Bill Keller (billk@cogs.susx.ac.uk)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 15:54:36 +0000 (GMT)
<*** Apologies if you receive this more than once ***> ESSLLI-98 Workshop on AUTOMATED ACQUISITION OF SYNTAX AND PARSING. August 24 - 28, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANISER: Bill Keller (COGS, University of Sussex) Web page: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/keller/esslli98/ BACKGROUND: Robust, accurate parsing of unrestricted natural language text remains an elusive goal of computational linguistics despite several decades of intense research effort. Conventional parsers utilising hand-crafted generative grammars and knowledge bases require considerable linguistic expertise and knowledge engineering effort to produce, and suffer from problems of under-generation, brittle behaviour and domain dependence. This has lead to a growth of interest in techniques for automatically acquiring syntactic knowledge and robust parsing heuristics directly from language data. This workshop aims to bring together PhD students and other researchers investigating both practical and theoretical issues in the acquisition of syntactic competence (grammars) and performance (parsers) from language data. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o statistical and symbolic approaches to grammatical inference and automata induction; o machine learning of grammars, parsing strategies and heuristics; o theoretical or empirical studies of approaches to the acquisition of syntactic knowledge or processing models. o empirical methods in grammar development and parsing (e.g. the acquisition of grammars or subcategorization frames from treebanks). WORKSHOP AIMS: This workshop aims to: o provide a setting for PhD students and other young researchers to present and discuss their work in a focussed and constructive environment; o facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working in different, but related areas of language acquisition or employing different techniques; o foster a spirit of collaborative research. CALL FOR PAPERS: All researchers in the area, but especially PhD students and young researchers are invited to submit short papers (between 4 and 8 pages long) describing their thesis/research topic, approach and results. Talks will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion/questions. Authors are also encouraged to submit a list of topics they would like to see discussed at the workshop. This will help to identify issues for discussion and debate. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: February 15, 1998 Paper submissions should be sent to: Dr Bill Keller School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH East Sussex, UK. Electronic submission is also welcomed. In this case submissions should be in the form of either PostScript or self-contained LaTex and sent to: billk@cogs.susx.ac.uk Authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 15th 1998. The deadline for receipt of revised papers to appear in the workshop proceedings is May 15th 1998. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each held over five days. There will be either two or three presentations at each session with time for questions and discussion. It is hoped to have at least one invited paper from a senior researcher working in the field of natural language learning. REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they will be eligible for a reduced registration fee. IMPORTANT DATES: Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy Aug 24, 98: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98 home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli
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