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<p>Möchte auf den Call for Papers (und den Call for
Workshops/Tutorials) der diesjährigen KONVENS in Bochum (Sept.
19-21/22-23) aufmerksam machen:<br>
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<p><a href="http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/">http://www.linguistics.rub.de/konvens16/</a><br>
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href="https://linguistlist.org/callconf/call-action.cfm?ConfID=234816"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://linguistlist.org/callconf/call-action.cfm?ConfID=234816">https://linguistlist.org/callconf/call-action.cfm?ConfID=234816</a></a><br>
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<p>LG, Fri<br>
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<h1>KONVENS 2016</h1>
<h2>Ruhr-Universität Bochum <br>
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<h2>Call for Papers</h2>
<p>We welcome original, unpublished contributions on research,
development, applications and evaluation, covering all areas of
natural
language processing, ranging from basic questions to practical
implementations
of natural language resources, components and systems.</p>
<p>The special theme of the 13th KONVENS is:</p>
<p class="center font-larger"><em>Processing non-standard data —
commonalities and differences</em></p>
<p>A wide range of data can be considered “non-standard” because it
deviates in one
way or the other from standard written data such as newspaper
texts. Examples
include:</p>
<ul>
<li>data produced by language learners</li>
<li>historical data</li>
<li>data from social media</li>
<li>(transcriptions of) spoken data</li>
</ul>
<p>We especially encourage the submission of contributions comparing
different
types of non-standard data and their properties, focussing on
their impact for
natural language processing. For example, a feature common to many
types of
non-standard data is the use of non-standard spelling. However,
spelling
variation in learner data as compared to historical data is due to
very
different reasons and, most likely, resulting in very different
types of
non-standard spellings.</p>
<p>Topics that we would like to see addressed include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Common properties of (many) non-standard data, e.g.
non-standard spelling,
data sparseness, features of orality</li>
<li>Impact of the commonalities and differences of non-standard
data on the
methods and tools that are applied to the data, e.g.
normalization vs. tool
adaptation, evaluation without gold standard, etc.</li>
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<h3 id="important-dates">Important Dates</h3>
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<td><strong>May 30, 2016</strong></td>
<td>Paper submissions due</td>
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<td><strong>July 15, 2016</strong></td>
<td>Notification of acceptance</td>
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<td><strong>August 15, 2016</strong></td>
<td>Camera-ready copy due</td>
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<td><strong>September 19–21, 2016</strong></td>
<td>Conference</td>
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<h3 id="formats">Formats</h3>
<p>We welcome two types of contributions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Full papers for oral presentation (8 pages plus references)</li>
<li>Short papers for presentation as posters (4 pages plus
references)</li>
</ul>
<p>Short papers/posters can be combined with a system demonstration.
Reviews will
be anonymous. Accepted full and short papers will be published in
the conference
proceedings.</p>
<p>Submissions must conform to the formatting guidelines given
below, and must be
made electronically through the conference website. (A link will
follow
shortly.)</p>
<p>The conference languages are English and German. We encourage the
submission of
contributions in English.</p>
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