ESSLLI-98 Workshop on
RECENT ADVANCES IN CORPUS ANNOTATION
August 17 - 21, 1998
A workshop held as part of the
10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI-98)
August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany
** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **
ORGANIZERS: Hans Uszkoreit, Brigitte Krenn, Wojciech Skut, Thorsten Brants
(Department of Computational Linguistics, University of the Saarland)
Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
BACKGROUND:
The use of statistical methods and particularly training from
annotated corpora has become an important topic in various fields in
computational linguistics. Currently available corpus resources are
rather small except for English, and largely restricted to the
annotation of parts-of-speech and phrase structure.
The workshop is intended to bring together researchers who create
reusable annotation schemes, annotation tools, and corpora for
different languages and kinds of language, representing information
such as morphology, syntax, semantics, dialoge structure, etc.
Papers should address some of the following topics:
- reusable and extendable annotation schemes,
- efficient annotation of large corpora,
- current work on annotation tools,
- interaction of human annotators and automatic annotation tools,
- representation of competence and performance information within
annotated corpora,
- other related topics.
Presentations of annotation schemes and corpora for various languages
are encouraged, as well as demonstrations of implemented annotation
tools.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each held
over five days. There will be either two or three presentations at
each session with time for questions and discussion.
SUBMISSIONS:
All researchers in the field, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are encouraged to submit extended abstracts (6 pages,
12pt) preferably by e-mail and in postscript.
On an extra page, the following information should be included:
1. Name, affiliation, address, e-mail of the submitter(s).
2. An indication which of the themes is/are addressed.
3. An abstract of the paper.
4. If applicable, requirements for a demo.
E-mail submissions shall be sent to krenn@coli.uni-sb.de. Hard copies
shall be sent to:
Brigitte Krenn
Universitaet des Saarlandes
Computerlinguistik
Postfach 1150
66041 Saarbruecken
Germany
The deadline for submissions is February 15, 1998. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by April 15, 1998. Final copy for inclusion in
the informal workshop proceedings is due May 15, 1998.
REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but
they will be elligible for a reduced registration fee.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions
Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance
May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy
Aug 24, 98: Start of workshop
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the
ESSLLI-98 home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli