.:: JADT - 2004

Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998), Lausanne (2000), Saint-Malo (2002) the 7th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), on March 10-12, 2004. This biennial conference, which has constantly been gaining in importance since its first occurrence, is open to all scholars working in the vast field of textual data analysis; ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. After the success of the previous meetings, the three-day conference in Belgium will continue to provide a workshop-style forum through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions.

• Submission Deadline : NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: November 13th, 2003
• Notification : Decembre 2003
• Camera ready papers : January 15th, 2004
• Conference : March 10 - 12, 2004

• Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
• Discourse Analysis
• Computational Linguistics
• Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
• Stylometry
• Information Retrieval
• Textual Classification
• Text Corpora and Text Encoding
• Lemmatization
• Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
• Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis
• Semantic Web
• Text and Web mining
• Business and strategic intelligence

Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages :

• French
• English
• Italian
• Spanish

As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.

Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage the authors to include in their papers proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference. Participants wishing to submit a paper or present a poster should send to Gérald Purnelle of the program committee a short version for review by November 13th, 2004 (new deadline) giving the following information :

• Title of the proposed paper
• Name of authors, affiliations and full postal address with fax and/or e-mail
• Keywords
• A first version of the paper (8-12 pages max.)
• An abstract in the language of the paper
• An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
• Bibliographical references.

All accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference.

• English version
• French version
• English version (Latex)

• Cédrick Fairon - CENTAL - Université catholique de Louvain
• Anne Dister - CENTAL - Université catholique de Louvain
• Gérald Purnelle - CIPL - Université de Liège
• Joseph Denooz - CIPL - Université de Liège

Local Organization: Bernadette Dehottay - Michel Thomas - Claude Devis - Patrick Watrin - Laurent Simon

Cédrick Fairon

Address:

place Blaise Pascal, 1

1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

Belgium

Tel.: +32 (0)10/47.37.88

Fax.: +32 (0)10/47.26.06

Mail: fairon@tedm.ucl.ac.be

Gérald Purnelle

Address:

Quai Roosevelt, 1b

4000 Liège

Belgium

Tel.: +32 (0)4/366.55.07

Fax.: +32 (0)4/366.57.84

Mail: gerald.purnelle@ulg.ac.be