[Corpora-List] Call for paper, TAL Journal, special issue on 'Errors handling in NLP'

[Francois Yvon]

[apologies for cross posting]

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

MANAGING NOISE IN THE SIGNAL: ERROR HANDLING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE < TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES > (TAL) JOURNAL
http://www.atala.org/-Revue-TAL

The language that real-world natural language processing systems have
to deal with bears little resemblance to the perfectly grammatical
examples often found in linguistics textbooks. Instead, it comes to
us damaged in various ways: authors introduce spelling and grammatical
errors into the texts they type, speakers produce incomplete or
otherwise disfluent sentences, OCR systems misrecognize the characters
on the printed page, and speech recognition systems produce inaccurate
hypotheses as to what was actually said.

Noisy input is a fact of life: our systems ignore it at their peril.
For some applications, we require mechanisms which are robust to error;
for example, a spoken language dialog system may assign a low
confidence to a hypothesis, and as a consequence ask the user to
repeat his/her utterance. For other applications, we need to make use
of error correction techniques, so that, for example, an OCR system
might use contextual post-processing to validate the spellings of
words.

This special issue aims to bring together work on error handling in
natural language processing from a range of different application
areas. Many subfields of NLP have a need to do something about noise
in the signal, but rarely do researchers from these diverse areas have
an opportunity to compare their methods and techniques. Our aim is to
juxtapose work from these different areas in order to encourage
cross-fertilization of ideas.

We consider as in-scope for this special issue any papers which
describe and discuss techniques that are concerned with processing
linguistic data which are in some regard noisy. The most developed
subfields here are spelling correction and, to a lesser extent,
grammar correction; neither of these are completely solved problems,
and as far as errors at the stylistic, semantic, and discourse levels
are concerned, automated textual error correction has barely scratched
the surface. Robust processing regimes, where the aim is to extract
something useful from a broken input, are also of interest, for both
speech and text input; and more broadly, repair and recovery
techniques in dialog systems are also of relevance.

We encourage submissions on any aspect of natural language processing
related to the handling of errors, including in particular:
* automatic spelling and grammar correction
* semantic and logical errors
* stylistic and discourse-level correction
* automatic correction of machine-produced texts (OCRs, speech transcripts, etc.)
* spelling correction in web search
* errors in controlled language input
* acquisition, annotation and analysis of errors in real texts
* errors in language learning
* handling performance errors
* building error corpora
* text normalization issues
* robust NLP techniques
* handling disfluent speech
* handling errors in speech recognition
* confidence measure estimation
* managing noise in training corpora
* error metrics
* error as signatures; watermarking with errors
* measuring the seriousness of errors

GUEST EDITORS
- Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Australia)
- François Yvon (LIMSI/CNRS and Univ. Paris Sud, France)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
(TBA)

IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadline for submission: october 15th, 2012
- First notification to authors: december 15th 2012
- Deadline for revisions: february 1st, 2013
- Final decisions: april 15th, 2013
- Camera-ready: june 15th, 2013
- Publication: summer 2013

THE JOURNAL

TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing)
is a forty year old international journal published by ATALA (French
Association for Natural Language Processing) with the support of CNRS
(National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an
electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand (see
http://www.atala.org/-Revue-TAL). This affects in no way its reviewing
and selection process.

PRACTICAL ISSUES

Contributions (approx. 25 pages, PDF format) must be uploaded at
http://tal-53-3.sciencesconf.org/ Style sheets are available for
download on the Web site of the journal
(http://www.atala.org/-Revue-TAL).  The journal only publishes
original contributions in French or in English.



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