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ics.mq.edu.au>5th AUSTRALASIAN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WORKSHOP (ANLP2002) Call for Papers Workshop: 2nd or 3rd December 2002 (exact date to be confirmed) Submissions due: 31st July 2002 Canberra, Australia http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Conferences/anlp2002 PURPOSE A one-day workshop on Natural Language Processing will be held in conjunction with the Australian AI conference (AI'02) in Canberra: http://www.cs.adfa.edu.au/~abbass/AI02/index.html The goals of the workshop are: * to bring together the growing NLP community in Australia and New Zealand; * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence community to become aware of local NLP research; * to provide a forum for discussion of new research; * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research. Our hope is to get as many Australasian NLPers together as possible to encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact. Currently under negotiation, the name of our internationally renowned invited speaker will be announced soon. The workshop proceedings will be printed with an ISBN number. TOPIC We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to: * speech understanding and generation; * phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse; * interpreting and generating spoken and written language; * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language; * language-oriented 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; * computational lexicography. We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community 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 discuss and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience. PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University (Co-chair) * Sabine Geldof, Macquarie University (Co-chair) * Dominique Estival, Human Systems Integration Group, DSTO (AU) * Alistair Knott, University of Otago (NZ) * Christopher Manning, Stanford University (USA) * Cecile Paris, CSIRO (AU) * Jon Patrick, University of Sydney (AU) * Graeme Ritchie, University of Edinburgh (UK) * Peter Wallis, University of Melbourne (AU) * Eric Wehrli, University of Geneva (CH) SUBMISSION FORMAT The length of the submissions should not exceed 8 pages, printed single-spaced in 11 point font. For the camera-ready version of the papers, please follow the instructions detailed on the workshop's homepage (instructions for authors). The first page of your submission should include: - paper title, - author name(s) and affiliation, - complete addresses including email address and fax number, - keywords, - abstract. Only electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files will be accepted. 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 typographical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic submissions should be sent to anlp-submitMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
t-online.de>Workshop "Explaining Productivity" - CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline 9 August, 2002 Abstracts are invited for papers to be presented at the Workshop "Explaining Productivity", taking place at the 25th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS)in Munich (February 26 - 28, 2003) Workshop Organizer: Peter Bosch, Inst. of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck One of the essential features of human language is its productivity: the built-in option for the construction of new forms - words, phrases, sentences, texts - derived on the basis of simple and complex forms already known, and new uses, functions, or meanings for these forms in new contexts. Classic Generative Grammar has gone a long way explaining the productivity of I-language (commonly under the name of "creativity") by means of recursion of categorial rules, and Formal Semantics - guided by the postulate of compositionality - has been equally successful on the semantic side. In combination with a theory of genetically determined Universal Grammar this model leaves however little room for the role of the individual's linguistic experience and for E-language. Over the past decade, and usually independently, approaches in Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Neuroinformatics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technology as well as in theoretically less committed approaches in descriptive linguistics, have worked on complementary models for the explanation of productivity that put less weight on categorial rules and instead focus on patterns of linguistic experience, quantitative data, and mechanisms for projecting linguistic knowledge to new contexts and situations that are inspired by analogy. There has been only little discussion across the boundaries of the approaches just sketched, and the discussion that there has been is limited to phenomena of Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax. The Workshop is interested in the semantic side of productivity - not in the sense of excluding matters of phonological, morphological and syntactic productivity, but in the sense of looking at their semantic aspects as well as at contextual and situational parameters. Topic areas and methodology for the Workshop: Indexicality, compositionality, semantics of word formation and derivation, semantics for "constructions", discourse semantics, language contact, language development, historical linguistics, The methodology of the workshop is explicitly interdisciplinary and presentations from Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Neuroinformatics, are explicitly invited. Papers offered for presentation should be explicitly addressed at the question of how particular forms of semantic productivity are to be explained. The presentation may be in English or German, although presentation in English is encouraged. Time for presentation will be 30 minutes (including discussion). A maximum of 15 papers can be accepted for the Workshop. Intending participants are warned that the regulations of DGfS explicitly exclude presentations by the same person at more than one of the workshops at the DGfS conference. Abstracts must not exceed one page A4 (12-point font, 2.5 cm margins), but references and materials may be attached on separate sheets (which will not be printed in DGfS's conference brochure but only in the workshop materials) and must be submitted as either ASCII or RTF documents (no PS or PDF because they may have to be reformatted). DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 9 August, 2002 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: 9 September, 2002 Please send your abstract by email to pboschMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue