[Corpora-List] CoNLL-2002: Call for Participation

[Antal van den Bosch]

                 CoNLL-2002: Call for Participation

                            CoNLL-2002

            6th Conference on Natural Language Learning

                 incorporating VLC and LLL 2002

              Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
                    31 August - 1 September, 2002

                    a SIGNLL COLING-2002 workshop
                     in cooperation with SIGDAT

                http://www.aclweb.org/signll/conll02/

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The conference programme for CoNLL-2002 is avaible from

  http://www.aclweb.org/signll/conll02/

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Dear Colleagues,

The CoNLL programme committee and organisers and SIGNLL, ACL's special
interest group on natural language learning, are pleased to invite you
to participate in CoNLL-2002, the sixth Conference on Natural Language
Learning. A preliminary programme is available on
http://www.aclweb.org/signll/conll02/ .

CoNLL-2002 is organized in cooperation with SIGDAT, who have merged
this year's Very Large Corpora (VLC) workshop with CoNLL-2002. Also, the
Learning Language in Logic (LLL) workshop series has merged with this
year's event.

CoNLL-2002 features an invited talk by John Lafferty (School of
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University) on "Models, Kernels, and
Algorithms for Discrete Data". CoNLL also features two sessions on
this year's special theme "unsupervised and semi-supervised
learning". And as part of a tradition, CoNLL-2002 includes
presentations of a shared task on "language-independent named entity
recognition".

CoNLL-2002 is held immediately after the COLING-2002 main conference,
as a two-day workshop on 31 August and 1 September at the Academia
Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

On-line registration for CoNLL (as part of registering for COLING) is open
until August 15, 2002 (http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html).


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Program Committee

     Dan Roth (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA (co-chair)
     Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Netherlands) (co-chair)
     Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp, Belgium) (shared task)
     Thorsten Brants (Xerox PARC, USA)
     Claire Cardie (Cornell University, USA)
     Ken Church (AT&T Labs-Research)
     James Cussens (University of York, UK)
     Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
     Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh)
     Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
     John Nerbonne (Groningen University, Netherlands)
     Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK),
     David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
     Adwait Ratnaparkhi (WhizBang! Labs - Research, USA)
     David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University)


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General COLING info:

Online registration is possible until 15 August:

  http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html

Main conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002, Howard International
House

  http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/