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Please spread the words.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Thanks very much.</div><div class="gmail_default">Fazel</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">********************************************<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial"><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Call for Papers</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">FLAIRS 2014 Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Held in conjunction with the</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">27th International FLAIRS Conference</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Pensacola Beach, Florida, USA, May 21-23, 2014</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/anlpflairs27">http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/anlpflairs27</a></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Contact Email: </font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University, <a href="mailto:fkeshtkar@semo.edu">fkeshtkar@semo.edu</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, <a href="mailto:chutima.boonthum@gmail.com">chutima.boonthum@gmail.com</a> </font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas:</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* NL-based representations and knowledge systems</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Syntax and Semantics (similarity metrics, lexical semantics)</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Coreference Resolution</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Word Sense Disambiguation</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Text Cohesion and Coherence</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Dialogue Management and NL-based Human-Computer Interaction</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Language Generation (answer and question generation)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Language Models</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* NL in Learning Environments</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Machine Learning applied to NL problems</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Multilingual Processing</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* BioNLP</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Applications: Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction and others</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">* Other related topics</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">PAPER SUBMISSION</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">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 (<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs27">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flairs27</a>) by selecting "Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)" under the "New Submission" menu. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of FLAIRS-27 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.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">IMPORTANT DATES</font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Submission Deadline: November 18, 2013</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Author notification: January 20, 2014</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Final (camera-ready) Deadline: February 24, 2014</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University, <a href="mailto:fkeshtkar@semo.edu">fkeshtkar@semo.edu</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, <a href="mailto:chutima.boonthum@gmail.com">chutima.boonthum@gmail.com</a></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Lee Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Cosmin Adrian Bejan, University of Southern California, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Eric Bell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Justin Brunelle, Old Dominion University, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, DK</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Stefano Faralli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Katherine M Forbes Riley, University of Pittsburg, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Christian Hempelmann, RiverGlass Inc. and Purdue University, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Verena Henrich, University of Tubingen, Germany</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburg, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Christel Kemke, University of Manitoboa, Canada</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Travis Lamkin, University of Memphis, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Mihai Lintean, University of Memphis, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Xiaofei Lu, Pennsylvania State University, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Mehdi Manshadi, University of Rochester, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Phil McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Manish Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Cristina Nicolae, University of Texas at Dallas, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Nobal Niraula, University of Memphis, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Shiyan Ou, University of Wolverhampton, UK</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Gilles Richard, Paul Sabatier University, France</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Vasile Rus University of Memphis, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Hansen A. Schwartz, University of Central Florida, USA</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Svetlana Stoyanchev, The Open University, UK</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Rene Venegas, Pontificia University, Chile</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Nina Wacholder, Rutgers University, USA</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Michael Wiegand, Saarland University, Germany</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#0b5394" face="verdana, sans-serif">Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Fazel Keshtkar, PhD, Assistant professor</font><div>Southeast Missouri State University, Department of Computer Science<br>One University Plaza, MS 5950<br>Cape Girardeau, MO 63701</div>
<div>Voice: 573-651-2208</div><div>Fax: 573-651-2791</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:fkeshtkar@semo.edu" target="_blank">fkeshtkar@semo.edu</a><br>Web: <a href="http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/index.html" target="_blank">http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/index.html</a></div>
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Southeast Missouri State University, Department of Computer Science<br>One University Plaza, MS 5950<br>Cape Girardeau, MO 63701</div><div>Voice: 573-651-2208</div><div>Fax: 573-651-2791</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:fkeshtkar@semo.edu" target="_blank">fkeshtkar@semo.edu</a><br>
Web: <a href="http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/index.html" target="_blank">http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/index.html</a></div></div></div>
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