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Journal of Natural Language Engineering<br>
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Call for special issue proposals<br>
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The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of many<br>
other areas, becoming highly specialized with a number of<br>
application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in<br>
importance. These developments, often coincident with a lack of related<br>
literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialized
volumes<br>
focusing on a specific topic of interest to the Natural Language
Processing<br>
(NLP) research community.<br>
<br>
The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (NLE) invites proposals for<br>
special issues on a competitive basis on any topics about applied NLP
which<br>
have emerged as important developments in Natural Language Engineering
and<br>
which have attracted the attention of a number of researchers or
research<br>
groups. After the Calls for Proposals for special issues in 2006 and
2008<br>
(the 2006 call has already resulted in two very high quality special
issues,<br>
the accepted proposals from 2008 are in press/ nearing completion), we
are<br>
pleased to announce another such call this year.<br>
Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks and resources as well
as<br>
NLP-related applications but should focus on the practical implications
of<br>
operation on the large scale. Topics covering NLP methods, tasks and<br>
resources could include but are not limited to POS tagging, parsing,<br>
semantic role labelling, word sense disambiguation, anaphora and
coreference<br>
resolution, named entity recognition, natural language generation,
speech<br>
recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal processing, statistical
methods in<br>
Natural Language Engineering, machine learning, evaluation
methodologies,<br>
corpora and ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include
but<br>
are not limited to machine translation, translation memory and
translation<br>
tools, summarisation, information retrieval, information extraction,<br>
question answering, text and web mining, opinion mining and NLP for<br>
biomedical texts.<br>
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<br>
Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop
or a<br>
body of work associated with a particular group or section of the
community.<br>
In all cases, however, the reviewing process of the accepted proposals
will<br>
be rigorous and all submissions must be reviewed by at least 3 members
of<br>
the Guest Editorial Board or other suitable reviewers agreed on by the
NLE<br>
Editors. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the
Guest<br>
Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews.<br>
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In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open
to<br>
all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in
the<br>
case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be
limited<br>
to workshop participants only.<br>
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<br>
Interested editors have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing<br>
expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the
intended<br>
special issue to the Executive Editor (<a href="mailto:R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk">R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk</a>, with cc to<br>
<a href="mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk">jnle@wlv.ac.uk</a>). He will give a
brief indication of whether the topic is<br>
appropriate to Natural Language Engineering.<br>
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<br>
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In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors
will<br>
be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue which will be reviewed
by<br>
the Editors of the journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial<br>
Board. At least one proposal will be selected on a competitive basis for<br>
each call with the envisaged publication date for the successful
proposal(s)<br>
from this call on or after January 2011.<br>
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<br>
<br>
The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the
field<br>
and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the<br>
particular topic of interest. It should include a relevant literature
survey<br>
(related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference<br>
proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special<br>
issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications
and<br>
volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that a rough estimate of
expected<br>
submissions to the special issue be provided. The proposals should also<br>
include a tentative Guest Editorial Board (it is desirable that one of
the<br>
members of the Guest Editorial Board be a member of the journal
Editorial<br>
Board), tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue and<br>
information about the prospective Guest Editors (relevant experience,<br>
publications etc.).<br>
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Time-scale:<br>
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- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:<br>
<br>
30 August 2010<br>
<br>
(proposals to be emailed to <a href="mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk">jnle@wlv.ac.uk</a>)<br>
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- Notification of acceptance/rejection:<br>
<br>
30 September 2010<br>
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- Final version of the successful proposal(s) and call for papers:<br>
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15 October 2010</div><br>-----------------------------------<br clear="all"><br>Irina Temnikova<br><br>PhD Student in Computational Linguistics<br>Editorial Assistant of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering<br><br>
Research Group in Computational Linguistics<br>Research Institute of Information and Language Processing<br>University of Wolverhampton<br>Stafford St.<br>Wolverhampton WV1 1SB<br>Telephone + 44 1902 321629<br>Fax +44 1902 323543<br>
Email <a href="mailto:i.temnikova2@wlv.ac.uk">i.temnikova2@wlv.ac.uk</a><br>