12.874, Calls: Language/Dialogue Systems, Collocation
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Subject: 12.874, Calls: Language/Dialogue Systems, Collocation
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:04:07 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Evaluation for Language & Dialogue Systems (ACL-2001)
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:08:06 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Collocation (ACL-2001)
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:04:07 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Evaluation for Language & Dialogue Systems (ACL-2001)
Call for Papers
Workshop on Evaluation for Language and Dialogue Systems
ACL/EACL 2001
Toulouse, France
July 6-7, 2001
WORKSHOP GOALS
The aim of this two day workshop is to identify and to synthesize current
needs for language-technology evaluation.
The first day of the workshop will focus on one of the most challenging
current issues in language engineering: the evaluation of dialogue systems
and models. The second day will extend the discussion to address the problem
of evaluation in language engineering more broadly and on more theoretical
grounds.
The space of possible dialogues is enormous, even for limited domains like
travel information servers. The generalization of evaluation methodologies
across different application domains and languages is an open problem.
Review of published evaluations of dialogue models and systems suggests that
usability techniques are the standard method. Dialogue-based system are
often evaluated in terms of standard, objective usability metrics, such as
task-completion time and number of user actions. In the past, researchers
have proposed and debated theory-based methods for modifying and testing the
underlying dialogue model, but the most widely used method of evaluation is
usability testing, although more precise and empirical methods for
evaluating the effectiveness of dialogue models have been proposed. For
task-based interaction, typical measures of effectiveness are
time-to-completion and task outcome, but the evaluation should focus on user
satisfaction rather than on arbitrary effectiveness measurements.Indeed, the
problems faced in current approaches to measurement of effectiveness
dialogue models and systems include:
Direct measures are unhelpful because efficient performance on the nominal
task may not represent the most effective interaction
Indirect measures usually rely on judgment and are vulnerable to weak
relationships between the inputs and outputs
Subjective measures are unreliable and domain-specific
For its first day, the workshop organizers solicit papers on these issues,
with particular emphasis on methods that go beyond usability testing to
address the underlying dialogue model. Representative questions to be
addressed include:
o How do we deal with the combinatorial explosion
of dialogue states?
o How can satisfaction be measured with respect to
underlying dialogue models?
o Are there useful direct measures of dialogue properties
that do not depend on task efficiency?
o What is the role of agent-based simulation in
evaluation of dialogue models?
Of course, the problems faced in evaluating dialogue and system models are
found in other domains of language engineering, even for non-interactive
processes such as part-of-speech tagging, parsing, semantic disambiguation,
information extration, speech transcription, and audio document indexing. So
the issue of evaluation can be viewed at a more generic level, raising
fundamental, theoretical questions such as:
o What are the interest and benefits of evaluation
for language engineering?
o Do we really need these specific methodologies,
since a form of evaluation sould always be present
in any scientific investigation?
o If evaluation is needed in language engineering, is
it the case for all domains?
o What form should it take? Technology evaluation
(task-oriented in laboratory environment) or
field/user Evaluation (complete systems in real-life
conditions)?
We have seen before that the the evaluation of dialogue models is still
unsolved, but for domains where metrics already exists, are they
satisfactory and sufficient? How can we take into account or abstract from
the subjective factor introduced by human operators in the process?
Do similarity measures and standards offer appropriate answers to this
problem? Most of the efforts focus on evaluating process, but what about the
issue of language resources evaluation?
For its second day of work, the workshop organizers solicit papers on these
issues, with the intent to address the problem of evaluation both from a
broader perspective (including novel applications domains for evaluation,
new metrics for known tasks and resource evaluation) and a more theoretical
point of view (including formal theory of evaluation and infrastructural
needs of language engineering).
NOTE: People who would like to submit a paper on lexical semantic
disambiguation evaluation should consider the parallel workshop, on July
5-6, for the closure of the SENSEVAL-2 evaluation campaign.
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The organization of each of the two days of the workshop will reflect the
workshop's two main themes. Each day will begin with a session of
presentations of selected papers and follow with panel discussions to
synthesize and develop possible methodologies from additional selected
workshop papers.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
The workshop seeks participation from people involved or interested in the
problem of evaluation in language processing and the research and industrial
communities that study and implement dialogue models for natural-language
interaction systems.
The first part of the workshop will specifically draw on the
natural-language interaction community, for instance like the one developing
at the confluence of SIGdial and SIGCHI, which will find in this workshop an
atmosphere more flavored by computational-linguistics related issues (see,
for example, the First SIGdialWorkshop on Discourse and Dialogue).
The second part of the workshop is intended to provide a forum for a broader
audience more in the spirit of the one that attended the LREC'2000 Satellite
Workshop on Evaluation (see http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS), in particular
offering an opportunity to people involved in language engineering
evaluation (e.g ., the CLASS audience) in the context of national or
transnational projects or programs, both in Europe and abroad.
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SUBMISSION DETAILS
Paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and
should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly
recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files
tailored for this year's conference. They are available from the ACL-2001
program committee Web site at http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/.
Papers should be submitted electronically, as either a LaTeX, Word or PDF
file to either:
Patrick Paroubek, pap at limsi.fr
Karen Ward, kward at cs.utep.edu
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TIMETABLE OF IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: April 6, 2001
Deadline for notification of workshop paper acceptance: April 27, 2001
Deadline for camera-ready workshop papers: May 16, 2001
Workshop date: July 6-7, 2001
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
David G. Novick, UTEP
novick at cs.utep.edu
http://www.cs.utep.edu/novick
Joseph Mariani, Limsi - CNRS
mariani at limsi.fr
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/mariani
Candy Kamm, AT&T Labs
cak at research.att.com
http://www.research.att.com/info/cak
Patrick Paroubek, Limsi - CNRS
pap at limsi.fr
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pap
Nils Dahlbdck, Linkvping University
nilda at ida.liu.se
http://www.ida.liu.se/~nilda/
Frankie James, NASA Ames Research Center
fjames at riacs.edu
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/frankie/
Karen Ward, UTEP, kward at cs.utep.edu
http://www.cs.utep.edu/kward
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
David G. Novick
Joseph Mariani
Candy Kamm
Patrick Paroubek
Nils Dahlbdck
Frankie James
Karen Ward
Christian Jacquemin
Niels Ole Bernsen
Stephane Chaudiron
Khalid Choukri
Martin Rajman
Robert Gaizauskas
Donna Harman
Lynette Hirschman (tentative)
David Pallett (tentative)
Carol Peters (tentative)
Jose Pardo (tentative)
Herman Steeneken (tentative)
Oliviero Stock (tentative)
Saod Tazi
Hans Uszkoreit (tentative)
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SPONSORS
ACL 2001
CLASS
ELRA
ELSNET
We also anticipate co-sponsorship from SIGdial.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional information on the workshop, including accepted papers and the
workshop schedule, will be made available as needed at
http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eacl01.html
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:08:06 EST
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Collocation (ACL-2001)
*** First Call for Papers***
WORKSHOP ON COLLOCATION: Computational Extraction, Analysis and
Exploitation
ACL'2001 Conference
Toulouse, France
July 7th, 2001
We invite papers on topics relating to the theme of collocation and
more particularly their computational extraction, analysis and
exploitation. This workshop follows the French ATALA workshop on
collocation which took place in Paris, France on January 2001 and
seeks to go forward so as to explore the wider perspective of
computational linguistics.
The term "collocation" was introduced in the nineteen thirties by
J. R. Firth, founder member of the British Contextualist school, to
characterise certain linguistic phenomena of cooccurrence that stem
principally from the linguistic competence of native speakers (Firth
1957). By its very nature collocation remains a relatively fuzzy
concept, the consequence of which being that traditional grammarians
and semanticists have tended to ignore it, the exception being some
lexical semanticists as Cruse (1986). The study of collocation is
above all a practical one aimed at assisting language learners and
translators in their tasks.
Essentially idiomatic in nature, collocation defies rigid
formalisation which explains the existence of different schools of
thought between those seeking a descriptive contextualised view of
linguistic phenomena and those who seeks formalised applications for
translation, lexicography or computational purposes. This has led to a
variety of approaches based around a general core meaning for the
phenomenon.
For several years, NLP has been concerned with collocation largely
through the following fields:
Formalisation through specialised formalisms for different NLP
tasks: dictionary formalism such as lexical function; HPSG, LFG,
TAG, ... formalisms for analysis or generation.
Extraction from monolingual or bilingual texts or dictionairies
using either raw statistics or statistics combined with
linguistic information such as part-of-speech or grammar
dependancy.
Exploitation through specific NLP systems dedicated to second
language learning or translation, or for such NLP tasks as
information retrieval or thematic structuration.
This workshop aims to guage the extend to which the role of
collocation as a phenomenon in applied linguistics is now being taken
into account in formal linguistics and NLP and addresses the following
topics (not limitative):
Formal description of collocation through existing or dedicated
specialised formalisms
New methods adopted for the identification of collocations. This
would include statistics and also more linguistic oriented
methods.
NLP systems dedicated to collocation.
Exploitation of collocations for other NLP tasks through
monolingual or multilingual environments.
This workshop addresses researchers in all fields of theoretical and
applied computational linguistics and most particularly those working
in automatic and assisted machine translation, dictionnary building
and computationally assisted language teaching as well as those
concerned with information retrieval and text mining.
ORGANIZERS
Biatrice Daille IRIN - University of Nantes, France -
daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr
Geoffrey Williams CRELLIC - University of Bretagne-Sud, France -
Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jeremy Clear, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Pernilla Danielsson, TELRI
Chris Gledhill, University of St Andrews
Syvain Kahane, LaTTiCe/TALaNa
Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal
Julia Pajzs, Hungarian Academy of Science
Antoinette Renouf, University of Liverpool
Alain Polguhre, OLST - University of Montreal
Laurent Romary, LORIA
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy - RACAI
Jean Vironis, University of Provence
Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart
SCHEDULE
Workshop paper submissions
April 8, 2001
Notification of acceptance
April 30, 2001
Deadline for camera-ready papers
May 13, 2001
WORKSHOP DATE
July 7th, 2001
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS
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; however,
please put the authors' names, rather than a paper id, since reviewing
will not be blind. Submissions should be sent electronically in either
Word, pdf, or postscript format (only) no later than April 8, 2001 to:
Biatrice Daille daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr
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