Appel: 4 NAACL-2001 Workshops
Philippe Blache
pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr
Wed Dec 20 15:34:13 UTC 2000
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1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on WordNet-Extensions and NLP
Applications
2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001
3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adapting Lexical Resources CFP
4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems CFP
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1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on WordNet-Extensions and NLP
Applications
NAACL 2001 Workshop on
WordNet - Extensions and NLP Applications
June 3 or 4, 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop
I. PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Confirmed so far)
Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY)
Ken Haase (MIT)
Sanda Harabagiu (SMU)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)
Claudia Leacock (ETS Technologies)
Steven Maiorano (AAT)
Rada Mihalcea (SMU)
Dan Moldovan (SMU)
German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Maria Tereza Pazienza (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
Paola Velardi (Universita degli Studi di Roma, "La Sapienza")
Ellen Voorhees (NIST)
Organizers: Dan Moldovan (SMU)
Sanda Harabagiu (SMU)
II. OVERVIEW
WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human language technology
and artificial intelligence. It has been used so far in Word Sense
Disambiguation, Generation, Information Retrieval, Question Answering,
Summarization, Reference Resolution and other aspects of NLP.
The success of many NLP applications depends on the availability
of linguistic information that defines word senses and typical
relations between concepts. Many modern, advanced NLP applications
combine the information encoded in WordNet with statistical data,
brought forward by the analysis of large text collections,
complementing the knowledge encoded in WordNet with empirical data.
Due to its vast coverage of English words, WordNet
provides with general lexico-semantic information on which open-domain
text processing is based. Furthermore, the development of WordNets in
several other languages extends this capability to trans-lingual
applications, enabling text mining across languages. For example,
in Europe, WordNet is being used to develop a multilingual database
for several European languages (the EuroWordNet project).
Recently, several extensions of the WordNet lexical database have
been initiated, in the United States and abroad, with the goal
of providing the NLP community with additional knowledge that
models pragmatic information not always present in
the texts but required by document processing.
The workshop provides a forum for presentations and discussions of
the latest WordNet extensions and their impact on various applications.
The workshop will also foster discussions that reveal to the NLP
community current and future requirements of linguistic resources
and ways of embedding them in WordNet.
Since to date, WordNet has been incorporated in several other
linguistic and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYK)
presentations of the interactions of WordNet with other resources as
well as their applications are sought.
This Workshop is three years after the first WordNet
Workshop in 1998, time in which many WordNet developments
and applications occurred.
The target audience consists of researches currently engaged in
developing WordNet extensions, researchers interested in lexical
resources, those who use or plan to use WordNet, and research policy makers.
The interest in WordNet and its applications is worldwide.
III. CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that describe unpublished
research results in any area of extensions and applications of WordNet.
Topics include but are not limited to:
* WordNet usage in NLP and AI
* WordNet extensions
* Integration of WordNet with other lexico-semantic resources
* Corpus-based acquisition of WordNet-like knowledge
* Mining common-sense knowledge from WordNet and other resources
* Multilingua WordNets and applications
* WordNet granularity and synset merging
IV. PAPER SUBMISSION
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: January 22, 2001
Notification of acceptance: February 16, 2001
Camera ready due: March 2, 2001
Workshop date: June 3 or 4, 2001
WHERE and HOW
Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less).
Electronic submission only. Please send the pdf or postscript file
of your paper to:
moldovan at seas.smu.edu.
Because the review will be blind, no author information is included
as part of the paper. A separate identification page must be sent
by email including title, all authors, theme area, keywords,
word count, and an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions
will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to
the first author shortly after receipt.
Please address any questions to moldovan at seas.smu.edu
One can download the appropriate style or template files using the
following links:
NAACL style file
http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/naacl2001sub.sty
NAACL bibliography style file
http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/acl.bst
Latex sample file
http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/samplesub.tex
Microsoft Word Template file
http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/wn-workshop/latex/naacl-2001-sub.dot
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2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 CFP for Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001
Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001
(pre-conference workshop in conjunction with NAACL2001)
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
sponsored by
ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
MITRE Corporation
Organizing Committee:
Jade Goldstein
Carnegie Mellon University
jade+ at cs.cmu.edu
Chin-Yew Lin
USC/Information Sciences Institute
cyl at isi.edu
Workshop Website:
http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update)
I. OVERVIEW
The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges
in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and
tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL, ANLP/NAACL, ACL/EACL,
AAAI, ECAI, IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this
field. Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There
have been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94,
ACL/EACL in 97, the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98, and ANLP/NAACL in 2000. All
of these were extremely successful, and the field is now enjoying a period
of revival and is advancing at a much quicker pace than before. NAACL'2001
is an ideal occasion to host another workshop on this problem.
II. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Workshop on Automatic Summarization program committee invites papers
addressing (but not limited to):
Summarization Methods:
use of linguistic representations,
statistical models,
NL generation for summarization,
production of abstracts and extracts,
multi-document summarization,
narrative techniques in summarization,
multilingual summarization,
text compaction,
multimodal summarization (including summarization of audio),
use of information extraction,
studies and modeling of human summarizers,
improving summary coherence,
concept fusion,
use of thesauri and ontologies,
trainable summarizers,
applications of machine learning,
knowledge-rich methods.
Summarization Resources:
development of corpora for training and evaluating summarizers,
annotation standards,
shared summarization tools,
document segmentation,
topic detection, and
clustering related to summarization.
Evaluation Methods:
intrinsic and extrinsic measures,
on-line and off-line evaluations,
standards for evaluation,
task-based evaluation scenarios,
user studies,
inter-judge agreement.
Workshop Themes:
1. Summarization Applications
2. Multidocument Summarization
3. Multilingual Text Summarization
4. Evaluation and Text/Training Corpora
5. Generation for Summarization
6. Topic Identification for Summarization
7. Integration with Web and IR Access
III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
Submissions must use the ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style
WAS-submission.doc (both available from the Automatic Summarization workshop
web page). Paper submissions should consist of a full paper (5000 words or
less, including references).
SUBMISSION QUESTIONS
Please send submission questions to cyl at isi.edu
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Electronic submission only: send the pdf (preferred), postscript, or MS Word
form of your submission to: cyl at isi.edu. The Subject line should be
"NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author
information is included as part of the paper. An identification page must be
sent in a separate email with the subject line: "NAACL2001 WORKSHOP ID PAGE"
and must include title, all authors, theme area, keywords, word count, and
an abstract of no more than 5 lines. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after
receipt.
DEADLINES (Tentative)
Paper submission deadline: January 19, 2001
Notification of acceptance
for papers: February 16, 2001
Camera ready papers due: March 2, 2001
Workshop date: June 3, 2001
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3/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adapting Lexical Resources CFP
We are pleased to announce the following ACL sponsored workshop.
NAACL 2001 Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg
3 or 4 June 2001
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- Adapting Lexical Resources -
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http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~marks/wshop
Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and
related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is
diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and
thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of
linguistic information presented in different formats and at varying
levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the
description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries.
The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended
for computational uses. For instance, WordNet was an experiment in
modelling the mental lexicon and MRDs are a by-product of the
dictionary publishing industry. The reasons for using these resources
are simple: they are available (and in the case of WordNet, free). The
cost of lexicon building is high and few research sites have the
resources or inclination to carry out what Johnston called the
"mindless drudgery" of manual lexicography.
The alternative is to adapt existing resources to particular
computational tasks. This workshop is concerned with automatic methods
for carrying out this process. We are particularly interested in
papers related to the following topics:
- adapting resources to by making them reflect the lexical
coverage within a particular domain
- adapting resources for particular applications
(e.g. information extraction, machine translation, question
answering, information retrieval)
- augmenting the information in a resource
(e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information
associated with the existing entries)
- improving the consistency or quality of resources by e.g.
merging resources, homogenizing lexical descriptions,
making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering
word senses
- combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by
producing a mapping between their senses
The overall aim of this workshop is to build up a picture of the current
state-of-the-art techniques for automatically modifying lexicons. This
picture will allow the NLP community to make more effective and
efficient use of the lexical resources currently available.
Important Dates
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26 January 2001 Deadline for submission of papers
16 February Notification of acceptance
1 March Camera-ready copies due
3 or 4 June Workshop
Submissions
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We invite contributions of original research related to any of the
topics of the workshop. Paper submissions should be no longer than
3000 words (including references) and should use the appropriate ACL
latex style or Microsoft Word style. You can download the appropriate style
or template files using the following links:
Latex
style sheet file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl2001sub.sty
bibliography file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/acl.bst
sample latex file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.tex
sample bibliography file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.bib
Microsoft Word Template file
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl-2001-sub.dot
Preferred submission format is as an electronic file sent to
wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk by the 26th of January. Alternatively, three
hardcopies may be sent to the following address to arrive by the same
date:
Wim Peters,
Room G36b,
Department of Computer Science,
Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street,
University of Sheffield,
Sheffield S1 4DP
United Kingdom
Workshop Organisers
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Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University
Programme Committee
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(confirmed so far)
Robert Krovetz, NEC
Wim Peters, Sheffield University
Mark Stevenson, Sheffield University
Piek Vossen, Sail Labs
Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University
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4/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
Subject: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems CFP
Preliminary Call for Papers
NAACL 2001 Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
co-chairs: Cindi Thompson and Eric Horvitz
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers
investigating the application of learning and adaptation to dialogue
systems, both speech and text based.
In this workshop we encourage papers on either theoretical or applied
research in adaptation for dialogue, that includes learning procedures
as well as decision making methods aimed at dynamically reconfiguring
dialogue behavior based on the context. We would also like to explore
techniques that allow a dialogue system to learn with experience or
from data sets gathered from empirical studies. We welcome
submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development
of dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical
NLP, and decision theory.
We solicit papers from a number of research areas, including:
-Use of machine learning techniques at all levels of dialogue, from
speech recognition to generation; from dialogue strategy to user
modeling
-Adapting to the user as a dialogue progresses
-Dialogue as decision making under uncertainty
-User and user group modeling
-Use of corpora in developing components of dialogue systems,
including issues in annotation
-Evaluation of adaptive dialogue systems
-Comparison of different techniques in applying adaptive techniques to
dialogue
We also hope to include a session for the demonstration of working
systems, as time permits. The demonstration sessions will be open to
anyone who wishes to bring their adaptive conversational systems for
demonstration to other members of the workshop. Presenters are asked
to submit a paper that is specifically directed at a demonstration of
their current systems.
A web site that will provide additional information on the
workshop as it becomes available is located at:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html
For more information:
Please direct questions to Eric Horvitz (horvitz at microsoft.com) or
Cindi Thompson (cindi at cs.utah.edu).
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