NooJ 2023: Call for papers Conference URL: https://conference.unizd.hr/noojconference/
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The 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 Zadar, Croatia May, 31st – June, 2nd 2023
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The University of Zadar (Department of Classical Philology and Department of Information Sciences), in cooperation with the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles (C.R.I.T.) from the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon) and the NooJ association are organizing the 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 to be held from May 31st to June 2nd, 2023 in Zadar (Croatia). NooJ annual conferences give NooJ users the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; to present the latest linguistic resources, Digital Humanities experiments and NLP applications developed with NooJ; to offer researchers and graduate students a tutorial to help them parse corpora and build NLP applications with NooJ.
ABOUT NOOJ ******************** NooJ is a linguistic development environment software as well as a corpus processor. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, Regular Grammars, Context-Free Grammars, Context-Sensitive Grammars, as well as their graphical equivalents, to formalize various linguistic phenomena. NooJ’s multi-layer approach allows linguists to accumulate elementary descriptions across different linguistic levels. NooJ is used as a corpus processor in the Digital Humanities as it allows researchers in the Social sciences to apply sophisticated queries to large corpora in real time, annotate texts automatically and perform various statistical analyses. NooJ’s linguistic engine has been integrated into various NLP applications that perform automatic semantic annotation, Named Entities Recognition, Information extraction, Paraphrase Generation, Business Intelligence, Machine Translator, Web Semantics. NooJ is a free open-source software promoted by the METASHARE European programme. It can run on Windows (C# .NET), macOS, LINUX and UNIX (Java). Its new engine and its source “RA” can be downloaded from GitLab and runs natively on Windows, macOS and LINUX.
TOPICS OF INTEREST ******************** * Linguistic Resources: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis.
* Digital Humanities: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences.
* Natural Language Processing Applications: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc.
SUBMISSIONS ******************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until January 15th, 2023. Abstracts should be between 300 and 600 words and submitted via Easy Abstract: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nooj2023. The scientific committee will review all proposals and authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than March 1st, 2023. All papers must be original and cannot simultaneously be presented to another journal or conference.
IMPORTANT DATES ******************** Abstract submission: January 15th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2023 Camera-ready abstract submission: March 20th, 2023 Early Registration: until April 15th, 2023 Selected papers submission: September 13th, 2023
POST-PROCEEDINGS ******************** A selection of the papers presented at the NooJ 2023 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 13th, 2023. Meeting Location: Zadar, Croatia Contact Information: Linda Mijić nooj2023conf@gmail.com Meeting Dates: May 31st, 2023 to June 2nd, 2023 Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from November 11th, 2022 until January 15th, 2023.