Subject: ACL/COLING-98 SIGDAT Workshop - Call for Papers
ACL's SIGDAT presents the
SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
Preliminary Call for Papers
WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)
WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new 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
PROGRAM CHAIR:
Eugene Charniak Brown University
SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data
and corpus-based approaches to NLP)
FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:
Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit
six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene
Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. Authors
should consult the primary call for papers in February for updated
specifications.
SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: April 20, 1998
Notification Date: June 1, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998
CONTACT:
Eugene Charniak
e-mail ec@cs.brown.edu
Address: Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998
Department of Computer Science
Brown University
Providence RI 02912-1910
Address: From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218-2694