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cs.rutgers.edu>- ------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'2000 Workshop on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval October 7/8, 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - ------------------------------------------------------------------ Aims and scope - ------------ This workshop aims at fostering the interaction between researchers in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), and furthermore, promoting discussions on the current and potential benefits of common approaches to related research challenges. The central topic is the application of Language Technologies to Information Retrieval, including (but not limited to): * the role of lexical-syntactic information in mono- and multilingual IR, including morphology, phrase detection and treatment, word sense disambiguation adapted to IR needs, acquisition and use of lexical resources, etc. * empirical evidence regarding the use of NL techniques in different retrieval scenarios, typification of such scenarios, and the discussion of evaluation measures beyond precision/recall variants. * interaction between NLP and IR techniques in topics related to both areas such as Cross-Language and Interactive Text Retrieval, Question Answering, Information Extraction, Text Summarization, Text Data Mining, etc. The growing research and application possibilities provided by the increased amount of networked information have motivated new attempts to explore the relationship between NLP and IR. For researchers in IR, a compelling challenge is to move from (monolingual) document retrieval within controlled text collections, to actually retrieving information, rather than individual documents, from multilingual, heterogeneous and dynamic webs of interlinked documents and online services. The reciprocal challenge for NLP research is to scale up, adapt and possibly reshape techniques and resources to help bridge the gap between document and information retrieval in practical applications. Papers describing pragmatic, empirically tested approaches facing these issues are especially welcome. Instructions for submissions - -------------------------- The format of submissions is identical to the one used for the main conference, which can be found at http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/fcfp.html Authors should fill the "paper ID" field in to specify: "IR&NLP workshop". The "Topic Area" and "session" fields should be left blank. Papers must be submitted electronically, in postscript or pdf formats, to both Program Chairs: Judith Klavans, Columbia University klavansMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SENSEVAL-2 CALL FOR INTEREST IN PARTICIPATION We are considering running SENSEVAL exercises in at least the following languages: * French * English * Italian * Japanese * Spanish * Danish * German * Estonian * Swedish * Korean * Chinese >From this call, we hope to gauge the level of interest in each of these exercises. If you are interested in submitting a sense disambiguation system to SENSEVAL-2, please send email to senseval-coordMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue