[Corpora-List] EACL-03 workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods

[Michael Kuehn]

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                     EACL 2003 Workshop on

            LANGUAGE MODELING FOR TEXT ENTRY METHODS

               April 13, 2003, Budapest, Hungary


The EACL 2003 Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry
Methods will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference
of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics that will take place April 12-17, 2003, in Budapest,
Hungary.

Papers are invited on any aspects of language modeling for text
entry methods.

GENERAL SCOPE

There are two application areas where there is a strong need to
support the user in text production:

On palm-sized or watch-sized electronic devices, the physical
size of the device and/or the available keyboard makes typing
difficult and thus inefficient.  For motor and/or speech
impaired persons, typing often is slow or very difficult. This
is critical especially for people relying on communication aids.

In both application areas, various text entry methods have been
suggested to provide a more efficient input of texts with lower
motor demands. Usually, they combine specific typing devices
(enhancing the typing rate) with methods that aim at reducing
the number of necessary key strokes. Among these are word
prediction, abbreviation expansion, ambiguous typing and text
compansion.

At their core, these methods rely on statistical and (to a
lesser extent) rule-based language models to predict and
complete the user input and thus save keystrokes. Unlike in
speech recognition, the language models are also used to change
and evaluate the way how to enter text.

The goal of our workshop is to bring together researchers in the
two application communities to focus on the variety of text
entry methods with language models. In particular, we like to
discuss parameters and criteria for a comparable evaluation of
text entry methods with language models. Questions of interest
include but are not limited to:

* How are text entry methods improved by language models?

* At which linguistic levels do language models improve text
entry methods?

* In what way should the language model adapt to the user's text
entry?

* How can the added cognitive load of using text entry methods
be minimized?

* What kind of resources (e.g. corpora, lexica) are needed for
text entry methods with language models?

* How can we evaluate and compare text entry methods with
language models?

* Where do situational contexts lead to better language models
for text entry methods?

* What are the specifics of language models for text entry
methods in particular languages and writing systems?

Although there has been some transfer of technology between the
two application areas, communication between the two research
communities has been sparse up to now. We invite researchers of
the different application areas to share their results and ideas
with the other communities in computational linguistics.

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original,
unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions
should be formatted using the EACL 2003 stylefiles with overt
author's and afficilation's information and not exceeding 8
pages. The EACL 2003 stylefiles are available at
http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/eacl03/submission.html. Please
send your Postscript or PDF file no later than January 7, 2003,
to kuehn at uni-koblenz.de.

Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings.

REGISTRATION

Workshop participants not registered to EACL 2003 will have to
pay a raised workshop registration fee. More information on
registration will be provided at the conference web page.

IMPORTANT DATES

January 7, 2003 Deadline for workshop papers
January 28, 2003 Notification of acceptance
February 13, 2003 Camera-ready papers due
April 13, 2003 EACL 2003 Workshop

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Norman Alm
Graeme Hirst
Sherri Hunnicutt
Cliff Kushler
Kathleen McCoy
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Karin Harbusch
University Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz/Germany

Michael Kuehn
University Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz/Germany

Harald Trost
OeFAI, Vienna/Austria

FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page
http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~compling/eaclws2003/

Conference web page
http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/

CONTACT INFORMATION

Michael Kuehn
Universitaet Koblenz-Landau
Forschungsgruppe Computerlinguistik
Postfach 201 602
D-56016 Koblenz
Germany

Tel +49 261 287-2613
Fax +49 261 287-2754

E-mail kuehn at uni-koblenz.de
Web http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~kuehn/

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Michael Kühn 	               http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~kuehn/
Forschungsgruppe Computerlinguistik                        B 304
Universität Koblenz-Landau                   +49 (0)261 287-2613
Postfach 201 602, 56016 Koblenz             kuehn at uni-koblenz.de