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limsi.fr>Journal T.A.L.: Call for Submissions Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999 Issue coordinated by Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI, Orsay) http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html Theme - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because of the recent growth of electronic data available through the Internet or digital libraries, information access has become a major scientific issue. Evaluation conferences in information retrieval have promoted the development of search engines and indexing techniques over very large text databases. In such a favorable context, several factors have promoted the convergence of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR): * New NLP techniques have been designed. They allow for efficient processing of large-scale textual data from various sources. * Fine NLP techniques for automatic indexing and document handling have lead to precision and recall rates higher than traditional text simplification techniques. * Evaluation conferences such as TREC (IR) or MUC (Information Extraction) have promoted interdisciplinary projects with researchers from NLP and IR, leading to fruitful interdisciplinary cooperations. * The emergence of new paradigms in NLP has raised new scientific issues and offered new experimental fields in Computational Linguistics. Topics of interest (this list is not restrictive) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The topics of interest include: * morphological analysis, rule- or dictionary-based stemming, * robust and partial parsing for IR, * large-scale semantic disambiguation for IR, * automatic acquisition of semantic knowledge, automatic thesaurus construction for IR, * computer-aided construction of large-scale linguistic resources for IR, * recycling of IR data, such as thesauri, for IR-oriented NLP, * automatic indexing or abstracting, * automatic classification and routing, document categorization, * integration of linguistic components in IR-oriented NLP applications, * specification and evaluation of IR-oriented NLP systems, * computational terminology as a means for building resources for IR-oriented NLP. Papers may focus on other topics in NLP provided that they address issues on their application to IR (wrt to automatic indexing, text simplification, query/document pairing, query expansion, text segmentation and classification, etc). Format - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers (30 pages max, Helvetica 12) are accepted in RTF or Latex + ps formats. Latex style is can be downloaded from http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html. Submissions formats are available in the issues of the T.A.L. journal and will be sent to the contributors upon request to Christian Jacquemin. Language - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions can be written in French or in English. Submission of articles - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers are preferably submitted electronically: jacqueminMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ucla.edu>WCCFL XIX 19th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics University of California, Los Angeles February 4-6, 2000 CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of formal linguistics from any theoretical perspective. ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS Abstracts should be no more than one 8-1/2 by 11 page in length. An additional page for data and references may be included. Abstracts should be in 11-point type or larger, single spaced, with 1-inch margins. Please mail ten anonymous copies and a 3 by 5 inch index card with the following information: title area (phonology, syntax, etc.) name of author(s) affiliation(s) mailing address phone number (optional) e-mail address (optional) Abstracts may also be submitted by e-mail. Abstracts submitted by e-mail should be of equivalent length to hard-copy submissions meeting the requirements above. E-mail submissions should be in ASCII and should form the body of the e-mail message, following the author information. Avoid sending the text as an attachment. Do not use special formatting or fonts. E-mail submissions should be sent to: wccflMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue