[Corpora-List] EACL Workshop on the Computational Treatment of Anaphora: Second Call for Papers

[Robert Dale]

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
EACL 2003 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Anaphora
April 14th 2003
Budapest, Hungary

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Workshop Topic

The study of anaphora has long been central to work in natural language
processing, in terms of both the resolution and generation of anaphoric
forms. Work in the area stretches from the extremely theoretical, where
issues in the philosophy of language are raised, to the extremely practical,
as evidence by the coreference task in the Message Understanding
Conferences. Submissions from across this spectrum are invited for this
workshop, whose aim is to encourage more speculative thinking in areas that
we believe have been underexplored. In particular:

First, recent interest in information extraction has tended to focus
interest in the resolution of pronominal anaphora and reduced definite NP
anaphora, particularly with respect to proper names. Although these topics
are obviously of great significance, this focus has meant that work on other
aspects of anaphora has been, in our view, neglected.

Second, we recognise that relevant work in each of natural language
understanding (where the major focus has been pronominal anaphor resolution)
and natural language generation (where the major focus has been the
generation of subsequent references) has generally been pursued
independently of the other. We would like to encourage papers that explore
how insights from one area can be used in the other.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

-	one-anaphora
-	associative anaphora
-	forms of anaphora where either the anaphor or the antecedent is not a noun
phrase
-	presuppositions as anaphora
-	shared knowledge sources in analysis and generation
-	the development and exploitation of annotated corpora
-	evaluations of anaphor resolution and generation
-	cross-document coreference
-	comparisons of formal and computational treatments of anaphora
-	knowledge-poor vs knowledge-rich approaches

Workshop Format

The workshop will be one day in duration. Each presentation will last for 20
minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period.

Submission Format

Authors should submit a full paper of no more than six pages by the deadline
stated below. Your paper should include a descriptive abstract of around 100
words, and should follow the formatting guidelines for the main EACL
conference, as detailed at http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. Submissions
should be made electronically as either PDF or PS files, preferably the
former: if you are submitting a PS file, please send a version of this a
week before the stated deadline so that we can ensure there are no problems
with printing.

Submissions should be sent by email to eacl03ws at ics.mq.edu.au.

Workshop Registration

Refer to the main conference web pages at http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03
for details of registration.

Important Dates

Call for Papers distributed November 1, 2002
Submissions Deadline January 7, 2003
Notification Date January 28, 2003
Camera ready copy due February 13, 2003
Workshop Date April 14, 2003

Program Chairs

Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia
Kees van Deemter, University of Brighton, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Program Committee Members

Amit Bagga, Avaya, USA
David Beaver, Stanford, USA
Antonio Branco, Lisbon, Portugal
Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy, France
Helmut Horacek, Saarbruecken, Germany
Pam Jordan, Pittsburgh, USA
Rodger Kibble, London, UK
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Shalom Lappin, London, UK
Josef Meyer, Macquarie, Australia
Massimo Poesio, Essex, UK
Ehud Reiter, Aberdeen, UK
Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh, UK

Contact Information

If you have any enquiries regarding this workshop, contact the organisers
via the workshop email address eacl03ws at ics.mq.edu.au. If for any reason
this is problematic, contact

Robert Dale
Centre for Language Technology
Division of Information and Communication Sciences
Macquarie University
Sydney NSW 2109
Australia

Email: Robert.Dale at mq.edu.au
Tel: +61 2 9850 6331
Fax: +61 2 9850 9529

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