Corpora: CfP: Roadmap Workshop at COLING2002

[Steven Krauwer]

       First announcement and call for papers and other contributions

                  A Roadmap for Computational Linguistics
                          Saturday, August 31 2002

                  Workshop in conjunction with COLING 2002
              (August 24 - September 1, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan)

                            Organized by ELSNET

    Context and objective

   ELSNET is the European Network of Excellence in Human Language
   Technologies, which was created in 1991, with a view to supporting and
   facilitating research, development and training in the field of
   language and speech technologies and related areas. The network funded
   by the European Commission, but its scope is not limited to Europe.
   This workshop should be seen as a step in ELSNET's aim to build a
   roadmap for language and speech technology. It is one of a number of
   workshops of this type that have been and will be organised in order
   to arrive at a broadly supported roadmap for our field, which should
   help us identifying major challenges, setting research priorities and
   defining common goals. At this workshop we will
     * confront the audience with the approach and the results of
       ELSNET's roadmapping exercise thus far;
     * invite participants to give their own presentation of what they
       see as the main longer term challenges and internmediate
       milestones in our field as well as their strategies to meet these
       challenges;
     * organise panel and discussion sessions aimed at reaching a
       consensus on what the main challenges and priorities are.

   As a special feature we will invite a number of rapporteurs to have a
   critical look at the papers presented at the various thematic sessions
   of the main conference, with a view to relating them to the main
   challenges and milestones: do we spot new challenges, new milestones,
   new strategies, new directions, regional differences, etc. All reports
   and summaries of discussions will be integrated in ELSNET's Roadmap,
   and given wide distribution via ELSNET's communication channels
   (website, newsletter, discussion forums, etc).

    Target audience

   A workshop of this type will be most appealing to people who are
   interested in developing longer term strategic views, e.g. senior
   scientists in charge of longer term research policies (both in
   academia and in industry), but also researchers and developers who
   have specific views on what will happen or what should happen, should
   feel invited to attend and contribute, as well as people who are
   responsible for the education of future generartions of researchers
   and developers.

    Papers

   We invite papers that can contribute to the creation and further
   improvement of the roadmap for our field, such as (but not limited
   to):
     * visions of the future
     * identification of major challenges emanating from research results
       or from application needs
     * identification of major milestones on our way towards our goals
       and their interdependencies
     * comparative assessment of technologies and their impact on our
       future
     * ways to address the growing demand for training, especially (but
       noy exclusively) across disciplines and aimed at professionals
       already working in the field
     * ways to address the increasing needs for novel resources, both for
       the commercially interesting languages and for other languages

    Other contributions

   We also invite proposals for other possible contributions to this
   workshop, such as (but not limited to):
     * Proposals for a panel session. Proposers should describe the
       specific topic of a one hour panel session, including names of
       potential panelists. The proposer of an accepted panel should be
       prepared to assist the ELSNET team in the organisation of the
       panel.
     * Proposals to act as a rapporteur for a specific subtheme of the
       main conference. Proposers should be willing to give an up to 15
       minutes report on the impact the papers related to this subtheme
       presented at the main conference on the future development of our
       field. Proposals should identify the proposer's preferred
       subtheme, and should provide evidence that the proposer has
       sufficient professional experience to do this job (e.g. a CV,
       pointers to relevant publications, supporting letters from
       colleagues, etc.).

   Panel reports and subtheme reports will be given wide distribution
   after the workshop, but by their nature they can not be published in
   the proceedings. In order to compensate panel organisers and
   rapporteurs for the fact that their efforts -however impactful they
   may turn out to be- will not result in standard academic publications,
   ELSNET will reimburse their workshop registration fee.

    Submission and calendar

   Abstracts for workshop papers, panel proposals or proposals to act as
   a rapporteur should not exceed four A4 pages, and should be sent
   electronically in plain ASCII text, in MS Word or in PDF format to
   Steven.Krauwer at elsnet.org by Friday, April 26 2002.

   Deadline for Submissions: Fri 26 April 2002
   Notification of Acceptance for papers, panels and rapporteurs: Fri 24
   May 2002
   Final Versions of Papers Due: Fri 28 June 2002
   Workshop: Sat 31 August 2002

    Registration and other information

   Registration details and other information will be published on the
   main conference website: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
   The URL for this workshop is
   http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-coling2002.html

    Workshop PC

   *composition to be confirmed*

    Contact

   Steven Krauwer (Chair),     steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
   ELSNET / Utrecht University http://www.elsnet.org
   Trans 10                    phone: +31 30 253 6050
   3512 JK UTRECHT, NL         fax: +31 30 253 6000