[Corpora-List] Australia: Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP-06) Workshop, at Coling-ACL 2006 --- CFP

[Timothy Baldwin]

                       First Call for Papers


                         COLING-ACL Workshop

            Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP-06)

                            22 July 2006
                          Sydney, Australia

                      DEADLINE for submissions:
                           April 21, 2006


                       http://www.cslp06.org/


The CSLP-06 workshop addresses the question of the role of constraints
in the representation and the implementation of language
processing. The
workshop topic is intended to be interpreted inclusively:
contributions
>>From linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, and related
areas
are welcome, and an interdisciplinary perspective is of particular
interest.

Motivation
----------

Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and
psychology.  How they are used, however, varies widely according to
the
research domain: knowledge representation, cognitive modelling,
problem
solving mechanisms, etc. These different perspectives are
complementary,
each one adding a piece to the puzzle. For example, linguistics
proposes
in-depth descriptions implementing constraints in order to filter out
structures by means of description languages, constraint ranking, etc.
The constraint programming paradigm, on the other hand, shows that
constraints have to be taken as a systematic whole and can thus play a
role in building the structures (or can even replace structures).
Finally, psycholinguistics experiment the role of constraint systems
for
cognitive processes in comprehension and production as well as
addressing how they can be acquired.


The purpose of this workshop is to address the question of constraints
and language processing, taking these different points of view into
consideration. The idea is to see whether a paradigm can be found,
unifying the different perspectives into a common framework capable of
explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and
acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical,
and
cognitive perspective.

In this workshop, we particularly encourage an interdisciplinary
approach, bringing together people from different domains and their
intersections. Submissions from linguistics, computer science, and
psychology, as well as their intersections (such as natural language
processing and psycholinguistics) are encouraged. Submissions will
address the general topic "Constraints and Language Processing" and
may
focus on sub-topics such as:

 . Constraints in human language comprehension and production
 . Acquisition of constraints
 . Constraints and learning
 . Cross-theoretical view of the notion of constraint
 . New advances in constraint-based linguistic theories
 . The relation of constraints to notions of markedness or defaults
 . Constraint satisfaction (CS) technologies to NLP
 . Linguistic analysis and linguistic theories biased towards CS or
constraint logic programming (CLP)
 . Application of CS or CLP for NLP
 . CS and CLP for other than (purely) textual or spoken languages
   (e.g., biological, multimodal human-computer interaction, visual)
 . Probabilistic constraint-based reasoning
 . Relaxation of linguistic constraint-solving problems


Location
--------

The CSLP-06 workshop is a part of COLING-ACL; it will be held in
Sydney
after the main conference.


Submission
----------

Submissions are expected to be full papers, following the
COLING-ACL'06
guidelines. Maximum size is eight (8) pages, including references.
Submission must be submitted in electronic format; the only accepted
format is PDF.

The papers must be submitted no later than April 21, 2006. Papers
received after that date will not be reviewed. For details of the
submission procedure, please consult the submission webpage reachable
via the conference website.


Important dates
---------------

  . Paper submission deadline:      April 21
  . Notification of review result:  May 22
  . Camera-ready papers due:        June 6


Program Committee
-----------------

  . Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  . Philippe Blache (Provence University, France), Chair
  . Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
  . Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
  . Rina Dechter (University of California, USA)
  . Mark Dras (Macquarie University, Australia)
  . Denys Duchier (INRIA, France)
  . John Gallagher (Roskilde University, Denmark)
  . Claire Gardent (University of Nancy, France)
  . Ted Gibson (MIT, USA)
  . Mary Harper (Purdue University, USA)
  . Barbara Hemforth (Provence University, France)
  . Erhard Hinrichs (University of T|bingen, Germany)
  . Jerry Hobbs (University of Southern California, USA)
  . Michael Johnston (ATT, USA)
  . Tibor Kiss (Ruhr-Universitdt Bochum, Germany)
  . Lars Konieczny (Freiburg university, Germany)
  . Shalom Lappin (King's College, UK)
  . Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University, USA)
  . Joachim Niehren (INRIA, France)
  . Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada)
  . Geoffrey Pullum (UCSC, USA)
  . Ivan Sag (Stanford University, USA)
  . Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
  . Peter Skadhauge (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
  . Gert Smolka (Saarland University, Germany)
  . Jorgen Villadsen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
  . Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France)


Workshop Organization
---------------------

  . Chair:  Philippe Blache
            LPL - CNRS
            Universiti de Provence
            29, Avenue Robert Schuman
            13621 Aix-en-Provence
            FRANCE

            Email: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr
            Phone: +33-442-953-625
            Fax: +33-442-953-744

  . Organizing committee:
            Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
            Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
            Mark Dras (Macquarie University, Australia)
            Jean-Philippe Prost (Macquarie University, Australia)