NooJ 2020: 14th International Conference - NooJ 2020 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia, June 4-6, 2020 |
Conference website | http://nooj2020.ffzg.unizg.hr |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nooj2020 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 15, 2020 |
Submission deadline | January 15, 2020 |
Notification of acceptance | March 1, 2020 |
Camera-ready abstract submission | March 20, 2020 |
Selected papers submission | September 1, 2020 |
NooJ is both a corpus processing tool and a linguistic development environment: it allows linguists to formalize several levels of linguistic phenomena:
- typography and spelling;
- syllabification, phonemic and prosodic transcription;
- lexicons of simple words, multiword units and discontinuous expressions;
- inflectional, derivational and agglutinative morphology;
- local, phrase structure and dependency syntax;
- transformational syntax and paraphrase generation;
- corpus Linguistics implementations and applications;
- automatic Text Parsing and Generation;
- natural Language Processing applications.
NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, regular grammars, context-free grammars, context-sensitive grammars and unrestricted grammars as well as their graphical equivalent (finite-state, recursive and contextual graphs) to formalize each linguistic phenomenon. NooJ’s multi-layer approach allows linguists to accumulate elementary descriptions across different linguistic levels. This approach distinguishes NooJ from most computational linguistic tools, which provide a single formalism that could describe every linguistic phenomena.
As a corpus processing tool, NooJ is used in the Digital Humanities as it allows researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to apply sophisticated queries to large corpora in real time, order to construct indices and concordances, annotate texts automatically, perform statistical analyses, etc.
NooJ’s linguistic engine has been inserted into a large number of NLP applications such as automatic semantic annotators, Named Entities Recognizers, Information extractors, Paraphrase Generation, Business Intelligence, Machine Translation, Web Semantics, etc.
NooJ is open-source, freely available at www.nooj4nlp.net and over 20 linguistic modules can already be freely downloaded, as well as its manual, references, video tutorials in Arabic, Belarusian, Croatian, English, Italian, Spanish, etc.
Submission Guidelines
We invite the submission of abstracts in English until 15 January 2020. The abstracts should contain the title, name, institution and email of the author(s). Abstracts should not exceed one page (length between 300 and 600 words, references not included) and should be sent via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nooj2020.
The scientific committee will review all proposals and authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than 01 March 2019.
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
List of Topics
- 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. Automatic Paraphrasing. Machine Translation, etc.
Committees
Organizing committee
- Kristina Kocijan (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Božo Bekavac (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Krešimir Šojat (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Max Silberztein (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France)
Program Committee
- Max Silberztein (Chair) (Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France)
- Božo Bekavac (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Xavier Blanco (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
- Héla Fehri (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
- Kais Haddar (University of Sfax, Tunisia)
- Yuras Hetsevich (National Academy of Sciences, Belarus)
- Kristina Kocijan (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Philippe Lambert (Université de Lorraine, France)
- Denis Le Pesant (Université Paris 10, France)
- Peter Machonis (Florida International University, USA)
- Samir Mbarki (IbnTofail University, Morocco)
- Slim Mesfar (University of Manouba, Tunisia)
- Elisabeth Métais (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France)
- Mario Monteleone (University of Salerno, Italy)
- Johanna Monti (University of Naples, Italy)
- Mohammed Mourchid (IbnTofail University, Morocco)
- Thierry Poibeau (Laboratoire Lattice, CNRS, France)
- Jan Radimský (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic)
- Andrea Rodrigo (University of Rosario, Argentina)
- Krešimir Šojat (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- François Trouilleux (Université Blaise-Pascal, France)
Invited Speakers
- Simon Krek (Artifical Intelligence Laboratory at "Jožef Stefan" Institute and head of the Centre for language resources and technologies, University of Ljubljana - Project Leader of H2020 European Lexicographic Infrastructure)
- Anita Peti-Stantić (University of Zagreb, Croatia - Project Leader of The Building Blocks of Croatian Mental Grammar: Constraints of Information Structure (MEGACRO))
Publication
A selection of NooJ 2020 papers will be submitted for publication in the “Communications in Computer and Information Science” series of Springer Verlag.
Venue
The conference will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to nooj2020@ffzg.hr
More information can be found on the Conference web page: http://nooj2020.ffzg.unizg.hr/