Alyaa Alfalahi, Maria Skeppstedt and Hercules Dalianis attended LREC 2012, (The Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) and BioTxtM 2012 (Third Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Biomedical Text Mining ) in Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-26, 2012 and presented the following three papers in poster sessions as well as in a short oral presentation. LREC had 1 200 participants and almost 700 accepted posters and oral presentations all of them published in the Proceedings. If you want a short summary of the conference please ask us for the conference report that we have compiled in Swedish.
Except of the conference we saw Hagia Sophia, the Blue mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii), and Dancing Dervishes in the 1001 Column Cistern in this beautiful city.