10-12 November 2016

Saint-Petersburg
AINL FRUCT: Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Conference
About
The 5th conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language invites everybody interested in intellectual technologies, both from academic institutes and innovative companies. The conference aimed to bring together experts in the areas of language processing, speech technologies, dialogue systems, information retrieval, artificial intelligence and robotics; to create a platform for sharing experience, extending contacts and searching for possible collaboration.

The official language of the conference is English.

The AINL conference series has been organised since 2012 and has developed a set of distinctive features:
- a strong practical focus: industrial talks and product demonstrations is an essential part of the conference program;
- an interactive component: the conference programs includes a number of workshops and panel discussions, as well as poster session and other interactive forms
- an encouraging attitude towards students and researchers on the early stage of career.

All together, this makes AINL a nice get-together opportunity.
General call

There are two forms of participation:

1. Research papers: we accept Full Papers and Short Papers. Accepted and presented full and short papers will be published in AINL proceeding. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

2. Industrial session: to participate, submit a 1 page description of your talk/demonstration.
Call for participation in Russian Paraphrase Detection Task

We are pleased to announce shared task on sentence paraphrase detection for the Russian language. A core dataset for the task is ParaPhraser, a freely available corpus of Russian sentence pairs manually annotated as paraphrases, near-paraphrases and non-paraphrases.

The participants will present and discuss the results on the workshop as s part of AINL conference.

See the Shared Task for more information
Business Intelligence

Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RPANEPA) is organizing the Business Intelligence section in conjunction with the AINL-FRUCT-2016 Conference.
DATES
Short Paper Submission deadline: 15 September 2016
Full Paper Submission deadline: 15 September 2016
Notification of long and short paper acceptance: 15 October 2016
Camera-ready submission deadline: 26 October 2016
Industrial Submission deadline: 26 October 2016
Notification for industrial submissions: 1 November 2016
Conference: 10-12 November 2016
Partners and Sponsors
Info Partners
Organizers
The FRUCT Association focuses on arranging an international group of
students supervised by creditable experts which would push forward R&D
work related to advanced information technologies. In other words, the idea is promoted of the project-based training, within whose framework
students are to be oriented towards real creativity and contributing to the final concrete outcome.
NLP seminar is non-commercial community of people interested in computational linguistics. We organize series of scientific events such as seminars and AINL conferences series. We also manage website mathlingvo.ru.
ITMO University is one Russia's leading higher education and research institutions, specializing in Information Technology, Optical Design and Engineering.
ODNOKLASSNIKI is an entertaining social network and a part of the Mail.Ru Group holding. The audience of the network estimates to 73 million people per month (internal data, April 2016) with more than 64% visiting the social network using their mobile devices. OK.ru isavailable in both desktop and mobile versions, as applications for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and a Smart TV app "OK Video".
Contacts
Lidia Pivovarova
Conference co-chair


Tatiana Lando
Conference co-chair
Andrey Filchenkov
Local committee chair
Sergey Balandin
Publication chair
Ask questions at ainlconf2016@gmail.com