LINGUIST List 18.3015: Applied Ling,Computational,General Ling/USA

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Mon Oct 15 2007 Calls: Applied Ling,Computational,General Ling/USA Editor for this issue: Ania Kubisz <anialinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Phil McCarthy, Applied Natural Language Processing Message 1: Applied Natural Language Processing
Date: 15-Oct-2007 From: Phil McCarthy <pmccarthymail.psyc.memphis.edu> Subject: Applied Natural Language Processing E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Applied Natural Language Processing Short Title: ANLP at FLAIRS Date: 15-May-2008 - 17-May-2008 Location: Miami, USA Contact Person: Phil McCarthy Meeting Email: pmccarthymail.psyc.memphis.edu Web Site: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008 Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics Subject Language(s): English (eng) Call Deadline: 21-Nov-2007 Meeting Description The track of Applied Natural Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL), applied linguistics (AL) and related areas. The rapid pace of development in natural language processing in textual studies, speech recognition, speech production, and data mining has led to a revived interest in tools able to understand, organize and extract information from natural language sources. These include the analysis of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), the use of innovative human-computer interfaces, such as interactive agents, which benefit from language understanding, and the use of computational tools to facilitate intelligent tutoring systems and instructional methodology. In addition, natural language processing can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs, assist in the organization of classification systems, and coordinate text segmentation. While papers and contributions on traditional issues are welcome, the 2008 special track will emphasize applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, language acquisition, textual assessment, language varieties, materials development, generic classification, and educational applications etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech processing and machine learning that present actual applications that can benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL. Topics We invite original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas 1. NL-based Knowledge Representations and Systems 2. Applied Linguistics and First and Second Language Acquisition 3. English for Specific Purposes 4. Textual assessment indices 5. Syntax 6. Semantics 7. Coreference Resolution 8. Word Sense Disambiguation 9. Text Cohesion and Coherence 10. Dialogue Management and Systems 11. Language Generation 12. Language Models 13. Human Computer Interfaces - in particular, multimodal human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer communication channel for the handicapped and elderly 14. Machine Learning applied to NL problems 15. Multilingual Processing 16. Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building, and Annotation Languages 17. NL in Learning Environments 18. Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning 19. Applications: Machine Translation, Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction, etc. 20. Others Submission Guidelines Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should be original work and not submitted (or in submission) to any other conference. Papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 20, 2007. For FLAIRS-21, the 2008 conference, the reviewing is not blind. Authors should indicate the special track if one exists that closely matches the topic of their paper. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system available through the paper submission site at http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS-21/ Please, check the website http://www.flairs.com/ for information regarding submission. Authors are encouraged, but not required, to offer their services as reviewers on the program committee. Please contact either Philip McCarthy or Scott Crossley if you are interested. Conference Proceedings Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2008. Organizing Committee Philip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent Systems Scott Crossley, Mississippi State University Current Program Committee Anna Feldman, Montclair State University Stephen Anthony, University of California San Diego Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California Diana Inkpen, University of Toronto Vasile Rus, University of Memphis Peter Clark, Boeing Andrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent Systems Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton Katherine M Forbes Riley, University of Pittsburg Sidney D'Mello, Institute for Intelligent Systems Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University Srinivasa Pillarisetti, Institute for Intelligent Systems Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Leo Ferres, Carleton University Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University Gael Dias, University of Beira Interior Kyle Demsey, Institute for Intelligent Systems Asif Ekbal, Jadavpur University Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur Unviersity Xiaofei Lu, Pennsylvania State University Manish Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrea Corradini, University of Potsdam Roberto Navigli, University of Rome La Sapienza Christian Hempelman, hakia Further Information Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs: Philip McCarthy, email Scott A. Crossley, email Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2008 program co-chairs: David Wilson, University of North Carolina Charlotte, email Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, email General questions concerning the conference should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2008 conference co-chairs: Douglas D. Dankel II, University of Florida, email Special Tracks Chair Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany Invited Speakers To be announced Conference Web Sites Paper submission site: http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS-21/ NLP Special Track web page: http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008 FLAIRS-2008 conference web page: http://www.flairs-21.info/ Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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