Conference

BALTIC

HLT 2018

The 8th Conference

Human Language Technologies -

The Baltic Perspective

September 27 - 29 / Tartu, Estonia

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CONFERENCE

The 8th International Conference “Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective” will take place in Tartu, Estonia, September 27th till 29th, 2018. Its deepest and darkest desire is to promote collaboration and exchange of ideas between researchers, developers, students and users of human language processing technologies. The main topic of interest is the state of human language technologies for the languages

spoken in the Baltic states.

Previously this conference has been held in Riga (2004, 2010, 2016), Kaunas (2007, 2014),

Tartu (2012), and Tallinn (2005).

This year the program of the conference will include keynote talks, a workshop, oral and poster presentations of your research papers, a conference dinner and social event, sponsor presentations + coffee and cookies! See details on the organizers, or check below for further details, important dates and submission information.

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Matīss Rikters / Baltic HLT16

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

IMPORTANT

DATES

MAY 21 Submission of extended abstracts

JUNE 20 Notification of acceptance

JULY 22 Camera-ready papers

SEPTEMBER 5 Demo abstract submission deadline

SEPTEMBER 27 Workshop and welcome reception

SEPTEMBER 28-29 Conference

WORKSHOP

We are happy to introduce the workshop "Wikipedia meets NLP" on September 27th

as part of this year's conference!

The workshop is organised by the Miljon+ initiative and will focus on Wikipedia as an open language resource. We will address topics such as Wikidata, linking Wikipedia with other ontologies and resources and automatic generation of Wikipedia articles. The workshop will include an invited speech and a hands-on session.

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Workshop

Calls

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FOR DEMOS

In addition to research talks/posters we also invite both the academia and industry to come and show demos of their text and/or speech processing tools, apps or prototypes; this includes text or speech processing, tools for corpora, language learning, and can range from tools for specialists to end-user applications. No need to disclose all the details of how you did it (looking at you, IP-loving industry people), as long as it works!

To participate send us a short abstract (1-2 pages) describing the purpose and functionality of the tool/app/prototype, and which should also include the list of authors and a title. Accepted abstracts will be made publicly available on the conference webpage (unless you object), but will not be included into the conference proceedings. At the conference you will have a poster stand and a table next to it for showing your demo -- it is up to you to decide how exactly to use it.

SEPTEMBER 5 Demo abstract submission deadline

SEPTEMBER 12 Acceptance/rejection notification

The abstract does not have to be anonymous and should be sent directly to fishel@ut.ee

Submission

SUBMIT

YOUR PAPER

We invite you to submit extended abstracts on substantial, original, and unpublished research in the area of natural language processing and language technologies in general, including but not limited

to the following topics:

Applications:

Machine translation and multilinguality

Human-computer interaction, dialog systems, question answering

Multimodal language processing, image captioning

Speech recognition, synthesis, translation

Information extraction, natural language understanding

Handling humor/irony, slang, technical, legal, other special domains

Core methodology:

Machine learning and deep learning for language processing

Reinforcement/unsupervised/semi-supervised/transfer learning in NLP

Distributed representation learning and applications

Linguistic knowledge incorporation in machine learning approaches

Tagging, disambiguation, shallow/deep parsing

Ontologies, lexicons, terminology, knowledge representation

(Semi)automatic evaluation metrics and error analysis

Language resources:

Text/speech/multimodal data, design, evaluation

Resources and methods for lesser-resourced languages

Special interest: research on languages spoken in the Baltic countries

Abstracts should consist of about 1000-1500 words and will be submitted through EasyChair

and will be peer-reviewed.

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the Proceedings of "Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective", which is published by IOS Press in the series "Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications" as an Open Access book. FAIA volumes are included in some of the major A&I databases, for example, SCOPUS and Web of Science.

By uploading your camera-ready document you automatically agree to give the permissions to publish your paper in the Proceedings. The templates and formatting guidelines for accepted papers are the following: LaTeX / MsWord

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SPEAKERS

Speakers

MARTIN VOLK

University of Zurich / Switzerland

Prof. Martin Volk is the head of the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich. He has successfully lead numerous projects on digital humanities, machine translation and natural language processing. His

talk will be on the topic of "Language Technology and Digital Humanities".

PETER BELL

University of Edinburgh / United Kingdom

Peter Bell is a senior research associate in automatic speech recognition at the Centre for Speech Technology Research, in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He will talk about "Automatic speech recognition for TV broadcasts".

ALEXANDER FRASER

LMU Munich / Germany

Alexander Fraser is the Professor of Information and Language Processing at CIS, LMU Munich. He leads a research group focusing on machine learning techniques for machine translation and related NLP problems. His talk will be

on the topic of "Translation to Morphologically Rich Languages".