12.1086, Calls: Language Technologies, Sharing Tools/Research
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Subject: 12.1086, Calls: Language Technologies, Sharing Tools/Research
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:21:10 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Language Technologies (NAACL-2001)
2)
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:30:01 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Sharing Tools & Resources for Research & Education (ACL 2001)
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:21:10 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Language Technologies (NAACL-2001)
*************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *******************
Language Technologies 2001:
Second Meeting of the North American Chapter
of the Association for Computational Linguistics
June 2-7, 2001
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *******************
WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html
EARLY REGISTRATION has been extended to May 7. On-line registration
will be up shortly. In the mean time, please use the hard-copy
registration form you received in the mail or print a hard copy of the
registration form from the web page.
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS: If you would like wireless internet access
throughout Carnegie Mellon's campus, please register your WaveLAN
device in advance on the conference web page.
********************
The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association
for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon
University, June 2-7, 2001. We have a diverse selection of tutorials,
workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening reception
at the Language Technologies Institute and a banquet in the grand and
elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural History. We will be joined by
EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop on Language Modelling and
Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1). The conference also features
CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access throughout the CMU campus
(please register your WaveLAN device in advance on the conference web
page), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops. While you
are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June
1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free
performances.
***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************
TUTORIALS, June 2
Morning:
"How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural
Spoken Dialog.
Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso,
Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing:
What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting?
Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research
Afternoon
Building Synthetic Voices.
Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University
Open-Domain Textual Question Answering.
Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University
WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4
Sunday, June 3
Automatic Summarization,
Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs
Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation
Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1)
Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
Yorick Wilks, co-chairs
Monday, June 4
Student Research Workshop
Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs
Adaptation in Dialogue Systems,
Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs
WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2)
Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and
Yorick Wilks, co-chairs
EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4
DEMOS, June 5-7
INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6
A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to
industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial
trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to
participate:
EXHIBITORS (to date):
LingoMotors
Transclick
Nuance
Multicorpora R&D, Inc.
Trados
Lexiquest
Intel
Applied Technical Systems
Apptek
BOOK EXHIBITORS (to date):
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Blackwell Publishing
Cambridge University Press
MAIN SESSION, June 5-7
Invited Speakers:
Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
********************************
We would like to thank our generous sponsors:
Intelligent Information Systems Institute, Cornell
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs
Nuance
SRA, International
AT&T
Interactive Systems Laboratories, CMU and Karlsruhe
Clairvoyance
LingoMotors
Transclick
Trados
******************************************
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
General Chair, Lori Levin
Program, Kevin Knight
Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie
Tutorials, Dekang Lin
Workshops, Lillian Lee
Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba
Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl
Demos, Ronnie Smith
Exhibits, Lynn Carlson
Sponsorships, Kurt Godden
Publicity, Ralf Brown
Web Master, Bob Frederking
SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Eric Brill
Ann Copestake
Marti Hearst
Aravind Joshi
Andrew Kehler
Elliot Macklovitch
Fernando Pereira
Owen Rambow
Elizabeth Shriberg
Ralph Weischedel
-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:30:01 EDT
From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Sharing Tools & Resources for Research & Education (ACL 2001)
FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 22nd APRIL***
ACL/EACL2001 Workshop on
Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education
Co-organised by ELSNET
Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001
BACKGROUND:
At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures
for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main
professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and
ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to
aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools
and materials for the language and speech communities.
An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99
concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be
instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in
NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials,
appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point
of departure.
This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous
workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for
sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical
problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural
issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories.
Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others
the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI,
registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the
distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC,
TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories
(http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu, http://www.telri.de
and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of
language archives at http://www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS
(http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for
educational materials in Language and Speech.
A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as
sources of data or inspiration.
AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP:
The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the
improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational
uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds
of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the
achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the
workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of
general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and
resources is essential for the progress of research and education in
our field.
Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address
the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather
than exhaustive:
* Repositories versus catalogues
* Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content
* Repository management
* Standards for exchange, description, and annotation
* Metadata descriptions
* Quality assessment
* Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository
* Tools and materials for NLP/CL education
* Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS
* Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following
the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including
references. You can download the appropriate style or template
files using the following link: acl2001.dfki.de/style. In case of
problems with the submission format, please contact one of the
co-chairs.
* Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck).
All submissions will be acknowledged.
* Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and
indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
* Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper.
* Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either
co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements
over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access
provided by default
CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS
- Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerck at dfki.de
- Mike Rosner (Malta) Co-chair (Education) mros at cs.um.edu.mt
- Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) Co-chair s.krauwer at elsnet.org
- Steven Bird (U. Penn) sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu
- Bill Black (UMIST) (UMIST, Manchester, UK) wjb at co.umist.ac.uk
- Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) gosse at let.rug.nl
- Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen) desmedt at uib.no
- Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy) claire.gardent at loria.fr
- Donna Harman (NIST) donna.harman at nist.gov
- Julia Hirschberg (ATT, ISCA) julia at research.att.com
- Jun'ichi Tsujii (Tokyo) tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Andy Way (Dublin City University) away at compapp.dcu.ie
- Antonio Zampolli (Univ. of Pisa), pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it
DEADLINES
* Submission Deadline: 22nd April 2001
* Notification Date: 4th May 2001
* Camera ready copy due: 16th May 2001
WORKSHOP URL
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-tools.html
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Michael Rosner mros at cs.um.edu.mt
Thierry Declerck declerck at dfki.de
Michael Rosner Internet: mros at cs.um.edu.mt
Head, Dept. Computer Science and AI Telephone: +356 32 90 25 05
University of Malta Secretary: +356 32 90 25 19
Msida, MALTA Fax: +356 32 05 39
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