[Corpora-List] CFP: EMNLP 2004 2nd Call for Papers

[Dekai Wu]

2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
     (EMNLP 2004)
     Call for Papers


SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special
interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP,
invites submissions to EMNLP 2004. The conference will be held on July
25-26 in Barcelona, Spain, immediately following the 42nd meeting of
the ACL (ACL 2004).

We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on
all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned
fields, including but not limited to:

 o machine translation
 o multilingual technologies
 o question answering
 o language and dialogue modeling
 o lexical acquisition
 o statistical parsing
 o information extraction
 o information retrieval
 o summarization
 o generation
 o tagging
 o term and named entity extraction
 o word sense disambiguation
 o word, term, and text segmentation

In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is

"ERROR ANALYSIS IN EMPIRICAL NLP"

We encourage papers that apply existing or new methodology for
meaningful empirical analysis of errors, independent of the
application. The theme emphasizes that learning algorithms are not
merely magic "black boxes". Corpus-based NLP has reached a stage of
maturity where many competing models have reached comparable plateaus
in performance. Merely reporting the aggregate accuracy or coverage
percentages typically fails to uncover the model limitations that are
fundamentally responsible for the plateaus. While reporting aggregate
percentages remains essential, instructive research should also
explain a model's limitations in more meaningful ways. This can be as
simple as categorizing error statistics by finer-grained types of
errors, to reveal specific areas of model limitations. Better yet, we
seek deeper insight into the models' inherent representational biases,
in the form of qualitative theoretical analyses that can be backed up
by comparative quantitative measurements. We especially welcome
empirically verifiable implications arising for feature engineering or
model selection, whether manual or automatic.

SUBMISSIONS

Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed,
unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when
appropriate. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide
this information (see submission format). In the event of multiple
acceptances, authors are requested to immediately notify the EMNLP
program chair (lindek at cs.ualberta.ca) and to choose which meeting to
present and publish the work at as soon as possible. EMNLP cannot
accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been)
published elsewhere.

Format: Submissions should take the form of full papers (up to 8 pages
in two-column format). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the
style files originally provided for ACL 2004.

We strongly prefer submissions to be as PS files. Any author who
submits in PDF must assume the responsibility for ensuring that fonts
are treated properly so that the paper will print (not just view)
anywhere. (This may involve reading the manual.) DOC/RTF formats
cannot be accepted.

Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should
be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and
affiliations, but also self-references that reveal authors'
identities; for example, "We have previously shown (Smith 1999)"
should be changed to "Smith (1999) has previously shown". A separate
identification email is required: see below.

Procedure: Submissions will be entered via a website:
  http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/emnlp04/submit
A PostScript file of the paper must be uploaded onto the system by the
date of the deadline (12 midnight GMT). In addition, information
about each paper must be entered on the website. This information
includes:

     * Paper title
     * Contact author name, affiliation, and email address
     * A short list of keywords (selected from a predefined list)
     * Abstract (no more than 300 words)
     * The conferences that the paper has also been submitted to (if any).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 28, 2004
Acceptance notification: May 26, 2004
Camera-ready copy due: June 15, 2004
Conference: July 25-26, 2004

CONFERENCE URL

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/emnlp04

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Dekang Lin, University of Alberta  (lindek at cs.ualberta.ca)
Dekai Wu, HKUST  (dekai at cs.ust.hk)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Steven Abney
Srinivas Bangalore
Regina Barzilay
Jeff Bilmes
Chris Brew
Ted Briscoe
Sharon Caraballo
Marine Carpuat
John Carroll
Colin Cherry
Kenneth Church
Stephen Clark
Michael Collins
Ido Dagan
Bonnie Dorr
Jason Eisner
Radu Florian
Pascale Fung
Jianfeng Gao
Laurie Gerber
Jan Hajic
Mary Harper
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou
Marti Hearst
Graeme Hirst
Rebecca Hwa
Mark Johnson
Frank Keller
Genichiro Kikui
Dan Klein
Kevin Knight
Greg Kondrak
Mirella Lapata
Gina Levow
Hang Li
Marc Light
Xiaoqiang Luo
Elliott Macklovitch
Rob Malouf
Daniel Marcu
Yuji Matsumoto
James Mayfield
Dan Melamed
Masaaki Nagata
Hermann Ney
Grace Ngai
Miles Osborne
Patrick Pantel
Kishore Papineni
Ted Pedersen
Dragomir Radev
Owen Rambow
Roni Rosenfeld
Anoop Sarkar
Charles Schafer
Richard Sproat
Keh-Yih Su
Zhifang Sui
Christoph Tillmann
Erik Tjong Kim Sang
Takehito Utsuro
Antal van den Bosch
Ismael García Varea
Stephan Vogel
Jun Zhao