[Corpora-List] CFP: EACL03 Workshop on the Computational Treatment of Anaphora

[Robert Dale]

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			   CALL FOR PAPERS
    EACL 2003 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Anaphora
			   April 14th 2003
			  Budapest, Hungary

	      [http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/eacl03ana.html]

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WORKSHOP TOPIC

The study of anaphora has long been central to work in natural
language processing, in terms of both the resolution and generation of
anaphoric forms. Work in the area stretches from the extremely
theoretical, where issues in the philosophy of language are raised, to
the extremely practical, as evidence by the coreference task in the
Message Understanding Conferences. Submissions from across this
spectrum are invited for this workshop, whose aim is to encourage more
speculative thinking in areas that we believe have been
underexplored. In particular:

First, recent interest in information extraction has tended to focus
interest in the resolution of pronominal anaphora and reduced definite
NP anaphora, particularly with respect to proper names. Although these
topics are obviously of great significance, this focus has meant that
work on other aspects of anaphora has been, in our view, neglected.

Second, we recognise that relevant work in each of natural language
understanding (where the major focus has been pronominal anaphor
resolution) and natural language generation (where the major focus has
been the generation of subsequent references) has generally been
pursued independently of the other. We would like to encourage papers
that explore how insights from one area can be used in the other.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-	one-anaphora
-	associative anaphora
-	forms of anaphora where either the anaphor or the
-	antecedent is not a noun phrase
-	presuppositions as anaphora
-	shared knowledge sources in analysis and generation
-	the development and exploitation of annotated corpora
-	evaluations of anaphor resolution and generation
-	cross-document coreference
-	comparisons of formal and computational treatments of anaphora
-	knowledge-poor vs knowledge-rich approaches

WORKSHOP FORMAT

The workshop will be one day in duration. Each presentation will last
for 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Authors should submit a full paper of no more than six pages by the
deadline stated below. Your paper should include a descriptive
abstract of around 100 words, and should follow the formatting
guidelines for the main EACL conference, as detailed at
http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. Submissions should be made
electronically as either PDF or PS files, preferably the former: if
you are submitting a PS file, please send a version of this a week
before the stated deadline so tha we can ensure there are no problems
with printing.

Submissions should be sent by email to eacl03ws at ics.mq.edu.au.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Refer to the main conference web pages at
http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03 for details of registration.

IMPORTANT DATES

Call for Papers distributed		November 1, 2002
Submissions Deadline			January 7, 2003
Notification Date			January 28, 2003
Camera ready copy due 			February 13, 2003
Workshop Date 				April 14, 2003

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Kees van Deemter, University of Brighton, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Amit Bagga, Avaya, USA
David Beaver, Stanford, USA
Antonio Branco, Lisbon, Portugal
Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy, France
Helmut Horacek, Saarbruecken, Germany
Pam Jordan, Pittsburgh, USA
Rodger Kibble, London, UK
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Shalom Lappin, London, UK
Josef Meyer, Macquarie, Australia
Massimo Poesio, Essex, UK
Ehud Reiter, Aberdeen, UK
Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh, UK

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any enquiries regarding this workshop, contact the
organisers via the workshop email address eacl03ws at ics.mq.edu.au. If
for any reason this is problematic, contact

Robert Dale
Centre for Language Technology
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia

Email: Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au
Tel: +61 2 9850 6331
Fax: +61 2 9850 9529

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