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cs.rutgers.edu>*** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). We are interested in papers from academia and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to: * information extraction * information retrieval * language and dialog modeling * lexical acquisition * machine translation * multilingual technologies * question answering * statistical parsing * summarization * tagging * term and named entity extraction * word sense disambiguation * word, term, and text segmentation Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme: "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges" Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical methods in and across application settings. Examples include improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical parsing. Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches have made great progress; and important practical situations where common assumptions fail to hold. *** We emphasize that we seek submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. *** It is desired that such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation, of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions should take the form of full papers (3200 words or less, excluding references) describing original work. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information on the title page. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: March 13, 2001 Acceptance notification: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2001 Conference: June 3-4, 2001 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Lillian Lee (chair), Cornell University, lleeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ics.mq.edu.au>- ---------------------------------------------------------- 2001 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop Friday, 20th April 2001 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia - ---------------------------------------------------------- Purpose We are organizing a one-day workshop on Natural Language Processing at Macquarie University in Sydney. The goals of the workshop are to bring together the growing NLP community in Australia and New Zealand, and to provide an opportunity for the broader computer science community to become aware of local NLP research. Our hope is to get as many Austral- asian NLPers together as possible to encourage dialogue be- tween those working on similar topics and between areas with a potential to interact. We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural lan- guage processing, including, but not limited to, speech understanding and generation; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse; interpreting and gen- erating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathemat- ical, and psychological models of language; language-ori- ented information extraction and retrieval; corpus-based and statistical language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and computational lexicography. As you can see we welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, but we particularly en- courage submissions that broaden the scope of our commun- ity through the consideration of practical NLP applications. We especially invite people from industry working on NLP to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to dis- cuss and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience. Program Committee Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University (Chair); Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems; Cecile Paris, CSIRO; and Alistair Knott, University of Otago Submission Format Initial submissions should be in the form of four-page extended abstracts,printed single-spaced in 12 point font. The first page should include the paper title, author(s) name(s), complete addresses including email address and fax number, and a short (5 line) summary. We only accept electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files. If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to send an early version with the typo- graphical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic submissions should be sent to schwittMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue