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cervantes.es>SEPLN 2003 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 10, 11 and 12 September, 2003 University of Alcala Alcal� de Henares (Madrid) Spain Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto Cervantes Introduction The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcal� de Henares (Madrid, Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and innovation ac tivities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a forum for discu ssion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge an d scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active in this field. The conference website (http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln) offers full information concerning the conference, the organisers, the scientific committee, the programme, attendants, travelling, accommodation and information about Alcal� de Henares, NLP related links, links to previous editions of the SE PLN Conference, etc. Programme 10 September, Wednesday 8:30 Document Delivery 9:00- 11:00 Conference Room 1: Automatic textual content analysis Conference Room 2: Semantics, pragmatics and discourse; NLP industrial applications 11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:00 Opening Session 12:00-13:00 Opening Lecture: Prof. Jim Cowie. Computing Research Laboratory. New Mexico State University 13:00-14:00 "The new web portal for Language Technologies in Spain" Office for Spanish in the Information Society (OESI) Department of Technology and Linguistic Projects, Academic Area, Instituto Cervantes 14:00-15:00 Cocktail 16:00-17:30 Conference Room 1: Speech synthesis and recognition Conference Room 2: Workshop: Looking for answers: Current state and future of technology and applications 17:30-18:00 Coffee Break 18:00- 19:30 Conference Room 1: Speech synthesis and recognition (cont.) Conference Room 2: Word sense disambiguation 11 September, Thursday 9:00-11:00 Conference Room 1: PROJECTS Conference Room 3: DEMOS All the demonstrations will be shown simultaneously and will be available from 9:00 to 14:00 h. 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30- 12:30 Guest Lecture: Prof. Jos� B. Mari�o Acebal. Technical University of Catalonia 12:30-14:00 Conference Room 1: PROJECTS Conference Room 3: DEMOS 14:00-16:00 Lunch 16:00-17:30 Conference Room 1: Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis Conference Room 2: Workshop: Speech technology: past, present and future. Technology for the Spanish Language 17:30-18:00 Coffee Break 18:00- 19:00 Conference Room 1 Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis (cont.) Conference Room 2: Workshop: Speech technology: past, present and future. T echnology for the Spanish Language (cont.) 19:00-19:30 SEPLN Members Meeting 12 September, Friday 9:00-11:00 Conference Room 1: Corpus linguistics Conference Room 2: Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Guest Lecture: Prof. Bernardo Magnini. Instituto Trentino di Cultura 12:30-13:30 Conference Room 1: Computational Lexicography Conference Room 2: Machine translation 13:30-14:00 Closing Session Registration form (This form can also be completed at the conference website: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln) Last name* First name* ID number* Organisation Department Position Postal address ZIP Code Location Province/State Country Telephone Fax E-mail* URL Student SEPLN member Non SEPLN member *The following fields are mandatory: first name, last name, ID number and E-mail. Registration fees SEPLN members: 60 euros Non SEPLN members*: 90 euros Students*: 30 euros *How to become a SEPLN member: http://www.sepln.org/textSEPLN.html#socios Payment options Payment should be made by bank transfer, to the following account: Bank: Banco Santander Central Hispano Account: 0049-5124-65-2016001478 Holder: Instituto Cervantes Concept: Last name, first name, SEPLN International transfers: BIC Code: BSCHESMM IBAN Code: ES6700495124652016001478 Holder: Instituto Cervantes Concept: Last name, first name, SEPLN Please, revise the following information...: Your name, surname and ID number can be clearly understood. You have clearly stated the concept field (last name, first name, SEPLN) in the transfer, otherwise it will not be possible to identify who has made the transfer. Important information...: Possible bank commissions will be supported by the registrant: the Conference organisers must receive the exact amount of the registration fee. Students must send a copy a document proving their condition In order to allow your registration to be processed, please send as soon as possible a copy of the bank transfer receipt by fax (+34 91 88 8 1826) or to the following postal address: Secretar�a de la SEPLN 2003 Oficina del Espa�ol en la Sociedad de la Informaci�n C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcal� de Henares (Madrid) Spain Important dates Registration deadline: dates of the conference Dates of the 19th SEPLN Conference: 10 - 12 September, 2003 Venue Faculty of Law University of Alcal� Libreros, 17 Alcal� de Henares (Madrid) Contact details Should you need further information, please contact: Secretar�a del XIX Congreso de la SEPLN Conference coordinator: Isabel Bermejo Rubio Oficina del Espa�ol en la Sociedad de la Informaci�n C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcal� de Henares (Madrid) Spain Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94 Fax: +34 91 888 18 26 E-mail: seplnMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue