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Dear Colleagues,

The 9th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2019), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland and the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on May 17-19, 2019. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet, and META-NET.

Yes, we started 24 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). Today, we refer to this event as the first LTC. Since 2005 LTC is organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”. Fostering language technologies and resources remains an important challenge in the dynamically changing, information-saturated world and we invite all concerned people to join us in Poznań at the LTC 2019 in order to face this challenge together.

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 objective in our dynamically changing information-saturated world that motivate us to invite you for joining us at the LTC 2019 in Poznań.

Zygmunt Vetulani and Patrick Paroubek
LTC 2019 Co-Chairs
vetulani@amu.edu.pl and pap@limsi.fr

The call for System and Language Resources demonstrations is addressed to all Language Technology providers for both business and research purposes. Companies as well as individuals are welcome to present their novel or state-of-the-art products in form of demos. We are interested in:

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

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

Contact: Jacek Marciniak

Admission:
- The author teams of accepted papers are invited to present a DEMO without any additional fee if they are in a direct relationship with the original results presented in the paper. This relationship will be a subject of reviewing process. If accepted, the presenters will be entitled to have a 2 pages system presentation description in the companion volumne of the conference 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 system presentation description (2 pages, references included). The system presentation will be published in the companion volume of 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: April 10, 2019
• acceptance notification: April 15
• deadline for submission of final version of the demo/resource description: April 17
• duration: as the LTC 2019, i.e. May 17-19, 2019

• LTC Exhibition Area

• all presenters need to pay the full LTC registration fee (no student discounts),
• in case of DEMOs not related to a regular LTC 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 system descriptions (1-2 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 2019 organizers.

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

• applications of HLT's in medicine
• automatic summarization
• 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)
• langage generation
• legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges)
• less resourced languages
• logic programming in natural language processing
• man-machine NL interfaces
• methodological issues in HLT
• NL applications in robotics
• NL based interfaces
• NL understanding by computers
• NL user modeling
• NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention
• paraphrasing
• parsing and other forms of NL processing
• question answering
• sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis
• speech processing
• system prototype presentations
• systems with NL competence
• 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 should be addressed directly to the LTC Co-Chairs by email (vetulani@amu.edu.pl or pap@limsi.fr) .

The conference language is English.

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. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by the Polish Ministry of Higher Education. 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. 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.

A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.

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), Eds.: Zygmunt Vetulani, Hans Uszkoreit.

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

The LTC 2011 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 8387), Eds.: Zygmunt Vetulani, Joseph Mariani.

The LTC 2013 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 9561)Eds.: Zygmunt Vetulani, Hans Uszkoreit, Marek Kubis.

The LTC 2015 post-conference volume (revised, extended papers) appeared in the Springer Verlag series LNAI (vol. 10930), Eds.: Zygmunt Vetulani, Joseph Mariani, Marek Kubis.

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.

• Deadline for submission of papers for review: March 27, 2019
• Acceptance/Refusal notification: April 5, 2019
• Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: April 15, 2019
• Conference (all events): May 17-19, 2019

Notice: for workshops some deadlines may be slightly different

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.

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

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).

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).

In Poznań, Poland. More details soon.

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).

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