SLATE'2020: Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies Barcelos Barcelos, Portugal, July 13-14, 2020

Conference website	http://slate-conf.org
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slate2020

Introduction | Important Dates | Submission | Topics | Committees | Publication | Venue | Contacts

Regarding the physical meeting, we are following up on the developments of COVID-19. Until the end of May, we will share a final decision whether the meeting will take place physically or virtually.

Introduction

 

We often use languages. Earlier, to communicate between ourselves. Later, to communicate with computers. And more recently, with the advent of networks, we found a way to make computers communicate between themselves. All these different forms of communication use languages, different languages, but that still share many similarities. In SLATE, we are interested in discussing these languages, organized in three main tracks:

1. HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages, dedicated to the presentation and discussion of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and applications.
2. HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages, where researchers, developers, and educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic or industrial work on the design, processing, assessment, and applications of programming languages.
3. CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages, broad space for discussing (mark-up) languages for communication between computers, including those used for visualization and presentation of information to the end-user. 

Important dates

Full papers

• Paper Submission: May 01 May 22, 2020
• Paper Authors' Notification: May 22 June 12, 2020
• Final Paper Submission: June 12 July 01, 2020

Other Dates

• Accepted Paper's Author's Registration Deadline: tbd, 2020
• Conference: July 13 and 14, 2020

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers — 8 to 14 pages, presented in 20+5 minutes, complete work, including a validation or discussion;
• Short papers — 6 to 8 pages, presented in 10+5 minutes, ongoing work, well anchored in the literature, but not yet fully validated;
• Lightning talks - no publication, presented in 3 to 5 minutes, research ideas or work that has just started.

Both full and short papers should be written in English, using the OASIcs template.Submissions will be managed through the EasyChair online system. 

List of Topics

• Human-Human Languages (HHL) track
  • Computational approaches to Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics;
  • Machine translation and tools for Computer Assisted Translation;
  • Computational terminology and lexicography;
  • Information Retrieval and Automatic Question Answering;
  • Information Extraction;
  • Natural Language Understanding;
  • Corpus Linguistics;
  • Statistical Methods for NLP;
  • Tools and resources for NLP;
  • Natural Language Generation;
  • Speech Recognition and Synthesis;
  • NLP system and resource evaluation;
  • Language teaching support tools.
• Human-Computer Languages (HCL) track
  • Programming language concepts, methodologies, and tools;
  • Language and Grammars, design, formal specification, and quality;
  • Design of novel language constructs and their implementation;
  • Domain-Specific Languages design and implementation;
  • Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
  • Dynamic and static analysis;
  • Program Slicing;
  • Program Comprehension;
  • Compilation and interpretation techniques;
  • Code generation and optimization;
  • Program visualization and animation;
  • Programming languages teaching methods;
  • Languages for modeling;
  • Dynamic languages;
  • Program profiling;
  • Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces (modelware, grammarware, ontologies, etc).
• Computer-Computer Languages (CCL) track
  • Semantic data description frameworks;
  • Semantic Web languages;
  • Ontology engineering;
  • IoT data protocols;
  • XML Databases and Big Data;
  • Publishing and document storage formats;
  • HTML5 and web formatting;
  • Industry-specific XML based standards;
  • Web APIs and service marketplaces;
  • Service-Oriented Architectures;
  • E-learning systems, standards, and interoperability;
  • Data and graph visualization languages.

Committees

SLATE 2020 Chairs

• Alberto Simões (2Ai-School of Technology, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal)
• Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal)
• Ricardo Queirós (ESMAD/P.PORTO & uniMAD & CRACS/INESC TEC)

Program Committee

The full program committee for each Track can be found on the conference homepage.

Organizing committee

• Alberto Simões (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal)
• Ricardo Queirós (Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, PP, Portugal)
• Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
• Maria João Varanda Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
• Goreti Pereira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Publication

SLATE'2020 proceedings will be published in the conference proceedings, on digital support, by the OASIcs series — http://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/oasics/ — in open access mode, under an ISBN reference and a DOI, and will thus be indexed by services such as Scopus and DBLP.

Venue

The 2020 SLATE edition will be held in Escola Superior de Tecnologia Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Barcelos, Portugal.More details can be found on the conference homepage.

Contacts

All questions about submissions should be emailed to slate2020 (at) easychair.org