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Welcome
to STIL 2009!
STIL 2009 (formerly
known as TIL - Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology)
is the
annual
Language Technology event supported by the Brazilian Computer Society
(SBC) and by the Brazilian Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Processing. More details about the event and its history are available
at www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/til
In 2009 it will take place at the University of São Paulo,
campus São Carlos, Brazil. The conference has a multidisciplinary
nature and covers a broad spectrum of disciplines related to Human
Language Technology, such as Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology,
Information Science, among others. It aims at bringing together both
academic and industry participants that work on those areas.
Topics
of Interest
STIL-2009 welcomes research work in human language technology in
general (and not only Portuguese) in various fields. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
* Computer science: text mining, semantic web,
information extraction,information retrieval, natural language
interfaces, written and spokenlanguage processing, tagging, parsing,
summarization, machine translation, writing tools, anaphora resolution,
statistical language processing, NLP resources, applications and
evaluation.
* Linguistics: terminology, lexicology and
lexicography, grammar formalisms,discourse analysis, ontologies,
translation, corpus linguistics,psycholinguistics.
* Information science: information filtering and
retrieval, digital libraries,document and knowledge management,
knowledge modelling.
* Natural language understanding and generation
* Others: work on Philosophy or Human sciences in
general, related to language processing.
People
General conference
chairs
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Thiago A. S.
Pardo
(USP/ICMC, Brazil)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP/ICMC, Brazil)
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Program chairs
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Aline
Villavicencio
(UFRGS, Brazil)
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)
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Local organization
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Helena de
Medeiros Caseli
(UFSCAR,
Brazil)
Mário Machado (UFRGS, Brazil)
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Support and Sponsorship:
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