[Corpora-List] 2nd Call for Papers, NAACL 2012 Workshop on Predicting and improving text readability for target reader populations

[Raquel Hervas]

*** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ****

 

NAACL HLT 2012 Workshop

 

PITR2012: PREDICTING AND IMPROVING TEXT READABILITY FOR TARGET READER
POPULATIONS 

 

 <http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/PITR2012/> http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/PITR2012/

 

 

*** NEW DATES ***

 

  Mar 25, 2012: Paper submission deadline

  Apr 24, 2012: Notification of acceptance

  May 4, 2012: Camera-ready deadline

  Jun 7, 2012: Workshop date

 

 

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

 

  Generation of readable language from data (data-to-text) 

  Text reformulation (text-to-text) 

  Generation of texts at different levels of difficulty 

  Readability measures

  User evaluations of language simplification strategies 

  Studies on the readability of text 

  Simplification of lexis and syntax

  Simplification of numerical quantity expressions 

  Simplification of logical relations 

  Discourse Properties (making text more transparent, etc.)

  Assessing the readability of machine-generated text, 

  Text simplification 

  Accessibility of texts for specific target readers, e.g., 

     adults with poor literacy, 

     2nd language learners, 

     people with language deficits (Aphasia, Deafness, Neurodegeneration,
etc.), 

     lay readers accessing technical material, 

     ...

 

 

*** SUBMISSION ***

 

  Submission web site:  <https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/PITR2012/>
https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2012/PITR2012/

  Papers between 2 and 8 pages in length (excluding references) 

  In ACL style:  <http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp>
http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp

 

  

*** ACCOMMODATION ***

 

  Please note: the workshop may overlap with people arriving for the
Montréal Grand Prix Formula 1 race (Jun 10).  

This could make hotel space a bit tight, so if you are going to the
workshop, you might want to book early. Accommodation details:
<http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/participants/accomodation.php>
http://www.naaclhlt2012.org/participants/accomodation.php

 

 

*** ORGANISERS ***

 

  Sandra Williams, The Open University, UK.

  Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen, UK.

  Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

 

 

*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***

 

  Gregory Aist, Iowa State University, USA.

  John Carroll, University of Sussex, UK.

  Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research (Redmond), USA.

  Siobhan Devlin, University of Sunderland, UK.

  Noémie Elhadad, Columbia University, USA.

  Micha Elsner, University of Edinburgh, UK.

  Richard Evans, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

  Lijun Feng, Columbia University, USA.

  Caroline Gasperin, TouchType Ltd., UK.

  Albert Gatt, University of Malta, Malta.

  Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

  Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany.

  Raquel Hervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

  Véronique Hoste, University College Ghent, Belgium.

  Matt Huenerfauth, The City University of New York (CUNY), USA.

  Iustina Ilisei, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

  Tapas Kanungo, Microsoft, USA.

  Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh, UK.

  Annie Louis, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

  Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

  Hitoshi Nishikawa, NTT, Japan.

  Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington, USA.

  Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK.

  Lucia Specia, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

  Irina Temnikova, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

  Ielka van der Sluis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

 

 

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Raquel Hervás

 

Facultad de Informática

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

28040 MADRID

 

NIL (Natural Interaction based on Language).

 <http://nil.fdi.ucm.es/> http://nil.fdi.ucm.es

 

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