EsTAL continues the series of  TAL conferences  FracTAL (Besançon,France, December 1997); VexTAL (Venice, Italy,  November 1999) and PorTAL( Faro, Algarve, Portugal, June 2002).  

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing related areas, including, but not limited to the following topics:

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical NLP applications. We also invite people from industry working on NLP to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss and demonstrate their latest applications.

Submitted papers should describe original  work, completed  or in progress, rather  than merely planned,  and clearly  indicate the current  state  of  advancement  of   the  work.   No  previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous  submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is  explicitly indicated on the identification page.