Corpora: CALL: EUROLAN'01 WORKSHOP ON MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS

[Nancy M. Ide]

              ******* EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP *******


                MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS

                   July 30 - August 1, 2001
                        Iasi, Romania

         http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html

                          Organizers:

       Dan Cristea, University "A.I. Cuza", Iasi, Romania
                Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
      Daniel Marcu, ISI, University of Southern California
            Massimo Poesio, University of Edinburgh


Corpora annotated for a variety of linguistic features are becoming
increasingly available. Part of speech annotated corpora are
commonplace; treebanks in a variety of languages are available or
under development; and corpora annotated for various features of
discourse, including co-reference and discourse structure, are also
available (e.g., the MUC corpora). In addition, large speech corpora
annotated with phonetic transcriptions and prosodic analysis and
various multi-lingual aligned corpora are available from centers such
as the Linguistic Data Consortium and the European Language Resources
Association.

This workshop will address issues of using corpora annotated for
multiple layers (e.g., syntax and discourse, prosody and part of
speech, etc.) or combining multiple layers of annotation in natural
language analysis. We invite submissions on the following topics:

  o Research that exploits information on different
    linguistic levels;

  o Consideration and demonstration of the ways in which
    information from different layers can be used in
    automatic language processing;

  o Compatibility of corpora annotated for different
    linguistic layers, including means to harmonize
    different annotation types and levels;

  o Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation.

The workshop will be held over three consecutive evenings in
conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer School on Creation and
Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, in Iasi,
Romania. Because EUROLAN 2001 is concerned with a wide variety of
types of linguistic annotation, the workshop will serve to complement
the content of lectures and tutorials that are part of the School's
main program. Registration for the workshop is included in the Summer
School registration fee.

Information on EUROLAN 2001 is available at

             http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/
and
             http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/eurolan/


SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Papers should report on original work not previously presented
elsewhere. The workshop is intended to provide a forum for discussion
and a means to receive feedback for future development; therefore,
papers describing both completed work and work-in-progress are
acceptable.

Submissions of 3500-5000 words should be sent via email to
ide at cs.vassar.edu with the subject line "EUROLAN 2001 WORKSHOP
SUBMISSION". Submissions in Postscript, PDF, or plain ASCII text
formats are acceptable.


DATES:

Deadline for receipt of submissions : April 15, 2001
Notification of acceptance          : May 1, 2001
Final Paper due                     : June 1, 2001
Workshop date                       : July 30 - August 1, 2001


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative):

  Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbrucken
  Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto
  Eduard Hovy - University of Southern California
  Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton
  Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
  Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University
  Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy
  Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy
  Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken
  Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem
  Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield