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Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural

Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN, in English: Spanish association for Natural Language Processing) is a scientific and professional organization for researching natural language processing.[1] Its namesake conference has been held each summer since 1983 in Spanish locations where computational linguistics research is carried out.

Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
Founded1983
TypeProfessional organization
FocusComputational linguistics and natural language processing
Area served
Worldwide, specially Spain and Latin America
MethodConferences, publications
Key people
Felisa Verdejo Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez
Websitewww.sepln.org

It was founded in 1983, and its purpose is to promote and divulge every kind of activity related to teaching, research and development in the natural language processing field, on both a national and international level. The first SEPLN president was Felisa Verdejo, when she was a professor at the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastián.

Activities

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Among the main activities of the SEPLN are the organization of an annual congress, which is attended by the research groups working in the natural language processing field, especially for Spanish, Catalan, Basque or Galician languages; the edition of the academic journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural supported by a committee who guarantee some established criteria of quality and periodicity; a web server with information about issues related to natural language processing and an email service which inform about the current issues and is used as an open forum.

 
The journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural in 2012

The journal is published every six months, so two issues per year are published (March and September) with the last advances in NLP. The Journal has the quality seal of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), which certifies it as a magazine of excellence, and therefore included in the Spanish Scientific Journals Repository (RECyT, Spanish Repository of Science and technology).[2] The Journal received the seal of quality (ISO9001) in 2012, from the Spanish Federation of Science and Technology (FECYT). The Journal was indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in 2016. The ESCI is the new edition of Web of Science, and Thonson Reuters is assessing the quality of the journals of ESCI in order to add those ones with a 'high scientific quality' in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.[3]

NLP community

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The SEPLN society has built an academic community around natural language processing, coordinating more than thirty research groups working especially with any of these four languages: Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician.[4] This community is a reference in Latin America and worldwide, especially because it has created models for the successful processing of Spanish and three minority languages.

 
Technological language resources for 43 European languages by 2022.[5]

The coordinated development of technology for Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician by this community has benefited the four languages as a whole. The Asturian and Aragonese languages have also been studied. This positive influence of SEPLN's activity can be seen in the ELE report that analysed the situation of European languages in language technology by 2022.[6] Spanish was one of the four best resourced among the official languages, behind English, on a par with German and French; Catalan, Basque and Galician were the best placed among the non-official languages, along with Welsh, and were in a better position than some of the official or national languages (better than Irish Gaelic and Maltese).

European Language Grid (ELG, 2023-09-14)
Language Resources Catalogue
Language # Products Reference (ELG search)
English 6,192 [7]
Spanish 2,540 [8]
German 2,382 [9]
French 2,120 [10]
Catalan 641 [11]
Basque 353 [12]
Galician 262 [13]
Aragonese 30 [14]
Asturian 21 [15]

Locations

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This is the timeline of cities with a NLP group that organized SEPLN conferences:[16][17][18]

  • Coruña (2022)
  • Málaga (2021)
  • Virtual (2020)[clarification needed]
  • Bilbao (2019)
  • Sevilla (2018)
  • Murcia (2017)
  • Salamanca (2016)
  • Alicante (2015)
  • Gerona (2014)
  • Madrid (2013)
  • Castellón (2012)
  • Huelva (2011)
  • Valencia (2010)
  • San Sebastián (2009)
  • Madrid (2008)
  • Sevilla (2007)
  • Zaragoza (2006)
  • Granada (2005)
  • Barcelona (2004)
  • Alcalá de Henares (2003)
  • Valladolid (2002)
  • Jaén (2001)
  • Vigo (2000)
  • Lleida (1999)
  • Alicante (1998)
  • Madrid (1997)
  • Sevilla (1996)
  • Bilbao (1995)
  • Córdoba (1994)
  • Santiago de Compostela (1993)
  • Granada (1992)
  • Valencia (1991)
  • San Sebastián (1990)
  • Barcelona (1989)
  • Madrid (1988)
  • Barcelona (1987)

Presidents

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Round table in SEPLN conference (2009)

The presidents who have governed this society since its creation have been the following:

Years Name
2007–2023 L. Alfonso Ureña
1996–2007 Manuel Palomar
1990–1996 Maria Antònia Martí
1984–1990 Felisa Verdejo
1983–1984 Luis Sopeña

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The society (SEPLN)". www.sepln.org. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (journal)". SEPLN.
  3. ^ "Quality (Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural)". SEPLN.
  4. ^ "Research groups | Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing". www.sepln.org.
  5. ^ Rehm, Georg; Way, Andy (2023). "Strategic Research, Innovation and Implementation Agenda for Digital Language Equality in Europe by 2030". European Language Equality: A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality. Springer International Publishing. pp. 387–412. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28819-7_45. ISBN 978-3-031-28819-7.
  6. ^ Rehm, Georg; Way, Andy (2023). "Strategic Research, Innovation and Implementation Agenda for Digital Language Equality in Europe by 2030". European Language Equality: A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality. Springer International Publishing. pp. 387–412. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-28819-7_45. ISBN 978-3-031-28819-7.
  7. ^ "English language, 6192 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Spanish language, 2540 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  9. ^ "German language, 2382 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  10. ^ "French language, 2120 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  11. ^ "Catalan language, 641 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Basque language, 329 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  13. ^ "Galician language, 262 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Aragonese language, 30 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  15. ^ "Asturian language, 21 items (language resources, language technologies, service functions, Media types, Licences, Condition of use...)". live.european-language-grid.eu. European Language Grid. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  16. ^ "SEPLN2014". www.taln.upf.edu. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  17. ^ "SEPLN 2013". nil.fdi.ucm.es. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  18. ^ "Presentación". sepln2012.uji.es. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
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