17-19 Nov 2017
Poznan, Poland
Call for Papers and Participation Alain Colmerauer Special Session on Logic Programming and NLP at the 8th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2017) November 17-19, 2017 Pozna?, Poland In memoriam Alain Colmerauer (1941-2017), Pioneer of logic programming in natural language processing, LTC Program Committee member in 2005 who left us on May 13, 2017. http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/content.en.html#colme http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl https://www.facebook.com/ltcpoznan In memory of Alain Colmerauer who left us on May 13, 2017, and to whom LTC 2017 is dedicated, we organize a special session, for which contributions that rely or extend his work, as well concerning himself are solicited. These contributions can be research as well as state of the art papers, mini-tutorials or demos. Besides papers on new results we will highly appreciate contributions reporting on author's former results (already published or not), often remaining unknown to the large public, in particular those that directly refer to the work of Alain Colmeauer and/or his students. Also critical and comparative studies concerning logic programing versus other programming paradigms are welcome. We will consider: papers, posters, demos, and other forms. We plan a post-conference publication of peer reviewed full papers within 6 month after the conference (more details will be announced). Authors who wish to contribute to the Alain Colmerauer Session must submit an abstract according to the standard procedure indicated below and on this web page, and to inform the LTC 2017 organizers of their intention. We also intend an open panel discussion were we expect a wide participation. The Alain Colmerauer Session will be fully integrated with the LTC. This means that its program is accessible to all LTC participants, and similarly, the participants of the Session will have access to all LTC events. However, the session will have its own deadlines and publication policy. Please contact the organizers writing to vetulani@amu.edu.pl and stdizier@irit.fr (cc to k.r.apt@cwi.nl, mkubis@amu.edu.pl, and ltc17@amu.edu.pl). Zygmunt Vetulani, Patrick Saint-Dizier and Krzysztof Apt ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Zygmunt Vetulani (Poland), Patrick Saint-Dizier (France), Krzysztof Apt (The Netherlands and Poland) DATES/DEADLINES: * Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 26, 2017 * Acceptance/Rejection of abstracts: within one week after submission, but not later than November 1, 2017 * Participation fees for authors of accepted abstracts are to be payed no later than on November 1, 2017 * Colmerauer Session: during LTC, November 17-19, 2017 LANGUAGE The conference language is English. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION We accept abstracts in English only. The abstracts length should be of 3000 ? 5000 characters (incl. spaces). Abstracts should contain the title, author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), as well ?Colmerauer Session? as a keyword. The abstracts should be submitted using the general LTC procedure (see section ?Paper Submission? at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl). Abstract submission is obligatory to all active participants of the Colmerauer Session but does not exclude submission to the LTC ? main conference. In that case following the general LTC submission procedure is mandatory. Important notice. The above mentioned forms of publication will not exclude of the publication in the post-conference book. POST-CONFERENCE PAPERS A post-conference volume with extended versions of selected papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (Springer Verlag). Papers will be selected based on reviewers? reports among the best evaluated papers of general interest with new, innovative results. Preference will be given to papers providing significant content extension with respect to the paper presented at the conference. REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. FEES As for all LTC events (see www.ltc.amu.edu.pl), for deadlines see DATES above. ABOUT LTC The 8th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2017), a meeting organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland and the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation, will take place on November 17-19, 2017. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet, and META-NET. Since the very beginning (1995) the meetings of the LTC series continue to address Human Language Technologies (HLT) as a challenge for computer science, linguistics and related fields. This year the conference will feature invited talks by Chris Cieri (Penn State University, USA), Verónica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science, Burnaby B.C., Canada) , Joseph van Genabith (DFKI, Germany), and Jan Wielemaker (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands). For further information visit LTC website www.ltc.amu.edu.pl . CONTACT vetulani@amu.edu.pl (cc to mkubis@amu.edu.pl) -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam