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wins.uva.nl>CALL for PAPERS First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Submission deadline: June 1, 1999) ABOUT ICoS Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. In addition, a wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics for natural language. Indeed, computational semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks - - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural language semantics. SUBMISSIONS We invite two kinds of submissions: research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications; and system descriptions. Research papers can be up to 10 A4 size pages, and system descriptions can be up to 4 A4 size pages. System descriptions should focus on actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at ICoS-1. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript format. Submissions should be sent to icos1Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.ust.hk>Second Call For Papers (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of submissions. Six copies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Chair Pascale Fung Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascaleMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue