Call for Papers

The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) is pleased to invite you to participate in the 40th edition of the SEPLN Conference. The SEPLN Conference will take place on 24-27 September 2024 at Valladolid (Spain) at University of Valladolid.  

The huge amount of digital information available in different languages has created the need for systems to access this valuable resource in an increasingly structured way. Thus, there is a renewed interest in improving the ways in which we can access and leverage this information in multilingual environments. The formal and technological foundations to address these needs have and keep being proposed from the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its many branches: information extraction and retrieval, language models, question answering, machine translation, automatic analysis of textual content, text summarization, text simplification, text generation, and speech recognition and synthesis. 

The main objective of the SEPLN 2024 Conference is to provide both the scientific community and the industry with a forum to present and share the latest research and developments in the field of NLP. The SEPLN 2024 Congress also gives the possibility to present real NLP applications being an appropriate forum to help new professionals to become active members in this field.

In past editions, the SEPLN Conference had a special focus on the presentation of R&D projects and applications (demos). In this edition, the section of demos and R&D projects is detached, being presented in a seminar within the Spanish Congress of Informatics CEDI to be held in A Coruña on June 20, 2024. The demos and projects seminar has its own call for participation in (https://seplncedi2024.gplsi.es/)

Topics of interest

Researchers and NLP engineers are encouraged to send scientific contributions, project abstracts or demos on topics related to NLP, including but not limited to:

  • Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language.
  • Machine learning in NLP.
  • Computational lexicography and terminology.
  • Corpus linguistics.
  • Development of linguistic resources and tools.
  • Morphological and syntactic analysis.
  • Semantics, pragmatics and discourse. 
  • Word sense disambiguation.
  • Monolingual and multilingual text generation.
  • Machine translation.
  • Knowledge and common sense.
  • Multimodality.
  • Spoken language processing.
  • Dialogue systems and interactive systems / Conversational assistants.
  • Multimedia indexing and retrieval.
  • Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.
  • Question answering systems.
  • Evaluation of NLP systems.
  • Automatic textual content analysis.
  • Sentiment analysis and argument mining.
  • Plagiarism detection.
  • Negation and speculation processing.
  • Text mining in social media.
  • Text summarization.
  • Text simplification.
  • NLP in the biomedical domain.
  • NLP-based generation of teaching resources.
  • NLP for languages with limited resources.
  • NLP industrial applications.
  • Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation.
  • Ethics and NLP.
  • Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP.

Structure of the Conference

The SEPLN 2024 Conference will be a three-day event and will include sessions to present papers, ongoing research projects and prototype or product demos related to the topics of the conference. Likewise, the 24th of September will take place the Workshop Day, where the main workshop will be IberLEF 2024.

Important dates

  • Deadline for the submission of papers: March 17th, 2024 April 4th 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: May 16th, 2024. 
  • Camera Ready: May 31st, 2024.  
  • Workshops: September 24th, 2024. 
  • Conference: September 25th-27th, 2024. 

Paper types and author guidelines

The SEPLN 2024 Conference will accept scientific contributions that will be published in the number 73 of the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, whose aim is to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2021 JCR index (JCI: 0.21, Q4-Linguistics – ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0.217, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (CiteScore: 1.5, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language) and  the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 0.37 points. More information at http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality.

The papers can be written in Spanish or English and must be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. The papers must include the following sections:

  • The title of the communication (in English and Spanish).
  • The paper must be anonymized, since the Journal follows a double-blind review process.
  • An abstract with a maximum  of 150 words (in English and Spanish).
  • A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish).
  • The documents must not include headers or footers.

The information about all the details of the format of the papers and the Latex and Microsoft Word template are at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines.

Camera-Ready versions

Given the large number of submissions this year, it has been considered appropriate to create a poster session to accommodate those papers that have not been selected for oral communication and therefore for the journal, so that they can have a place in the conference in a poster session and can be published in an ancillary issue in the CEUR along with the work of the various workshops. NOTE: Those papers selected for poster that consider it more appropriate to decline publication should formally communicate this to the conference organizers at the following address.

Camera ready – the final version of the accepted papers (oral presentations) (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper.

CEUR Workshop proceedings — then final version of accepted posters should be prepared in the CEUR-WS style guidelines, adapted to SEPLN. You can find here the templates for LaTeX and Word.

Preprint policy – The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper.

Contribution submission

Submission Information. The papers must be submitted by March 17th, 2024 April 4th, 2024. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the MyReview system, following the guidelines describen there. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the SEPLN advisory council.

Enlace para enviar contribuciones: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln73

Organizing Committee

  • Valentín Cardeñoso Payo (Chairman) University of Valladolid (Spain).  
  • David Escudero Mancebo (Chairman) University of Valladolid (Spain). 
  • Mario Corrales Astorgano University of Valladolid (Spain). 
  • César González Ferreras University of Valladolid (Spain). 
  • Carlos Vivaracho Pascual University of Valladolid (Spain). 

Collaborators

  • David Fernández Martínez (University of Valladolid)
  • Daniel López García  (University of Valladolid)
  • Cristian Tejedor García (Radboud University, The Netherlands)

Contact

All information related to the conference can be found at https://sepln2024.infor.uva.es/ 

For all general enquiries, please contact: sepln2024va@googlegroups.com.