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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Call Deadline: 19-Nov-2007 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:black'>Applied Natural Language Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:black'>Special Track at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:black'>the 21<sup>st</sup> International FLAIRS Conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='color:black'>In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:17.0pt'>Grand
Bay Miami Hotel<br>
Coconut Grove, Florida<br>
May 15<sup>th</sup>-17<sup>th</sup>, 2008<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'>Paper
submission deadline: November 21<sup>st</sup>, 2007. <br>
Notifications sent by: January 21<sup>st</sup>, 2008. <br>
Camera Ready paper due: February 21<sup>st</sup>, 2008. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:29.0pt'><b>Call
for Papers</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Goal<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>The track of Applied Natural
Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language
processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL), applied linguistics (AL) and
related areas. The rapid pace of development in natural language processing in
textual studies, speech recognition, speech production, and data mining has led
to a revived interest in tools able to understand, organize and extract
information from natural language sources. These include the analysis of online
materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media
(visual, audio), the use of innovative human-computer interfaces, such as
interactive agents, which benefit from language understanding, and the use of
computational tools to facilitate intelligent tutoring systems and
instructional methodology. In addition, natural language processing can
facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs, assist in
the organization of classification systems, and coordinate text segmentation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>While papers and contributions on
traditional issues are welcome, the 2008 special track will emphasize
applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as
multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication,
bioNLP, spam filtering, language acquisition, textual assessment, language
varieties, materials development, generic classification, and educational
applications etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech
processing and machine learning that present actual applications that can
benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Complete call for papers at: <span style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008">http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2008</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Please e-mail me with questions.
Hope to see you there!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Scott Crossley, Ph.D. <br>
Linguistics/TESOL <br>
<br>
Department of English <br>
Mississippi State University <br>
<a href="http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/esl.html" target="_blank"><span
style='color:blue'>http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/esl.html</span></a> <br>
(662) 325-2355 <br>
<br>
Institute for Intelligent Systems <br>
University of Memphis <br>
<a href="http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/" target="_blank"><span
style='color:blue'>http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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