SEPLN – CEDI 2024: 40th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - VII CONGRESO ESPAÑOL DE INFORMÁTICA

A Coruña, Spain June 20, 2024

The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) is pleased to invite you to participate in the Special SEPLN – CEDI Seminar 2024. The Seminar will take place on 20 June 2024 in A Coruña (Spain) co-located with the VII Congreso Español de Informática.

The SEPLN-CEDI 2024 Seminar intends to be an appropriate forum for helping new professionals to become active members in this field. In this respect, its main aim is to give the possibility to present real NLP applications (demos) and R&D projects.

Topics of interest Topics related to NLP, 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. Morphological and syntactic analysis. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse. Word sense disambiguation. Monolingual and multilingual text generation. Machine translation. Knowledge and common sense. Multimodality. Spoken language processing. Dialogue systems and interactive systems / Conversational assistants. Multimedia indexing and retrieval. Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval. Question answering systems. Evaluation of NLP systems. Automatic textual content analysis. Sentiment analysis and argument mining. Plagiarism detection. Negation and speculation processing. Text mining in social media. Text summarization. Text simplification. NLP in the biomedical domain. NLP-based generation of teaching resources. NLP for languages with limited resources. NLP industrial applications. Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation. Ethics and NLP. Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP.

Structure of the Conference

The SEPLN-CEDI 2024 Seminar will be a one-day event and will include sessions to present ongoing research projects and prototype or product demos related to the topics of the conference.

Paper types and author guidelines

The SEPLN-CEDI 2024 Seinar will accept two kinds of papers: (1) research project summaries and (2) system demonstration papers.

Research project summaries. They are summaries of ongoing research projects. This kind of papers must include the following information: Project title. Author name, affiliation and contact information. The review of this kind of paper is not blind review. Funding institutions. Research Groups participating in the project. Language: English. We will not accept research project summaries in Spanish or other languages. An abstract of a maximum of 150 words and a list of keywords. Minimum length: 5 A4-size pages. Maximum length: 6 A4-size pages (including references). In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic.

System demonstration papers. These papers must be related to NLP applications, and they must describe the technical details and the NLP components used or developed. The paper must be written in English, the minimum length of the paper must be 5 A4-size pages and the maximum length is 6 A4-size pages of content with the references included.

In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic.

The research project summaries and the system demonstration papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings platform, which is widely known by the computer science research community. Accordingly, the paper format must be in accordance with the CEUR template. We have adapted the CEUR Latex Template to SEPLN 2023 and you can download it (Latex, Word).

Submission Information. The papers must be submitted by February 16th, 2024. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the MyReview system available.

Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the SEPLN advisory council.

Camera ready - the final version of the paper should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper.

Preprint policy – The CEUR proceedings allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper is “under review” in the CEUR Proceedings. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper.

Important dates Deadline for the submission of projects and demos: Febraury 16th, 2024. Notification of acceptance: March 16th, 2024. Deadline Authors Registration: April 8th, 2024 Camera Ready: May 8th, 2024. Conference: June 20th, 2024. Organizing Committee Rafael Muñoz Guillena University of Alicante (Spain). Elena Lloret Pastor University of Alicante (Spain). Eugenio Martínez Cámara University of Granada (Spain). Alba Bonet University of Alicante (Spain) Robiert Sepúlveda University of Alicante (Spain) Alvaro Rodrigo Yuste UNED (Spain)

Contact

All information related to the conference can be found at: https://seplncedi2024.gplsi.es

For all general enquiries, please contact: seplncedi2024@googlegroups.com

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