The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 pages in the conference format) are due by March 27, 2019 (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'19 web submission system (EasyChair).

Acceptance/refusal notification will be sent by April 7, 2019. At the same time, the detailed guidelines for the final submission of accepted papers will be published on the conference web site.

Final papers should be sent by e-mail to ltc19@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.
• The required final format is the same as for the initial paper submission. Please use the same templates to prepare the final PDF file.

• Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 27, 2019 (passed, but see below)
• Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 10 April 19, 2019
• Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 15 April 25, 2019 (except for last-minute-call papers /see below/)
• Conference (all events): May 17-19, 2019

Important notice: Submission deadlines for the general tracks and workshops passed. For those who intend to submit papers to the LTC 2019 we opened the LAST MINUTE CALL FOR PAPERS (below).



LAST MINUTE CALL FOR PAPERS


As an answer to the large number of people who asked for an extra delay for submitting a paper to LTC 2019 (general track or workshops), we decided take the opportunity to test a new on the fly review procedure. Acceptance/refusal notifications will be issued shortly after reception of your submission, on an individual basis.
Please do consider to benefit of the possibility to submit until April 30.
(Please address all submissions to the main track.)

Non-student participants:

• Regular registration fee (payment before May 6, 2019): 200 EURO
• Late registration fee (payment after May 5, 2019): 260 EURO

• Regular registration fee (payment before May 6, 2019): 140 EURO
• Late registration fee (payment after May 5, 2019): 190 EURO

To be entitled to student rates the participant must present a student card (or equivalent document) valid on May 17-19, 2019.

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 ltc19@amu.edu.pl. The e-mail subject field must have the following format:
LTC-19-student-ID-card-'Name_of_participant'
(e.g. LTC-19-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 the non-scientific program (banquet, 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, May 17, 2019 University Library, 38/40 Ratajczaka Street 9:00 - 10:30 Registration Collegium Maius, 10 Fredry Street 11:00 - 11:20 Opening 11:20 - 12:00 Invited talk 1: Belinda Maia 12:00 - 13:15 eHumanities as a Challenge for Linguistics and Language Technologies 13:15 - 14:30 Lunch break University Library, 38/40 Ratajczaka Street 14:30 - 15:45 Machine translation Room 50 (NOVA) Language resources and tools 1 Room 141 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break 16:15 - 17:55 Prosody Tools Room 50 (NOVA) Information retrieval/Information extraction 1 Room 141 18:00 - 19:00 Meeting of the Best Student Paper Award Jury (closed) Day 2, Saturday, May 18, 2019 University Library, 38/40 Ratajczaka Street 8:15 - 9:30 Computational semantics Room 50 (NOVA) Information retrieval/Information extraction 2 Room 141 9:35 - 10:50 DEMO session 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break 11:20 - 12:35 Human Language Technologies in Crisis and Emergency Management / Applications 1 Room 50 (NOVA) Language resources and tools 2 Room 141 12:40 - 13:20 Invited talk 2: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova Room 50 (NOVA) 13:20 - 14:20 Lunch break 14:20 - 16:00 Applications 2 Room 50 (NOVA) Information retrieval/Information extraction 3 Room 141 Collegium Maius, 10 Fredry Street 18:00 - 22:00 Gala dinner University Library, 38/40 Ratajczaka Street 22:20 - 23:00 Social Event - Library Tour - Long Night of Museums Day 3, Sunday, May 19, 2019 University Library, 38/40 Ratajczaka Street 8:45 - 10:25 Less-Resourced Languages Room 50 (NOVA) Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions 1 Room 141 10:25 - 10:55 Coffee break 10:55 - 12:25 Lecture by the LTC sponsor: Build a deeper voice experience for Samsung’s Bixby platform. Bixby Capsule development session. Room 50 (NOVA) 12:25 - 12:50 Open Challenge for Correcting Errors of Speech Recognition Systems Room 50 (NOVA) 12:50 - 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 - 15:40 Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry Room 50 (NOVA) Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions Room 141 15:45 - 16:25 Invited talk 3: Delyth Prys Developing Language Technologies for less-resourced languages Room 50 (NOVA) 16:30 - 18:10 Parsing / Morphology Room 50 (NOVA) 18:10 - 18:25 Closure session Room 50 (NOVA) TECHNICAL SESSIONS Day 1: May 17, 2019 Session: eHumanities as a Challenge for Linguistics and Language Technologies 12:20 - 13:15 Frame-based annotation in the corpus of synesthetic metaphors Magdalena Zawisławska Crawling in Reverse -- Lightweight Targeted Crawling of News Portals Balázs Indig, Tibor Kákonyi and Attila Novák Detecting word level metaphors in Polish Aleksander Wawer, Małgorzata Marciniak and Agnieszka Mykowiecka Session: Machine translation 14:30 - 15:45 Automatic translation of the CLEVR dataset into Polish Maciej Kocot and Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl Output Polishing Methods for any to English Machine Translation Davood Mohammadifar and Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani Session: Language resources and tools 1 14:30 - 15:45 Towards an Automatic Rule-Based Disambiguation Algorithm for Polish Zbigniew Kaleta Towards TreeLex++: a Syntactico-Semantic Lexical Resource for French Anna Kupsc, Pauline Haas, Rafael Marin and Antonio Balvet PolEval 2019 --- the next chapter in evaluating Natural Language Processing tools for Polish Łukasz Kobyliński, Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Jan Kocoń, Michał Marcińczuk, Aleksander Smywiński-Pohl, Krzysztof Wołk, Danijel Koržinek, Michał Ptaszyński, Agata Pieciukiewicz and Paweł Dybała Session: Prosody Tools 16:15 - 17:55 Search for Inter-Pausal Units: application to Cheese! corpus Brigitte Bigi and Béatrice Priego-Valverde Annotation Pro + CLARIN-PL Align: automatic segmentation and transcription module for desktop uses Katarzyna Klessa and Danijel Koržinek An Online Tutorial Tool for Acoustic Prosody Visualisation Dafydd Gibbon A set of tools for analysis of speech fundamental frequency Jolanta Bachan Session: Information retrieval / Information extraction 1 16:15 - 17:55 Confidence order for joint extraction of entities and relations Shuo Qiu and Yves Lepage Sentiment Embedded Representation Learning Using Auto-Encoders Behnam Sabeti and Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani Polish Word Association Prediction Krzysztof Wróbel Day 2: May 18, 2019 Session: Computational semantics 8:15 - 9:30 Semantico-formal resolution of analogies between sentences Yves Lepage Iterative training for unsupervised word embedding mapping Sijia Yu and Yves Lepage Towards Automated Extraction of Translational Equivalents from Interlingual Synset Relations Maciej Piasecki, Roman Dyszlewski and Ewa Rudnicka Session: Information retrieval / Information extraction 2 8:15 - 9:30 Multi-Word Expressions Extraction for Clinical Domain Srishti Singh, Girish Nath Jha, Nganthoibi Oinam, Diwakar Mishra and Pinal Patel Adaptive Deep Ensemble Learning for Tone Feature Pattern Classification Udoinyang Inyang and Moses Ekpenyong Thai Named Entity Tagged Corpus Annotation Scheme and Self Verification Kitiya Suriyachay, Thatsanee Charoenporn and Virach Sornlertlamvanich Session: Demo session 9:30 - 10:50 Logging and Mapping Keystroke with Translog-II and the CRITT TPR-DB Michael Carl Demo of XTM the leading Cloud based TMS Andrzej Zydroń and Mikołaj Lauer Filtering multi-levels annotated data Brigitte Bigi Annotation and annotation mining tools for analyzing speech prosody in the Polish-German Borderland database Katarzyna Klessa, Maciej Karpiński and Brigitte Bigi Katana and Grand Guru: a Game of the Lost Words Alice Millour, Marianne Grace Araneta, Ivana Lazić Konjik, Annalisa Raffone, Yann-Alan Pilatte and Karën Fort Demonstrating ConstruKT, a text annotation toolkit for generalized linguistic contructions applied to communication spin Anna Koroleva and Patrick Paroubek CRAFT and ProsodyPy: Online and Offline Tools for Prosodic Acoustic Analysis Dafydd Gibbon TSCC as a tool for lexical structure studies in application to literary output Zygmunt Vetulani, Marta Witkowska, Marek Kubis Ontology Repository Tool for effective development and deployment of wordnet based ontologies Jacek Marciniak Session: Human Language Technologies in Crisis and Emergency Management / Applications 1 11:20 - 12:35 Developing a Virtual Reality Wildfire Simulation to Analyze Human Communication and Interaction with a Robotic Swarm During Emergencies Patricia Chaffey, Ron Artstein, Kallirroi Georgila, Kimberly Pollard, Setareh Nasihati Gilani, David Krum, David Nelson, Kevin Huynh, Alesia Gainer, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Rhys Yahata and David Traum Implementation of current state-of-the-art technology for obtaining a working Dialogue Agent Daniel Oklesiński and Wojciech Jaworski Goal-oriented dialog systems and Memory : an overview Léon-Paul Schaub and Cyndel Vaudapiviz Session: Language resources and tools 2 11:20 - 12:35 Evaluation of basic modules for isolated spelling error correction in Polish texts Szymon Rutkowski Legal aspects of the language technology development in the context of the European digital economy Ilya Ilin Session: Applications 2 14:20 - 16:00 Breaking the Linguistic Barriers to Access the Internet Gabriella Schittek, Jean-Jacques Sahel and Sarmad Hussain Voice conversion using deep adversarial learning Hubert Siuzdak and Jakub Gałka System for rapid classification and analysis of financial reports Matej Martinc, Martin Žnidaršič and Senja Pollak Towards a User-Oriented Infrastructure - CLARIN-PL Language Technology Centre Ewa Rudnicka, Tomasz Naskręt, Jan Wieczorek and Marcin Oleksy Session: Information retrieval / Information extraction 3 14:20 - 16:00 Exploiting Semantic Heads to Retrieve Compatible Nominal Expressions Simone Magnolini, Bernardo Magnini and Manuela Speranza First Steps in Recognizing Relational Entailment -- Experimental Corpus and Baselines Martin Víta and Jakub Klímek Visualisation of document similarities based on word embedding models for Polish Tomasz Walkowiak and Mateusz Gniewkowski Day 3: May 19, 2019 Session: Less-resourced languages 8:45 - 10:25 Building capacity for community-led documentation in Erakor, Vanuatu Ana Krajinović, Rosey Billington, Lionel Emil, Gray Kaltap̃au and Nick Thieberger LSTM based Language Models for Wolof Cheikh Bamba Dione Habitual aspect as a property of text spans Annika Tjuka, Lena Weißmann and Kilu von Prince Getting to know the speakers: a survey of a non-standardized language digital use Alice Millour Session: Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions 1 8:45 - 10:25 Prosodic Features Classification of Ibibio Affects Moses Ekpenyong, Nnamso Umoh, Ememobong Udoh and Aniekan Ananga Using book dialogs to extract emotions from texts in Polish Paweł Skórzewski Deep Learning vs. Classic Models on a New Uzbek Sentiment Analysis Dataset Elmurod Kuriyozov, Sanatbek Matlatipov, Miguel A. Alonso and Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez Session: Open Challenge for Correcting Errors of Speech Recognition Systems 12:25 - 12:50 Open Challenge for Correcting Errors of Speech Recognition Systems Marek Kubis, Zygmunt Vetulani, Mikołaj Wypych and Tomasz Ziętkiewicz Session: Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry 14:00 - 15:40 Design and development of preprocessing tools for media-corpus of the Kazakh language Madina Mansurova, Gulmira Madiyeva, Nurgali Kadyrbek and Zhantemir Yermekov A prolog format of Uzbek WordNet’s entries Khabibulla Madatov Uzbek language processing on the Multi-language modeled technology for computer translator Mersaid Aripov, Muftah Khakimov and Sanatbek Matlatipov Session: Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions 2 14:00- 15:40 Layer adaptation for transfer of expressivity in speech synthesis Ajinkya Kulkarni, Vincent Colotte and Denis Jouvet Corpus Creation and Baseline System for Aggression Detection in Telugu-English Code-Mixed Social Media Data Koushik Reddy Sane, Sushmitha Reddy Sane, Sairam Kolla and Radhika Mamidi Recognition of emotions, valence and arousal in large-scale multi-domain text reviews Jan Kocoń, Arkadiusz Janz, Piotr Miłkowski, Monika Riegel, Małgorzata Wierzba, Artur Marchewka, Agnieszka Czoska, Damian Grimling, Barbara Konat, Konrad Juszczyk, Katarzyna Klessa and Maciej Piasecki Lexicalised Morpho-Syntactic Patterns in Sentiment Polarity Recognition for Polish Joanna Turowska, Arkadiusz Janz, Maciej Piasecki and Jan Wieczorek Session: Parsing / Morphology 16:30- 18:10 Improving the Accuracy of a Persian Neural Dependency Parser using Ezafe Construction Maryam Gholamalitabarfirouzjaei, Ahmad Haji Mohammadkhani and Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani Morphological Synthesis and Analysis of Georgian Words Irakli Kardava, Nana Gulua, Jemali Antidze and Beka Toklikishvili New Transition Systems for Dependency Parsing of Sentences with Non-Projective Relations Maryam Gholamalitabarfirouzjaei, Aliakbar Nafar and Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani Combined morphological analyzer of the Kazakh language based on ontological modeling Altynbek Sharipbay, Assel Mukanova, Gaziza Yelibayeva, Altanbek Zulkhazhav and Bibigul Razakhova EXHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS Special events. Besides the standard conference presentation of papers, the Organizers are open to various kinds of initiatives (expos, demos, satellite workshops, panels, awards). A program of special events is now under construction. You are welcome to contact us with your suggestions. Until now the following LTC affiliated workshop have been pre-announced: Prosody Tools Workshop (PTW 2019) An event at: 9th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/) May 17-19, 2019, Poznań, Poland. Workshop organizers Chairs: • Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickewicz University in Poznań, Chair klessa@amu.edu.pl • Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Chair, gibbon@uni-bielefeld.de Program Committee: Jolanta Bachan, Adam Mickewicz University in Poznań Brigitte Bigi, Aix-Marseille Université Anders Eriksson, Stockholm University Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University Maciej Karpiński, Adam Mickewicz University in Poznań Katarzyna Klessa, Adam Mickewicz University in Poznań Mietta Lennes, FIN-CLARIN, University of Helsinki Zofia Malisz, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm Krzysztof Marasek, Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw Agnieszka Wagner, Adam Mickewicz University in Poznań Marcin Włodarczak, Stockholm University The objective of the workshop is to present and discuss tools for the analysis of speech prosody The workshop is intended in some ways to be a followup event from the Aix-en-Provence TRASP 2013 workshop (http://www.lpl-aix.fr/~trasp/). The tools may be new developments or established tools, and they may be highly specialised for specific types of analysis, or of general interest. The focus will be on tools that are freely available and easily accessible for all interested researchers, and in some cases open source, including both online and offline tools. The workshop presentations will take the form of software demonstrations and discussions of the motivation for the software, or case studies featuring results obtained with the software. The organisers hope for a free exchange of ideas, with the aim of increasing awareness of available free software, and with the medium and long term aim of adding to the range of open source tools in international repositories. We invite submissions on tools supporting prosodic investigation at all stages of speech data collection, processing, analysis, interpretation and practical uses (e.g. for the needs of psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, speech therapy, speech technology, teaching practice). Consequently, the workshop contributions can for example (but not exclusively) provide reports on tools for: • examining the production and perception of prosody; • approaches to speech rhythm and timing analysis; • approaches to speech tone, pitch accent and intonation analysis; • study of individual prosodic variation; • speech prosody studies from the perspective of: - phonetic-acoustic phenomena; - articulatory processes; - perception-based studies; • speech annotation and annotation mining; • automatizing the procedures in prosodic analysis; • advantages and disadvantages of different pitch trackers • issues in interoperability, re-usability, and collaborative development of the tools for prosody. Submission Submissions should include a description of the tool, with specifications of use cases, types of data handled, the user interface, input and output, and the methods provided by the tool. If possible, a link for accessing the tool should be provided. Submission details soon Access to the program The access to the program of both the main conference and all workshops (as well as the social program) is the same for all LTC/WORKSHOPS participants. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 27, 2019 Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 4, 2019 Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 12, 2019 Conference (all events): May 17-19, 2019 More about PTW 2019 at http://prosodytools.amu.edu.pl The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019) An event at: 9th Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/) May 17-19, 2019, Poznań, Poland. Chairs: Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Laurent Besacier (Grenoble Alpes University, France) and Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) Contact: claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it WORKSHOP TOPICS We invite original papers that address the particular needs and requirements of less-resourced languages. We in particular welcome papers on the computational processing of less resourced languages addressing the following topics. We also welcome papers on language revitalisation and literary development. Induction of multilingual resources for LRL Morphological Paradigm Learning for LRL Corpus building for LRL Dialect processing for LRL Spoken language processing for LRL Code Switching in LRL Deep Learning for LRL Computer-aided work with LRL Information retrieval on Social Networks for LRL Linguistic Resources for LRL Spell-check and automatic corrections for LRL Descriptive Studies on LRL Community approaches to revitalisation and literary development IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 26, 2019 Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 8, 2019 Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 15, 2019 LRL Workshop: May 19, 2019 Conference (all events): May 17-19, 2019 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gilles Adda (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Delphine Bernhard (LILPA, Strasbourg University, France) Laurent Besacier (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy) Jeremy Evas (Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Steven Krauwer (CLARIN, The Netherlands) Anne-Laure Ligozat (ENSIIE / LIMSI-CNRS, France) Girish Nath Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Michael Maxwell (University of Maryland, CASL, United States of America) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Maite Melero (UPF, Catalonia, Spain) Alice Millour (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece) Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa) Gábor Prószéky (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Hungary) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain) Kevin Scannell (St. Louis University, United States of America) Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology [SIIT], Thammasat University, Thailand) Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Menzo Windhouwer (Meertens Institute, KNAW, The Netherlands) PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by March 20, 2019 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the authorship in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, have a look at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). Important Notice: Make sure to include the keyword "LRLWorkshop" among the paper’s keywords. A copy of the submitted paper must also be sent to claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it, indicating "RL19 Workshop submission" as the subject of the mail. PUBLICATION POLICY Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors in due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by Polish Ministry of Higher Education. FEES LRL is an integral part of the LTC. Fees and payment procedures are the same for general LTC and workshop participants, and they cover participation in the general LTC program. Notice: the workshop is free for participants registered to the general LTC. Single registration covers only one paper presentation (general LTC or workshops) (cf. the Publication Policy section in case of more than one submitted paper). REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. OTHER Please note that remaining important information on the workshop and the general conference is or will be provided at the workshop web site http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/submissions.htm (under preparation) and at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. Workshop on Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry (TALC 2019) Theme: This workshop welcomes the submissions dedicated to resources and tools existing for Turkic and other agglutinative languages. We intend to launch systematic international work to enhance development of human language technologies for these languages starting with creation of a map of already existing digital language data and software. The preference will be given to freely available resources and tools. The organizers are looking forward to receiving contributions that will be presented in the form of software or data demonstrations. The goal of the workshop is also to integrate the community of researchers focusing on the empirical analyses of Turkic and other agglutinative languages and to stimulate scientific discussions regarding the development of language technologies for these languages. Language: English Topics: Experience in the production, validation and distribution of Language Resources and Tools for aglutinative languages LRT map for Turkic languages Morphology, syntax and semantics for agglutinative languages Difficulties in processing agglutinative languages related to writing systems and phonological processes (assimilation, lenition) Experience in the evaluation of Language Technology for agglutinative languages Infrastructures and policies for making available LR and LT for Turkic languages Translation related issues for agglutinative languages Language corpora for agglutinative languages TALC 2019 Organising and Program Committee: Gulayhan Aqtay (Poland, Kazakhstan) – Chair akgul@amu.edu.pl Paweł Dybała (Poland) – Co-Chair paweldybala1@gmail.com Yves Lepage (Waseda, Japan) - Co-Chair yves.lepage@waseda.jp Nergis Biray (Turkey) Henryk Jankowski (Poland) Annette Herkenrath (Germany) Laszló Károly (Sweeden) Gayrat Matlatipov (Uzbekistan) Habibula Madatov (Uzbekistan) Zygmunt Vetulani (Poland) Inscriptions and fees: as for the general LTC (detailed instruction soon) (all LTC related events are open for the workshop participants) Paper submission: as for the general LTC (EasyChair) (detailed instructions soon) Publications: see the LTC Publication Policy section, accepted papers will be published in the LTC Proceedings Reviewing: according to the general reviewing policy for LTC Workshops Program: The workshop will comprise presentations (including keynote talks) and a panel session. All the LTC events (general tracks, workshops and social program) will be open for TALC participants IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 27, 2019 Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 2, 2019 Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 12, 2019 LRL Workshop: May 19, 2019 Conference (all events): May 17-19, 2019 Contact: Gulayhan Aqtay or Zygmunt Vetulani Workshop on Human Language Technologies in Crisis and Emergency Management (HLTCEM 2019) This workshop targets all researchers and practitioners interested in the application of language technologies to support the response to and management of crisis and emergency situations. Linguists, computer scientists and - last but not least - first responders and relief workers are welcome to contribute and to interact during the workshop. We solicit contributions addressing both practical and theoretical aspects of developing and applying language technology for crisis and emergency situations. State of the art application reports as well as visionary contributions to the workshop discussion are welcome. By crises and emergency situations we mean incidents at varying scale, including smaller ones such as house fires, traffic accidents, local floods, hazardous material disposal, etc. or medium-size to large ones, such as natural or manmade disasters, terrorist attacks, incidents at large-scale social or sports events, etc. All such incidents pose safety risks to responders and public, and require that the response is carried out as efficiently as possible, both within and across country borders. The workshop welcomes original contributions addressing any aspect of the development and use of language technology that is aimed to support the crisis and emergency management (CEM) by any of the organizations involved in the response to and relief of such a situation, including the fire brigades, police, medical services, humanitarian organizations etc. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (DFKI, Germany) (Chair), contact: hltcem2019@dfki.de Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany Jakub Gorczyński, Polish National Police, Poland Muhammad Imran, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar Anastasios Karakostas, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece Claudio Rossi, Links Foundation, Italy Hauke Speth, Institute for Firebrigade and Rescue Technology, Germany Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (Co-chair) Leo Wanner, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Christian Willms, Talking Robots Group, DFKI, Germany WORKSHOP TOPICS The workshop includes but is not limited to the following topics applied to language technology and natural language processing for CEM: Requirements analysis and relevant use cases Text, speech and multilingual corpora Linguistic data annotation and analysis Team communication analysis and processing Speech-based and multimodal dialogue Human-robot interaction Social media processing Language data analytics Information extraction Question answering Automatic documentation and reporting IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 31, 2019 Acceptance/Rejectin notification: March 5, 2019 March 10, 2019 Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 15, 2019 Conference (all events): May 17-19, 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION The HLTCEM 2019 Workshop accepts papers in English only. Submitted texts should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. Size, format and templates are the same as for the general LTC (see the Paper Submission Section; above). Papers should be submitted using EasyChair. In addition to the submission through EasyChair an email containing the paper title, authors and abstract must be sent to the HLTCEM 2019 Workshop chair to the email address hltcem2019@dfki.de and to the LTC organizers to the email address ltc19@amu.edu.pl. Please use "HLTCEM 2019 submission" in the subject of your email and "HLTCEM" as a key word (both in the EasyChair form and in the paper itself). PUBLICATION POLICY Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors in due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by Polish Ministry of Higher Education. FEES The HLTCEM workshop is an integral part of the LTC. The LTC fees and payment procedures apply also to the HLTCEM workshop participants. The fee covers participation in the general LTC program as well as this and any other workshop. Note: A single registration covers only one paper presentation either at the (general LTC or in a workshop) (cf. the Publication Policy section in case of more than one submitted paper). REGISTRATION Only electronic registration is possible. See www.ltc.amu.edu.pl for details about registration. (soon). Workshop on eHumanities as a Challenge for Linguistics and Language Technologies The growing accessibility of various kinds of technologies encourages specialists from various areas of expertise to apply them in their research. Consequently, we observe an increasing need of the dialogue between the providers and the end-users of the technologies. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate the discussion and provide a meeting platform for engineers and specialists in the humanities. We invite contributions from the domains of technology and the humanities, not limited to linguistics. We particularly welcome non-trivial examples of the impact that Human Language Technology may have (and already has) on various fields of Humanities. Among the best identified areas of HLT applications are: qualitative and qualitative analysis of literary, journalistic, political, scientific, technical, etc. written texts/authors; analysis of audiovisual and multimedia texts; professional translation (translation technology, tools for information retrieval and pre- and post-editing); forensic linguistics (plagiarism detection, author / speaker identification); teaching methodology, psychology, cultural studies and language usage; social media – linguistic, social and cultural aspects. As this list is far from being exhaustive, please consider it open. We welcome both novel applications of state of the art technologies and novel technologies in application to well identified problems. Vision papers are welcome too. Chair: Belinda Maia (University of Porto, Portugal), Co-Chairs: Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA) and Janusz Taborek (UAM, Poland) bhsmaia@letras.up.pt ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu taborek@amu.edu.pl Program Committee Jolanta Bachan (UAM, Poland) Belinda Maia (University of Porto, Portugal) Christopher Cieri (Linguistic Data Consortium, USA) Łukasz Grabowski (Uniwersytet Opolski, Poland) Katarzyna Klessa (UAM, Poland) Marc Kupietz (Institut f. Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany) Henning Lobin (Intitut f. Deutsche Sprache Mannheim, Germany) Jacek Marciniak (UAM, Poland) Jürgen Neyer (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany) Marek Osiewicz (UAM, Poland) Georg Rehm (DFKI Berlin, Germany) Janusz Taborek (UAM, Poland) Zygmunt Vetulani (UAM, Poland) Marta Witkowska (UAM, Poland) PROPOSED WORKSHOP DATES/DEADLINES Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 27, 2019 Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 2, 2019 Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 12, 2019 Conference (all events, incl. workshops): May 17-19, 2019 >!--MORE DETAILS SOON--> The Third Workshop on Processing Emotions, Decisions and Opinions (EDO 2019) Theme and motivations During recent several years Social Infrastructure has become irreversibly linked to such the Internet and its everyday manifestations, like Social Networking Services (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). Every second this new tangible information-based reality provides large amounts of data filled with 1) emotional expressions, 2) people's opinions on various topics, and 3) their reasoning revealing decision making processes. These three are also closely related to each other and as such should be studied closely together. This, as never before, provides an opportunity for development and application of natural language processing methods, in particular those regarding such topics as emotion processing, decision making and opinion mining. We would like to invite papers from researchers with the common interests in knowing more about ourselves and the world we live in by means of opinion and sentiment analysis, recommendations, Web mining, decision making, etc. We are also interested in gathering researchers working on emotions, psychology, sociology or ethics with Natural Language Processing tools. We cordially invite experts, researchers and scholars in relevant fields to share their knowledge and join us in a constructive discussion on these topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Affect Analysis (and its applications) Cognitive aspects of decisions and opinions Decisions and NLP Ethics and NLP Knowledge acquisition Opinion Mining Pragmatics of decision making Preference models Recommendation Systems Sentiment Analysis Social Informatics Text mining techniques Program The access to the program of both the main conference and the workshops (as well as the social program) is the same for all LTC/EDO participants. Organizers Paweł Dybała (Chair) pawel.dybala@uj.edu.pl (Jagiellonian University, Poland) Michał Ptaszyński (Co-chair) ptaszynski@cs.kitami-it.ac.jp (Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan) Rafał Rzepka (Co-chair) rzepka@ist.hokudai.ac.jp (Hokkaido University, Japan) Program Committee Alladin Ayesh, aayesh@dmu.ac.uk (De Montfort University, UK) Karen Fort, karen.fort@paris-sorbonne.fr (Sorbonne, France) Dai Hasegawa, daihasg@gmail.com (Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan) Magdalena Igras-Cybulska, migras@agh.edu.pl (AGH, Poland) Yasutomo Kimura, kimura@res.otaru-uc.ac.jp (Otaru University of Commerce, Japan) Paweł Lubarski, Pawel.Lubarski@cs.put.poznan.pl (Poznań University of Technology, Poland) Fumito Masui, f-masui@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp (Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan) Mikołaj Morzy, mikolaj.morzy@put.poznan.pl (Poznań University of Technology, Poland) Koji Murakami, koji.murakami@rakuten.com (Rakuten, USA) Noriyuki Okumura, okumura@akashi.ac.jp (Otemae University, Japan) Michał B. Paradowski, michal.paradowski@uw.edu.pl (University of Warsaw) Tyson Roberts, tyson@goldengate.net (DeepMind, UK) Marcin Skowron, marcin.skowron@ofai.at (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) 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: Michał Ptaszyński, Rafał Rzepka and Paweł Dybała. Please also put "EDO 2019 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 about EDO 2019: cf. http://arakilab.media.eng.hokudai.ac.jp/LTC9/EDO2019/ABOUT.html (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). WORKSHOP DATES/DEADLINES Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 20, 2019 Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 2, 2019 March 10, 2019 Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 12, 2019 Conference (all events, incl. workshops): May 17-19, 2019 CONFERENCE LOCATION LTC 2019 is located in the Adam Mickiewicz University Library (Biblioteka Uniwersytecka), ul. Ratajczaka 38/40, 61-816 Poznań. Conference opening session on May 17, 11 a.m. will take place in Collegium Maius (ul. Fredry 10, 7 min. walk from the conference location). Registration desk will be set in the University Library (opening on May 17, 8 a.m.).     Collegium Maius, Opening Session ul. Fredry 10 Adam Mickiewicz University Library, Conference place ul. Ratajczaka 38/40

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AWARDS FOR THE BEST STUDENT PAPERS

As at the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Language and Technology Conferences (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013,2015) 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).

In 2007 the award for the best student paper was granted to Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana).

In 2009 two awards were granted: to Mahmoud EL-Haj (University of Essex, UK) (left) and Alexander Pak (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France) (right).

In 2011 the Jury decided to award three student contributions: Narayan Choudhary (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)(left), Moses Ekpenyong (University of Uyo, Nigeria)(middle) and Marek Kubis (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland) (right).

In 2013 the Jury decided to award: Dominika Rogozińska, IPI PAN Warszawa, Juan Luo (left picture), Waseda University, Japan, and Matea Srebačić (right picture), University of Zagreb, Croatia.

In 2015 the Jury decided to award: Keith Lia (left picture), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Marzieh Razavi (middle picture), Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland, and Zijian Győző Yang (right picture), Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. Notice. Pictures are clickable.