CALL FOR PAPERS
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A one-day workshop organised by L.J. Evett & T.G. Rose
as part of the AISB 1996 Workshop Series
2nd April 1996
University of Sussex, England
ABSTRACT
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Natural Language Engineering is at a formative stage in its development.
Whilst the analysis of the structural aspects of language has reached a
sophisticated stage of development, the analysis of meaning and content has
proven somewhat more problematic. The present workshop aims to review current
approaches to content analysis with regard to the development of practical
tools for language engineering.
Traditional approaches to NLP have often used rule (i.e. logic) based
techniques. However, recent technological developments have made possible
the processing of large text corpora from which probabilistic information
may be derived and subsequently applied to a range of language engineering
applications. Other on-line lexical resources are now widely available,
and these have been used with varying degrees of success.
Consequently, the scene is now set for considering the practical techniques
of natural language engineering, with the focus on methods for content
analysis. The present workshop aims to discuss these methods, evaluate
the various techniques that have been developed, and to investigate the
production of practical tools. In particular, it will emphasise the
potential for real-world, commercial applications that require knowledge
of the meaning or content of a language sample. Examples include:
document analysis, text recognition, speech recognition, automatic indexing,
topic identification, text categorisation, automatic abstracting, sense
disambiguation, discourse segmentation, and information retrieval.
REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION
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Please submit an extended abstract (max. 500 words) to the address below.
Email submissions are strongly encouraged. Authors of accepted abstracts
will be invited to write a full paper for inclusion in the proceedings.
A limited number of bursaries are available to graduate students to cover
the cost of registration and accommodation.
DEADLINES
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Abstracts due : 19 January 1996
Acceptance notification : 26 January 1996
Full paper due : 1 March 1996
Please send submissions and correspondence to:
L.J. Evett, Department of Computing, Nottingham Trent University,
Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU England.
Tel: 0115 9486018 Fax: 0115 9486518
email: lje@doc.ntu.ac.uk