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<p class=MsoNormal>***** Please forward this to colleagues and lists as appropriate.
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>FLAIRS 2011 Special Track on Applied Natural Language
Processing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Held in conjunction with the<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>24th International FLAIRS Conference<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Palm Beach, Florida, USA, May 18-20, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://language.memphis.edu/anlp-flairs/ <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Contact Email: mclinten@memphis.edu;
vrus@memphis.edu <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>****************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The track on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP),
within FLAIRS, is a forum for researchers working in natural language
processing(NLP)/computational linguistics(CL) and related areas. The rapid pace
of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text
combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for
tools capable to understand, organize and mine those materials. Novel
human-computer interfaces, for instance talking heads, can benefit from
language understanding and generation techniques with big impact on user satisfaction.
Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for the
handicapped (no typing needed) and elderly, leading to an ever increasing user
base for computer systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The goal of ANLP is to inform researchers as to current
project and studies that identify, investigate, and (begin to) resolve issues
that relate to human/computer language interaction.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but
not limited to, the following areas:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* NL-based representations and knowledge systems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Syntax and Semantics (similarity metrics, lexical
semantics)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Coreference Resolution<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Word Sense Disambiguation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Text Cohesion and Coherence<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Dialogue Management and NL-based Human-Computer
Interraction<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Language Generation (answer and question generation)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Language Models<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* NL in Learning Environments<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Machine Learning applied to NL problems<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Multilingual Processing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* BioNLP<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and
Annotation Languages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Applications: Machine Translation, Information Retrieval,
Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction
and others<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>* Other related topics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submitted papers must be original, and not submitted
concurrently to a journal or another conference. Full papers may be up to 6
pages, and poster papers up to 2 pages. Papers must be in AAAI format, and
submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference system
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs24) by selecting
"Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)" under the "New
Submission" menu. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of
FLAIRS-24 which will be published by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will
be required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to
AAAI. An author of each accepted paper is required to register, attend, and
present the paper at FLAIRS. It is the requirement of FLAIRS that there will be
at least one full author registration per paper.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Submission Deadline: November 22, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Author notification: January 21, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Final (camera-ready) Deadline: February 21, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Organizing Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mihai Lintean, University of Memphis, mclinten@memphis.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, vrus@memphis.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lee Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cosmin Adrian Bejan, University of Southern California, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Terwilleger Brock, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Justin Brunelle, Old Dominion University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale,
Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Peter Clark, Boeing, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, DK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Asif Ekbal, Jadavpur University, India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Katherine M Forbes Riley, University of Pittsburg, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Michael Heilman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Christian Hempelmann, RiverGlass Inc. and Purdue University,
USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Verena Henrich, University of Tubingen, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Diana Inkpen, University of Toronto, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Christel Kemke, University of Manitoboa, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburg, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Travis Lamkin, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Mihai Lintean, 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>Phil McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Manish Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hyunsoon Min, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cristian Moldovan, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Roberto Navigli, Universita' di Roma "La
Sapienza", Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Cristina Nicolae, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rodney Nielsen, Boulder Language Technologies, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Nobal Bikram Niraula, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Shiyan Ou, University of Wolverhampton, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Paul Piwek, The Open University, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Aliva Pradhan, Montclair State University, US<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Adam Renner, Institute of Intelligent Systems, Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Gilles Richard, Paul Sabatier University, France<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Vasile Rus University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Roberta E. Sabin, Loyala College, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hansen A. Schwartz, University of Central Florida, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Svetlana Stoyanchev, The Open University, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Stacey Todaro, Adrian College, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Rene Venegas, Pontificia University, Chile<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Nina Wacholder, Rutgers University, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Michael Wiegand, Saarland University, Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
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