Corpora: Final CFP: Australasian NLP Workshop, Adelaide, Australia

[Diego Molla]

            5th Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop

                            Final Call for Papers

                         Workshop: 11th December 2001
                     Submissions due: 21st September 2001
                 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
                 http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/hlt/events/anlp5/

PURPOSE

A one-day workshop on Natural Language Processing will be held in
conjunction with the Australian AI conference (AI'01) in Adelaide:
http://www.cs.adelaide.edu.au/AI2001/

The goals of the workshop are:

    * to bring together the growing NLP community in Australia and New
      Zealand;
    * to provide an opportunity for the broader artificial intelligence
      community to become aware of local NLP research;
    * to provide a forum for discussion of new research;
    * to foster interaction between academic and industrial research.

Our hope is to get as many Australasian NLPers together as possible to
encourage dialogue between those working on similar topics and between
areas with a - perhaps as yet untapped - potential to interact.

Subject to sponsorship confirmation, there will be an invited talk by
Graeme Ritchie (University of Edinburgh) with the topic: "Text
Generation with Surface Constraints".

The workshop proceedings will be printed with an ISBN number.

TOPIC

We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and
unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing,
including, but not limited to:

    * speech understanding and generation;
    * phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and
      discourse;
    * interpreting and generating spoken and written language;
    * linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language;
    * language-oriented information extraction and retrieval;
    * corpus-based and statistical language modeling;
    * machine translation and translation aids;
    * natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
    * message and narrative understanding systems;
    * computational lexicography.

We welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP
community, but we particularly encourage submissions that broaden the
scope of our community through the consideration of practical NLP
applications.  We especially invite people from industry working on
NLP to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to discuss
and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed
audience.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    * Dominique Estival, SaySo!
    * Sabine Geldof, Macquarie University (Co-chair)
    * Alistair Knott, University of Otago
    * Diego Molla-Aliod, Macquarie University (Co-chair)
    * Cecile Paris, CSIRO
    * Jon Patrick, University of Sydney
    * Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University

SUBMISSION FORMAT

The length of the submissions should not exceed 8 pages, printed
single-spaced in 12 point font. The first page should include:

    * paper title,
    * author name(s) and affiliation,
    * complete addresses including email address and fax number,
    * keywords,
    * abstract.

Only electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files will be
accepted. If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will
be rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to
send an early version with the typographical complexity of your final
intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic
submissions should be sent to anlp-submit at ics.mq.edu.au.

IMPORTANT DATES

  Paper submission:             Friday 21st September 2001.
  Notification of acceptance:   Monday 8th October 2001.
  Camera-ready copy:            Monday 29th October 2001.
  Workshop:                     Tuesday 11th December 2001.

MORE INFORMATION

The ANLP5 webpage will regularly be updated with useful information
about the workshop: http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/hlt/events/anlp5/

You can contact the workshop organisers for further information:
anlp-info at ics.mq.edu.au