Corpora: ACL'2000 Workshop Call for Papers

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

                       CALL FOR PAPERS


       The second Chinese Language Processing Workshop



       Sponsored by SIGLEX, SIGDAT and SIGPARSE.

                       October 2000

       Hong Kong University of  Science and Technology

                   In conjunction with ACL-2000



Growing interest in Chinese Language Processing is leading to the development
of resources such as annotated corpora and automatic segmenters, part-of-speech
taggers and parsers.  The first Asia ACL provides an ideal opportunity to bring
together influential researchers from Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and
Beijing, as well as Chinese language researchers in the rest of the world, to
discuss issues that are specific to the processing of Chinese. A critical tool
for developing Chinese language processing tools is the availability of
annotated corpora.  The greater the consensus we have around guidelines for
corpus annotation of part-of-speech tags, syntactic bracketing and other areas,
the more useful this corpora will be.

We welcome submissions that address the following topics on Chinese
language processing:
   . word segmentation
   . POS tagging
   . phrase identification
   . parsing
   . grammar development
   . lexicon acquisition
   . corpus development


We invite workshop participants to take advantage of two bracketed corpora:

  . The first one, Chinese Penn Treebank, was developed at University of
    Pennsylvania, USA. It includes 100-thousand words from Xinhua News.
    The corpus will be released via LDC at UPenn in one or two weeks.
    For more information and announcement of the release, please check the
    website "http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ctb/" after June 4th, 2000.

  . The second one, developed by CKIP, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, contains
    more than 30,000 sentences. A trial version of 1,000 sentences is now
    available for download by the public at
    http://godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/trees1000.htm
    The release of the complete treebank is being reviewed by Academia Sinica.
    Preliminary arrangements have been made for the treebank to be licensed
    through ROCLING. Please check their website
    (http://rocling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING) for announcement.



 The workshop will be held either on Oct 1 or Oct 2. For latest update
of the workshop (including the instruction for paper registration)
and the release of the Chinese Penn Treebank, please
check "http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ctb/". If you have any questions concerning
the workshop or the Treebank, please email us at chinese at linc.cis.upenn.edu.



Submissions:

  Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may not exceed 3200
words (exclusive of title page and references). Papers outside the specified
length are subject to be rejected without review.

  The style files for submission are the same as the ones for ACL regular paper,
which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/fcfp.html. The reviewing
of papers will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include the
authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

 As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page
will be required. The title page should  include the following information:

        Title:
          Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
          Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
          Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
          Which Session: just put "G"
          Word Count, excluding title page and references:
          Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
          Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

  The identification page should contain all of the information in the title page,
but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses.
The format for the identification page should be as follows:

         Title:
           Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
           Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
           Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
           Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
           Which Session: just put "G"
           Word Count, excluding title page and references:
           Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
           Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)


 Submissions must be received by July 1, 2000. Late submissions (those arriving
on or after July 2) will be rejected without review. The Program Committee is
not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies
(printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page plus
two (2) identification pages should be submitted to the following address:

   CLP-2000 submission
   c/o Fei Xia
   Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS)
   3401 Walnut St. Suite 400A
   Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA


Important Dates:
  July 1, 2000              Submission of full-length paper
  August 10, 2000           Acceptance notice
  September 5, 2000         Camera-ready paper due
  October 1 or 2            Conference date


	Organizational committee:
	
	Martha Palmer - UPenn
	Mitch Marcus - UPenn
	Fei Xia - UPenn
	Aravind Joshi - UPenn


Program committee:
Nianwen	Xue - U of Delaware, USA
Shengli Feng - U of Kansas, USA
K.L.Kwok - Queens College,  USA
Amy Weinberg - U. of Maryland, USA
Mary Ellen Okurowski - Department of Defense, USA
John Kovarik - Department of Defense, USA
Andi Wu - Mircrosoft, USA
Bangalore Srinivas - AT&T Research Lab, USA
Jin Yang - Systran, USA
Ralph Weischedel - BBN, USA
Dong Zhendong - Hownet designer, China
Shiwen Yu - Peking University, China
Qiang Zhou - Tsinghua University, China
Chunfa Yuan - Tsinghua University, China
Maosong Sun - Tsinghua University, China
Joe Zhou - Intel China Research Center, China
Chang-Ning Huang - Microsoft Research, China
Gan Kok Wee - Hong Kong Science and Technology University
Dekai Wu - Hong Kong Science and Technology University
Benjamin K Tsou - Hong Kong City Univeristy
Keh-Jian Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chu-ren Huang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Keh-Yih Su -  Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
Lua, Kim-Teng - National University of Singapore
Tan Chew Lim - National University of Singapore
Fuji Ren - Hiroshima City University, Japan