ANLP/NAACL 2000 Call for Papers
Priscilla Rasmussen
rasmusse at CS.RUTGERS.EDU
Tue Aug 17 16:21:35 UTC 1999
Language Technology Joint Conference
Applied Natural Language Processing
and the
North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics
General Conference Chair: Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies
CALL FOR PAPERS
Contents: 1. Overview
2. ANLP Call for Papers
3. NAACL Call for Papers
4. Format for Submissions
5. Deadlines
1. Overview
The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to
announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
conference and the first conference of the new North American
Chapter of the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May
2000 in Seattle, Washington.
The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring
industry and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of
computational linguistics and natural language processing, from
theory and methodology to their application in commercial software.
For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
November 1999. See submission details below.
The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the
development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of
system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should
be directed to one of the following subject areas:
* Monolingual text processing systems
* Multilingual text processing systems
* Spoken language and multimodal systems
* Integrated NLP systems
* Tools and resources for developing NLP systems
* Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems
The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches,
algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational
linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
areas:
* Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics
* Semantics and the Lexicon
* Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology
* Generation and Summarization
* Spoken Language
* Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing
* Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction
* Multilingual Natural Language Processing
There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
particular problem.
A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have
been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings.
A paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be
submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is
withdrawn from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be
indicated on the paper.
Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However,
in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related
sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial distinctions.
We also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from
both a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective;
we welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission
needs to make a significant contribution on its own.
Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts
with your submission, though decisions will be made independently and
acceptance of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other.
Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas
are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the
respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission
template empty.
2. ANLP Call for Papers
ANLP Call for Papers
Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference
29 April to 3 May 2000
Seattle, Washington
Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University
The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language
processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and
standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of
complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and
related issues.
In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following
subject areas:
Monolingual Text Processing Systems.
Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy
Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information
extraction, text summarization and related applications.
Multilingual Text Processing Systems.
Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada
Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation,
machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval,
multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization,
text data mining and related applications.
Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems.
Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA
Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms.
Integrated NLP Systems.
Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information
Sciences Institute, USA
Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia
systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded
NLP systems and integration of legacy systems.
Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems.
Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA
Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and
lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies,
processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for
NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition
for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP
systems.
Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems.
Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA
Methodologies, case studies and tools.
3. NAACL Call for Papers
NAACL Call for Papers
1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
29 April to 3 May 2000
Seattle, Washington
Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University
For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original,
and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational
linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms,
models, analyses, and experiments. See the separate Call for Student
Papers (to be announced) for requirements for submissions to the student
sessions. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main
areas, as follows.
Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics.
Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research.
Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue;
Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation;
Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design,
evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and
tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse
processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their
components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing.
Semantics and the Lexicon.
Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto.
Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event
recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting
information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories;
Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development.
Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology.
Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research.
Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing
algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic,
morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and
shallow parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal
properties of symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars.
Generation and Summarization.
Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation
strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical
choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge
acquisition and resources for generation and summarization;
User-customized generation and summarization; Evaluation methodologies
for generation and summarization; Application of generation, information
extraction, and information retrieval techniques to summarization.
Spoken Language.
Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International.
Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling
of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.);
Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for
speech recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g.,
dialogue) for speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into
sentences, topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with
other modalities such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech
translation.
Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing.
Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba.
Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping
between schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs;
Induction of patterns and structures such as selectional frames and
concept hierarchies; Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining
and knowledge discovery from text; Distributional similarity; Learning
applied to NLP, including bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy
learning.
Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction.
Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland.
Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing,
language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition;
Use of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of
interfaces that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia
interfaces), by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical
methods.
Multilingual Natural Language Processing.
Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute.
Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments,
including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing
with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation
(direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual,
statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons;
Lexical acquisition for machine translation and cross-language
information retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual
generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting
parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing tasks.
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Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their
submission corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of
these areas are also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least
three experts.
There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and
ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP,
authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the
methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a
particular problem.
4. Format for Submissions
Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word
style ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page)
and may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title
page and references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly,
a description of the required format will be available on the
conference web page. If you cannot access the conference web page,
send email to anlp-naacl2000 at bbn.com with subject SUBSTYLE.
Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages
are required.
The identification page should include the following. It should be sent
in a separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself.
* Title
* Paper ID Code: see below
* Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
* Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
* Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
* Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
* Word Count, excluding title page and references
* Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
* Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary
The title page should include:
* Title
* Paper ID Code: see below
* Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission
* Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
* Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP)
* Word Count, excluding title page and references
* Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list
* Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary
Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself.
Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We
previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use
citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....".
Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being
rejected without review.
SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
NAACL submission questions should be sent to:
naacl2000-program at nmsu.edu
Program Chair, NAACL 2000
Computing Research Laboratory
BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
ANLP submission questions should be sent to:
anlp2000-program at nmsu.edu
Program Chair, ANLP 2000
Computing Research Laboratory
BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials,
workshops, and the student session will be available on the conference
web site. The conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home
Page, www.aclweb.org, in the near future.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission
by filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before
the submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID
number that should be included on the identification page, the title page
and the header of every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all
correspondence with the program committee chair. The form will be
available on the web after October 1.
2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your
submission to: naacl2000-program at nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program at nmsu.edu
The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g.,
"naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc".
Please submit the identification page in a separate email.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt.
In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission
procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the
submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made.
5. Deadlines
Submission notification
deadline: 10-Nov-99
Paper submission deadline: 17-Nov-99
Notification of acceptance for
papers: 01-Feb-00
Camera ready papers due: 12-Mar-00
Regular sessions begin: 01-May-00
A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
version.
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