Sixth Language Technologies Conference

IS-LTC 2008

October 16 - 17, 2008
Ljubljana
Slovenia

The Slovenian Language Technologies Society held its biennial conference in the scope of the Information Society - IS 2008, October 15 - 17, 2008 at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

This event was the sixth in the series of Slovenian Language Technologies Conferences ('98, '00, '02, '04, '06), with the official languages of the conference being both English and Slovene. Accepted papers were published in printed proceedings, as well as on-line.

Invited Talks Booklet of abstracts Proceedings of IS-LTC'08 Conference Schedule Programme Committee Organising Committee

Invited Talks

Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Rapid Deployment of Speech Processing Systems to new Languages and Domains
Abstract, Slides
Marco Baroni, Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
Distributional Semantics: From Ad Hoc Solutions to Persistent Models
Abstract, Slides

Programme Committee

Steven Bird, Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Nick Campbell, ATR (Japan)
Jan Cernocký, Faculty of Information Technology, Brno Technical University (Czech Republic)
Simon Dobrišek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich (Germany)
Tomaž Erjavec (chair), Dept. of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Anna Esposito, Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (Italija)
Anna Feldman, Dept. of Linguistics and Dept. of Computer Science, Montclair State University (USA)
Sadaoki Furui, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Carmen Garcia-Mateo, ETSI Telecomunicacion, Vigo University (Spain)
Vojko Gorjanc, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College (USA)
Bojan Imperl, Iskratel Ltd (Slovenia)
Ivo Ipsić, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka (Croatia)
Zdravko Kačič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd (UK)
Ewan Klein, HCRC/ICCS, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Cvetana Krstev, Arts Faculty, University of Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro)
Siegfried Kunzmann, European Media Laboratory GmbH (Germany)
Birte Loenneker-Rodman, International Computer Science Institute Berkley (USA)
Markéta Lopatková, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University (Czech Republic)
Bente Maegaard, Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Jean-Pierre Martens, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, University of Gent (Belgium)
France Mihelič, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Bernd Moebius, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
João Paulo Neto, Spoken Language Laboratory, INESC-ID (Portugal)
Elmar Nöth, Technical Faculty, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
Karel Pala, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (Czech Republic)
Serge Sharoff, Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds (UK)
Marko Stabej, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete (Greece)
Rastislav Šuštaršič, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Marko Tadić, Department of linguistics, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Jörg Tiedemann, Alfa-Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands)
Tamás Váradi, Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Darinka Verdonik, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Špela Vintar, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Andreja Žele, Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, ZRC-SAZU (Slovenia)
Jerneja Žganec Gros (chair), Alpineon Ltd (Slovenia)
Janez Žibert, University of Primorska (Slovenia)