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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 25 **** </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">The
2nd Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW II)<span style="color:#284FA9"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><a href="http://verbs.colorado.edu/LAW2008/">http://verbs.colorado.edu/LAW2008/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Held
in conjunction with LREC 2008, Marrakech, Morocco </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Sponsored
by the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (SIGANN) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">SIGANN
Working Groups and Demo/Poster session, afternoon of May 26, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Paper
presentations, full day May 27, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Linguistic annotation
of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods of
statistical natural language processing. Annotation encodes human knowledge
about linguistic phenomena that can be modeled statistically and reproduced by
automatic procedures. This meeting will provide a forum for annotation
researchers to work towards standardization, best practices and
interoperability, as well as to share innovative research in corpus annotation.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">We invite submissions
of long (8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>pages) and short (4
pages) papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to all aspects of the
linguistic annotation of corpora, including:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">New and innovative
annotation schemes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Machine learning and
knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Linguistic
considerations for merging of annotation of distinct<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>phenomena<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Comparison of annotation
schemes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Evaluation considerations
for corpus annotation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Comparison and/or
evaluation of existing annotation systems, including functionality,
common/missing features, accommodation of different input/output formats and
resource types(lexicons,knowledge bases, ontologies, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Creation, maintenance,
and interactive exploration of annotation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">structures and annotated
data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Representation
formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to
explore/manipulate them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 18.0pt left 28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 252.0pt 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
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</span></span><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Assessment of, and
potential means to achieve, interoperability of annotation formats/frameworks
among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and
languages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Full length or short
papers, including position papers, proposals, evaluations, etc., are also
solicited as input to the sessions of the SIGANN Shared Corpus Working Group
and the SIGANN Working Group on Best Practices. We urge members of the
community interested in working on any aspect of harmonization of linguistic
annotations to participate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">The workshop will
begin with a half-day session (afternoon of May 26) devoted to SIGANN working
group sessions on Shared Corpus Annotation and Best Practice Guidelines,
together with a poster/demo session. A full-day session (May 27) will be
devoted to paper presentations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Long paper submissions
should not exceed 8 pages in length. Short papers and demo descriptions should
not exceed 4 pages. Format requirements will be the same as for full papers of
LREC 2008. For details, please consult the submission section on the workshop
website.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Submission deadline: <span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> 25</span> February 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Notification of acceptance:
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>16
March 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Camera-ready version due:
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>3
April 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">SIGANN Meeting:
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>26
May (afternoon) 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Workshop:
<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>27
May (full day) 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Nancy
Ide (Vassar College)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> Adam
Meyers (New York University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">WORKSHOP ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Inderjeet
Mani (MITRE Corporation)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Antonio Pareja-Lora
(SIC, UCM / OEG, UPM)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> Sameer
Pradhan (BBN Technologies)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> Manfred
Stede (Universitat Potsdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> Nianwen
Xue (University of Colorado)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">David Ahn (Powerset)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Lars Ahrenberg
(Linkoping University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Timothy Baldwin
(University of Melbourne)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Francis Bond (NICT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Kalina Bontcheva
(University of Sheffield)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Matthias Buch-Kromann
(Copenhagen Business School)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Paul Buitelaar (DFKI)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Jean Carletta
(University of Edinburgh)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Christopher Cieri
(Linguistic Data Consortium/University of Pennsylvania)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Hamish Cunningham
(University of Sheffield)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">David Day (MITRE
Corporation)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Thierry Declerck
(DFKI)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Ludovic Denoyer (LIP6
- University of Paris 6)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Richard Eckart
(Darmstadt University of Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef
Stefan Institute)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">David Farwell (New
Mexico State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Alex Chengyu Fang
(City University Hong Kong)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Chuck Fillmore
(International Computer Science Institute)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">John Fry (San Jose
State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Claire Grover
(University of Edinburgh)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Ed Hovy (Information
Sciences Institute)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Baden Hughes
(University of Melbourne)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Emi Izumi (NICT)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Aravind Joshi
(University of Pennsylvania</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Ewan Klein (University
of Edinburgh)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Mike Maxwell
(University of Maryland)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Stephan Oepen
(University of Oslo)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Martha Palmer
(University of Colorado)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Manfred Pinkal
(Saarland University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">James Pustejovsky
(Brandeis University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Owen Rambow (Columbia
University)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Laurent Romary
(Max-Planck Digital Library)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Erik Tjong Kim Sang
(University of Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Graham Wilcock
(University of Helsinki)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:35.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Theresa Wilson
(University of Edinburgh)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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