LINGUIST List 13.3012

Wed Nov 20 2002

Calls: EACL2002/ACL2003

Editor for this issue: Karolina Owczarzak <karolinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Priscilla Rasmussen, Association for Computational Linguistics, Budapest Hungary
2. Priscilla Rasmussen, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sapporo Japan

 Workshop Programme and Call for Workshop Papers
	 European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Important dates for all workshops:
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Submission deadline: Jan 07, 2003
Notification: Jan 28, 2003
Deadline for final papers: Feb 13, 2003
Workshop dates: Apr 13/14, 2003
Conference dates: Apr 12-17, 2003

Important URLs:
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Main conference: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/
Workshops: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops


Workshop overview:
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Workshop w01:

"MT and other language technology tools; 
 Improving MT through other language technology tools; 
 Resources and tools for building MT"

URL: not available
Organizer(s): Bente Maegaard
Email: bentecst.dk
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w01.doc
Date: April 13, 2003
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Workshop w02:

"9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation"

URL: http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html
Organizer(s): Ehud Reiter
Email: ereitercsd.abdn.ac.uk
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w02.txt
Date: April 13+14, 2003
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Workshop w03:

"4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted
 Corpora (LINC-03)"

URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03
Organizer(s): Silvia Hansen
Email: hansenCoLi.Uni-SB.DE
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w03.txt
Date: April 14, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w04:

"Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods"

URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~compling/eaclws2003/
Organizer(s): Michael Kuhn
Email: kuehnuni-koblenz.de
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w04.txt
Date: April 13, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w05:

"The Computational Treatment of Anaphora"

URL: not available
Organizer(s): Rob Dale
Email: rdaleics.mq.edu.au
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w05.txt
Date: April 14, 2003
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Workshop w06:

"Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of
 management"

URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roberta/eacl-w06.html
Organizer(s): Kristiina Jokinen and Roberta Catizone
Email: kjokinenuiah.fi,R.Catizonedcs.shef.ac.uk
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w06.txt
Date: April 13+14, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w07:

"Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: 
 are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable?"

URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina/EACL03-eval
Organizer(s): Katerina Pastra
Email: e.pastradcs.shef.ac.uk
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w07.txt
Date: April 13, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w08:

"Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages --
 Expanding Synergies with Europe"

URL: not available
Organizer(s): Durgesh Rao and Pat Hall
Email: durgeshsaathi.ncst.ernet.in,p.a.v.hallopen.ac.uk
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w08.txt
Date: April 14, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w09:

"Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language
 Processing"

URL: http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~laporte/fsw-cfp.htm
Organizer(s): Eric Laporte and Ken Beesley
Email: eric.laporteuniv-mlv.fr,Ken.Beesleyxrce.xerox.com
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w09.txt
Date: April 13+14, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w10:

"Language Technology and the Semantic Web: 
 3rd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2003)"

URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/NLPXML3.html
Organizer(s): Nancy Ide and Graham Wilcock
Email: idecs.vassar.edu,graham.wilcockhelsinki.fi
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w10.txt
Date: April 14, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w11:

"Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Question-Answering"

URL: not available
Organizer(s): Bonnie Webber and Maarten de Rijke
Email: bonnieinf.ed.ac.uk,mdrscience.uva.nl
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w11.txt
Date: April 13, 2003
___________________________________________________________________

Workshop w12:

"Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages"

URL: http://nl.ijs.si/mpsl03/
Organizer(s): Tomaz Erjavec and Dusko Vitas
Email: Tomaz.Erjavecijs.si,vitasmatf.bg.ac.yu
1st CfP: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/w12.txt
Date: April 13, 2003
___________________________________________________________________


Contact info:
- for the workshops in general: steven.krauwerelsnet.org
- for individual workshops: workshop organizers
- for the main conference: kindlsztaki.hu
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 2nd Announcement of 41st ACL (ACL03)
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Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

 Venue:
 Convention Center of Sapporo, Sapporo, JAPAN
 Dates:
 Tutorials and Pre-conference Workshops: July 7, 2003
 Main Conference: July 8-10, 2003
 Post-conference Workshops: July 11-12, 2003
(For details, see the Web site
 http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/)
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We are happy to announce that the members of the PC are finalized and
that the CFP of the student session is now available. We would also
like to remind you that the deadline for workshop proposals is
November 28.


[1] Call for Workshop Proposals
(For details, see http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/)

 Important Dates
 Submission deadline for workshop proposals: November 28, 2002
 Notification of acceptance workshop proposal: December 12, 2002
 Workshop Dates: July 7, 2003 (pre-conference workshops)
 July 11-12, 2003 (post-conference workshops)

[2] Areas chairs of the PC are as follows:

 [Co-Chairs of the PC]

 Erhard Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
 Dan Roth (University of Illinois, U.S.A.)

 [Area Chairs]

 Discourse and Dialogue
 Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, U.K.)
 Computational Psycholinguistics; Lexical Semantics and Ontologies 
 for NLP
 Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
 Syntax, Semantics, Grammars, Morphology and Phonology:
 Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
 Speech, Language Modeling, Stat. Methods
 Chris Manning (Stanford University, U.S.A.)
 NL Applications
 Koiti Hasida (Cyber Assist Research Center, Japan)
 Ming Zhou (Microsoft, China)
 MT and Multilinguality
 Kevin Knight (Information Sciences Institute, U.S.C.)
 Word Segmentation, Shallow Parsing, Tagging and Chunking
 Thorsten Brants (Xerox PARC, U.S.A.)
 Generation and Parsing
 Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
 Machine Learning for NL
 Raymond J. Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.)
 Information Extraction/Information Retrieval
 Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
 Language Resources
 Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea)

[3] CFP of the student session
(For details, see http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/)

 Important Dates for the Student Session
 Paper registration: February 21, 2003
 Paper submission deadline: February 26, 2003
 Notification of Acceptance: April 26, 2003
 Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 5, 2003

 Co-chairs:

 Sandra Kuebler (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
 Kotaro Funakoshi (Ph.D. student of Tokyo Institute of Technology, 
 Japan)
 Jahna C Otterbacher (Ph.D student of University of Michigan, U.S.A.)
 Chris Brew (The Ohio State University)

 Contact address: acl03-studentumich.edu

[4] We will provide exhibition booths with full Internet access at
ACL03 and would like to encourage groups in academic institutes as
well as industrial sponsors to exhibit their most recent research and
development results. Information on industrial support and
exhibitions will be available on our Web site soon.

[5] [Collocated Events] We would be happy to help those wishing to
arrange events in conjunction with ACL03. For information on available
venues and local facilities for gatherings and meetings, please
contact:

 Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
 arakimedia.eng.hokudai.ac.jp


[6] Posters and brochures are now available from our Web site.

[7] Deadlines

 November 28, 2002: Workshop Proposal
 December 16, 2002: Tutorial Proposal
 February 26, 2003: Paper submission
 (Main conference and Student Workshop)
 May 1, 2003: Interactive Posters and Demo
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