Corpora: NAACL-2001 Call for Participation and Early Registration Extension

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

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                Language Technologies 2001:

         Second Meeting of the North American Chapter
      of the Association for Computational Linguistics

                    June 2-7, 2001
               Carnegie Mellon University
              Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

EARLY REGISTRATION has been extended to May 7.  On-line registration
will be up shortly.  In the mean time, please use the hard-copy
registration form you received in the mail or print a hard copy of the
registration form from the web page.

WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS:  If you would like wireless internet access
throughout Carnegie Mellon's campus, please register your WaveLAN
device in advance on the conference web page.

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The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon
University, June 2-7, 2001.  We have a diverse selection of tutorials,
workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening reception
at the Language Technologies Institute and a banquet in the grand and
elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural History.  We will be joined by
EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop on Language Modelling and
Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1).  The conference also features
CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access throughout the CMU campus
(please register your WaveLAN device in advance on the conference web
page), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops.  While you
are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June
1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free
performances.


***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************

TUTORIALS, June 2

 Morning:
    "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural
    Spoken Dialog.
    Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso,
    Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory

    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing:
    What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting?
    Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research

 Afternoon
    Building Synthetic Voices.
    Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University

    Open-Domain Textual Question Answering.
    Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University

WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4

 Sunday, June 3

    Automatic Summarization,
    Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs

    Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation
    Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs

    WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
    Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1)
    Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
    Yorick Wilks, co-chairs

 Monday, June 4

    Student Research Workshop
    Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs

    Adaptation in Dialogue Systems,
    Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs

    WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
    Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2)
    Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
    Yorick Wilks, co-chairs

EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4

DEMOS, June 5-7

INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6
A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to
industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial
trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to
participate:

EXHIBITORS (to date):

LingoMotors
Transclick
Nuance
Multicorpora R&D, Inc.
Trados
Lexiquest
Intel
Applied Technical Systems
Apptek

BOOK EXHIBITORS (to date):

Kluwer Academic Publishers
Blackwell Publishing
Cambridge University Press

MAIN SESSION, June 5-7

 Invited Speakers:
    Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
    Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
    Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University

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We would like to thank our generous sponsors:

    Intelligent Information Systems Institute, Cornell
    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
    Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
    Nuance
    SRA, International
    AT&T
    Interactive Systems Laboratories, CMU and Karlsruhe
    Clairvoyance
    LingoMotors
    Transclick
    Trados

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
    General Chair, Lori Levin
    Program, Kevin Knight
    Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie
    Tutorials, Dekang Lin
    Workshops, Lillian Lee
    Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba
    Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl
    Demos, Ronnie Smith
    Exhibits, Lynn Carlson
    Sponsorships, Kurt Godden
    Publicity, Ralf Brown
    Web Master, Bob Frederking

SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    Eric Brill
    Ann Copestake
    Marti Hearst
    Aravind Joshi
    Andrew Kehler
    Elliot Macklovitch
    Fernando Pereira
    Owen Rambow
    Elizabeth Shriberg
    Ralph Weischedel