EACL 2009: Call for Participation
30 March to 3 April 2009
Athens, Greece
EACL 2009 is the major scientific event in Computational Linguistics and Human Language Technology research in 2009 in Europe. It covers a broad spectrum of disciplines working towards enabling intelligent systems to interact with humans using natural language, and towards enhancing human-human communication through services such as speech recognition, automatic translation, information retrieval, text summarization, and information extraction.
The conference is organised by the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) "Demokritos" -
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, with the support of the Athens University of Economics and Business - Department of Informatics and the Institute for Language and Speech Processing. It will take place at the Megaron
Athens International Conference Center.
Early registration deadline: 11:59pm GMT, 27th February 2009
The EACL 2009 registration is now open at the following web page: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/registration
Note that early registration is a lot cheaper. By registering early you also help us organize better the conference. Please register before February 27th.
While you're at the registration pages, you are encouraged to book also your accommodations early. Check out the accommodation information here: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/accommodation.
Chairs
General Chair
Alex Lascarides, University of Edinburgh, UK
Programme Committee Co-Chairs
Claire Gardent, CNRS LORIA, France
Joakim Nivre, Växjö University and Uppsala University, Sweden
Organising Co-Chairs
Vangelis Karkaletsis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Ion Androutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Stelios Piperidis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Workshops: 30-31 March 2009
Tutorials: 30-31 March 2009
Main conference, System Demos and Student Research Workshop: 1-3 April 2009.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK
Franciska de Jong, University of Twente, the Netherlands
WORKSHOPS
The list of accepted workshops is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/workshops
TUTORIALS
The list of accepted tutorials is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/tutorials
MAIN CONFERENCE
The list of accepted papers is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/acceptedpapers
STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP
The list of accepted papers is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/acceptedsrwpapers
SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION
The list of accepted demos is shown at: http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/accepteddemos
We look forward to seeing you at EACL 2009 !
The local organisers
Vangelis Karkaletsis
Ion Androutsopoulos
Stelios Piperidis
