the digital age? What is the experience of speakers, what are their opportunities to act in the digital sphere by means of these languages? Do speakers of regional/minority/less-resourced languages experience any kind of "unequal digital opportunity"? What is the impact of LRTs on the use and usability of LRL on digital media and devices? 2) LRTs for LRL - development of LRTs for LRLs is often linked to purposes other than availability of applications for retrieving information or for enabling communication (e.g. language learning, identity-building or language reclamation): how often are LRLs targeted by applications for educational, entertainment, or revitalization purposes? 3) LRL: charting the field - what do we know about currently available LRTs for LRL? How to draw a comprehensive and accurate picture? Who are the actors to be involved? What is the experience of researchers and developers? 4) LRL: rethinking the BLaRK - the BLaRK still proves a useful tool for planning and implementing LT for LRL. How can it be remodeled/rethought in the light of current technological development? How can it be channeled into a coherent development roadmap? LRL Workshop Program Committee:

Delphine Bernhard (LILPA, Strasbourg University, France)

Laurent Besacier (Joseph Fourier Univrtsity, France)

Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Jeremy Evans (Cardiff University, UK)

Mikel Forcada (Alicant University, Spain)

Daffyd Gibbon (Univ. Bielefeld, Germany)

Tatjana Gornostaja (Tilde, Latvia)

Sabine Kichmeier-Andersen (Danish Language Council, Sweden)

Andras Kornai (Budapest Institute of Technology, Hungary)

Girish Nath Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)

Maite Melero (UPF, Spain)

Asunción Moreno (UPC, Spain)

Justyna Pietrzak (Elhuyar, Spain)

Stellios Piperidis(ILSP, Greece)

Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa)

Gabor Proszeky(Morphologic, Hungary)

Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)

Kevin Scannell (St. Louis University, USA)

Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology/Thammasat University, Thailand)

Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Marianne Vergez-Couret (University of Toulouse, France)

Patronage: ELRA Inscription procedure: 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. Single registration covers only one paper presentation (cf. the Publication Policy section in case of more than one submitted paper). Papers: We accept two types of submissions: (a) full papers and (b) posters. Format and templates are the same 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'15 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 and acceptance: up to the workshop chairs + Program Committee on the ground of blind reviewing 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).

3rd Workshop on Social and Algorithmic Issues in Business Support: "Paradigms Derived from Words and Converted into Algorithms".

Date: November 28, 2015 (half-day; afternoon) The SAIBS Workshop paper submission deadline : September 10, 2015 October 5, 2015 Co-Chairs: Adam Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Alok Mishra (Atilim University, Turkey)

Program Committee: Frederic Andres (National Institute of InformaticsJapan) Richard Chbeir (Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France) Wojciech Complak (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Michele Dasisti (Politecnico Di Bari, Italy) Joao Paulo Costa (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Arianna D'Ulizia (National Research Council, Italy) Fernando Ferri (IRPPS, National Research Council, Italy) Pedro Godinho (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Patrizia Grifoni (IRPPS, National Research Council, Italy) Patric Hamilton (University of South Pacific, Fiji) Mario Lezoche (Universite de Lorraine, France) Alok Mishra (Atilim University, Turkey) Miroslaw Ochodek (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Rory O'Connor (Dublin City University, Ireland) Herve Panetto (Universite de Lorraine, France) Robert Susmaga (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) Agnieszka Węgrzyn (University of Zielona Gora, Poland) Adam Wojciechowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Milan Zdravkovic (University of Nis, Serbia)   Theme and Motivations: Utilizing social wisdom begins with observation of human behaviour, analysis of artifacts, building paradigms on statistical models and converting them into algorithms. Social trend observed in XXI century networking and business activity has several roots. A base for rapid growth is accessible technology. But the force that drives people to active contribution is an everyday challenge to become recognizable and rich. Crowd creativity is a process of merging efforts and distributed resources in order to produce new quality and new products. Utilizing social energy and productivity gives beginning to new business paradigms, which converted into algorithms may be applied in various domains. Among a variety of ways how people share their wisdom text resources – words – 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. 3rd 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. 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 3rd 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. Aims, scope and Topics: During 3rd SAIBS Workshop we want to focus on computational and optimization issues that can be supported by crowd input or social intelligence. A separate issue worth to analyze is visualization of data and paradigms collected in databases and large text files. We will try to answer the question how far and on which fields business may benefit from utilizing social contribution. And finally, we will discuss problems how computer systems may understand social behaviour (sometimes named: market) and support humans in making decisions, i.e. in automatic trading. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: • Translation issues and multi-language data feeds • Recommender systems based on textual content and comments analysis • Object comparison, building ranks • 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 • Software engineering issues • 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 Inscription procedure: as for the general LTC (+ cc to workshop chairs) Fees:The 3rd SAIBS Workshop is an integral part of the 7th 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. (See the Publication Policy section). Publication All papers accepted for SAIBS 2015 will be published in the LTC proceedings (printed hard copy, with ISBN number +CD). A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers is planned. As this was the case for the previous three LTC conferences, we intend to publish them in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Authors of the best SAIBS 2015 papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their works to three international scientific journals. In order to qualify for a journal, the paper must be presented at SAIBS 2015 by one of its authors. Publication of selected papers in the journal will be subject to the second round of reviews (to verify if the paper satisfies the journal requirements, including 30% of new content when compared that the version from the LTC proceedings). Paper submission: format, templates and acceptance procedures are as for the general LTC (see the Paper Submission Section; above). Anonymized versions af 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'15 submission" as Subject of your mail and "SAIBS" as a key word (both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself). It is important to strictly observe the rule of of not disclosing the authors' identity in the copy submitted for reviewing. Important dates: September 10, 2015, Submission of papers October 18, 2015, Notification of acceptance October 26, 2015, Deadline for camera-ready papers November 27-29, 2015: LTC November 28, 2015: SAIBS 2015 Workshop at the 7th LTC Workshop fees: 3rd SAIBS Workshop is an integral part of 7th Language and Technology Conference (with autonomous Program Committee). Fees and payment procedures are the same as for LTC and cover participation in the general conference program. Single registration covers only one paper presentation. Contact: If you have any questions or doubts related to the SAIBS 2015 Workshop do not hesitate to contact us via saibs@cs.put.poznan.pl.

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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).

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