[Corpora-List] Australia: Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora 2006, a merged workshop with 7th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2006) and Frontiers in CCorpus Annotation III, at Coling-ACL 2006 --- CFP

[Timothy Baldwin]

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                      Call for Workshop Papers

                        Frontiers in Linguistically Annotated Corpora
                        2006

                                        A Merged Workshop with

                                              7th International
                                              Workshop on
                                                  Linguistically
                                              Interpreted Corpora
                                                  (LINC-2006)
                                                     and
                                         Frontiers in Corpus Annotation III

                            Coling/ACL 2006

                Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
                           Sydney, Australia

                              July 22, 2006

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Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly
important role for machine learning, evaluation, psycholinguistics as
well as theoretical linguistics. Many research groups are engaged in
the creation of corpus resources annotated with morphological,
syntactic, semantic, discourse and other linguistic information for a
variety of languages.  In the tradition of previous LINC
(http://www.delph-in.net/events/05/linc/) and Frontiers
(http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/meyers/Frontiers_Workshop.html) workshops, we
aim to bring together these activities in order to identify and
disseminate best practice in the development and utilization of
linguistically interpreted corpora.

The goals of the workshop are two-fold: (1) to exchange and propagate
research results with respect to the annotation, conversion and
exploitation of corpora taking into account different applications and
theoretical investigations in the field of language technology and
research; and (2) work towards a consensus on issues crucial to the
advancement of the field of corpus annotation. In particular, we would
like to focus on questions like:

 - How can a system developer take advantage of the multitude of
  annotation efforts with completely different underlying assumptions,
  annotation schemata, etc.?

 - How might one merge different annotation of the same data into one
  single unified representation?

 - How can closely related schemes be applied across languages?

The workshop will include presentations of long (8 page) and short (4
page) papers, invited presentations by "working groups", as discussed
below, followed by an open discussion. All papers should use the same
formating guidelines as ACL (http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au).  It is
not necessary to make the corpus itself anonymous, just the authors.

Long papers on any aspect of linguistically interpreted corpora
including:

 - creation of practical annotation schemes
 - efficient annotation techniques
 - automation of corpus annotation
 - tools supporting corpus conversions
 - validation including consistency checking of corpora
 - browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic
 - phenomena
 - interpretation of quantitative results
 - automatic induction of linguistic competence through machine
learning techniques.
 - application of the same linguistic schema to multiple languages

Short papers on these same topics. However, preliminary work and pilot
studies will also be considered.

There will be a few invited "working group" presentations. Each
working group will consist of a group of researchers with the
expressed purpose of laying out the dimensions of some crucial problem
facing the field of corpus annotation, particularly problems involving
merging annotation and extending annotation to new languages, genres
and modalities. The actual final inventory of working group topics
will appear on our website within the next month. Our preliminary
topics include:

 - A roadmap of the compatibility of current annotation schemes with
   each other. This will include a discussion of how they should be
   expected to be compatible, e.g., for the past 50 years, a partial
   alignment between surface and predicate/argument relations has
   been assumed

 - A discussion of low density languages and the problems associated
   with them (resource limitation, segmentation issues, spelling
   variation, etc.)

 - A discussion how the concept of "level of representation"
   (semantic level, surface level, etc.)  applies to annotation.

We will attempt to lay out clearly and precisely the assumptions on
such topics held by members of the annotation community and in doing
so, we hope to both: (1) lay the foundations for the meaningful
integration of annotation resources; and (2) assess the limitations of
integrated approaches.

We will also be giving an Innovative Student Annotation Award to one
student presenter -- please indicate if your paper is a student
paper. This includes waiving of the workshop fee for one student.


WORKSHOP WEBSITE: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/frontiers2006/

TARGET AUDIENCE: Those interested in creating and using existing and
future annotated corpora. This includes annotators, lexicographers,
system developers and those designing NLP system evaluation tasks for
the NLP community.


SUBMISSIONS

Long paper submissions should not exceed 8
pages in length and short papers should not exceed 4 pages. Format
requirements will be the same as for full papers of ACL 2006. See
http://www.acl2006.mq.edu.au for style files.

For details of the submission procedure, please consult the submission
webpage reachable via the workshop website.

Please indicate:
1) long or short paper;
2) choose all applicable paper categories from the following list:
syntax, semantics, predicate-argument structure, morphology, anaphora,
discourse;
3) indicate the language(s) your work applies to, e.g., those being
annotated as well and those you plan to annotate in the future.


LANGUAGE: All papers must be written and presented in English

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due: March 31, 2006
Acceptance/rejection notification: April 29, 2006
Final version due: May 20, 2006
Conference: July 22, 2006


Chairs:
Adam Meyers (New York University)
Shigeko Nariyama (University of Melbourne)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
Francis Bond (NTT)

Program Committee:
Lars Ahrenberg (Linkvpings Universitet)
Kathy Baker (U.S. Dept. of Defense)
Steven Bird (University of Melbourne)
Alex Chengyu Fang (City University Hong Kong)
David Farwell (Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State
University)
Chuck Fillmore (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley)
Anette Frank (DFKI)
John Fry (SRI International)
Eva Hajicova (Center for Computational Linguistics, Charles
University, Prague)
Erhard W. Hinrichs (University of Tuebingen)
Ed Hovy (International Sciences Institute)
Baden Hughes (University of Melbourne)
Emi Izumi (NICT)
Tsai Jia-Lin (Tung Nan Institute of Technology)
Avarind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo)
Boyan A. Onyshkevych (U.S. Dept. of Defense)
Kyonghee Paik (KLI)
Martha Palmer (University of Colorado)
Gerald Penn (University of Toronto)
Manfred Pinkal (DFKI)
Massimo Poessio (University of Essex)
James Pustejovsky  (Brandeis University)
Owen Rambow (Columbia University)
Peter Rossen Skadhauge (Copenhagen Business School)
Beth Sundheim (SPAWAR Systems Center)
Janice Wiebe (University of Pittsburgh)
Nianwen Xue (University of Pennsylvania)


CONTACT INFORMATION: Please refer any questions to
frontiers-colacl2006 at unimelb.edu.au