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ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz>*********************************************************** 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002) Preliminary Call for Papers SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2002. The conference will be held at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA on July 6-7, immediately preceding the anniversary 40th meeting of the ACL (ACL 2002). We are interested in papers from academia, government, 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 - general NLP-related machine learning techniques: theory, methods and algorithms (incl. text mining, smoothing, etc.) As a follow-up to last year's focus on analyzing the current "Successes and Challenges" in the corpus-based methods, we encourage submissions on the theme "The Next Big Thing in Data-driven NLP" We solicit papers that describe attempts to substantially and radically deviate from current practice of simple adaptations of existing and usually well-studied methods. All directions of a venture to a territory previously unknown (or once abandoned for one reason or another) to NLP are welcome, such as but not limited to - using Really Large Corpora (cf. last year's Brill's talk); - using previously neglected methods, including those from non-NLP fields, such as biology, nuclear physics, or finance, with promising results and/or reasonable potential for the future; - employing known methods in a radically different way or on problems they were not tried upon previously, with truly significant improvement; - combining intuition-based and data-based methods (finally!) with substantially improved results on known problems. We stress though that such papers, however radical their content might be, stick to the usual practice of documenting the results using standard experimental and evaluation practice. That does not exclude that authors provide extended final section in their submissions, discussing perhaps even slightly speculatively what the future might look like. Submissions: Submissions should take the form of full papers (3200 words or less, excluding references) describing original, unpublished work. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information on the title page. More info will be coming soon; see also last year EMNLP's website at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html Important Dates: Submission deadline: April 4, 2002 Acceptance notification: May 8, 2002 Camera-ready copy due: June 6, 2002 Conference: July 6-7, 2002 Conference Organizers: - Jan Hajic (chair), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (hajicMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
science.uva.nl>FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AiML 2002 Advances in Modal Logic September 30 - October 2, 2002, Toulouse DEADLINE: May 15, 2002 Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a conference series together with volumes based on the conferences. AiML 2002 is the fourth conference organized as part of this initiative. It will be held September 30 - October 2, 2002 in Toulouse, France. TOPICS Topics of interest include: o complexity and decidability of modal and temporal logics, o deontic logic, o description logics, o dynamic logic, o epistemic logic, o modal logics of space, o modal logic and game theory, o modal logic and grammar formalisms, o modal realism and anti-realism, o modal and temporal logic programming and theorem proving, o model theory and proof theory of modal and temporal logic, o representation of time in natural language semantics, o non-monotonic modal logics, o provability logic, o common-sense temporal reasoning. Papers on related subjects will also be considered. SPECIAL SESSION During the workshop there will be a special session on modal logics of space. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers include: o M. Fitting (USA) o R. Goldblatt (New Zealand) o I. Hodkinson (UK) o C. Lutz (Germany) o H. Ono (Japan) o P. Schnoebelen (France) PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit a detailed abstract of a full paper of at most 10 pages (a4paper, 11pt) by e-mail to one of the programme chairs, using `AiML Submission' as the subject line. The cover page should include title, names of authors, the coordinates of the corresponding author, and some keywords describing the topic of the paper. To be considered, submissions must be received no later than May 15, 2002. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for and attend the conference to present the paper. PUBLICATION DETAILS Preliminary versions of the full papers should be made available at the workshop; the proceedings volumes will be submitted to CSLI Publications. Notification date for the conference is July 15, 2002; for the volumes it is December 1, 2002. PROGRAM COMMITTEE P. Balbiani (France) G. Corsi (Italy) L. Farinas del Cerro (France) M. de Rijke (Netherlands) L. Moss (USA) M. Reynolds (Australia) R. Schmidt (UK) N.-Y. Suzuki (Japan) H. Wansing (Germany) F. Wolter (Germany) M. Zakharyaschev (UK) PROGRAM CHAIRS Nobu-Yuki Suzuki Department of Mathematics Faculty of Sciences Shizuoka University Ohya 836, Shizuoka 422 8529 Japan email: smnsuzuMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue