SLATE 2012 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies

SLATE 2012 - Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies
http://slate.di.uminho.pt/
21 and 22 June, 2012
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS **
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.
Being languages such a broad subject, SLATE is organized in three main
tracks:
1. HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages
2. CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages
3. HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages
A detailed topic list for each one of these tracks is presented below.
** Topics of Interest **
HCL Track: Processing Human-Computer Languages
- Domain Specific Languages design and implementation;
- Automatic evaluation of programs (dynamic and static analysis);
- Compilation and interpretation techniques;
- Program representation and analysis;
- Code generation and optimization;
- Run-time techniques;
- Memory management;
- Dynamic and just-in-time compilation;
- Virtual machines;
- Programming tools;
- Programming, refactoring and debugging environments;
- Formal techniques for compilation and execution;
- Design of novel language constructs and their implementation;
- Programming language concepts and methodologies.
CCL Track: Processing Computer-Computer Languages
- Semantic Web and Ontologies;
- Methodologies for specification in XML;
- XML compression, serialization and merging;
- XML Parsing and Querying;
- XML Structuring;
- XML Transformation;
- XML Security;
- Web Services -- Architectures and Practical Cases;
- Web Technologies and Frameworks;
- XML Libraries and digital repositories;
- E-learning systems, standards and interoperability;
- Serialization languages.
HHL Track: Processing Human-Human Languages
- Computational morphology, syntax and semantics;
- Machine translation and tools for computer assisted translation;
- Computational terminology and lexicography;
- Speech synthesis and understanding;
- Information extraction and automatic question answering;
- Corpora linguistics;
- NLP system evaluation;
- Public tools and resources for NLP;
- Ontologies and knowledge representation;
- Statistical Methods applied to NLP;
- Language teaching support tools.
** SLATE Publication Policy **
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings,
under an ISBN reference, on paper and digital support.
Selected papers should have the opportunity to publish in a special
issue of ComSIS: Computer Science and Information Systems.
The organizers are working hard to get SLATE proceedings indexed in as
many publication indexing services as possible, and negotiating
proceedings publication under different publishing companies.
** Relevant Dates **
- Paper Submission: March 14, 2012
- Authors Notification: May 6, 2012
- Final Paper Submission and Registration: May 20, 2012
- SLATE Symposium: June 21-22, 2012
** Contact and Updates **
- Updates are regularly posted in the symposium webpage and notified
through different social networks (check the symposium webpage for
details);
- Organizers can be contacted using “org” at “slate.di.uminho.pt”
** Committees **
Symposium Chair
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Program Co-Chairs
- Daniela da Cruz (Universidade do Minho, Portugal - HCL Track)
- Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal - CCL Track)
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal - HHL Track)
Program Committee
HCL Track
- Alda Lopes Gançarski (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
- António Menezes Leitão (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Bastian Cramer (Universitãt Paderborn, Germany)
- Bostjan Slivnik (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)
- Casiano Rodriguez-Leon (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
- Daniel Riesco (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
- Daniela da Cruz (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- German Montejano (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
- Giovani Librelotto (Universidade Federal Santa Maria, Brazil)
- Ivan Lukovic (University of Novi Sad, Serbia)
- Jean-Cristophe Filliatre (Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, France)
- José João Almeida (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- João Costa Seco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
- João Paiva Cardoso (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- João Saraiva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Manuel Perez Cota (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
- Maria João Varanda Pereira (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
- Mario Beron (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
- Mario Guillermo Leguizamon (Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina)
- Marjan Mernik (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)
- Matej Crepinsek (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)
- Nuno Rodrigues (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Portugal)
- Paulo Matos (Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Portugal)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Rogério Paulo (Efacec, Portugal)
- Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
- Simão Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
- Tomaz Kosar (Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia)
- Vasco Amaral (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
CCL Track
- Ademar Aguiar (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Alda Lopes Gançarski (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)
- Cristina Ribeiro (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Gabriel David (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Giovani Librelotto (Universidade Federal Santa Maria, Brazil)
- João Correia Lopes (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- José Carlos Ramalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- José Paulo Leal (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Luis Ferreira (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e Ave, Portugal)
- Miguel Ferreira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Pedro Rangel Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
- Rui Lopes (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Salvador Abreu (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
HHL Track
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- António Teixeira (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal)
- Cristina Mota (Linguateca, Portugal)
- Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweeden)
- Jorge Baptista (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)
- Lluís Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
- Pablo Gamallo (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
- Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
Organization Committee
- Alberto Simões (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Daniela da Cruz (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Nuno Carvalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Nuno Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Pedro Henriques (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- Ricardo Queirós (Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal)
- Sara Fernandes (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)