[Corpora-List] JNLE - Call for Special Issue Proposals 2010 - EXTENDED DEADLINE: October 1st, 2010

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Journal of Natural Language Engineering

Call for Special Issue Proposals - EXTENDED DEADLINE: October 1st, 2010

The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of many
other areas, becoming highly specialised 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 specialised 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, whereas special issues could emerge from a
specific workshop,

they should not be limited to it and the call for papers should invite
submissions from the whole community working on the topics covered
by the issue.

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
<mailto:R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>, with cc to
jnle at wlv.ac.uk <mailto:jnle at wlv.ac.uk> <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:

01 October 2010

(proposals to be emailed to _jnle at wlv.ac.uk <mailto:jnle at wlv.ac.uk>
<jnle at wlv.ac.uk>_)

- Notification of acceptance/rejection:

01 November 2010

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

15 November 2010

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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide
the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and
endless sea. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
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