Corpora: CfP: CoNLL-2002, Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning -- A COLING-2002 workshop

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Antal van den Bosch a écrit:

>    CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>    CoNLL-2002
>    Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning
>
>    COLING-2002 workshop W11
>    Taipei, Taiwan, August 31 - September 1, 2002
>
>    http://www.aclweb.org/signll/cfp.html
>
> Background and Scope
> --------------------
>
> CoNLL is the yearly meeting organized by SIGNLL, the Association for
> Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language
> Learning.  Previous CoNLL meetings were held in Madrid (1997), Sydney
> (1998), Bergen (1999) Lisbon (2000) and Toulouse(2001).
>
> The 2002 event will be held as a two-days workshop at the 19th
> International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 24
> August - September 1, 2002 in Taipei, Taiwan. CoNLL is organised in
> cooperation with SIGDAT.
>
> CoNLL is an international forum for discussion and presentation of
> research on natural language learning.  We invite submission of papers
> about natural language learning topics, including, but not limited to:
>
>   * Computational models of human language acquisition
>   * Computational models of the origins and evolution of language
>   * Learning from very large corpora
>   * Machine learning methods applied to natural language processing
>     tasks (speech processing, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
>     discourse processing, language engineering applications)
>   * Symbolic learning methods (Rule Induction and Decision Tree
>     Learning, Lazy Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, Analytical
>     Learning, Transformation-based Error-driven Learning)
>   * Biologically-inspired methods (Neural Networks, Evolutionary
>     Computing)
>   * Statistical methods (Bayesian Learning, HMM, maximum entropy,
>     SNoW, Support Vector Machines)
>   * Reinforcement Learning
>   * Active learning, ensemble methods, meta-learning
>   * Computational Learning Theory analysis of language learning
>   * Empirical and theoretical comparisons of language learning methods
>   * Models of induction and analogy in Linguistics
>
> Special Theme
> -------------
>
> As in previous years, in addition to submissions on the general topics
> listed above, we encourage submissions on a special theme. This year's
> special theme is:
>
>   Using unsupervised and semi-supervised learning methods
>   in natural language learning
>
> Many machine learning approaches to natural language problems require
> supervision, typically in the form of labeled examples. Due to the
> difficulty annotating data, there has been a significant interest
> recently in the study of methods that can benefit from large amounts
> of unlabeled data, perhaps in addition to relatively small amounts of
> labeled examples. The purpose of the special theme is to present and
> discuss progress in this direction in the context of natural language
> learning and highlight both theoretical and experimental studies on a
> variety of approaches to these issues.
>
> Special Session: Shared Task - Named Entity Recognition
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> This year's workshop will also accept submissions for a shared task:
> named entity recognition.  Participating groups will be provided with
> the same training and testing material (in several languages), and
> will all use the same evaluation criteria, thus allowing comparison
> between various learning methods.
>
> More information on the shared task is available at:
>
>   http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2002/ner/
>
> Invited Speaker
> ---------------
>
> John Lafferty (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
> Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
>
> Submissions
> -----------
>
> Main Session Submissions
>
>  Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words (Postscript, PDF or plain
>  text ASCII) by May 2nd, 2002 electronically to the address below.
>  Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to produce a full paper
>  to be published in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be
>  available at the workshop for participants, and distributed
>  afterwords by COLING. Final submissions must follow the COLING style
>  (http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html). We strongly
>  recommend the use of these style files also in the submission.
>
>  Submit main session abstracts to:
>
>    Dan Roth, danr at uiuc.edu
>    Department of Computer Science,
>    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>    1304 West Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 USA
>    Tel: 217 244 7068  Fax: 217 244 6500
>
>  or
>
>    Antal van den Bosch, Antal.vdnBosch at kub.nl
>    Computational Linguistics, Tilburg University,
>    P.O. Box 90153
>    NL-5000 LE Tilburg,  The Netherlands
>    Tel: +31.13.4663117 Fax:  +31.13.4663110
>
> Shared Task Submissions
>
>  Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words describing the learning
>  approach, and your results on the test set by April 6, 2001 to the
>  address below (preferably by email). A special section of the
>  proceedings will be devoted to a comparison and analysis of the
>  results and to a description of the approaches used. Submit shared
>  task submissions to:
>
>    Erik Tjong Kim Sang, erikt at uia.ua.ac.be
>    Centrum Nederlandse Taal en Spraak
>    Linguistics, Department of Germanic languages and literature
>    UIA, University of Antwerp
>    Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
>
>
> Important Dates
> ---------------
>
>  * Deadline for Abstract Submission:    May 2, 2002
>  * Deadline for Shared Task Submission: May 2, 2002
>  * Notification:                        May 22, 2002
>  * Deadline camera-ready full paper:    June 8, 2001
>  * Conference:                          August 31-September 1, 2002
>
> Programme Committee
> -------------------
>
>  Dan Roth (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA (co-chair)
>  Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Netherlands) (co-chair)
>  Thorsten Brants (PARC, USA)
>  Claire Cardie (Cornell University, USA)
>  Ken Church (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
>  James Cussens (University of York, UK)
>  Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
>  Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
>  Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
>  John Nerbonne (Groningen University, Netherlands)
>  Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
>  David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
>  Adwait Ratnaparkhi (WhizBang! Labs-Research, USA)
>  Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
>  David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA)