12.556, Calls: Human Lang Technology, Arabic NLP (ACL2001)
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Subject: 12.556, Calls: Human Lang Technology, Arabic NLP (ACL2001)
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:11:48 +0100 (MET)
From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management (ACL2001)
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:08:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL2001
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:11:48 +0100 (MET)
From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management (ACL2001)
WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
ACL'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 inter-mediate 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 tech-nology 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, multilin-gual, 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
* Dr. 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, COMSYS / 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.
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 of 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 ex-traction, translation,
speech recognition), a statement of the grand challenges or problems
in the subfield, an ar-ticulation/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
http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ for the detailed guidelines. Submissions
should be sent elec-tronically 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
+ Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001
+ Notification : 30 April 2001
+ Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001
WORKSHOP DATE
July 6 and 7, 2001
WORKSHOP URL
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:08:21 +0100 (MET)
From: Steven Krauwer <Steven.Krauwer at let.uu.nl>
Subject: Arabic NLP Workshop at ACL2001
ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop
ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects
Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001
Co-organized by:
ELSNET NAPLUS
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION:
The objective of the workshop is threefold.
* First of all we want to bring together people who are actively
involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or
multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on
completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of
products and core technologies. This should enable the
participants to develop a common view on where we stand with
respect to Arabic language processing.
* Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and
possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of
tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and
dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current
best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer
mechanisms, etc.
* Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic
NLP community and the NLP community at large.
The workshop program will include the following components:
* Introduction
* Overview talks
* Scientific papers
* Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products
* A panel session and/or a round table discussion
* Conclusions
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS:
Papers are solicited that address all aspects of Arabic language
processing in a mono- or multilingual context, including tools,
resources and standards. Papers will have to be original and report on
completed research. Submissions of scientific papers should not exceed
eight (8) pages. Please provide a list of keywords in the separate
header page. Further submission details below.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS, CORE
TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS:
Short presentations serve to give the audience an impression of
ongoing activities and projects, and of existing core technologies and
products, with a view to possible collaboration and synergies (i.e. NO
commercial product presentations). Submissions of short presentations
should not exceed two (2) pages. Short presentations will be reviewed
on the basis of relevance and clarity of presentation.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS:
Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the
appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions
should not exceed the length indicated above, including references.
You can download the appropriate style or template files using the
following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ . Submission and
presentation language is English. In case of problems with the
submission format, please contact steven.krauwer at elsnet.org.
Submissions should be sent to steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. All
submissions will be acknowledged.
DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS:
* Submission deadline: 6th April 2001
* Notification date: 27th April 2001
* Camera-ready papers due: 16th May 2001
* Workshop date: 6th July 2001
CONFIRMED CORE PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE:
* Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair,
myaseen at cbj.gov.jo)
* Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair,
dichy at univ-lyon2.fr)
* Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET, The Netherlands
(Contact person, steven.krauwer at elsnet.org)
* Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia (adn at gnet.tn)
* Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn)
* Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait (hbh at moe.edu.kw)
* Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France (senellart at systran.fr)
* Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt (nhegazy at idsc.gov.eg)
* Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France (choukri at elda.fr)
* Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France
(malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr)
* Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
(e.ditters at let.kun.nl)
WORKSHOP URL:
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html
CONTACT INFO:
Steven Krauwer email: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org
ELSNET / UiL OTS www: http://www.elsnet.org
Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050
3512 JK Utrecht, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000
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