Appel: ACL 2001 2 workshops
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1/ ACL/EACL Workshop on
Sharing Tools and Resources
for Research and Education
2/ Call for papers
Workshop on Data-driven MT
ACL'2001 Conference
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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
ACL/EACL 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,
http://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 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: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. In case of problems with the
submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs.
* Submissions to either co-chair (mros at cs.um.edu.mt and
declerck at dfki.de). 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 Bird (U. Penn)
- Bill Black (UMIST) (UMIST, Manchester, UK) wjb at co.umist.ac.uk
- Gosse Bouma gosse at let.rug.nl (University of Groningen)
- Koenraad de Smedt desmedt at uib.no (University of Bergen)
- Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy) claire.gardent at loria.fr
- Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) steven.krauwer at elsnet.org
- Donna Harman (NIST)
- Julia Hirschberg (ATT, ISCA)
- Jun'ichi Tsujii (Tokyo)
- Andy Way (Dublin City University) away at compapp.dcu.ie
DEADLINES
* Submission Deadline: 6th April 2001
* Notification Date: 27th April 2001
* Camera ready copy due: 16th May 2001
PROVISIONAL WEBSITE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/toulouse
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Michael Rosner
email: mros at cs.um.edu.mt
Thierry Duclerc
email: declerck at dfki.de
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2/
Call for papers
Workshop on Data-driven MT
ACL'2001 Conference
Toulouse, France
Invited speaker: Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
Deadline for paper submissions: April 6, 2001
Deadline for notification of paper acceptance: April 27, 2001
Deadline for camera-ready papers: May 16, 2001
Workshop Date: July 7, 2001
Details on submissions listed below.
With the increased availability of online corpora, data-driven
approaches have become central to the NL community. A variety of
data-driven approaches have been used to help build Machine Translation
systems -- example-based, statistical MT, and other machine learning
approaches - and there are all sorts of possibilities for hybrid systems.
We wish to bring together proponents of as many techniques as possible to
engage in a discussion of which combinations will yield maximal success in
translation.
We propose to center the workshop on Data Driven MT, by which we
mean all approaches which develop algorithms and programs to exploit data
in the development of MT, primarily the use of large bilingual corpora
created by human translators, and serving as a source of training data for
MT systems. We are specifically interested in papers about
* statistical machine translation (modeling, training,
search)
* machine-learning in translation
* example-based machine translation
* acquisition of multilingual training data
* evaluation of data driven methods (also with
rule-based methods)
* combination of various translation systems;
integration of classical rule-based and data driven approaches
* word/sentence alignment methods
An especially important question that we wish to address is which
techniques are best for each of the subparts of a complete MT system -
e.g. learning grammars, building lexicons, parsing input data,
determining transfer principles, generating target text, etc.
We will strongly encourage papers on systems which show
demonstrable progress over previously chosen methods, and which have been
integrated in an actual end-to-end system. Test results or demos will be
given strongest preference for participation.
Organizers:
Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research jessiep at microsoft.com
<mailto:jessiep at microsoft.com
http://research.microsoft.com/~jessiep/
Kevin Knight USC/ISI; knight at isi.edu <mailto:knight at isi.edu
Web page http://www.isi.edu/~knight/
Franz Josef Och, RWTH Aachen; och at informatik.rwth-aachen.de
http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Colleagues/och/
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS:
Electronic submissions only; send the postscript or pdf form of your
submission to: Deborah Coughlin deborahc at microsoft.com .
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings
and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We
strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft
Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. They are
available from the ACL-2001 program committee Web-site at
<http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ .
As reviewing will be blind, a separate identification page must be
sent by email. The identification page should include the paper title,
authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, up to 5 keywords
specifying the subject area, and a short summary (up to 5 lines).
The paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations.
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