[Corpora-List] JNLE: Call for special issue proposals

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Journal of Natural Language Engineering

Call for special issue proposals

The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of many
other areas, becoming highly specialized with a number of
application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in
importance. These developments, often coincident with a lack of related
literature, necessitate and warrant the publication of specialized volumes
focusing on a specific topic of interest to the Natural Language Processing
(NLP) research community.

The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (NLE) invites proposals for
special issues on a competitive basis on any topics about applied NLP which
have emerged as important developments in Natural Language Engineering and
which have attracted the attention of a number of researchers or research
groups. After the Calls for Proposals for special issues in 2006 and 2008
(the 2006 call has already resulted in two very high quality special issues,
the accepted proposals from 2008 are in press/ nearing completion), we are
pleased to announce another such call this year.
Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks and resources as well as
NLP-related applications but should focus on the practical implications of
operation on the large scale. Topics covering NLP methods, tasks and
resources could include but are not limited to POS tagging, parsing,
semantic role labelling, word sense disambiguation, anaphora and coreference
resolution, named entity recognition, natural language generation, speech
recognition, speech synthesis, multimodal processing, statistical methods in
Natural Language Engineering, machine learning, evaluation methodologies,
corpora and ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include but
are not limited to machine translation, translation memory and translation
tools, summarisation, information retrieval, information extraction,
question answering, text and web mining, opinion mining and NLP for
biomedical texts.

Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or a
body of work associated with a particular group or section of the community.
In all cases, however, the reviewing process of the accepted proposals will
be rigorous and all submissions must be reviewed by at least 3 members of
the Guest Editorial Board or other suitable reviewers agreed on by the NLE
Editors. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Guest
Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews.

In addition, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to
all interested parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the
case of proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited
to workshop participants only.

Interested editors have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing
expressions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended
special issue to the Executive Editor (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk, with cc to
jnle at wlv.ac.uk). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is
appropriate to Natural Language Engineering.

In the case of initial positive feedback, the prospective Guest Editors will
be asked to submit a proposal for a special issue which will be reviewed by
the Editors of the journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial
Board. At least one proposal will be selected on a competitive basis for
each call with the envisaged publication date for the successful proposal(s)
from this call on or after January 2011.

The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the field
and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the
particular topic of interest. It should include a relevant literature survey
(related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference
proceedings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special
issue against the background of other relevant or competing publications and
volumes (if applicable). It is desirable that a rough estimate of expected
submissions to the special issue be provided. The proposals should also
include a tentative Guest Editorial Board (it is desirable that one of the
members of the Guest Editorial Board be a member of the journal Editorial
Board), tentative time-scale for the production of the special issue and
information about the prospective Guest Editors (relevant experience,
publications etc.).

Time-scale:

- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:

30 August 2010

(proposals to be emailed to jnle at wlv.ac.uk)

- Notification of acceptance/rejection:

30 September 2010

- Final version of the successful proposal(s) and call for papers:

15 October 2010

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Irina Temnikova

PhD Student in Computational Linguistics
Editorial Assistant of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering

Research Group in Computational Linguistics
Research Institute of Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
Telephone  + 44 1902 321629
Fax +44 1902 323543
Email i.temnikova2 at wlv.ac.uk
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