SwissText 2019: Deadline Extension

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - 4th Swiss Text Analytics Conference – SwissText 2019
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Please note that we are extending the deadline for submissions to the SwissText Conference for all tracks to 10.3.2019, 23:59 (AOE - anywhere on Earth).

For more information, please visit https://www.swisstext.org/call-for-presentations/

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About the 4th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText 2019)
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The Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. The conference is held on June 18-19, 2019 in Winterthur, Switzerland, which is a short train ride (20min) from Zurich. It is funded by InnoSuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, and the Alliance for Data Intensive Services, and supported by more than 10 universities and scientific associations.

This is already the 4th edition of the SwissText Conference. In the previous years, we had approx. 200 participants and a distinguished lineup of presentations from various universities, international IT giants such as Google and IBM and Swiss SME companies and startups.

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Keynote Speakers
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Confirmed keynote speakers for 2019 are: :
- Mona Diab, Full Professor of Computational Linguistics and NLP in the Department of Computer Science at George Washington University
- Lisa Gibbs, Director of News Partnerships at The Associated Press, AP’s Automation and Artificial Intelligence Strategy Group
- Hinrich Schütze, Professor of Computational Linguistics and Director of the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich

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Tracks
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The SwissText Conference will have three tracks:
- Swiss Track, with a strong focus on Swiss industry and research.
- Scientific Track, with technical research papers from the international community.
- Demo Track, with hands-on, interactive presentations of current NLP solutions.

The full scientific papers will be published in the conference proceedings, as well as the abstracts of the presentations of the Swiss and the Demo Track.

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Important Dates
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- Submission Deadline: March 10, 2019 (AOE - anywhere on Earth)
- Author Notification: April 14, 2019
- Camera Ready: May 3, 2019
- Conference: June 18-19, 2019

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SwissText Organization
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Conference Chair: Mark Cieliebak

Organizing Committee: Fernando Benites, Jan Deriu, Don Tuggener, Ada Wan, Andrea Aguilar Ibáñez, Pamela Hunziker

The conference is organized by Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and co-organized by the Swiss Alliance for Data-Intensive Services. It is supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and industrial sponsors.

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Program Committees
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Swiss Track – Program Committee
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Noah Bubenhofer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Hatem Ghorbel, HEG - Haute école de gestion Arc
Martin Jaggi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Roberto Mastropietro, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI)
Thoralf Mildenberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Andrei Popescu-Belis, School of Business and Engineering Vaud (HEIG-VD)
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich
Maria Sokhn, HEG - Haute école de gestion Arc
Jürgen Spielberger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Jürgen Vogel, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
Manfred Vogel, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW)
Tim Vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Egon Werlen, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)

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Scientific Track – Program Committee
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Adrien Barbaresi, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
Roberto Basili, University of Roma Tor Vergata
Ivo Blohm, University of St. Gallen
Ernst Buchberger, Medical University of Vienna
Miriam Butt, Universität Konstanz
Pascual Cantos, Associate Professor, University of Murcia
Sylviane Cardey, Centre Tesniere, Universite de Franche-Comte
Ernesto William De Luca, Georg-Eckert-Institute for international Textbook Research
Gaël Dias, University of Caen Normandie
Nicola Ferro, University of Padova
Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Universidade de Vigo
Martin Jaggi, ETH Zurich
Manfred Klenner, University of Zurich
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University Berlin
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex
Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University
Roberto Mastropietro, SUPSI
Alexander Mehler, Goethe University Frankfurt
Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Guenter Neumann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Johann Petrak, The University of Sheffield
Hannes Pirker, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) ÖAW
Andrei Popescu-Belis, HEIG-VD / HES-SO
Uwe Quasthoff, University Leipzig
Fabio Rinaldi, University of Zurich
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València
Tanja Samardzic, University of Zurich
Yves Scherrer, University of Helsinki
Gerold Schneider, University of Zurich
Rico Sennrich, The University of Edinburgh
Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Manfred Vogel, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW)
Juergen Vogel, BFH
Tim Vor der Brück, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Egon Werlen, Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS)
Torsten Zesch, University of Duisburg-Essen
Heike Zinsmeister, University of Hamburg

For further information, visit: https://www.swisstext.org/