Corpora: 2nd CFP: Multi-layer Corpus-based Analysis

[Nancy M. Ide]

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                       SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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                            EUROLAN 2001
                          Summer Institute
       Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources
                      30 July - 11 August 2001
                           Iasi, Romania


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                             WORKSHOP
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                  MULTI-LAYER CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS
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             JULY 30 - AUGUST 1, 2001 - IASI, ROMANIA


                             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:

  - Research that exploits information on different linguistic levels;

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

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

  - Tools for exploiting different levels of annotation.

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the EUROLAN 2001 Summer
School on Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources,
to be held in Iasi, Romania from 30 July - August 11, 2001. 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.

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 5, 2001
 Final Paper due                                  June 15, 2001
 Workshop date                         July 30 - August 1, 2001


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative):

Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr|cken
Charles Fillmore - ICSI, UC Berkeley
Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science, Tokyo
Jan Hajic - Charles University, Prague
Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto
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