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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Date: 22-June-2008 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>From: Philip McCarthy </span><a
href="mailto:pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu">pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu</a><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> Scott Crossley </span><a
href="mailto:sc544@msstate.edu">sc544@msstate.edu</a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Subject: Applied Linguistics and
Natural Language Processing<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'>Full Title: Applied Natural
Language Processing<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'>Date: 19-May-2009 - 21-May-2009 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Location: Sanibel Island, Florida,
USA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Contact Person: Philip McCarthy or
Scott Crossley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Meeting Email: Philip McCarthy
< pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><span style='color:black'> </span>Scott
<span style='color:black'>Crossley <sc544@msstate.edu><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Web Site:
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Linguistic Field(s):
Computational/Applied/General Linguistics<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'>Call Deadline: 23-Nov-2008 <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 22<sup>nd</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'>Sundial
Beach and Golf Resort<br>
Sanibel Island, Florida<br>
May 19<sup>th</sup>-21<sup>st</sup>, 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'>Paper
submission deadline: November 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2008. <br>
Notifications sent by: Late January, 2009. <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. <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'>NLP/CL developments in fields
such as textual studies, speech recognition, speech production, data mining and
numerous other fields have led to a rapid growth in interest in tools able to
understand, organize, and extract information from natural language sources.
This interest includes 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'>Papers and contributions on all
issues are very much welcome, but the track emphasizes and encourages submissions<i>
</i>that present actual <i>applications</i> that can benefit from or have an
impact on NLP/CL.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>General Topics<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>We invite original papers (i.e.
work not previously submitted, in submission, or to be submitted to another
conference during the reviewing process) that describe work in, but not limited
to, the following areas:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>1. Paraphrase or Entailment evaluation approaches<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>2. </span></span>Textual assessment indices <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>3. </span></span>NL-based Knowledge Representations and Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>4. </span></span>Coreference Resolution <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>5. </span></span>Word Sense Disambiguation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>6. </span></span>Text Cohesion and Coherence <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>7. </span></span>Dialogue Management and Systems <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>8. </span></span>Language Generation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>9. </span></span>Language Models <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>10. </span></span>Human Computer Interfaces - in particular, multimodal
human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer
communication channel for the handicapped and elderly <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>11. </span></span>Machine Learning applied to NL problems <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>12. </span></span>Multilingual Processing <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>13. </span></span>Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building,
and Annotation Languages <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>14. </span></span>NL in Learning Environments <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>15. </span></span>Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>16. </span></span>Applications: Machine Translation, Summarization,
Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction, etc. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>17. </span></span>Syntax <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>18. </span></span>Semantics <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>19. </span></span>Applied Linguistics and First and Second Language
Acquisition<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>20. </span></span>English for Specific Purposes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>21. </span></span>Others<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:.5in;line-height:14.0pt'><span class=bullet><span style='color:
black'>22.</span></span> The special topic:<i> The User-Language Paraphrase
Challenge</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Special Topic<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>This year, the ANLP track
features a special topic, which is IN ADDITION TO general topics for the track.
The special topic is the <i>User-Language Paraphrase Challenge</i>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>We are pleased to introduce the <i>User-Language
Paraphrase Challenge</i>. We use the term <i>User-Language</i> to refer to the
natural language input of users interacting with an intelligent tutoring system
(ITS). The primary characteristics of user-language are that it is short
(typically a single sentence) and that it is unedited (e.g., it is replete with
typographical errors and lacking in grammaticality). We use the term <i>paraphrase</i>
to refer to ITS users’ attempt to restate a given <i>target sentence</i>
in their own words such that a produced sentence, or <i>user response</i>, has
the same meaning as the target sentence. The corpus in this challenge comprises
1998 target-sentence/student response text-pairs, or <i>protocols</i>. The
protocols have been evaluated by expert human raters along 10 dimensions of
paraphrase characteristics. Along with the protocols, the database comprising
the challenge includes 10 computational indices that have been used to assess
these protocols. The challenge we pose for researchers is to describe and
assess their own approach (computational or statistical) to evaluating,
characterizing, and/or categorizing, any, some, or all of the paraphrase
dimensions in this corpus. The purpose of establishing such evaluations of
user-language paraphrases is so that ITSs may provide users with accurate
assessment and subsequently facilitative feedback, such that the assessment
would be comparable to one or more trained human raters. As such, these
evaluations will help to develop the field of <i>natural language assessment
and understanding</i>. For full details of the challenge and all data go to: <a
href="http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/mcnamara/link.htm">http://csep.psyc.memphis.edu/mcnamara/link.htm</a>
and click on User Language Paraphrase Corpus.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Submission Guidelines</b><b>
for the ANLP track</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Interested authors (for the
general ANLP track or the special topic) should format their papers according
to <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php"
title="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php"><span
style='color:#001099'>AAAI formatting guidelines</span></a>. The papers should
be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another
conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by
November 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2008. For FLAIRS-22, the 2009 conference, the
reviewing is a double blind process. Fake author names and affiliations must be
used on submitted papers to provide double-blind reviewing. Papers must be
submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system. (n.b. Do not use a fake
name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden
from reviewers). Authors should indicate the special track of ANLP for
submissions. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web
submission system available through the paper submission site at
http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS-22/ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Please, check the website
http://www.flairs-22.info/ for information regarding submission.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Conference Proceedings<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>Papers will be refereed and all
accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be
published by AAAI Press. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>Philip McCarthy, Institute for
Intelligent Systems<br>
Scott Crossley, Mississippi State University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Proposed Program Committee
(additions will be made)</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Stephen Anthony, University of California San Diego, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur Unviersity, India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cosmin Adrian Bejan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cederick Bellissens, Institute for Intelligent Systems, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Stephen Briner, DePaul University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Peter Clark, Boeing, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Joao Cordeiro, University of Beira Interior, Portugal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andrea Corradini, University of Potsdam, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Kyle Demsey, Institute for Intelligent Systems, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gael Dias, University of Beira Interior, Portugal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sidney D’Mello, Institute for Intelligent Systems, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Nick Duran, Institute for Intelligent Systems, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Asif Ekbal, Jadavpur University, India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=Text align=left style='text-align:left;line-height:normal'><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Anna Feldman,
Montclair State University, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Leo Ferres, Carleton University, Canada <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Charles Hall, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Christian Hempelmann, Hakia Inc., USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Diana Inkpen, University of Toronto, Canda<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Christel Kemke, University of Manitoboa, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Yılmaz Kılıçaslan, Trakya University, Turkey<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Christopher Kurby, Northern Illinois University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Max Louwerse, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Xiaofei Lu, Pennsylvania State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Manish Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Roberto Navigli, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tomasz Obrębski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent Systems, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Katherine M Forbes Riley, University of Pittsburg, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Stacey Todaro, Northern Illinois University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Savaş Yıldırım, Istanbul Bilgi
University, Turkey<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'><b>Further Information<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>Questions regarding the ANLP
Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Philip McCarthy, <span
style='color:black'><a
href="../../../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/QB227CUE/pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu">pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Scott A. Crossley, <a
href="mailto:sc544@msstate.edu">sc544@msstate.edu</a><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Questions regarding the ANLP
Special topic should be addressed to Philip McCarthy, <span style='color:black'><a
href="../../../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/QB227CUE/pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu">pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu</a></span><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'>Questions regarding any other
FLAIRS special tracks should be addressed to the special track co-ordinator:
Philip McCarthy, <span style='color:black'><a
href="../../../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/QB227CUE/pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu">pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu</a></span><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'>Questions regarding the
conference should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2009 program co-chairs:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>David Wilson, University of North
Carolina Charlotte, <a href="mailto:davils@uncc.edu"
title="mailto:davils@uncc.edu?subject="><span style='color:#001099'>davils@uncc.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Geoff Sutcliffe, University of
Miami, <a href="mailto:geoff@cs.miami.edu"
title="mailto:geoff@cs.miami.edu?subject="><span style='color:#001099'>geoff@cs.miami.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>General questions concerning the
conference should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2008 conference co-chairs: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Douglas D. Dankel II, University
of Florida, <a href="mailto:ddd@cise.ufl.edu"
title="mailto:ddd@cise.ufl.edu?subject="><span style='color:#001099'>ddd@cise.ufl.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>Special Tracks Chair<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Philip McCarthy: <span
style='color:black'><a
href="../../../../../Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/QB227CUE/pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu">pmccarthy@mail.psyc.memphis.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Invited Speakers<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'>To be announced<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:17.0pt'><b>Conference Web Sites<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:18.0pt'>Paper submission site: <a
href="http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS-22/">http://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS-22/</a> <br>
NLP Special Track web page: <span style='color:black'><a
href="http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2009">http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/applied_nlp/flairs_2009</a></span><br>
FLAIRS-2009 conference web page: <a href="http://www.flairs-22.info/">http://www.flairs-22.info</a><br>
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): <a href="http://www.flairs.com/"
title="http://www.flairs.com/"><span style='color:#001099'>http://www.flairs.com</span></a> <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'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt'><a
href="http://www.flairs-22.info/"
title="http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/flairs2007/"><span style='color:
#001099'>FLAIRS 2009 home page</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Scott Crossley, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Linguistics/TESOL<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Department of English<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mississippi State University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.msstate.edu/dept/english/tesol/tesolfaculty.html<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>(662) 325-2355<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Institute for Intelligent Systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>University of Memphis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://mnemosyne.csl.psyc.memphis.edu/iis/<o:p></o:p></p>
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