27.3229, Calls: Computational Lingusitics/USA

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Subject: 27.3229, Calls: Computational Lingusitics/USA

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Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 12:32:29
From: Annie Louis [aplouis at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing

 
Full Title: EMNLP 2016 Workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing 

Date: 06-Nov-2016 - 06-Nov-2016
Location: Austin, Texas, USA 
Contact Person: Annie Louis
Meeting Email: aplouis at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/UphillBattles/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

Uphill Battles in Language Processing: Scaling Early Achievements to Robust
Methods

Workshop to be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2016 in Austin, Texas.

We are planning to partially fund some students and postdoctoral researchers
for travel and registration expenses in connection with the workshop. We
expect to involve these selected students and postdoctoral researchers in some
organization activities on the day of the workshop itself.

Focus of the Workshop:

Our workshop seeks to revive a discussion on “uphill battles in natural
language processing” - problems which early researchers in NLP focused on but
the knowledge they were based on and the techniques they employed could not be
scaled up for practical use. The workshop will  remind researchers of these
goals and hopes to revive them in a context in which much more can be done.

In particular, the workshop will focus on NLP problems within four areas:

- Dialogue and Speech
- Natural Language Generation
- Document Understanding
- Grounded Language

A group of eminent researchers will give invited talks on these topics and
take part in discussions.

Text Understanding:

Hal Daume III, University of Maryland, College Park
Andy Kehler, University of California, San Diego
Chris Manning, Stanford University
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ohio State University

Dialogue and Speech:

David DeVault, University of Southern California
Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh
Amanda Stent, Bloomberg

Generation:

Ioannis Konstas, University of Washington
Kathy McKeown, Columbia University
Meg Mitchell, Microsoft Research
Donia Scott, University of Sussex

Grounded Language:

James Allen, University of Rochester / IHMC
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Yejin Choi, University of Washington
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/UphillBattles/

Organizers:

Annie Louis, University of Essex
Michael Roth, University of Edinburgh
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh
Michael White, The Ohio State University
Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Washington


2nd Call for Papers:

Uphill Battles in Language Processing: Scaling Early Achievements to Robust
Methods

Workshop to be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2016 in Austin, Texas.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mroth/UphillBattles/

The workshop on Uphill Battles in Natural Language Processing will include a
sponsored lunch featuring poster presentations. We invite submissions for this
lunchtime poster session in the form of research summaries (up to 2 pages).
Accepted research summaries will be included in the workshop proceedings, with
up-to-two extra pages of content. The deadline for submission is the 18 August
2016, and authors of accepted submissions will be notified on 5 September
2016. 

In particular, the workshop will focus on NLP problems within four areas:

- Dialogue and Speech
- Natural Language Generation
- Document Understanding
- Grounded Language

We invite 2-page research summaries which present work on these topics - in
particular, research which focuses on deeper problems which still baffle NLP
systems, and/or research which seeks to introduce new tasks, definitions and
techniques. 

Please submit your summary at https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2016/UBLP/

You can find detailed guidelines for submission on our website.




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