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>Date:         Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:52:51 +0800
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>From: Liu Xiaohu <lxiaohu@CS.UST.HK>
>Organization: Human Language Technology Lab.
>Subject:      Final Call For Papers
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>Final Call For Papers
>
>             (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON
>              EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE
>                                  PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA
>
>                    Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group
>for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP)
>
>                                    June 21-22, 1999
>                                 University of Maryland
>
>                                        In conjunction with
>                                  ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the
>                                   Association for Computational
>Linguistics
>
>This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum
>for new research in corpus-based
>and/or empirical methods in NLP.  In addition to providing a general
>forum, the theme for this year is
>
>"Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and
>other Applied Systems"
>
>A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and
>synthesis, machine translation(MT),
>information retrieval(IR),  optical character recognition(OCR) and
>handwriting recognition have become
>commercially available in the last decade.  Many of these systems use
>NLP technologies as an important
>component.  Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP  have been a major
>trend in recent years. How useful
>are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when
>compared to rule-based methods?  Are there
>any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to
>improve the state-of-the-art of
>ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to
>combine corpus-based and empirical
>methods with rule-based systems?
>
>This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and
>industrial practitioners to discuss the
>above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel
>discussions. The goal of the conference is
>to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be
>developed in order to bring about the
>next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine
>translation, information retrieval and other
>applied systems.
>
>
>Scope
>
>The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the
>following areas:
>
>1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance
>to speech, MT, or IR:
>      (a) word sense disambiguation
>      (b) word and term segmentation and extraction
>      (c) alignment
>      (d) bilingual lexicon extraction
>      (e) POS tagging
>      (f) statistical parsing
>      (g) dialog models
>      (h) others (please specify)
>
>2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other
>applied systems (please specify).
>
>3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in
>one of the areas in (1) and that of its
>rule-based or  knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or
>other applied system.
>
>
>
>Submission Requirements
>
>Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers
>should include background survey and/or
>reference to previous work.  The authors should provide explicit
>explanation when there is no evaluation in their
>work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In
>particular, we encourage the authors
>to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance
>of their work to the theme. However,  there
>will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based
>and/or empirical work in all areas of natural
>language processing.
>
>
>
>Submission Format
>
>Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will
>not be blind. The submission format and
>word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly
>recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX
>(plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files for the
>preparation of submissions. Paper ID is not
>required. Please leave it blank. Six opies of full-length paper (not to
>exceed 3200 words exclusive of references)
>should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999.
>
>EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee
>c/o Pascale Fung
>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
>University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST)
>Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
>Hong Kong
>
>
>
>Important Dates
>
>March  31             Submission of full-length paper
>April    30             Acceptance notice
>May      20            Camera-ready paper due
>June      21-22       Conference date
>
>
>
>Program Chair
>
>Pascale Fung
>Human Language Technology Center
>Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
>University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST)
>Clear Water Bay, Kowloon
>Hong Kong
>Tel:  (+852)  2358 8537
>Fax: (+852)  2358 1485
>Email: pascale@ee.ust.hk
>
>Program Co-Chair
>Joe Zhou
>LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
>9555 Springboro Pike
>Dayton, OH 45342
>USA
>Email: joez@lexis-nexis.com
>
>Program Committee
>
>Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.)
>Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research)
>Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University)
>Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley)
>Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University)
>Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe)
>Lillian Lee (Cornell University)
>David Lewis (AT&T Research)
>Dan Melamed (West Group)
>Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs--Research)
>Masaaki Nagata (NTT)
>Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research)
>Andreas Stolcke (SRI)
>Ralph Weischedel (BBN)
>Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
>David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University)
>
Lise Menn
Professor and Chair
Linguistics Department - Box 295
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0295
303-492-8042; fax 303-492-4416

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