Appel: International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing

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FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, DEADLINE 9 JULY 2004

International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing
         Copenhagen Business School, 1-3 September 2004

          http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2004.html

The purpose of the workshop is to provide an overview of activities in
the field of Constraint Solving with special emphasis on Natural
Language Processing, and for researchers to meet and exchange ideas.

Constraint Solving (CS), in particular Constraint Logic Programming
(CLP), is a promising platform, perhaps the most promising present
platform, for bringing forward the state of the art in language
processing. The data subjected to processing via constraint solving
may include written and spoken language, formal and semiformal
language, and even general input data to multimodal and pervasive
systems.

CLP and CS have been applied in projects for shallow and deep analysis
and generation of language, and to different sorts of languages. The
view of grammar expressed as a set of conditions simultaneously
constraining and thus defining the set of possible utterances has
influenced formal linguistic theory for more than a decade.

CLP and CS provide flexibility of expression and potential for
interleaving the different phases of language processing, including
handling of pragmatic and semantic information, e.g. ontologies.

Topics considered relevant for the workshop include (but are not limited
to)
- CS technologies for NLP
- Linguistic analysis and linguistic theories biased towards CS or CLP
- Application of CS or CLP for NLP
- CS and CLP for other than (purely) textual or spoken languages,
   e.g., biological, multimodal human-computer interaction, visual, ...

Invited speakers: Philippe Blache, Veronica Dahl, Denys Duchier,
Gerald Penn (more to come)

Submission:

Authors are invited to submit either a 6 page extended abstract or a
full paper of up to 16 pages. Preliminary proceedings are distributed
at the workshop and a volume of selected contributions from the
workshop will be edited and published following the workshop; leading
publishers contacted.

**Details about submission procedure will appear in workshop web page
in due time.**

Important dates:
- Submissions: 9 July 2004
- Notification: 3 August 2004
- Camera-ready versions for preliminary proceedings: 14 August 2004
- Workshop: 1-3 September 2004

Organizers: Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University; Peter Skadhauge,
Copenhagen Business School

Program committee (to be extended):
   Troels Andreasen, Roskilde, Denmark
   Philippe Blache, Aix-en-Provence, France
   Henning Christiansen, Roskilde, Denmark (Chair)
   Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
   Denys Duchier, LORIA, France
   John Gallagher, Roskilde, Denmark
   Claire Gardent, LORIA, France
   Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
   Peter Juel Henrichsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
   Jørgen Fischer Nilsson, Technical University of Denmark
   Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Science
   Peter Skadhauge, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
   Jørgen Villadsen, Roskilde, Denmark



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