SLATE 2014 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies

We often use languages. First, 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.
SLATE is born from a group of researchers that share the fascination by the way languages work, being them natural or artificial. This group organized over a decade two different conferences: XATA, with interest in XML as the de facto language for computer interaction; and CoRTA, with interest in Compilers and related techniques to understand computer languages. SLATE arrives as the generalization of these two conferences into the abstraction of languages. This is the third issue of SLATE.
Being languages such a broad subject, SLATE is organized in three main tracks:
HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages (chair: Alberto Simões)
HHL is a forum dedicated to the discussion of research projects and ideas involving natural language processing and their industrial application.
HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages (chair: Maria João Varanda Pereira)
HCL is a forum where researchers, developers, educators exchange ideas and information on the latest academic or industrial work on language design, processing, assessment and applications.
CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages (chair: José Paulo leal)
CCL main goal is to provide a broad space for discusstion about the XML markup language: examples of usage and associated technologies.