ACL-02 Workshop CFP: Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

                          AN ACL-SIGLEX WORKSHOP
                    ON UNSUPERVISED LEXICAL ACQUISITION
                           Friday 12 July 2002
                               Philadelphia

                Workshop website:
http://research.microsoft.com/LexicalAcquisition-ACL02
                ACL 2002 website:  http://www.acl02.org


This workshop will be a forum for the presentation of new work in the
field of unsupervised or minimally supervised lexical learning, as well
as an opportunity to survey the state of the art.  In addition to novel
approaches to the acquisition of subcategorization or translation
information, we will welcome and encourage papers that address the
coverage of all aspects of the lexicon, such as morphological, semantic,
or collocational information, as well as the identification of
out-of-vocabulary words and their lexical properties.  Evaluation of
systems on public domain test sets, although not required, is strongly
encouraged.

We invite submissions on the following topics:

*	Methods for unsupervised or minimally supervised lexical data
mining (machine learning, statistical, example- or rule-based, or
hybrid)
*	Acquisition of morphological, syntactic, semantic, or
collocational information, or translation correspondences
*	Acquisition of domain-specific lexical information for rapid
domain-switching
*	Extending an existing lexicon or bootstrapping a lexicon
*	Evaluating lexical learning methods

Papers can cover one or more of these areas.   Papers including
demonstrations of implemented lexical learning tools are encouraged.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers should be submitted electronically in Postscript, PDF, or
Microsoft Word format to Joseph Pentheroudakis, at
josephp at microsoft.com.

Submissions should conform to the two-column format of ACL proceedings
and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references.  We
strongly recommend the use of ACL-2002 style files, available from the
ACL-2002 program committee web site at
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/.

As reviewing will be blind, the body of the paper should not include the
names or affiliations of the authors.  The following identification
information should be included separately in the email submission, or on
a separate page in the paper:

	Title: title of paper
	Keywords: up to five topic keywords
	Contact author: email address of author of record (for
correspondence)
	Abstract: abstract of paper

IMPORTANT DATES

	Paper submission deadline	15 March 2002
	Acceptance notification 	19 April 2002
	Final version deadline		17 May 2002
	Workshop date			12 July 2002

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Joseph Pentheroudakis, Microsoft Research - josephp at microsoft.com
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR -
glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it
Andi Wu, Microsoft Research - andiwu at microsoft.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

	Eric Brill, Microsoft Research=09
	Ted Briscoe, Cambridge University
	John Carroll, University of Sussex
	Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
	John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
	Greg Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation
	Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton
	I. Dan Melamed, New York University
	Robert Moore, Microsoft Research
	Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
	Antonio Sanfilippo, SRA International
	Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology
	Takehito Utsuro, Toyohashi University of Technology

REGISTRATION

Workshop registration information will be posted at a later date.  The
registration fee will include attendance at the workshop and a copy of
workshop proceedings.