International Workshop on Human Language Technology

[Adams Bodomo]

International Workshop on Human Language Technology

September 16 - 17, 2004
Department of Linguistics
The University of Hong Kong

First Call for Papers

Proposals for presentation or demonstration in the form of papers, research
notes and software demos are now invited for the above Workshop.  Work,
completed or in progress, should be original in nature and previously
published papers should not be submitted. All presentations and
demonstrations should be approximately twenty minutes in duration, to be
followed by a ten-minute discussion. A special session on Treebank
Construction will be held. Works with special focus on the processing of
Chinese are particularly welcome.  A selection of workshop papers will be
considered for publication.


Areas of Interest

All aspects of Human Language Technology, including,  but not limited to:-

Constraint-Based Grammar
Computational Models
Evaluation and Standards
Human Computer Interaction
Information Extraction/Retrieval
Multilingual Lexicons
Linguistically Annotated Corpora
Machine Learning and Translation
Natural Language Parsing and Generation
Part-of-Speech Tagging
Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Tokenization and Segmentation
Web Intelligence


Invited Speakers

Josef van Genabith, Dublin City University
Andy Way, Dublin City University


Important Dates

Closing date for abstract submission: July 1, 2004
Notification to authors: August 10, 2004
Closing date for pre-registration: August 31, 2004
Conference: September 16 - 17, 2004
Submission of final camera-ready copy: October 15, 2004


Method of Submission

A Microsoft Word version AND a PDF version of a two-page abstract,
single-spaced with a 1-inch margin on all sides and processed in at
least a 12-pt font, should be submitted as  e-mail attachments to the
Secretariat (please see below for contact information). Examples, if any,
should be part of the body of the abstract. References may be included on a
separate page. Reference to the author(s) in any form should, as much as
possible, be avoided.


Further Information

For further information, please contact Dr. Adams Bodomo, the organizer,
and the members of the Organizing Committee at hlt2004 at hkusua.hku.hk.
Latest information will be posted on the Workshop's web site at
http://web.hku.hk/~hlt2004/.