It is a pleasure to invite you to SEPLN2019. The conference is organised by
the Aholab and Ixa Research Groups from the University of the Basque
Country, and will take place at the Bizkaia Aretoa from Bilbao on September
25-27, 2019.

The huge amount of information available in digital format in different
languages calls for systems enabling the access to this vast library in an
increasingly more structured way. Furthermore, there is a renewed interest
in improving information accessibility and information exploitation in
multilingual environments. Most of the formal foundations for dealing
appropriately with these necessities have been, and are still being,
established in the area of Natural Language Processing and its many
branches: Information Extraction and Retrieval, Question Answering Systems,
Machine Translation, Automatic Analysis of Textual Content, Text
Summarization, Text Generation, and Speech Recognition and Synthesis.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the field
of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by scientific and
business communities. The conference also aims to present new possibilities
of real applications and R&D projects in this field.

Moreover, like in previous years, this conference intends to identify future
guidelines or paths for basic research and expected software applications,
in order to compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference
provides a useful forum for the exchange of views and ideas, being
especially beneficial to new professionals who intend to become active
members in the field. Topics of interest

Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations on topics related to language technology,
including but not limited to:
- Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language
- Machine learning in NLP
- Computational lexicography and terminology
- Corpus linguistics
- Development of linguistic resources and tools
- Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis
- Semantics, pragmatics and discourse
- Lexical ambiguity resolution
- Monolingual and multilingual text generation
- Machine translation
- Speech synthesis and recognition
- Dialogue systems
- Audio indexing
- Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval
- Question answering systems
- Evaluation of NLP systems
- Automatic textual content analysis
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Plagiarism detection
- Negation and speculation processing
- Text mining in blogosphere and social networks
- Text summarization
- Image retrieval
- NLP in biomedical domain
- NLP-based generation of teaching resources
- NLP for languages with limited resources
- NLP industrial applications