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dcs.shef.ac.uk>+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ IEEE Intelligent Systems: Special Issue on Advances in Natural Language Processing +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Co-editors: Fabio Ciravegna University of Sheffield, UK Sanda Harabagiu , University of Texas at Dallas, USA The inherent complexity of processing human language imposes several challenging difficulties for the integration of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology in current systems. This special issue intends to present the state-of-the-art in Natural Language Technology when applied to either text or speech processing. We invite original and high quality submission reporting on NLP applications or describing implemented NLP systems either in isolation or as part of broader systems. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Question answering Information Extraction Dialogue Summarization and generation Machine translation In particular we welcome papers focusing on: Applications involving the use of NLP; Opportunities for the use of NLP; Challenges and requirements of current state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing techniques (e.g. portability, robustness, efficiency and effectiveness issues); Novel applications of NLP techniques. Schedule: ---------- September 15, 2002: Deadline for submission. October 15, 2002: Notification of acceptance November 7, 2002: Deadline final versions. Format of Submission - ------------------ Please follow the instruction at http://www.computer.org/intelligent/author.htm Manuascript should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages. For any information, please refer to Fabio Ciravegna, F.CiravegnaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ics.mq.edu.au>5th AUSTRALASIAN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WORKSHOP (ANLP2002) Second Call for Papers Workshop: 2nd December 2002 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. The workshop proceedings will be published 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