LINGUIST List 13.496

Sat Feb 23 2002

Calls: Computational Ling, Computational Ling

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1. Roberta Catizone, LREC 2002 Workshop on 'Learning for Advanced HLT
2. Ronaldo Menezes, Re: FINAL CFP: Coordination and Component-Oriented

Applications' - Final Call
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 Final Call for Papers

 LREC 2002 Workshop
'Learning for Advanced HLT Applications: from Language Resources to Processes'
 2nd June 2002, Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain


Motivation and Aims

The application of HLT to current IT trends requires large amounts of
specific linguistic resources. However, existing large scale resources
are never intended (i.e. designed and handcrafted) for specific
application tasks.

In order to bridge the existing gap, a variety of methods for
acquisition, adaptation and integration of linguistic resources have
been proposed in the NLP research area since the late 80's. Machine
learning and statistical techniques have been largely employed as
major devices able to deal with the scale and the complexity of the
problem. Although a large area of research, the impact of these
technologies on the applications is still low with respect to their
potential. Open problems are:

- the unclear targets of the learning activity: no general consensus
exists among the proposed approaches to the quality and quantity of
linguistic information needed for the different tasks (e.g. which is
the suitable representation that captures selective information from
the LR training material able to optimize parsing accuracy? Is it
fully grammatical, like in bracketed corpora, or lexical);

- the heterogeneity of sources: relevant information for the
adaptation task can be distributed in different repositories (LKBs and
texts) or expressed differently (in different languages and/or raw,
e.g. texts, vs. semistructured data, e.g. HTML/XML formats);

- the architectural idiosyncrasies: the proposed learning system make
reference to different sources of information in different pipelined
(or redundant as in voting) application architectures.

- the application scope: current applications make a limited use (if
any) of available adaptation technologies. This often limits the scale
reachable by the current HLT aplications;

The above issues are orientative towards the complexity of the problem
in current research given the enormous potential of the application
field in areas like Web Mining, Q\&A and Knowledge Management.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers of both academic and
industrial organizations interested in:
 
- Theoretical and Practical aspects of adaptive Natural Language
Processing 
- Models of Acquisition and Integration of Domain Knowledge
- Integration of induction models from heterogeneus data (lexicons vs.
- ontologies, texts vs. HTML/XML pages) 
- Learning Multlingual 
- Information exploiting Multilingual Resources (e.g. EWN) 
- Theoretical and Practical aspects of Lexical Acquisition in 
- multilingual scenarios Architectures for learning, adaptation, and 
- integration of LR 
- Adaptive HLT applications (including but not 
- limited to search, retrieval, navigation and QA)
 
Papers are invited for presenting theoretical and methodological
aspects of Machine Learning of Natural Language as well as approaches
making effective use of adaptive methods in the perspective of
pre-industrial or industrial applications.


Program Committee 

Roberta Catizone University of Sheffield
Walter Daelemans CNTS/Language Technology Group, Antwerp
M. V. Marabello KnowledgeStones S.p.A
M. T. Pazienza University of Roma, Tor Vergata
G. Rigau Polytechnical University of Catalunia
Horatio Rodriguez Polytechnical University of Catalunia
A. Setzer University of Sheffield
N. Webb University of Sheffield
Y. Wilks University of Sheffield
R�mi Zajac Systran Software, CA
F.M. Zanzotto University of Roma, Tor Vergata

Contact person

Roberta Catizone
University of Sheffield
211 Portobello Street, Regent Court, S1 4DP Sheffield (UK)
phone: +44 114 2221897; fax +44 114 2221810
r.catizonedcs.shef.ac.uk


Time schedule (Important Dates)
 Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 22th of February 2002
 Notification of acceptance: 15th of March 2002
 Final version of paper for proceedings: 15th of April 2002
 Workshop: 2st of June 2002
 
Agenda 
 Morning Session:
 - 1st Invited Talk (8:00-9:00)
 - Technical Papers (9:00-11:30)
 - 2nd Invited Talk (11:30-12:30)
 - Panel and Round Table (12:30-1:30)

A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation. 

In the workshop the following invited speakers are expected:
 - Roberto Basili (University of Roma, Tor Vergata)
 - Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield)

A panel session on "Adaptive Technologies and their implications on
advanced HLT applications (IR, IE, Q&A and KM)"

Distinguished panelists will be invited. Some of them confirmed their
partecipation and among others:
 - Nino Varile (EC Commission)
 - F. Gardin (AISoftware)

Submissions

Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics of
the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 30 minutes long
(20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions and
discussion). Each submission should show: title; author(s);
affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address,
telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 2 pages, plain-text
format).

The final version of the accepted papers should be no longer than ten
A4 pages. Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final
version will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.

Computing(Languages, Models, Systems)
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Please note the extended deadline for paper submissions (draft papers):
March 3rd, 2002. 
For more information visit the webpage below.

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 CALL FOR PAPERS
 Coordination and Component-Oriented Computing
 (Languages, Models, Systems)
 http://www.cs.fit.edu/~rmenezes/pdpta02/

 a special session of

 PDPTA'2002
 June 24 - 27, 2002
 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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IMPORTANT DATES:
 DEADLINE EXTENDED
 March 3, 2002 (Friday): Draft papers (about 5 pages) due
 March 21, 2002 (Thursday): Notification of acceptance
 April 22, 2002 (Monday): Camera-Ready papers & Prereg. due
 June 24-27, 2002: PDPTA'02 International Conference
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