9.35, Calls: LREC Workshop, 6th Workshop/Very Large Corpora
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Subject: 9.35, Calls: LREC Workshop, 6th Workshop/Very Large Corpora
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:56:29 -0700 (MST)
From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.nmsu.edu>
Subject: LREC Workshop
2)
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:51:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Eugene Charniak <ec at cs.brown.edu>
Subject: 6th Workshop on Very Large Corpora
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:56:29 -0700 (MST)
From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.nmsu.edu>
Subject: LREC Workshop
Call for Participation
A Workshop on Minimizing the Effort
for Language Resource Acquisition
Granada, Spain, 26 May, 1998
in conjunction with
The First International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation
Granada, Spain, 28-30, May 1998
An applied NLP system must produce adequate results and must be
made deployable within reasonable time. Gathering and acquiring
language resources to build an application system is very
time-consuming, and it is imperative to find ways of speeding up
acquisition of high quality, useful static knowledge sources such as a
variety of grammars, lexicons, corpora, etc. Viability of avoiding
masive resource acquisition, if possible, must also be carefully
considered.
Resource acquisition should include methods, based both on sound
theoretical principles and practical experience, of deciding, among
other things, on the amount of knowledge one *really* needs for a
given application. Increasing the size of knowledge sources or their
number and variety does not necessarily lead to a commensurate
improvement of output quality in an application, though a correlation
between the two certainly exists, but it definitely needs to much
increased costs.
No matter how large the acquired resources are and how many of them
have been acquired, there will always remain a residue of language
processing problems which can be tackled only by foregoing the
requirement of full automation and involving expensive semi-automatic
or even manual acquisition. It becomes imperative, therefore, to
assess when the static knowledge source acquisition is NO LONGER
PROFITABLE. Thus, in a system for interactive authoring and automatic
generation of patent claim texts, the lexical knowledge base can be
restricted to a lexicon of domain-related verbs marked for
subcategorization (as the nominals are provided interactively by the
author).
The proposed workshop will be devoted to ANY TECHNOLOGICAL AND
ADMINISTRATIVE FACET OF ECONOMY OF ACQUISITION EFFORT.
The technological issues to be discussed at the conference include,
BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- minimization of effort in acquiring monolingual and multilingual
text corpora;
- minimization of effort in acquiring computational lexicons,
including phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic
and other (including application-specific) information;
- minimization of effort in acquisition of resources for the support
of corpus-based language engineering methods;
- minimization of effort in acquiring grammatical coverage of
languages and sublanguages;
- methods of determining levels of reusability of existing language
resources;
- balancing the needs of the application and the grain size of
language description;
- minimization of effort through balancing automatic and interactive
methods of knowledge acquisition;
- evaluation of potential utility of resources to applications;
We particularly encourage reports about actual practical large-scale
resource acquisition efforts in which economy of effort has been a
conscious choice.
Organizing Committee:
Svetlana Sheremetyeva, NMSU CRL, USA (Chair)
Eduard Hovy, USC ISI, USA
Bernardo Magnini, IRST, Italy
Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU CRL, USA
Victor Raskin, Purdue University, USA
Frederique Segonde, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. Presentations will be
selected on the basis of a review of papers and project reports.
SUBMISSION MODE
Each submission should include a title page containing the title,
author(s), affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address,
telephone number, fax number and e-mail address.
The authors may submit three hard copies OR submit ELECTRONICALLY in
postscript form to:
Svetlana Sheremetyeva
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University, USA
Box30001/Dept.3CRL/Las Cruces
New Mexico 88003-8001
lana at crl.nmsu.edu
Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged.
IMPORTANT DATES
Thursday, February 19, 1998 Submissions due
Monday, March, 16 1998 Acceptances and rejections
Friday, April 10 1998 Final papers due
Tuesday, May 26, 1998 Workshop date
Registration for the workshop will be:
10,000 pesetas for those not attending LREC
5,000 pesetas for those attending LREC
These fees will include a coffee break and the proceedings of the
workshop.
Participation in the workshop will be limited by the venue. Requests
for participation will be processed on the first come first served
basis.
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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:51:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Eugene Charniak <ec at cs.brown.edu>
Subject: 6th Workshop on Very Large Corpora
CALL FOR PAPERS
SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)
WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new
research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing.
Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- robust parsing, phrase structure analysis
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- word sense disambiguation
- morphological analysis
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure identification
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- language modelling
- lexicography
- machine translation
- spelling and grammar correction
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Eugene Charniak Brown University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Steven Abney Lillian Lee
Eric Brill Christopher Manning
Ted Briscoe Dan Melamed
Rebecca Bruce Scott Miller
Claire Cardie Raymond Mooney
Bob Carpenter James Pustejovksy
Glen Carroll Lance Ramshaw
Ken Church Adwait Rathnaparkhi
Michael Collins Ellen Riloff
Joshua Goodman Hinrich Schutze
Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou Ralph Weischedel
Mark Johnson Janyce Wiebe
Andrew Kehler Dekai Wu
John Lafferty David Yarowsky
SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data
and corpus-based approaches to NLP)
WEB SITES: For COLING-ACL'98 - http://coling-acl'98.iro.umontreal.ca
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:
Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit
six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene
Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. Papers should
describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be
presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers
submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this
fact is clearly indicated in the submission.
SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: April 20, 1998
Notification Date: June 1, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998
CONTACT:
Eugene Charniak
e-mail ec at cs.brown.edu
Address: Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998
Department of Computer Science
Brown University
Providence RI 02912-1910
Address: From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2694
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