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New series in Natural Language Processing<br>
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<font size=3>Call for Proposals<br>
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John Benjamins Publishers is launching a new book series<br>
on Natural Language Processing as a timely response to the<br>
growing demand for NLP literature. Three general types of<br>
books will be published: <br>
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<i>Monographs</i> - featuring (i) original leading edge research<br>
or (ii) surveys of the state-of-the art of specific NL<br>
tasks or applications.<br>
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<i>Collections</i> (i) books focusing on a particular NLP
area<br>
(e.g. emerging from successful NLP workshops or as a<br>
result of editors’ calls for papers) or (ii) books which<br>
include papers covering a wide range of topics (e.g.<br>
emerging from competitive NLP conferences or as a result<br>
of proposals for books of the type “Reading In NLP”).<br>
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<i>Course books</i> (i) general NLP course books or (ii)
course<br>
books on a particular key area of NLP (e.g. Speech<br>
Processing, Computational Syntax/Parsing).<br>
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Authors will be encouraged to append supplementary<br>
materials such as demonstration programs, NLP software,<br>
corpora etc. and to indicate web-sites, computational<br>
language resources etc. where appropriate.<br>
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This call invites proposals from potential authors of the<br>
types of books described above.<br>
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<b>Topics<br>
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</b>The scope of the new series will be maximally<br>
comprehensive ranging from theoretical Computational<br>
Linguistics topics (Computational Syntax, Computational<br>
Semantics etc.) to highly practical Language Technology<br>
topics (speech recognition, information extraction,<br>
information retrieval etc.). The new series will cover<br>
both written language and speech; it will welcome works<br>
covering (but not limited to) areas such as: phonology,<br>
morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics,<br>
dialogue, text understanding and generation, machine<br>
translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids<br>
and tools, corpus-based language processing; written and<br>
spoken natural language interfaces, knowledge <br>
acquisition, information extraction, text summarisation,<br>
text classification, computer-aided language learning,<br>
language resources. <br>
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New results in NLP based on modern alternative theories<br>
and methodologies as opposed to the mainstream techniques<br>
of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical,<br>
connections as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches,<br>
will be also welcome.<br>
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The series will pay special attention to current “hot<br>
topics” such as multilingual NLP, evaluation and speech.<br>
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<b>Editor/Advisory board<br>
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</b>The new series’ editor is Ruslan Mitkov (University of<br>
Wolverhampton) and the advisory board of the series<br>
includes:<br>
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- Christian Boitet (University of Grenoble) <br>
- John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton) <br>
- Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence)<br>
- Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, USC)<br>
- Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) <br>
- Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University)<br>
- Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili Un., Tarragona)<br>
- Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co. & Univ. of Edinburgh)<br>
- John Nerbonne (University of Groningen)<br>
- Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex, Brighton)<br>
- Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University)<br>
- Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester)<br>
- Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)<br>
- Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park)<br>
- Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)<br>
- Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)<br>
- Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) <br>
- Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo)<br>
- Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) <br>
- Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)<br>
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The managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes <br>
(Email kees.vaes@benjamins.nl).<br>
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<b>Submission of proposals<br>
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</b>Interested authors should submit proposals by email (plain<br>
text or postscript files) to the series editor:<br>
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Prof. Ruslan Mitkov<br>
School of Languages and European Studies<br>
University of Wolverhampton<br>
Stafford St.<br>
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB<br>
United Kingdom<br>
Telephone (44-1902) 322471<br>
Fax (44-1902) 322739<br>
Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk<br>
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The proposals should include an outline of the book (1-2<br>
pages), a preliminary table of contents, the target<br>
readership, related publications, how the book will<br>
differ from other similar books in the area (if<br>
applicable), time-scale and information about the<br>
prospective author (relevant experience in the field,<br>
publications etc.). <br>
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Each proposal will be reviewed by members of the advisory<br>
board or additional reviewers.<br>
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<b>More information<br>
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</b>More information on the new series will be available in<br>
due course at
<a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ele1825/NLP_series.htm" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm<br>
</a></font></u>Information on the new series is also available at John
Benjamins’<br>
web site
<a href="http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html</a></font></u>
(new projects).<br>
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