Foreword

The history of LATA starts in 2007. After three consecutive editions organized in Tarragona, the 4th edition (LATA 2010) took place in Trier, Germany while the 5th edition was back in Tarragona. Now it is the time for a new place to host LATA 2012, this time we go to A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

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Contact information

LATA 2012
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386
e-Mail: florentinalilica.voicu (at) urv.cat

LATA 2011 Picture

Click on the picture to see the complete page with pictures from LATA 2011 This is the group picture taken Friday, May 27, 2011.

2012 the Alan Turing Year (ATY)

ATY

A centenary celebration of the life and work of Alan Turing. The tutorial sessions Around the Physical Church-Turing Thesis presented by Gilles Dowek on March 6 and 7 are dedicated to this event.

Proceedings

The volume of proceedings published by Springer in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science ( LNCS volume 7183) will be available by the time of the conference.

Springer LNCS

Important dates

Event announced: July 16, 2011
Paper submission: October 12, 2011 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 21, 2011
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 28, 2011
Early registration: December 5, 2011
Late registration: February 24, 2012
Starting of the conference: March 5, 2012
Submission to the post-conference special issue: June 22, 2012

LATA links

Links of interest

The following events are taking place in Tarragona. TPNC2012, October 1-5, 2012, WSMBio2012, February 20-24, 2012, WSLST2012, January 23-27, 2012, FSFLA2011, October 31 - November 4, 2011 .

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Lata 2012 special issue

LATA 2012 derived journal special issue will be published in Information and Computation. All conference accepted papers are invited to consider to submit a substantially extended version of your contribution to the conference.

Papers will be peer reviewed following the high standards of the journal. There is no length restriction. The submission deadline is June 22 2012.

Technical instructions

To prepare your article for reviewing, please follow the steps.

  1. read the author instructions from the journal
  2. use the style elsarticle with the "review" option (with extra interline space for use in the review process)
  3. submit to easychair, same address as for LATA 2012

Submissions are opened for the track special issue Information and Computation (Elsevier IC revision 1), we expect only a pdf version of the paper that will be reviewed.

For more questions ask Adrian Dediu.