[Corpora-List] 2003 International Symposium on Reference Resolution & Its Applications to Question Answering & Summarization -- CFP

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

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		      2003 International Symposium on
	       Reference Resolution and Its Applications to
	           Question Answering and Summarization

			    Venice, Italy
			    June 23-25, 2003
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Reference resolution algorithms are applicable for the processing of
discourse and dialogue and more recently became important tools for
textual Questions Answering (QA) systems or Summarization systems. The
objective of this Symposium is to bring together researchers whose
work focuses on the resolution of reference in natural language and to
create a forum for the presentation and discussion of their current
results. We are especially interested in the application of reference
resolution to Questions Answering and Summarization and welcome papers
and discussions that tackle the interactions of reference resolution
with these two NLP applications. This call for papers invites
submissions of papers describing recent novel and challenging
work/results in reference resolution, questions answering and
summarization. The range of topics to be covered will include, but
will not be limited to:

o new reference resolution algorithms,
o reference resolution and its contribution to discourse processing,
o new methods for single and multi-document summarization,
o recent findings in the theory and practice of textual question
answering,
o theories and formalisms for reference resolution,
o empirical methods in reference resolution,
o applications of reference resolution,
o multilingual and multidocument reference resolution,
o evaluation of reference resolution
o resources used for reference resolution.
o reference resolution for factual questions answering
o reference resolution for summarization
o reference resolution for dialog processing
o reference resolution for the identification of disourse relations and
  discourse structure

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: April 17 2003
Authors Notification: May 10 2003
Camera-ready deadline: June 10 2003
Conference: June 23-25 2003

Symposium Organizers:
Sanda Harabagiu
Rodolfo Delmonte


Program Committee:

Regina Barzilay, MIT/Cornell University
Donna Byron, Ohio State University
Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa
Claire Cardie, Cornell University
Dan Cristea, University of Iasi
Rodolfo Delmonte, Ca' Foscari University
Carol Van Ess-Dykema, DoD
Antonio Ferrandez, University of Alicante
Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, Dallas
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Jerry Hobbs, USC/ISI
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Steve Maiorano, University of Sheffield
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

For more information please visit:
http://www.cs.utdallas.edu/~sanda/Venice/venice-symp.html