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cs.rutgers.edu>*************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************* Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ******************* WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html EARLY REGISTRATION has been extended to May 7. On-line registration will be up shortly. In the mean time, please use the hard-copy registration form you received in the mail or print a hard copy of the registration form from the web page. WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS: If you would like wireless internet access throughout Carnegie Mellon's campus, please register your WaveLAN device in advance on the conference web page. ******************** The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, June 2-7, 2001. We have a diverse selection of tutorials, workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening reception at the Language Technologies Institute and a banquet in the grand and elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural History. We will be joined by EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop on Language Modelling and Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1). The conference also features CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access throughout the CMU campus (please register your WaveLAN device in advance on the conference web page), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops. While you are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June 1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free performances. ***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************ TUTORIALS, June 2 Morning: "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural Spoken Dialog. Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso, Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting? Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research Afternoon Building Synthetic Voices. Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University Open-Domain Textual Question Answering. Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4 Sunday, June 3 Automatic Summarization, Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1) Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and Yorick Wilks, co-chairs Monday, June 4 Student Research Workshop Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs Adaptation in Dialogue Systems, Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2) Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and Yorick Wilks, co-chairs EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4 DEMOS, June 5-7 INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6 A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to participate: EXHIBITORS (to date): LingoMotors Transclick Nuance Multicorpora R&D, Inc. Trados Lexiquest Intel Applied Technical Systems Apptek BOOK EXHIBITORS (to date): Kluwer Academic Publishers Blackwell Publishing Cambridge University Press MAIN SESSION, June 5-7 Invited Speakers: Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University ******************************** We would like to thank our generous sponsors: Intelligent Information Systems Institute, Cornell School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Nuance SRA, International AT&T Interactive Systems Laboratories, CMU and Karlsruhe Clairvoyance LingoMotors Transclick Trados ****************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chair, Lori Levin Program, Kevin Knight Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie Tutorials, Dekang Lin Workshops, Lillian Lee Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl Demos, Ronnie Smith Exhibits, Lynn Carlson Sponsorships, Kurt Godden Publicity, Ralf Brown Web Master, Bob Frederking SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eric Brill Ann Copestake Marti Hearst Aravind Joshi Andrew Kehler Elliot Macklovitch Fernando Pereira Owen Rambow Elizabeth Shriberg Ralph WeischedelMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 22nd APRIL*** ACL/EACL2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu, http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at http://www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech. A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as sources of data or inspiration. AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and resources is essential for the progress of research and education in our field. Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive: * Repositories versus catalogues * Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content * Repository management * Standards for exchange, description, and annotation * Metadata descriptions * Quality assessment * Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository * Tools and materials for NLP/CL education * Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS * Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: acl2001.dfki.de/style. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs. * Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck). All submissions will be acknowledged. * Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS * Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper. * Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access provided by default CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerckMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue