CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

IceTAL 2010 - 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing - will take place on August 16-18, 2010, in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The conference is organized by the Iceland Centre for Language Technology (ICLT) and will be held at the new facilities of Reykjavik University.

IceTAL is the seventh in the series of the TAL conferences, following GoTAL 2008 (Gothenburg, Sweden), FinTAL 2006 (Turku, Finland), EsTAL 2004 (Alicante, Spain), PorTAL 2002 (Faro, Portugal), VexTAL 1999 (Venice, Italy) and FracTAL 1997 (Besançon, France).

The main purpose of the TAL conference series is to bring together scientists representing linguistics, computer science and related fields, sharing a common interest in the advancement of computational linguistics and natural language processing.

The proceedings volume will appear in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series.

New: The proceedings are now available at Springer webpages.

A message regarding hotels

Kindly note that most hotels in Reykjavik are fully booked around mid-August due to many big events in the city at that time. The conference secretariat, RS Travel Solutions, urges participants to book hotel accommodation sooner than later.

RS Travel Solutions has blocked a number of rooms at 3 hotels (see Accommodation) for the IceTAL conference and asks those who want to book through them to do so preferably before June 20th. Those who are booking accommodation on their own are also strongly advised to do so soon. Please note that hotel accommodation can be booked through RS Travel Solutions prior to registering for the conference.