LINGUIST List 12.3016

Mon Dec 3 2001

Calls: Machine Learning Approaches,Chinese Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Sandra Kuebler, Workshop on Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Linguistics (ESSLLI-2002)
2. Feng-hsi Liu, Reminder -- Call for Papers, NACCL-14

 ESSLLI-2002 Workshop on

 Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Linguistics

 August 5-9, 2002


 A workshop held as part of the
 14th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
 ESSLLI-2002
 Trento, Italy
 August 5-16, 2002



 ** CALL FOR PAPERS **


ORGANIZERS: Erhard Hinrichs, Sandra Kuebler (Universitaet Tuebingen)


DESCRIPTION:

Over the last decade, machine learning approaches have established
themselves as an important subfield of computational linguistics. The
resulting body of research is characterized by a wide range of
techniques. These techniques have been successfully applied to a
variety of natural language annotation tasks, such as part-of-speech
tagging, shallow and deep parsing, word sense disambiguation, anaphora
resolution, PP attachment.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for these junior
researchers to present their work and discuss the relative merits of
their machine learning approaches as they apply to natural language
phenomena.

Possible learning approaches are:
* inductive logic programming
* memory-based learning
* transformation-based learning
* decision trees
* information-theoretic approaches such as maximum entropy models, 
 Markov models
* genetic algorithms 
* connectionist learning


SUBMISSION:

All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are
highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript).
Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in
10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers
should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the
following details:

- Title
- Authors' names and affiliation
- Address
- E-mail addresses

All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee.
The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader.
If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to
publish them in an edited volume.
 
Submissions should be sent before March 15, 2000 to the following
address:

 Sandra Kuebler
 Universitaet Tuebingen 
 Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft 
 Wilhelmstr. 113 
 D-72074 Tuebingen 
 Germany 
 
 kueblersfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of
your paper to the above address.
Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome.


IMPORTANT DATES:


 Mar 15, 2002: Deadline for submissions
 Apr 15, 2002: Notification of acceptance
 May 15, 2002: Final version due
 Aug 5, 2002: Start of workshop


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Steven Abney
Anja Belz
Rens Bod
Antal van den Bosch
Sabine Buchholz
Walter Daelemans
Ido Dagan
Herve Dejean
James Hammerton
Erhard Hinrichs, co-chair
Yuval Krymolowski
Sandra Kuebler, co-chair
Paola Merlo
John Nerbonne	TBC
Miles Osborne
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Jorn Veenstra	TBC
Andreas Wagner


FURTHER INFORMATION:

To obtain further information about ESSLLI-2002 please visit
http://www.esslli2002.it/

This workshop is held as part of the ESSLLI-2002 summer
school. Therefore all workshop participants are required to register
for ESSLLI-2002. Registration information will be announced in due
time by the local organizers on the ESSLLI-2002 website.

The 14th Annual North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
 (NACCL-14)

 University of Arizona
 May 17-19, 2002

Call for Papers:
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute talks in all areas of Chinese
linguistics and from any theoretical perspective.

Requirements for Submission of Abstracts:
Abstracts must be camera-ready, on a single page, single spaced, in
12-point type, with one inch margins.

Mail five(5) copies of the abstract, one of which includes name of
author(s), affiliation(s), and e-mail address(es); the other four (for
anonymous review) identified by title only.

Please include a 3x5 card containing the paper title, name of author(s),
affiliation, status (student or non-student), address, phone number, and
e-mail.

To facilitate the reviewing process, kindly identify on the card the
primary area of linguistics addressed in your paper (e.g., Phonetics,
Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Functional/Pragmatics, Dialectology,
Historical Phonology, Historical Syntax, Computational/Corpus
Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, or Sociolinguistics).

Please do not send abstracts by e-mail or fax.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is January 3, 2002.

The address for submission of your abstract for NACCL-14 is:

NACCL-14
Department of East Asian Studies
Franklin Building 404
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA

For details and updates, visit our website at:
http://w3.arizona.edu/~eas/naccl
E-mail: naccl14email.arizona.edu