Appel: Corpora and NLP (ACIDCA)

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               "Corpora and Natural Language Processing"

                        ACIDCA'2000 session

                Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

                            Organised by:

                   University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)

            Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

                            Sponsored by:

                              IEEE SMC

				co-sponsored by:

                                TSS

                            Supported by:

               Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific

                   Research and Technology (SERST)

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General

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The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in

a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for

the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications
but

also for their evaluation.

"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part

of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational

Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and

Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,

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. The session

"Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own

Proceedings and Programme Committee.

The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken

corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.

Main Topics

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We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following

topics:

* Lexicography

* Lexical knowledge acquisition

* Part of Speech Tagging

* Unknown word guessing

* Term recognition

* Morphological Analysis

* Robust Parsing

* Word Sense Disambiguation

* Anaphora Resolution

* Discourse segmentation

* Machine Translation

* Agreement Error Correction

* Spelling and Grammar Correction

* Information Extraction

* Automatic Abstracting

* Text Categorisation

* Speech processing

* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications

* Corpus annotation

* Evaluation

Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus

processing techniques are welcome.

Honorary Chairs

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Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific

                    and Technological Research

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley

General Chairs

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Adel Alimi,

National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich,

LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science

and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,

LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science

and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Programme Committee

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Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair

Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)

Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)

Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)

Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)

Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)

Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)

Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)

Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)

Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)

Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)

Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)

Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)

Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)

Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)

Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)

Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)

Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)

Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)

Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)

Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)

Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)

Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)

Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)

Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)

Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)

Local Organising Committee

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Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs

H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),

Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),

Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),

Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),

Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),

Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),

Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),

Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)

International Organising Committee

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Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray

(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs

Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),

Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),

Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),

Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),

Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),

Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),

Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)

Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)

Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)

Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)

Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)

Submission Guidelines

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Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be

written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,

tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature

title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by

keywords and an abstract.

Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following

address :

ACIDCA'2000  (Corpora & NLP Session)

Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,

BP 120, 3049 Sfax

Tunisia

In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of

keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk and

copied to  l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn

The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme

Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the

camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.

Schedule

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Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999

Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999

Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999

"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000

Further information

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Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants

to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as

the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call

for Papers.

There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials

will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are

finalised.

ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:

Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.

The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.

For any Information

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Please contact :

Lamia Belguith

e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn

Fax: (216) 4 296 229