9th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive
Science, NLPCS 2012

28 June, 2012 - Wroclaw, Poland
http://www.iceis.org/NLPCS.aspx

In conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Enterprise
Information Systems - ICEIS 2012


Co-chairs
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Bernadette Sharp,
Staffordshire University, United Kingdom, b.sharp@staffs.ac.uk

Michael Zock,
CNRS-LIF, université de la Méditerranée (Aix-Marseille II), France,
michael.zock@lif.univ-mrs.fr


Scope of the workshop
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The aim of this workshop is to foster interactions among researchers and
practitioners in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by taking a Cognitive
Science perspective.

What characterizes this kind of approach is the fact that NLP is considered
from various viewpoints (linguistics, psychology, statistics, computer
science, artificial intelligence), and that a deliberate effort is made to
reconcile or integrate these viewpoints into a coherent whole.

We believe that this is necessary, as the modeling of the process is simply
too complex to be addressed by a single discipline. No matter whether we
deal with a natural system (people), an artificial system (computers) or a
combination of both (interactive NLP), systems rely on many types of very
different knowledge sources. Hence, strategies vary considerably depending
on the person (novice, expert), on the available knowledge (internal and
external), and on the nature of the information processor : man, machine or
both (man-machine communication, interactive NLP).

This being so, any of the following aspects are welcomed : structure,
representation and processing of information by different agents (natural,
artificial or both) and in different communication modes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Ontologies
- Text mining
- Conceptualisation
- Meaning construction
- Electronic Dictionaries
- Evolutionary NLP
- Discourse processing
- Social cognition of language
- Multi-Lingual Processing
- Speech Processing
- Pragmatics and NLP
- Tools and Resources in NLP
- Evaluation of NLP Systems
- Embodied and situated NLP
- Computational Models of NLP
- Emotion and language processing
- Translation and Machine Translation
- Multimodality in speech / text processing
- Cognitive and Psychological Models of NLP
- Text Summarization and Information Extraction
- Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems


Impotant dates
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Paper Submission: March 30, 2012
Authors' Notification: April 20, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 4, 2012Â


Workshop program committee
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M. Aretoulaki, Dialogconnection.com, UK
J. Ball, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
J. Barnden, Birmingham University, UK
M. Carl, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
D. Cristea, University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania
C. Day, Keele University, UK
R. Delmonte, University of Texas, USA
B. Endres-Niggemeyer, Fachhochschule Hanover, Germany
O. Ferret, CEA, France
I. Fischer, University of Konstanz, Germany
N. Hernandez, LINAS, University of Nantes, France
S. Higgins, Nottingham University, UK
O. Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany
G. Lapalme, University of Montréal, Canada
D. Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
W. R. Murray, Boeing Research and Technology, USA
A. Neustein, International Journal of Speech Technology, USA
K. Netter, Consulting GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany B.
R. Rapp, University of Leeds, UK
P. Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
C. Roche, Université de Savoie, France
R. Schwitter, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
F. Sedes, Université de Toulouse, France
B. Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK
D. Schwab, LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France
G. Thompson, Liverpool University, UK
D. Tufis, University "A.I.Cuza" of Iasi, Romania
T. Wandmacher, SYSTRAN, Paris, France
M. Zock, LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France


Paper submission
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Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed
above. Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats)
are available at: http://www.iceis.org/papertemplates.aspx

Please also check the Submission Guidelines
(http://www.iceis.org/submissionguidelines.aspx). Papers should be original
and their submission should be done electronically via the following link:
http://www.insticc.org/Primoris


Publications
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All accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in a special
section of the conference proceedings book under an ISBN reference and
on CD-ROM support and submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier
Index).

All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the
SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).


Secretariat contacts
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ICEIS Workshops - NLPCS 2012
e-mail: iceis.workshops.secretariat@insticc.org

Previous best papers were published in two special issues of the
"International Journal of Speech Technology":

1. Rethinking Natural Language Processing for Speech Technology, vol.
11, 1-4, 2008
2. Expositions of Romanian scientists on the design of text-to-speech
synthesis and natural language understanding and generation systems,
vol. 12, 2-3, 2009