Date: 09-Oct-2006
From: Philip McCarthy <pmccarthymail.psyc.memphis.edu>
Subject: Applied Natural Language Processing (special track)
Full Title: Applied Natural Language Processing (special track)
Date: 07-May-2007 - 09-May-2007
Location: Key West, USA
Contact Person: Philip McCarthy
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://homepage.mac.com/hempelma/flairs07.html
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 20-Nov-2006
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 of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools able to understand, organize and mine those materials. Innovative human-computer interfaces, for instance interactive agents, can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with a large impact on user acceptance and satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems.
While papers and contributions on traditional issues are welcome, the 2007 track will emphasize applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, humor processing, security, language teaching, textual assessment, language varieties, materials development, 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.
Goal: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 of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools able to understand, organize and mine those materials. Innovative human-computer interfaces, for instance interactive agents, can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with a large impact on user acceptance and satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems.
While papers and contributions on traditional issues are welcome, the 2007 track will emphasize applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, humor processing, security, language teaching, textual assessment, language varieties, materials development, 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 highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas:1.NL-based Knowledge Representations and Systems2.Applied Linguistics and First and Second Language Acquisition3.English for Specific Purposes4.Textual assessment indices5.Syntax6.Semantics7.Coreference Resolution8.Word Sense Disambiguation9.Text Cohesion and Coherence10.Dialogue Management and Systems11.Language Generation12.Language Models13.Human Computer Interfaces - in particular, multimodal human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer communication channel for the handicapped and elderly14.Machine Learning applied to NL problems15.Multilingual Processing16.Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages17.NL in Learning Environments18.Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning19.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 not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 21, 2006. Please note the change from 5 to 6 pages from the first CFP. Additional pages (7 and more) have to be cleared by the program chairs and will be $100 each. For FLAIRS-20, the 2007 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/FLAIRS20/.
Please, check the website http://www.flairs.com/ for information regarding submission.
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 2007.
Organizing Committee:Philip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent SystemsChristian Hempelman, Hakia Inc.Program CommitteeCederick Bellissens, Institute for Intelligent SystemsChutima Boonthum, Hampton UniversityPeter Clark, BoeingScott Crossley, Mississippi State UniversitySidney D'Mello, Institute for Intelligent SystemsNick Duran, Institute for Intelligent SystemsAnna Feldman, Montclair State UniversityChris Gates, Hakia Inc.Patrick Jeuniaux, Institute for Intelligent SystemsCharles Hall, University of MemphisChristian Hempelmann, Hakia Inc.Diana Inkpen, University of TorontoPamela Jordan, University of PittsburghChristopher Kurby, Northern Illinois UniversityMax Louwerse, University of MemphisPhilip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent SystemsRada Mihalcea, University of North TexasPaul Morarescu, University of Texas at DallasRoberto Navigli, University of Rome ''La Sapienza''Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyAndrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent SystemsConstantin Orasan, University of WolverhamptonJohn Paolillo, Indiana UniversitySrinivasa Pillarisetti, Institute for Intelligent SystemsGraeme Ritchie, University of AberdeenVasile Rus, University of MemphisRoger Taylor, Institute for Intelligent SystemsStacey Todaro, Northern Illinois UniversityKatrina E. Triezenberg, Purdue UniversityZygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz UniversityYorick Wilks, University of Sheffield
Further Information:Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs:Philip McCarthy, emailChristian F. Hempelmann, emailQuestions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2007 program co-chairs:David Wilson, University of North Carolina Charlotte, emailGeoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami, emailGeneral questions concerning the conference should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2007 conference co-chairs:Douglas D. Dankel II, University of Florida, emailSpecial Tracks ChairRainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany
Invited Speakers:Victor Raskin, Purdue University
Conference Web Sites:Paper submission site: http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS20/NLP Special Track web page: http://home.autotutor.org/pmccarthy/index.htmFLAIRS-2007 conference web page: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/flairs2007/call.htmlFLAIRS 2007 home page:Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
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