[Corpora-List] Final CFP: CoNLL-2003: Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning

[Miles Osborne]

(apologies for duplicates; note Steve Abney will be our invited speaker)

                       FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

        CoNLL-2003: Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning

                Organized at HLT-NAACL-03, Edmonton, Canada

                            May 31 - June 1 2003

                      http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2003/


   CoNLL is an international forum for discussion and presentation of
   research on natural language learning. We invite submission of papers
   about natural language learning topics, including, but not limited to:

        - Computational models of human language acquisition
        - Computational models of the origins and evolution of language
        - Machine learning methods applied to natural language processing
          tasks (speech processing, phonology, morphology, syntax,
          semantics, discourse processing, language engineering
          applications)
        - Symbolic learning methods (Rule Induction and Decision Tree
          Learning, Lazy Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, Analytical
          Learning, Transformation-based Error-driven Learning)
        - Biologically-inspired methods (Neural Networks, Evolutionary
          Computing)
        - Statistical methods (Bayesian Learning, HMM, maximum entropy,
          SNoW, Support Vector Machines)
        - Reinforcement Learning
        - Active learning, ensemble methods, meta-learning
        - Computational Learning Theory analysis of language learning
        - Empirical and theoretical comparisons of language learning methods
        - Models of induction and analogy in Linguistics

   CoNLL is the yearly meeting organized by SIGNLL, the Association for
   Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language
   Learning. Previous CoNLL meetings were held in Madrid (1997), Sydney
   (1998), Bergen (1999) Lisbon (2000), Toulouse (2001), and Taipei
   (2002).

   See http://www.aclweb.org/signll and
       http://ilk.uvt.nl/~signll/conll.html

   for more information about SIGNLL and CoNLL.

   Special Theme
   -------------

   As in previous years, in addition to submissions on the general topics
   listed above, we encourage submissions on a special theme. This year's
   special theme is:

          Semi-supervised / unsupervised learning and sample selection
          techniques for language learning (co-training, active learning,
          EM, etc).

   Supervised Machine Learning methods suffer from a "data annotation
   bottleneck" which is especially harmful for language learning tasks
   where a lot of training data is needed (e.g. parsing). Sample
   selection techniques, and combination of supervised learning with
   semi-supervised and unsupervised techniques may provide a solution to
   this problem.

   Shared Task
   -----------

   This year's workshop will also accept submissions for a shared task:
   machine learning approaches to named entity recognition. Special
   attention will be given to the use of multiple sources of knowledge,
   like training data, lists of examples and unannotated data.
   Interested groups will be supplied with the same training and testing
   material (in several languages), and will all use the same evaluation
   criteria, thus allowing comparison between various learning methods.

   More information on the shared task is available at:

   http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2003/ner/

   Invited Speaker
   ---------------

                                STEVEN ABNEY
                    Understanding the Yarowsky Algorithm


   Submissions
   -----------

   * Main Session Submissions

   Submit a full paper of no more than 8 pages (Postscript, PDF or plain
   text ASCII) by March 16, 2003 electronically to the address below.
   Authors of accepted submissions will be invited to produce a final
   paper to be published in the proceedings of the workshop, which will
   be available at the workshop for participants, and distributed
   afterwards by ACL. Final submissions must follow the HLT-NAACL style
   (http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html).
   We strongly recommend the use of these style files also in the
   submission.

   Submit main session papers to:

   Walter Daelemans
   daelem at uia.ua.ac.be
   CNTS Language Technology Group, University of Antwerp,
   Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium.
   Tel: +32 3 8202766; Fax: +32 3 8202662

   * Shared Task Submissions

   Submit a paper of maximum 4 pages describing the learning approach,
   and your results on the test set by March 16, 2003 to the address below
   (preferably by email). A special section of the proceedings will be
   devoted to a comparison and analysis of the results and to a
   description of the approaches used. Submit shared task submissions to:

   Erik Tjong Kim Sang, erikt at uia.ua.ac.be or
   Centrum Nederlandse Taal en Spraak
   Linguistics, Department of Germanic languages and literature
   UIA, University of Antwerp
   Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium


   Important Dates
   ---------------

        Deadline for Paper Submission: March 16, 2003
        Deadline for Shared Task Submission: March 16, 2003
        Notification: March 24, 2003
        Deadline camera-ready paper: April 10, 2003
        Conference: May 31-June 1 2003

   Programme Committee
   -------------------

   Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp and Tilburg (Belgium and
   Netherlands), co-chair
   Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh (UK), co-chair
   Erik Tjong Kim Sang, University of Antwerp (Belgium), shared task chair
   Thorsten Brants, Google Inc. (USA)
   Claire Cardie, Cornell University (USA)
   James Cussens, University of York (UK)
   Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
   Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
   Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA)
   Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
   Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
   John Nerbonne, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
   Hwee-Tou Ng, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
   David Powers, Flinders University (Australia)
   Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Microsoft (USA)
   Ellen Riloff, University of Utah (USA)
   Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
   Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University (Netherlands)