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illigal.ge.uiuc.edu>3rd and last Call for participation Extended deadline!! ROPNET-2001 REPRESENTATIONS AND OPERATORS FOR NETWORK PROBLEMS Bird-of-a-feather Workshop at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 ( GECCO-2001 ) San Francisco, California, July 7 - 11, 2001 (Saturday - Wednesday) http://www.isgec.org/GECCO-2001/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 12, 2001 Decisions will be mailed by: April 5, 2001 Submissions of camera-ready papers: April 20, 2001 Presentation: July 7, 2001 WORKSHOP SUMMARY Finding good solutions for network design problems is important in many fields such as telecommunications, computer, backbone access, transportation and distribution networks. Over the last years genetic algorithms have been applied with success to a wide variety of these different problems. One of the major design issues is how the network could be represented as an artificial chromosome and what kind of operators could be defined on the chromosome. The workshop is intended to give an overview over the existing approaches and to discuss various representations and operators in the context of genetic and evolutionary computation. It should compare theoretical properties and empirical performance characteristics of different representations and operators and try to find explanations for performance differences of a genetic algorithm. The workshop will be focused on representations and operators for network problems, but it welcomes interesting contributions to encoding issues that are meaningful for network representations. PARTICIPATION Presentations will be selected according to the submitted 10-page papers which will be reviewed by at least two members of the international program committee. Accepted papers will be available in electronic form before the workshop. Abbreviated versions of the papers will be later published in the workshop proceedings. The length of each paper will be determined by the number of accepted papers. For more detailed submission guidelines and recent updates, see the workshop pages at http://btw6x2.oec.uni-bayreuth.de/ropnet/ WORKSHOP CHAIR Franz Rothlauf Department of Information Systems University of Bayreuth 95445 Bayreuthn Germany rothlaufMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
wlv.ac.uk>** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolanMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue