[Corpora-List] NLE Special Issue on Parallel Texts -- CFP

[Rada Mihalcea]

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C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S

Journal of Natural Language Engineering

Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS

Guest Editors:
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe

http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/jnle


OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of
inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances
in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools.

Parallel texts are vital resources for machine learning approaches
to machine translation, and for efficiently deriving multi-lingual
text processing tools. This special issue is devoted to advances
in building and using parallel corpora. We invite papers on all
topics related to parallel texts, including but not limited to:

The collection, organization and processing of parallel corpora:
   - Identifying and harvesting parallel texts from the Web
     and other large collections
   - Evaluating the quality of parallel corpora (e.g. detecting
     omissions and gaps, translation errors or inconsistencies, etc.)
   - Sentence-, phrase- and word-level alignment
   -  Alignment evaluation metrics and methods

Active uses of parallel corpora for:
   - Building multilingual lexical resources
   - Deriving language processing tools and resources for new
     languages
   - Annotating corpora (e.g. word-sense disambiguation)
   - Machine translation (e.g. statistical and example-based MT)
   - Machine-assisted translation (e.g. translation memories and
     interactive MT)
   - Cross-linguistic information retrieval and information extraction

While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or
related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora
addressing languages with scarce resources.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously
unpublished research, addressing issues related to the construction and
use of parallel texts.

Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions,
and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is
LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is
available through anonymous ftp from the following  address:
ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of
difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail:
texline at cup.cam.ac.uk.

Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous
review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas,
rada at cs.unt.edu and Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe,
Michel.Simard at xrce.xerox.com


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions:		May 1, 2004
Notification of acceptance:	August 30, 2004
Final versions due:		November 30, 2004
Journal publication:		June, 2005


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO
Michael Barlow, Rice University
Ken Church, AT&T Labs Research
Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University
Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
George Foster, University of Montreal
Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute
Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania
Julio Gonzalo, UNED
Cyril Goutte, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation
Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute
Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe
Hitoshi Iida, Tokyo University of Technology
Wessel Kraaij, TNO/TPD Netherlands
Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal
Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal
Dan Melamed, New York University
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute
Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University
Kishore Papineni, IBM
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research
Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva
Florence Reeder, MITRE
Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Hideki Tanaka, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe
Jean Veronis, University of Provence
Clare Voss, Army Research Lab
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield
Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Kenji Yamada, Xerox Research Centre Europe


ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to
meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of
computerized language processing, whether from the perspective of
theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or
engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional
computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical
applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing
research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine
translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems
and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its
aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic
community.

Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a
clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that
consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical
implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going
research, conference  reports, comparative discussions of NLE products,
and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market
opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed.

Edited by John I. Tait
University of Sunderland, UK

Branimir K. Boguraev
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

Christian Jacquemin
CNRS-LIMSI, France