Corpora: CfP: ACL2001 Workshop on HLT and Knowledge Management

[Steven Krauwer]

                 WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                      AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT



                         ACL'2001 Conference
                          Toulouse, France
                           July 6-7, 2001


   Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human
   computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management.
   Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval,
   transcription, extraction, translation, and summarization offer new
   capabilities for learning, playing and conducting business. This
   includes enhanced awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise
   expertise and know-how.

   This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational
   linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language
   processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation,
   content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human
   language technology, their application to knowledge management and to
   establish a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next
   decade.  The road map will comprise an analysis of the present
   situation, a vision of where we want to be in ten years from now, and
   a number of inter-mediate milestones that would help in setting
   intermediate goals and in measuring our progress towards our goals.

   The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will
   address new research in human language tech-nology for knowledge
   management that addresses problems including but not limited to:
     * Expert Discovery:  Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of
       distributed organizations and communities of experts.
     * Knowledge Discovery:  Identification and classification of
       knowledge from unstructured multimedia data.
     * Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise
       and know-how.

   Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges
   through technologies such as:
     * Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and
       knowledge from multimedia, multilin-gual, and multiparty
       information sources.
     * Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing
       of knowledge.
     * Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from
       unstructured multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news
       broadcasts).
     * Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and
       access (e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as
       geospatial Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri,
       encyclopedia, fact books)
     * Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source
     * Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and
       document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of
       distributed experts and communities of expertise
     * Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g.,
       knowledge maps, lessons learned).
     * Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and
       preferences from queries, created artifacts, and human computer
       interactions.

   The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and
   refinement of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the
   next decade.  Participants will help formulate grand challenge
   problems, discuss possible data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods
   that could form the basis of more scientific methods, articulate the
   role of and necessary advances in human language technology to solve
   these challenges, as well as identify and characterize early
   innovations and issues (e.g., robustness, scalability, ontology,
   privacy).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     * Dr. Mark Maybury (Chair),  The MITRE Corporation,
       maybury at mitre.org
     * Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark,
       nob at nis.sdu.dk
     * Steven Krauwer, ELSNET,  U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl
     * Irma Becerra-Fernandez,  Florida International University,
       becferi at fiu.edu
     * Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm,
       paul.heisterkamp at daimlerchrysler.com
     * Arjan van Hessen, COMSYS / U. Twente, hessen at cs.utwente.nl
     * Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle at xrce.xerox.com
     * Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta at open.ac.uk
     * Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo at die.upm.es
     * Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock at itc.it
     * Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh,
       ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
     * Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit at dfki.de
     * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk
     * Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik at boeing.com
     * Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it

TARGET AUDIENCE

   The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers,
   developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language
   technology in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge
   management applications.  While we  project a high degree of interest
   in this topic, we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality
   of paper submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS

   Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on
   HLT in general or its application to KM systems.  Papers targeted at
   the first day on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge
   management problem addressed, the technical approach to solving that,
   the novelty of the approach, its relation to previous work, the
   evaluation or performance of the system or method, and discussion of
   limitations. Papers targeted at the second day of on human language
   technology direction should be authored so they could be integrated
   into a more general HLT roadmap and so should include a definition of
   the HLT area addressed (e.g., information ex-traction, translation,
   speech recognition), a statement of the grand challenges or problems
   in the subfield, an ar-ticulation/analysis of the current state of the
   art, a vision of where the community wants to be in ten years from
   now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to set
   intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals.

   Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the
   two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see
   http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ for the detailed guidelines. Submissions
   should be sent elec-tronically in Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII
   text format to arrive no later than April 2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald
   (pmmmac at mitre.org).  As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to
   send a brief email indicating their intention to participate to
   include their contact information and the topic they intend to address
   in their submission.

   Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance,
   innovation, quality, and presentation according to the schedule below.

SCHEDULE

    + Submission Deadline:      2 April 2001
    + Notification :           30 April 2001
    + Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May   2001

WORKSHOP DATE

   July 6 and 7, 2001

WORKSHOP URL

   http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html