Appel: NAACL2001 3 workshops
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NAACL 2001 Workshop on
1/ WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
2/ Workshop on Automatic Summarization 2001
3/ Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
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WordNet and Other Lexical Resources:
Applications, Extensions and Customizations
http://www.seas.smu.edu/~moldovan/mwnw/
NAACL 2001 Workshop
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
3 and 4 June, 2001
Sponsored by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special
Interest Group on the Lexicon.
Previously announced as two different workshops:
- WordNet: Extensions and NLP Applications
- Customizing Lexical Resources
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
explicit linguistic information presented in different formats and at
various levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit
in the description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries generally
contains genus, encyclopaedic and usage information.
The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended
for computational uses. For instance, MRDs are a by-product of the
dictionary publishing industry, and WordNet was an experiment in
modelling the mental lexicon.
In particular, WordNet has become a valuable resource in the human
language technology and artificial intelligence. 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
has been used as the starting point for the development of a
multilingual database for several European languages (the EuroWordNet
project).
Other resources such as the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
and Roget's Thesaurus have also been used for various NLP tasks.
The topic of this workshop is the exploitation of existing resources
for particular computational tasks such as Word Sense Disambiguation,
Generation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Question
Answering and Summarization. We invite paper submissions that include
but are not limited to the following topics:
- Resource usage in NLP and AI
- Resource extension in order to reflect the lexical coverage within a
particular domain;
- Resource augmentation by e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching
the information associated with the existing entries.
For instance, 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;
- Improvement of the consistency or quality of resources by
e.g. homogenizing lexical descriptions, making implicit lexical
knowledge explicit and clustering word senses;
- Merging resources, i.e. combining the information in more than one
resource e.g. by producing a mapping between their senses. For
instance, WordNet has been incorporated in several other linguistic
and general knowledge bases (e.g. FrameNet and CYC);
- Corpus-based acquisition of knowledge;
- Mining common sense knowledge from resources;
- Multilingual WordNets and applications;
Paper submission
Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style
(see workshop website). Paper submissions should consist of a full
paper (6 pages or less).
Submission procedure
Electronic submission only. For U.S. papers please send the pdf or
postscript file of your paper to: moldovan at seas.smu.edu. Please submit
papers from other countries to w.peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk. Because
review is 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 or w.peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: February 20, 2001
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2001
Camera ready due: March 25, 2001
Workshop date: June 3 and 4, 2001
Organizers
Sanda Harabagiu, SMU, sanda at seas.smu.edu
Dan Moldovan, SMU, moldovan at seas.smu.edu
Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Mark Stevenson, University of Sheffield, marks at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Programme Committee
Roberto Basili (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata)
Martin Chodorow (Hunter College of CUNY)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
Ken Haase (MIT)
Sanda Harabagiu (SMU)
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto)
Robert Krovetz, NEC
Claudia Leacock (ETS)
Steven Maiorano (AAT)
Rada Mihalcea (SMU)
Dan Moldovan (SMU)
Simonetta Montemagni (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa)
Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania)
Maria Tereza Pazienza (Universita di Roma Tor Vergata)
Wim Peters (University of Sheffield)
German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield)
Randee Tengi (Princeton University)
Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza")
Ellen Voorhees (NIST)
Piek Vossen (Sail Labs)
Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield)
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2/ 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
New submission deadline: Febuary 23, 2001
Organizing Committee:
Jade Goldstein Carnegie Mellon University jade+ at cs.cmu.edu
Chin-Yew Lin USC/Information Sciences Institute cyl at isi.edu
Program Committee:
Breck Baldwin Baldwin Language Tech
Hsin-Hsi Chen National Taiwan University
Udo Hahn Universitaet Freiburg
Eduard Hovy USC/Information Sciences Institute
Hongyan Jing Columbia University
Elizabeth Liddy Syracuse University
Daniel Marcu USC/Information Sciences Institute
Inderjeet Mani MITRE
Shigeru Masuyama Toyohashi University of Technology
Marie-Francine Moens Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Vibhu Mittal Google Research
Sung Hyon Myaeng Chungnam National University
Akitoshi Okumura NEC
Chris Paice Lancaster University
Dragomir Radev University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Karen Sparck-Jones University of Cambridge
Tomek Strzalkowski State University of New York,
Albany
Simone Teufel Columbia University
Workshop Website:
http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-naacl2001 (for the latest update)
I. OVERVIEW
II. CALL FOR PAPERS
III. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION
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
Paper submission deadline: Feburary 23, 2001
Notification of acceptance for papers: March 23, 2001
Camera ready papers due: April 6, 2001
Workshop date: June 3, 2001
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NAACL 2001 Workshop on
Adaptation in Dialogue Systems
Webpage: www.cs.utah.edu/~cindi/AdaptDial.html
Overview
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.
Methods for learning and adaptation show promise for enhancing the
robustness, flexibility, and overall accuracy of dialogue systems. While
researchers in many parts of computational linguistics who use these
methods have begun to form communities, the burgeoning set of activities
within dialogue has remained relatively disparate. We are interested in
adaptation 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. Researchers looking at methods to automatically improve different
modules of dialogue systems, or the system as a whole, have not had many
opportunities to come together to share their work. We thus welcome
submissions from researchers supplementing the traditional development of
dialogue systems with techniques from machine learning, statistical NLP,
and decision theory.
Call For Papers
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.
Important Dates (2001):
Paper submission deadline: Feb 19
Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 16
Camera ready papers due: Mar 30
Workshop date: Jun 4
Paper Submission
Electronic submission only: send the postscript or pdf form of your
submission to: timpaek at microsoft.com. The Subject line should be
"NAACL2001 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". A cover page should be included
with 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
timpaek at microsoft.com
Submissions must use the NAACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Paper
submissions should consist of a full paper (6 pages or less). The
templates are available at the workshop web site.
Organizers
Eric Horvitz Microsoft Research horvitz at microsoft.com
Tim Paek Microsoft Research timpaek at microsoft.com
Cindi Thompson University of Utah cindi at cs.utah.edu
Program Committee
Jennifer Chu-Carroll IBM
Peter Heeman Oregon Graduate Institute
Diane Litman AT & T Labs
Candace Sidner MERL
Marilyn Walker AT & T Labs
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