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# C A L L F O R P A P E R S
# SLATE - 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
# Covilhã, Portugal, July 14-15, 2022
# http://slate-conf.org
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# CONTEXT
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We often use languages. Earlier, to communicate between ourselves.
Later, to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the
advent of networks, we found a way to make computers communicate
between themselves. All these different forms of communication use
languages, different languages, but they still share many
similarities. In SLATE, we are interested in discussing these
languages, organized in three main tracks:

* HHL Track:
Processing Human-Human Languages, dedicated to the presentation
and discussion of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and
applications.

* HCL Track:
Processing Human-Computer Languages, where researchers, developers,
and educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic
or industrial work on the design, processing, assessment, and
applications of programming languages.

* CCL Track:
Processing Computer-Computer Languages, broad space for discussing
(mark-up) languages for communication between computers, including
those used for visualization and presentation of information to the
end-user.



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# IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2022
- Paper Authors' Notification: May 22, 2022
- Final Paper Submission: June 12, 2022
- Conference: July 14 and 15, 2022



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# LIST OF TOPICS
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* Human-Human Languages (HHL) track
- Computational approaches to Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics;
- Machine translation and tools for Computer Assisted Translation;
- Computational terminology and lexicography;
- Information Retrieval and Automatic Question Answering;
- Information Extraction;
- Natural Language Understanding;
- Corpus Linguistics;
- Statistical Methods for NLP;
- Tools and resources for NLP;
- Natural Language Generation;
- Speech Recognition and Synthesis;
- NLP system and resource evaluation;
- Language teaching support tools.

* Human-Computer Languages (HCL) track
- Programming language concepts, methodologies and tools;
- Language and Grammars, design, formal specification and quality;
- Domain Specific Languages design and implementation;
- Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
- Dynamic and static analysis of programs;
- Program Comprehension and program visualization;
- Compilation and interpretation techniques;
- Code generation and optimization;
- Programming languages teaching methods and tools;
- Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces
(modelware, grammarware, ontologies, etc);
- High level visual languages for Low-code development.

* Computer-Computer Languages (CCL) track
- Semantic data description frameworks;
- Semantic Web languages;
- Ontology engineering;
- IoT data protocols;
- XML Databases and Big Data;
- Publishing and document storage formats;
- HTML5 and web formatting;
- Industry-specific XML based standards;
- Web APIs and service marketplaces;
- Service-Oriented Architectures;
- E-learning systems, standards, and interoperability;
- Data and graph visualization languages.



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# SLATE PUBLICATION POLICY
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All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

* Full papers — 8 to 14 pages, presented in 20+5 minutes, complete work,
including a validation or discussion;
* Short papers — 6 to 8 pages, presented in 10+5 minutes, ongoing work,
well anchored in the literature, but not yet fully validated;
* Lightning talks - no publication, presented in 3 to 5 minutes, research
ideas or work that has just started.

More details:

- Both full and short papers should be written in English, using the OASIcs
template. Please refer to our website (http://slate-conf.org/2022/submissions)
for details about the document preparation.
- Submissions will be managed through the EasyChair online system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slate2022.
- All accepted papers will be published as post-proceedings through OASIcs --
OpenAccess Series in Informatics (http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/)
in open access mode, under an ISBN reference and a DOI, and will thus be indexed
by services such as Scopus and DBLP.
- In addition, the authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
versions to appropriate journals (more information will be posted later on the
conference website).



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# COMMITTEES
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* SLATE 2022 Chairs
- Maria João Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
- Nuno F. Rodrigues (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal)
- Sebastião Pais (Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
- João Cordeiro (Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)

* Organizing Committee
- Alberto Simões (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal)
- João Cordeiro (Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Sebastião Pais (Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal)

* Scientific Committee
- Alberto Simões (2Ai Lab - IPCA)
- Alexander Paar (Duale Hochschule Schleswig-Holstein)
- Antoni Oliver (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
- Antonio Leitao (Universidade de Lisboa)
- António Miguel Cruz (ESTG, Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo)
- António Teixeira (University of Aveiro)
- Arkaitz Zubiaga (Queen Mary University of London)
- Bostjan Slivnik (University of Ljubljana)
- Brett Drury (Liverpool Hope University)
- Cristina Ribeiro (INESC TEC- Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto)
- David Martins de Matos (INESC-ID, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
- Dietmar Seipel (Univ. Wuerzburg, Dept. of Computer Science)
- Dušan Kolář (Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology)
- Fernando Batista (INESC-ID & ISCTE-IUL)
- Gergő Balogh (Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged)
- Giovani Librelotto (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria)
- Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (University of Coimbra)
- Hugo Peixoto (University of Minho)
- Irene Rodrigues (Universidade de Evora - Portugal)
- Ivan Luković (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences)
- Jakub Swacha (University of Szczecin)
- Jan Janousek (Czech Technical University Prague)
- Jaroslav Porubän (Technical University of Košice)
- Joao Cardoso (University of Porto)
- Jose Luis Sierra (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Josep Silva (Universitat Politècnica de València)
- José Carlos Paiva (University of Porto)
- José Carlos Ramalho (University of Minho)
- João Cordeiro (INESC TEC & HULTIG / University of Beira Interior)
- João M. Lourenço (NOVA LINCS — Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
- João Saraiva (University of Minho)
- Luis Morgado Da Costa (Nanyang Technological University)
- Luís Ferreira (IPCA)
- Maria João Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança)
- Mario Berón (National University of San Luis)
- Mario Pinto (ESMAD.IPP)
- Nuno Mamede (Instituto Superior Técnico, INESC-ID Lisboa/L2F - Spoken
Language Lab)
- Nuno Rodrigues (IPCA-DIGARC and DI-CCTC)
- Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela)
- Paulo Matos (Polytechnic Institute of Bragança)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (University of Minho)
- Ricardo Queirós (ESMAD- P.PORTO & CRACS - INESC TEC)
- Ricardo Rocha (University of Porto)
- Ricardo Rodrigues (Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of
Coimbra & College of Education of the Polytechnic of Coimbra)
- Salvador Abreu (LISP & CRI / University of Evora)
- Sebastião Pais (University of Beira Interior)
- Simão Melo-de-Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior)
- Teresa Guarda (Universidad Estatal da Peninsula de Santa Elena - UPSE)
- Tomaz Kosar (none)
- Vasco Amaral (NOVA University Lisbon)
- Vladimir Ivančević (University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences)



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# VENUE
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* The 2022 SLATE edition will be held in the Faculty of Health Sciences, at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã Portugal. More details can be found on the conference homepage. 40.26895 N 7.49374 W



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# CONTACTS
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* All questions about submissions should be emailed to:

slate2022 (at) (easychair.com)