PhD Symposium

The Doctoral Symposium will be held in person on Thursday, September 26 in Valladolid (Spain), within the framework of the XL International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024). The event will take place from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Mergelina / INDUVA Building of the School of Industrial Engineering, where an elevator pitch will be held first, followed by the poster session in the adjoining room.

Briefly, we will tell you about the main phases of the Symposium:

The event will begin with a short talk by Francisco Javier Hernando Pericás, Director of the Language and Speech Research Center (TALP) of the UPC and responsible for research in voice technologies at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).
Next, there will be a series of 3-minute elevator pitches by each doctoral student, in which they will briefly explain their research work, without a question session in this initial phase.
Afterwards, the poster session will take place, where you will be able to discuss the papers. At this point, mentors and mentees will share mentor’s feedback, suggestions and any questions you wish to ask them.

Thank you for your interest and participation in the Doctoral Symposium.

The program is now available here.

Objective

The Doctoral Symposium intends to provide a venue for student researchers in Natural Language Processing to present their work. Students will receive constructive feedback and guidance from researchers with experience in their area of work.

Importantes dates

Proposals submission: June 19, 2024
Review period: June 20, 2024 – July 12, 2024
Notification of review: July 19, 2024
Camera-ready submission: July 31, 2024
Doctoral Symposium (SEPLN 2024): September 26, 2024
Publication of proceedings in CEUR: October, 2024

Instructions for authors

Papers should include, among others, the following sections:
- Reason for the proposed research;
- Background and related work (including important references);
- Description of the proposed research, including the main hypotheses for research;
- Methodology and the proposed experiments (if necessary);
- Specific issues of research to be discussed;
- References

Papers must be signed by a single person (predoctoral candidate) and must conform to the CEUR format. For this purpose, the CEUR template in LaTeX or Word format or the template provided through Overleaf (1 column format) should be used.
Papers should be between 5 and 9 pages in length (including references) and should be written in English.
The conference name should be replaced by: \conference{Doctoral Symposium on Natural Language Processing, 26 September 2024, Valladolid, Spain.}.
The author’s name will be formed by the full name (without initials), e.g. “María Pérez” instead of “M. Pérez”.
The title should be written using the emphasizing capitalized style, e.g. “Filling an Author Agreement by Autocompletion” instead of “Filling an author agreement by autocompletion”.
Authors must complete and sign by hand this agreement, which will be sent with the paper through the following form. With respect to the information required in the agreement, it must be indicated the name of the event “Doctoral Symposium on Natural Language Processing 2024” and as editors the name of the organizers: “Alba Bonet Jover, David Vilares Calvo, Elena Lloret Pastor, M. Dolores Molina González, Salud María Jiménez Zafra”.

Topics

Mathematical and psycholinguistic language models
Machine Learning in NLP
Computer Lexicography and Terminology
Corpus linguistics
Development of linguistic resources and tools
Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis
Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse
Resolution of lexical ambiguity
Monolingual and multilingual text generation
Automatic translation
Speech recognition and synthesis
Dialogue systems
Auto-indexation
Monolingual and multilingual information retrieval and extraction
Search systems for answers
Evaluation of NLP systems
Automatic analysis of text content
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
Plagiarism detection
Negation processing and speculation
Text mining in the blogosphere and social networks
Automatic text overview
Language generation
Image recovery
NLP in the biomedical field
Generation of educational resources based on NLP
NLP for languages with limited resources
NLP industrial applications
Onthologies

Funding and Instructions

The Doctoral Symposium has been supported by projects with reference 2022/TL22/00215337, 2022/TL22/00215336, 2022/TL22/00215335 and 2022/TL22/00215334 funded by Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital and Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia – Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU; and Cátedra HiTZ de Inteligencia Artificial y Tecnología de la Lengua (TSI100923-2023-1) supported by Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia – Funded by the European Union, as well as the Secretaría de Estado de Telecomunicaciones e Infraestructuras Digitales.

Each student whose thesis work is selected to participate in the symposium will be funded for up to 3 nights of accommodation, conference registration, and an amount up to a maximum of €100 as a travel allowance to cover transportation expenses, provided that the appropriate receipts are presented to the organization at the registration desk during the conference. Each student is responsible of managing the travel at her/his own conveninence, using the means they want, as soon as they can show a receipt for the prices they have payed.