LINGUIST List 21.2892 Tue Jul 13 2010 Calls: Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Engineering (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Jessica Gardner <gardnerlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Irina Temnikova, Natural Language Engineering Message 1: Natural Language Engineering Date: 09-Jul-2010 From: Irina Temnikova <i.temnikova2wlv.ac.uk> Subject: Natural Language Engineering E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Natural Language Engineering Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 30-Aug-2010 Call for special issue proposals: The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (NLE) invites proposals for special issues on a competitive basis on any topics about applied NLP which have emerged as important developments in Natural Language Engineering and which have attracted the attention of a number of researchers or research groups. Topics covering NLP methods, tasks and resources could include but are not limited to POS tagging, parsing, semantic role labelling, word sense disambiguation, anaphora and coreference resolution, named entity recognition, natural language generation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal processing, statistical methods in Natural Language Engineering, machine learning, evaluation methodologies, corpora and ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include but are not limited to machine translation, translation memory and translation tools, summarisation, information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, text and web mining, opinion mining and NLP for biomedical texts. Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the community. In all cases, however, the reviewing process of the accepted proposals will be rigorous and all submissions must be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Guest Editorial Board or other suitable reviewers agreed on by the NLE Editors. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants only. Interested editors have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended special issue to the Executive Editor (R.Mitkovwlv.ac.uk, with cc to jnlewlv.ac.uk). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to Natural Language Engineering. In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue which will be reviewed by the Editors of the journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board. At least one proposal will be selected on a competitive basis for each call with the envisaged publication date for the successful proposal(s) from this call on or after January 2011. The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the particular topic of interest. It should include a relevant literature survey (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications and volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that a rough estimate of expected submissions to the special issue be provided. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board (it is desirable that one of the members of the Guest Editorial Board be a member of the Journal Editorial Board), tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue and information about the prospective Guest Editors (relevant experience, publications etc.). Time-scale: - Deadline for submission of special issue proposals: 30 August 2010 (proposals to be emailed to jnlewlv.ac.uk) - Notification of acceptance/rejection: 30 September 2010 - Final version of the successful proposal(s) and call for papers: 15 October 2010 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.