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d.umn.edu>Notice the April 1 Deadline for late-breaking short papers submissions! Notice the upcoming test period for the shared task on word alignment! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS SECOND CALL FOR SHARED TASK PARTICIPATION Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop Edmonton, Alberta May 31, 2003 http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Short (Late-Breaking) Papers at the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Text provide a venue for authors to present late-breaking results. Submitted Short Papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Short papers are due on April 1, 2003 5pm your local time. Short papers are restricted to 4 pages in length. They must be submitted in camera-ready format; see http://www.hlt-naacl03.org/format.html. Short papers that are not in PDF or are incorrectly formatted may be rejected on that basis. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available on the website. Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. See full paper submission information for topics of interest. Reviewing will not be blind. Because we need camera-ready formatted papers, authors must include their identifying information on the paper. This is to accommodate the late-breaking format; we need time to review the papers and get the accepted papers to the printer in time. Note that notification date for acceptance and rejection is April 7, with final camera ready copy due on April 10. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SHARED TASK ON WORD ALIGNMENT All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. Teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Shared task timetable: Complete guidelines already available Training and trial data already available Test data March 18 Submission of results March 25 Results back to participants March 28 Submission of short papers April 1 (system descriptions) Last day to register for participation in the shared task: March 21. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GENERAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools. The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques. We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop. Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-= All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task. Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of regular full papers of max. 7 pages, or late-breaking papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, radaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uvt.nl>Call For Papers Special Issue on Grammatical Induction to be published in GRAMMARS a Kluwer journal of Mathematical Research on Formal and Natural Languages Guest editors: P. Adriaans, H. Fernau, C. de la Higuera, M. van Zaanen Tentative deadlines: * Manuscript submissions: 1 May 2003 * Referee comments sent back by: 1 October 2003 * Revised manuscripts due: 1 November 2003 * Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2003 * Final manuscripts due: 1 January 2004 * Issue will appear: May 2004. Manuscripts can be sent, preferrably electronically, to either of the editors of the special issue: * Pieter Adriaans <Pieter.AdriaansMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue