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<p class="MsoNormal">*** Please forward this to colleagues and lists as appropriate. ***<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">FLAIRS 2012 Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Held in conjunction with the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">25th International FLAIRS Conference<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marco Island, Florida, USA, May 23-25, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">http://language.memphis.edu/anlp-flairs25/<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contact Email: mclinten@memphis.edu; chutima.boonthum@gmail.com
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<p class="MsoNormal">****************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The track on Applied Natural Language Processing 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The goal of the ANLP track 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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">* Co-reference 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 Interaction<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>
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<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=flairs25) by selecting "Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)" under the "New Submission" menu. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of FLAIRS-25 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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is the requirement of FLAIRS that there will be at least one full author registration per paper.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Submission Deadline: November 21, 2010<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Author notification: January 20, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Final (camera-ready) Deadline: February 20, 2011<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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">Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, chutima.boonthum@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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">Eric Bell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, 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">Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, DK<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Stefano Faralli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy<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">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">Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburg, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christel Kemke, University of Manitoboa, Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fazel Keshtkar, University of Memphis, 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">Mehdi Manshadi, University of Rochester, 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">Cristian Moldovan, University of Memphis, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cristina Nicolae, University of Texas at Dallas, USA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nobal 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">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">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">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>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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