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NL-KR Digest Volume 14 No. 67
NL-KR Digest Wed Oct 11 08:17:23 PDT 1995 Volume 14 No. 67
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CFP: ACL-96 34th Assoc. of Comp. Ling., Jun 96, Santa Cruz
CFP: FLAIRS, Special Track RNLU, May 1996, U. Florida
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 15:03:23 -0400
From: "Dragomir R. Radev" <radev@cs.columbia.edu>
To: CMP-LG@XXX.LANL.GOV, SCHOLAR%CUNYVM.BITNET@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu,
Subject: CFP: ACL-96 34th Assoc. of Comp. Ling., Jun 96, Santa Cruz
ACL-96 CALL FOR PAPERS ACL-96
34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
June 23 - 28, 1996
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California, USA
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We would like to expand the participation in this conference to a wider
cross-section of the computational linguistics community. Thus we strongly
encourage the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished
research on ALL aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not
limited to, pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology, and morphology;interpreting and generating spoken and
written language;linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of
language; language-oriented information retrieval; corpus-based and statistical
language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language
interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems;
and theoretical and applications papers of every kind. ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS
WILL BE SELECTED BY THE PROGRAM CHAIRS IF THE AREA OF A PAPER IS NOT ADEQUATELY
REPRESENTED BY THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE.
REQUIREMENTS
Papers should describe unique work; they should emphasize completed work rather
than intended work; and they should indicate clearly the state of completion
of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting
cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly
available proceedings.
Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on
the title page and the identification page.
GENERAL SUBMISSION QUESTIONS: ACL96-questions@linc.cis.upenn.edu
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Co-Chairs:
Aravind K. Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
Members:
Anne Abeille, Universite Paris 7
Steve Abney, University of Tubingen
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, University of Geneva
Madeleine Bates, BBN Systems & Technologies
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware
Claire Cardie, Cornell University
David Carter, SRI International
Kenneth W. Church, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Ann Copestake, CSLI, Stanford
Pierre Isabelle, CITI, Montreal
Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute
Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University
John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University
Klaus Netter, DFKI, Saarbruecken
Cecile Paris, University of Brighton
Fernando Pereira, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Emmanuel Roche, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
Candy Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers must not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of references). Hard copy or
electronic submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty)
retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below)
which requires TeX 3.14 or LaTeX 2.09. Papers outside the specified length
and formatting requirements will be rejected without review. Since reviewing
will be blind, a title page and a separate identification page are required.
The title page should include paper title, summary, word count and topic
area specification (author names and addresses are omitted) and should be
affixed to the paper. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's
identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided.
Instead use references like "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)..." The
identification page should include the paper title, author(s) name(s),
complete addresses, a short (5 line) summary, a word count, a specification
of the topic area, document type (LaTeX or ascii; hardcopy or electronic), and
whether it has been submitted to other conferences.
A model submission (modelsub.tex) and a model identification page
(idpage.tex) are also provided on the ACL LISTSERV server, as well as
fullname.bst/fullname.sty system to be used for the bibliography. (Note however
that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as a separate
.bib file; the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted
LaTeX source file.) Postscript figures following psfig.sty may be included.
Information on ACL-96 is also available on the ACL Homepage on the World Wide
Web at the following address: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~acl
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION
Electronic submissions may consist of simple ascii text, a uuencoded LaTeX
file, or the package produced by "aclpkg.script", which is available on the ACL
LISTSERV server. Submissions that include (possibly) separate postscript figure
files must be packaged using the aclpkg.script.Electronic paper submissions
should be sent to ACL96-submission@linc.cis.upenn.edu, with the subject field
as "ACL-96 LaTeX submission" or "ACL-96 ascii submission." THE TEXT OF YOUR
MESSAGE SHOULD INCLUDE ONLY THE UUENCODED LATEX FILE, THE ASCII FILE, OR THE
OUTPUT OF ACLPKG.SCRIPT AND NO OTHER INFORMATION. The identification page
should be sent to ACL96-idpage@linc.cis.upenn.edu, with the subject field as
"ACL-96 Identification Page."
HARD COPY SUBMISSION
Six copies of the paper and one copy of the identification page (no fax
submissions) should be sent to:
ACL-96 Submission
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400C
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
USA
DEADLINES
Electronic submissions must be received by JANUARY 8,1996. Electronic
submissions will be will be accepted only if they can be
printed. If the authors want feedback on the printability of their documents,
they must be sent two or three days ahead of the deadline, JANUARY 8, 1996.
Hard copy submission must be received by JANUARY 10, 1996. Late papers
will be returned unopened. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first
author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified
of acceptance by MARCH 22,1996. Camera-ready copies of final papers prepared
in a double-column format, preferably using a laser printer, must be received
by MAY 1,1996, along with a signed copyright release statement.
STUDENT SESSION
There will be a special poster session for students organized by a committee
of ACL graduate student members. ACL student members are invited to submit
short papers describing innovative work in progress on any of the topics listed
above. Papers are limited to 3 pages plus a title page and an identification
page in the format described above and must be submitted by hard copy or e-mail
to Mettina Veenstra at the address below by FEBRUARY 1, 1996. The papers will
be reviewed by a committee of students and faculty members. Abstracts of the
papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings.
There is a separate call for papers, available from the ACL LISTSERV.
Student Session Chair:
Mettina Veenstra
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
mettina@let.rug.nl
Postal Address: Oude Kijk in't Jatstraat 26
Postbus 716
9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands
Fax: +50-634900.
Student Session Vice-Chair:
Christine Doran
University of Pennsylvania
cdoran@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Fax: +1 (215) 573-9247
Faculty Adviser:
Kevin Knight
ISI/University of Southern California
knight@isi.edu
Fax: +1 (310) 823-6714
TUTORIALS
Please send your suggestions for tutorials to the tutorial chair:
Johanna D. Moore
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Computer Science
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Email: jmoore+@pitt.edu
Voice: +1 (412) 624-8408 or 624-7050
Fax: +1 (412) 624-5249
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Local arrangements are co-chaired by Geoff K. Pullum, UCSC, and Douglas E.
Appelt, SRI. For information regarding facilities and local
arrangements, contact either at the appropriate address:
Geoff K. Pullum
Stevenson College &
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA
95064 gkp@ling.ucsc.edu
Douglas E. Appelt
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
appelt@ai.sri.com
DEMONSTRATIONS/VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
Please contact Geoff K. Pullum (gkp@ling.ucsc.edu) as soon as possible with
suggestions for potential exhibitors by email, with the subject-field as
"ACL96." Reservations for space/power/lines/equipment for exhibits must be
received by Geoff Pullum by FEBRUARY 15, 1996.
ACL LISTSERV
LISTSERV is a facility set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer
Science to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic
mail. Requests for files from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to:
listserv@cs.columbia.edu
with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request com-
mand. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV,
"index ACL96" for the current contents of the ACL archive and
"get ACL96 <file>" to get a particular file named <file> from the archive.
For example, to get the ACL96 modelsub.tex file, send a message with the
following body:
get ACL96 modelsub.tex
Answers to requests are returned by e-mail. Since the server may have many
requests for different archives to process, requests are queued up and may take
awhile (say, overnight) to be fulfilled. The ACL archive can also be accessed
by anonymous FTP. Here is an example of how to get the same file by FTP:
$ ftp cs.columbia.edu
Name(cs.columbia.edu:trisha): anonymous
Password:trisha@cis.upenn.edu < not echoed >
ftp> cd ACL96
ftp> get modelsub.tex.Z
ftp> quit
$ uncompress modelsub.tex.Z
ACL INFORMATION
For other information on the ACL, contact:
Kathleen McKeown
Columbia University
Computer Science
New York, NY 10027
USA
+1 (914) 478-1802 phone/fax
acl@cs.columbia.edu
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From: kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman)
Subject: CFP: FLAIRS, Special Track RNLU, May 1996, U. Florida
To: nl-kr@snyside1.sunnyside.com
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 00:50:47 -0400 (EDT)
REMINDER: The deadline for abstracts for the special track
on real-world natural language understanding at FLAIRS-96
is Monday, Oct. 16, 1995.
The original call for papers follows.
FLAIRS-96 Special Track
Real-World Natural Language Understanding
Natural language processing (NLP) has been a central topic of study in
artificial intelligence and cognitive science for decades. Recently,
there has been much interest in developing robust natural language
processing systems. These systems go beyond the micro-worlds of
limited complexity that many early systems dealt with and confront the
issue of building scaled-up systems capable of dealing with "real"
language. We call this capability "Real-World Natural Language
Understanding" (RNLU).
Two aspects of RNLU set it apart from traditional NLP, as denoted by
the terms "real-world" and "understanding". First, RNLU concentrates
on real-world texts (as opposed to researcher-generated sentences).
Language processing is situated in the world of real texts, allowing
RNLU to leverage off certain characteristics of such texts which
provide a basis for scale-up. These characteristics include:
o Redundancy. This enables the reader to be less than perfect as
information is likely to appear in multiple locations.
o Active engagement of the text by the reader. This means that the
reader engages the text to the fullest level possible, given the
reader's interest, cognitive load, and current goals. This also
allows the reader to skim or skip material that is not relevant to
the reader's goals.
o Narrative agreement. The author of a text is assumed to be
attempting to communicate a set of ideas to the reader. The text
provides numerous affordances for the goal of comprehension.
The other important characteristic of RNLU is "understanding." RNLU
strives for some high level of comprehension from the texts being
read. Exactly what this level needs to be varies from task to task,
but simple syntactic parsing or keyword-based information extraction
is usually insufficient for real-world natural language communication
at a level comparable to human language abilities. RNLU exploits a
range of information present in natural language texts, as well as
background information known to the author and reader, in order to
achieve a suitable depth of comprehension of the text.
This track will bring together researchers in several areas, including
traditional NLP, statistical NLP and situated NLP, with a common goal
of building AI systems that can achieve real comprehension of actual
texts. Multiple disciplines and perspectives will be represented,
providing a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and advance the
field. The track will highlight theoretical research in natural
language processing as well as practical attempts to build scaled-up
natural language processing systems. Finally, insofar as RNLU defines
both the promise of NLP as well as its next challenge, this track will
also help to better define the boundaries and potential of RNLU.
Call for papers
Interested researchers are invited to send an extended abstract of no
more than 2000 words to kennethm@cc.gatech.edu. Accepted authors will
be asked to submit a five-page paper detailing the work.
Format of the track
The track will be run as two technical sessions of presentations, each
followed by an invited speaker acting as a general discussant. Group
discussion will be strongly encouraged. The sessions will be
organized either as talk sessions or as focussed poster sessions,
depending on the number of accepted submissions. In either case,
after the presentations, authors will sit on a panel for a general
discussion led by the invited speaker.
Important Dates
o Oct 16, 1995 -- Abstract submission deadline
o December 1995 -- Notices mailed to accepted/rejected authors
o Mar 18, 1996 -- Final (camera ready) papers due
o May 20 - 22, 1996 -- Conference dates
Organizing Committee
o Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology (co-chair)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cogsci/faculty/ram.html
o Kenneth Moorman, Georgia Institute of Technology (co-chair)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cogsci/students/Ai-students/
(continued) kennethm/moorman.html
o Eugene Charniak, Brown University
http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/ec/home.html
o Scott Huffman, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre
http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/huffman/huffman.html
o Yael Ravin, T.J. Watson Research Center
o Chris Riesbeck, Northwestern University
http://www.ils.nwu.edu/~e_for_e/people/riesbeck.html
o Stuart C. Shapiro, SUNY Buffalo
http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/pub/WWW/faculty/shapiro/shapiro.html
HTML sites to note
For more information on FLAIRS-96, see:
FLAIRS-96 home page
http://www.cis.ufl.edu/~ddd/FLAIRS/FLAIRS-96/index.html
For more information on this special track, see:
Real-world natural language understanding home page
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/cogsci/conferences/flairs-rnlu-96.html
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