Corpora: Workshop on Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Linguistics (ESSLLI-2002)

[Sandra Kuebler]

                       ESSLLI-2002 Workshop on

         Machine Learning Approaches in Computational Linguistics

                         August 5-9, 2002


                    A workshop held as part of the
    14th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                             ESSLLI-2002
                            Trento, Italy
                          August 5-16, 2002



                        ** CALL FOR PAPERS **


ORGANIZERS: Erhard Hinrichs, Sandra Kuebler (Universitaet Tuebingen)


DESCRIPTION:

Over the last decade, machine learning approaches have established
themselves as an important subfield of computational linguistics. The
resulting body of research is characterized by a wide range of
techniques. These techniques have been successfully applied to a
variety of natural language annotation tasks, such as part-of-speech
tagging, shallow and deep parsing, word sense disambiguation, anaphora
resolution, PP attachment.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for these junior
researchers to present their work and discuss the relative merits of
their machine learning approaches as they apply to natural language
phenomena.

Possible learning approaches are:
* inductive logic programming
* memory-based learning
* transformation-based learning
* decision trees
* information-theoretic approaches such as maximum entropy models,
  Markov models
* genetic algorithms
* connectionist learning


SUBMISSION:

All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are
highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript).
Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in
10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers
should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the
following details:

- Title
- Authors' names and affiliation
- Address
- E-mail addresses

All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee.
The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader.
If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to
publish them in an edited volume.

Submissions should be sent before March 15, 2000 to the following
address:

  Sandra Kuebler
  Universitaet Tuebingen
  Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft
  Wilhelmstr. 113
  D-72074 Tuebingen
  Germany

  kuebler at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de

If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of
your paper to the above address.
Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome.


IMPORTANT DATES:


  Mar 15, 2002: Deadline for submissions
  Apr 15, 2002: Notification of acceptance
  May 15, 2002: Final version due
  Aug 5, 2002: Start of workshop


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Steven Abney
Anja Belz
Rens Bod
Antal van den Bosch
Sabine Buchholz
Walter Daelemans
Ido Dagan
Herve Dejean
James Hammerton
Erhard Hinrichs, co-chair
Yuval Krymolowski
Sandra Kuebler, co-chair
Paola Merlo
John Nerbonne   TBC
Miles Osborne
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Jorn Veenstra   TBC
Andreas Wagner


FURTHER INFORMATION:

To obtain further information about ESSLLI-2002 please visit
http://www.esslli2002.it/

This workshop is held as part of the ESSLLI-2002 summer
school. Therefore all workshop participants are required to register
for ESSLLI-2002. Registration information will be announced in due
time by the local organizers on the ESSLLI-2002 website.