Second Conference on
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
(EMNLP-2)
WHEN: August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97)
WHERE: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general
forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural
language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited
to):
- robust parsing, phrase structure analysis
- part of speech tagging
- term and name identification
- word sense disambiguation
- morphological analysis
- anaphora resolution
- event categorization
- discourse structure identification
- alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
- language modelling
- lexicography
- machine translation
- spelling and grammar correction
SPECIAL SESSIONS: INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the
strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as
applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR).
In recent years a number of corpus-based techniques for the automatic
linguistic annotation of text have been developed. How well do these
techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc.,
handle the specific problems encountered in practical language
processing tasks like information extraction and information
retrieval? When and how do current techniques fail? What new methods
have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms
for these tasks or to address problems specific to information
extraction? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution?
How can data-driven NLP methods be used to improve the performance of
IR systems? Conversely, how can feedback from an IR system
effectively inform empirical techniques for natural language
understanding?
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Claire Cardie Cornell University (chair)
Ralph Weischedel BBN Systems and Technologies (co-chair)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Ted Briscoe Cambridge University
Rebecca Bruce Southern Methodist University
Mike Collins University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Carl de Marcken Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joshua Goodman Harvard University
Eduard Hovy USC Information Sciences Institute
Nancy Ide Vassar College
K.L. Kwok Queens College, CUNY
John Lafferty Carnegie Mellon University
Steve Maiorano ORD
Kemal Oflazer Bilkent University
Phil Resnik University of Maryland
Dekai Wu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
David Yarowsky Johns Hopkins University
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
Eugene Charniak Brown University
SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data
and corpus-based approaches to NLP)
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper
(3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "cardie@cs.cornell.edu" and must
either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file (US
letter format), or (c) a LaTex file. In the latter case, please use
the aclsub style file and include only .EPS (encapsulated postscript)
figures. The aclsub style file is available at
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty or via
ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty. Hardcopy
submissions should be mailed to Claire Cardie (address below), and
should include six (6) copies of the paper.
REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be
considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the
submission.
SCHEDULE:
Submission deadline: March 3, 1997
Notification date: April 21, 1997
Camera-ready copy due: June 10, 1997
Conference dates: August 1-2, 1997
CONTACTS:
Claire Cardie Ralph Weischedel
Cornell University BBN Systems and Technologies
Department of Computer Science 70 Fawcett Street
4142 Upson Hall Cambridge, MA 02138
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA USA
cardie@cs.cornell.edu weischedel@bbn.com
(607)255-9206 (617)873-3496
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp2.html
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html