<pre>Apologies for duplicate postings<br><br>--------------------------------<br><br>Journal of Natural Language Engineering<br><br><br>Call for Special Issue Proposals - EXTENDED DEADLINE: October 1st, 2010<br><br><br><br>
The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of many<br>other areas, becoming highly specialised 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 specialised volumes<br>focusing on a specific topic of interest to the Natural Language<br>Processing (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<br>which have emerged as important developments in Natural Language<br>Engineering and which have attracted the attention of a number of<br>researchers or research groups. After the Calls for Proposals for special<br>
issues in 2006 and 2008 (the 2006 call has already resulted in two very<br>high quality special issues, the accepted proposals from 2008 are in press/<br>nearing completion), we are pleased to announce another such call this year.<br>
Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks and resources as well<br>as NLP-related applications but should focus on the practical implications<br>of 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<br>coreference resolution, named entity recognition, natural language<br>generation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal processing,<br>
statistical methods in Natural Language Engineering, machine learning,<br>evaluation methodologies, corpora and ontologies. Topics covering NLP<br>applications could include but are not limited to machine translation,<br>
translation memory and translation tools, summarisation, information<br>retrieval, information extraction, question answering, text and web<br>mining, opinion mining and NLP for biomedical texts.<br><br><br>Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or<br>
a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the<br>community. In all cases, however, the reviewing process of the accepted<br>proposals will be rigorous and all submissions must be reviewed by at<br>least 3 members of the Guest Editorial Board or other suitable reviewers<br>
agreed on by the NLE Editors. In the case of papers previously submitted to<br>workshops, the Guest Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop<br>reviews. In addition, whereas special issues could emerge from a specific workshop,<br>
they should not be limited to it and the call for papers should invite<br>submissions from the whole community working on the topics covered<br>by the issue.<br><br><br>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<br>the case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot<br>be limited to workshop participants only.<br><br><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><br><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk"><mailto:R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk></a>, with cc to <a href="mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk">jnle@wlv.ac.uk</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk"><mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk></a>). <br>
He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to Natural Language Engineering.<br><br><br><br>In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors<br>will be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue which will be<br>
reviewed by the Editors of the journal and by other members of the<br>Journal Editorial Board. At least one proposal will be selected on a<br>competitive basis for each call with the envisaged publication date for<br>the successful proposal(s) from this call on or after January 2011.<br>
<br><br><br>The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the<br>field and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on<br>the particular topic of interest. It should include a relevant literature<br>
survey (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<br>
and volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that a rough estimate of<br>expected submissions to the special issue be provided. The proposals<br>should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board (it is desirable<br>that one of the members of the Guest Editorial Board be a member of the<br>
journal Editorial Board), tentative time-scale for the production of the<br>special issue and information about the prospective Guest Editors<br>(relevant experience, publications etc.).<br><br><br><br>Time-scale:<br><br>
- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:<br><br>01 October 2010<br><br>(proposals to be emailed to _<a href="mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk">jnle@wlv.ac.uk</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk"><mailto:jnle@wlv.ac.uk></a>_)<br>
<br>- Notification of acceptance/rejection:<br><br>01 November 2010<br><br>- Final version of the successful proposal(s) and call for papers:<br><br>15 November 2010</pre>
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