Corpora: CfP: reminder: CoNLL-2000

[Antal van den Bosch]

                           --  reminder --
			   CALL FOR PAPERS

       Fourth Computational Natural Language Learning Workshop
			      CoNLL-2000

		      Lisbon, September 14, 2000

		 http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/

CoNLL is the yearly workshop organized by SIGNLL, the Association for
Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language
Learning.

The meeting will be held in conjunction with ICGI-2000, the
International Conference on Grammar Inference
(http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/) and the Learning Language in Logic
workshop (http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000/) in Lisbon on Thursday,
September 14, 2000, and will feature a shared task competition about
learning of chunking. There will be joint sessions with ICGI-2000 and
the LLL workshop on topics of common interest. Previous CoNLL meetings
were held in Madrid, Sydney, and Bergen.

We invite submissions of abstracts on all aspects of computational
natural language learning.

A special session of the workshop will be devoted to a shared task:
the identification of phrases (syntactic constituents) with machine
learning methods, a task called chunking.

Format for paper submissions:

Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words by May 22, 2000
electronically to the address below (postscript or ascii). 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 afterwards by the
ACL.

Format for shared task submissions:

Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words describing the learning
approach, and your solution to the test set by May 22, 2000 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.

Important Dates:

Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 22, 2000
Deadline for Shared Task Submission: May 22, 2000
Notification: June 15, 2000
Deadline Full paper submission: July 31, 2000
Workshop: September 14, 2000

Invited Speaker:

Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Programme Committee (SIGNLL Board)

Claire Cardie (Cornell) (co-chair)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerp) (co-chair)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (Antwerp) (co-chair, shared task coordinator)

Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg, Netherlands)
Thorsten Brants (Saarbruecken, Germany)
Michael Brent (Saint Louis, USA)
James Cussens (York, UK)
Raymond Mooney (Austin, USA)
John Nerbonne (Groningen, Netherlands)
Miles Osborne (Edinburgh, UK)
David Powers (Adelaide, Australia)
Ronan Reilly (Dublin, Ireland)

Address:

Submit paper abstracts to:

Walter Daelemans
CNTS Language Technology group
UIA - GERMAANSE
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Antwerpen
BELGIUM
walter.daelemans at uia.ua.ac.be

Submit shared task submissions to:

Erik Tjong Kim Sang
CNTS Language Technology group
UIA - GERMAANSE
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Antwerpen
BELGIUM
erikt at uia.ua.ac.be