Dagan (dagan@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il)
Mon, 18 Dec 1995 15:35:59 +0200
************************************************ ******* NOTICE DELAY OF SUBMISSION DATE ******** ************************************************ WVLC-4 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the FOURTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-4) WHEN: August 4, 1996 - in conjunction with COLING 96 (Tutorials: Aug 2-3, Main conference: Aug 5-9, 1996). WHERE: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. SPONSORD BY: The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Lexis Nexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer an international and general forum for the presentation of new advances and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural language processing. The fourth workshop will focus on the theme of: Innovative uses and applications of large corpora Large corpora, i.e. corpora ranging anywhere from 10^4 to 10^9 words, are coming into existence for several different languages, and techniques for analyzing them are improving. How are these resources actually being used? The workshop encourages contributions that show innovative applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical industrial importance. The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer a focus for discussion and debate between researchers and industrialists. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to) Text Analysis Techniques: - robust parsing - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - morphological analysis - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - sense disambiguation - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure Applications: - Information Retrieval - Lexicography - Machine Translation - Spelling and Grammar Correction - Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. PROGRAM CHAIRS: Eva Ejerhed - University of Umea, Umea, Sweden Ido Dagan - Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Susan Armstrong (ISCCO, Switzerland) Huang Changning (Tsinghua University, China) Keh-Jiann Chen (IIS Sinica, Taiwan) Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) Helmut Feldweg (Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany) Don Hindle (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) Fred Karlsson (University of Helsinki, Finland) Mark Lauer (Microsoft, Australia) Ellen Riloff (University of Utah, USA) Kyoji Umemura (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) Mark Wasson (LEXIS-NEXIS, USA) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full length paper (3500 - 8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "WVLC-4@ling.umu.se" and must be either (a) a plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single LaTex file (no separate figures or .bib files), following the COLING 96 stylesheet, which is retrievable by anonymous ftp from ling.umu.se, /pub/SIGDAT/colsub.sty. A model submission is provided in /pub/SIGDAT/modelsub.tex. Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Eva Ejerhed (address below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission Deadline: April 10, 1996 Notification Date: May 10, 1996 Camera ready copy due: June 10, 1996 The camera ready hard copies of final papers, laser printed, should be air-mailed to Eva Ejerhed (address below) and must be received by June 10, 1996. CONTACT: Eva Ejerhed Ido Dagan Dept of Linguistics, DGL Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Umea Bar Ilan University S 90187 Umea, Sweden Ramat Gan 52900, Israel e-mail: WVLC-4@ling.umu.se e-mail: dagan@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il http://www.ling.umu.se/SIGDAT/WVLC-4.html NOTE: The Fourth Workshop on Very Large Corpora is one of two meetings organized by SIGDAT in 1996. The other meeting is the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, that will be held at the University of Pennsylvania, May 17-18, 1996, in conjunction with the University's 50th Anniversary celebration of the Eniac Computer. The URL for the UPenn conference page is: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/faculty/brill/Conf_on_Emp_Meth.html
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