12.1049, Calls: Human Lang Technology, Natural Lang Generation
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Subject: 12.1049, Calls: Human Lang Technology, Natural Lang Generation
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:33:38 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Human Language Technology & Knowledge Management (ACL 2001) DEADLINE EXTENSION
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:19:08 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Natural Language Generation (ACL 2001) DEADLINE EXTENSION
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:33:38 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Human Language Technology & Knowledge Management (ACL 2001) DEADLINE EXTENSION
[ Extended submission deadline: **22 April**]
**** EXTENDED CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ****
WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
ACL/EACL 2001 Conference
Toulouse, France
July 6-7, 2001
Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human
computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management.
Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription,
extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for
learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced
awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how.
This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational
linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language
processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content
extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language
technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a
road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road
map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where
we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate
milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring
our progress towards our goals.
The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will address
new research in human language technology for knowledge management that
addresses problems including but not limited to:
* Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of distributed
organizations and communities of experts.
* Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of knowledge
from unstructured multimedia data.
* Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise and
know-how.
Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through
technologies such as:
* Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and
knowledge from multimedia, multilingual, and multiparty information
sources.
* Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing of
knowledge.
* Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from unstructured
multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news broadcasts).
* Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and access
(e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as geospatial
Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri, encyclopedia, fact books)
* Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source
* Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and
document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of distributed
experts and communities of expertise
* Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g.,
knowledge maps, lessons learned).
* Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and
preferences from queries, created artifacts, and human computer
interactions.
The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and refinement
of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade.
Participants will help formulate grand challenge problems, discuss possible
data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods that could form the basis of
more scientific methods, articulate the role of and necessary advances in
human language technology to solve these challenges, as well as identify
and characterize early innovations and issues (e.g., robustness,
scalability, ontology, privacy).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation, maybury at mitre.org
* Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark,
nob at nis.sdu.dk
* Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
* Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University,
becferi at fiu.edu
* Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm,
paul.heisterkamp at daimlerchrysler.com
* Arjan van Hessen, IP GLOBALNET / U. Twente, hessen at cs.utwente.nl
* Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle at xrce.xerox.com
* Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta at open.ac.uk
* Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo at die.upm.es
* Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock at itc.it
* Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh, ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
* Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit at dfki.de
* Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk
* Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik at boeing.com
* Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it
TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers,
developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language technology
in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge management
applications. While we project a high degree of interest in this topic,
we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality of paper
submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress.
SPONSOR
This workshop is sponsored by the European Network of Excellence in Human
Language Technologies (ELSNET) who will be funding one or two invited
speakers.
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS
Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on HLT in
general or its application to KM systems. Papers targeted at the first day
on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge management problem
addressed, the technical approach to solving that, the novelty of the
approach, its relation to previous work, the evaluation or performance of
the system or method, and discussion of limitations. Papers targeted at the
second day on human language technology direction should be authored so
they could be integrated into a more general HLT roadmap and so should
include a definition of the HLT area addressed (e.g., information
extraction, translation, speech recognition), a statement of the grand
challenges or problems in the subfield, an articulation/analysis of the
current state of the art, a vision of where the community wants to be in
ten years from now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to set
intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals.
Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the
two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see the ACL Style Guides
for the detailed guidelines. Submissions should be sent electronically in
Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII text format to arrive no later than April
2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald (pmmmac at mitre.org). As soon as possible,
authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to
participate to include their contact information and the topic they intend
to address in their submission.
Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance, innovation,
quality, and presentation according to the schedule below.
SCHEDULE
o Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001
**** Extended submission deadline: **22 April** ****
o Notification : 30 April 2001
o Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001
o Conference Dates: 6-7 July 2001
WORKSHOP DATE
July 6 and 7, 2001
WEBSITE
A Workshop web site has been set up at
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html.
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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:19:08 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Natural Language Generation (ACL 2001) DEADLINE EXTENSION
[ Extended submission deadline: **22 April** ]
ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop
8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
6-7 July 2001
Toulouse, France
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html
Sponsored by IBM, Endorsed by SIGGEN
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Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful
texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic
representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned
for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or
multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications,
and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the
automated production of language is associated with a large number of
highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses
a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include
content selection, text organization, the production of referring
expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well
as coordination with other media.
This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural
language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have
been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and
Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which
facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The
workshop will focus on the following topics:
* Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization)
There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between
application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG.
Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic
preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in
contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been
tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint
propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical
techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential
and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue.
Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a
more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale
applications such as summarization and machine translation.
* Differences in information organization between source and
presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these)
Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some
knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from
language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong
similarities in building the target representations: In the
overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements
in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and
embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often,
this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases
prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface
structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of
this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying
commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques.
Accepted papers on these and related topics will be scheduled for
presentation.
The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence
or
in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering
organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of
competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective
according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to
prepare material / concrete examples for discussions.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland
Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
John Bateman Univ. of Bremen
Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi
Robert Dale Macquarie University
Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7
Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble
Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ.
Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki
Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex
Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California
Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh
Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico
Owen Rambow AT&T Research
Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen
Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin
Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS
SUBMISSIONS (papers, posters, demos)
Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to
the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers
should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column
format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/
We also invite poster and demo submissions (free format, up to 6 page,
PDF).
The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the
following information (ASCII text):
# TITLE: <title of the paper>
# AUTHORS: <list of authors>
# EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence>
# KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...>
# TYPE: <paper> / <poster> / <demo>
# ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper>
Send your submission to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions *** 22 April 2001 ***
Notification of acceptance 6 May 2001
Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001
Registration deadline as ACL
Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001
REGISTRATION
The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The
registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop
proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and
indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop.
People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send
a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate,
work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for
discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the
organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly
interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should
be sent to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>.
MORE INFORMATION
Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop:
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html
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