LINGUIST List 21.3622 Tue Sep 14 2010 Calls: Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Engineering (Jrnl) Editor for this issue: Dayn Schulert <daynlinguistlist.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: 13-Sep-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: 01-Oct-2010 Call for Special Issue Proposals (SIPs) - Extended Deadline: 1 Oct 2010 Natural Language Engineering (NLE) is becoming highly specialised with many application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging. These developments, often lacking related literature, merit the publication of specialised volumes focusing on specific topics of interest. The Journal of NLE (JNLE) invites competitive SIPs on any applied NLP topics which have emerged as important developments in NLE. After the 2006 and 2008 Calls for SIPs (the 2006 call resulted in two high quality SIs, the 2008 accepted proposals are in press/ nearing completion), we are pleased to announce this year's call. Topics should focus on the practical implications of large-scale operation. Topics covering NLP methods, tasks and resources could include 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 NLE, machine learning, evaluation methodologies, corpora and ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include 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. The topics above are not limited. Calls for SIPs may be based on a successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group. In all cases the review process of the accepted proposals will be rigorous and all submissions must be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Guest Editorial Board (EB) or other suitable reviewers agreed by the JNLE Editors. For papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. SIs could emerge from a specific workshop but they should not be limited to it and the call should invite submissions from anyone working on the topics covered. Calls for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all and all authors will be treated equally; for proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to workshop participants. Interested editors can obtain feedback by emailing expressions of interest with a description of the intended SI to the Executive Editor (R.Mitkovwlv.ac.uk wlv.ac.uk>, with cc to jnlewlv.ac.uk wlv.ac.uk>). He will indicate whether the topic is appropriate to JNLE. In the case of initial positive feedback, prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a SIP to be reviewed by the journal Editors and other members of the Journal EB. At least one proposal will be selected for each call with envisaged publication from Jan 2012. SIPs should include a brief outline of the field and the importance of an SI on the specified topic, plus a relevant literature survey (related previous SIs, volumes, workshop/conference proceedings) and explain the added value of the proposed SI against applicable relevant or competing publications and volumes. Ideally an estimate of expected submissions will be provided. Proposals should also include a tentative Guest EB (ideally including a member of the journal EB), tentative time-scale for production and prospective Guest Editors' relevant experience, publications etc. Deadline for SIP submission: 1 Oct 2010 (E-mail proposals to jnlewlv.ac.uk wlv.ac.uk>) Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 Nov 2010 Final version of successful proposal(s) and call for papers: 15 Nov 2010 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Sep-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.