Call for workshops

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT)invites proposals for workshop at its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2015 will be held betweenMay 11 and May 13, 2015 on the campus of the University of Vilniusin Lithuania. Please mark your calendars.

NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of speech recognition and synthesis, natural language processing, and computational linguistics – including work in closely related neighbouring disciplines (such as, for example, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies.

We invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Monday, May 11,immediately preceding the main conference. Workshops can be either scheduled for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form, anytime before Monday, December 8, by email to nodalida15@stp.lingfil.uu.se.

Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects:

  • proposed workshop title
  • topic and goals of the workshop
  • target group and estimated attendance
  • workshop organizer(s) and contact(s)
  • mode of organization and programme design
  • SCHEDULE

  • Monday, December 8, 2014: Submission of Workshop Proposals
  • Monday, December 22, 2014: Notification of Workshop Selection
  • Monday, May 11, 2015: Pre-Conference Workshops
  • PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    The Assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa 2015 Programme Committee.

    Program Committee
    Beáta Megyesi (program chair), Uppsala University, Sweden
    Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland
    Kristiina Jokinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Arne Jönsson, Linköping University, Sweden
    Violeta Meiliunaite, Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania
    Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo, Norway
    Oscar Täckström, Google Inc.

    To inquire about the workshop submission process or generally about the scientific programme of the conference, please email nodalida15@stp.lingfil.uu.se.

    LOCAL ORGANIZATION

    The NoDaLiDa 2015 Organizing Committee is comprised of staff from the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania:

  • Jolanta Zabarskaite
  • Violeta MeiliÜnaité
  • For all practical inquiries, please email lki@lki.lt.