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Eugene Charniak (ec@hesiod.clsp.jhu.edu)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:28:54 -0400

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ABSOLUTELY LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
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SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA

NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED BY 1 WEEK BECAUSE
ACL/COLING IS LATE IN SENDING OUT NOTIFICATION AND WE WISH TO ENCOURAGE
SUBMISSIONS FROM THE AFFECTED GROUP. THE NEW DEADLINE OF APRIL 27 IS
ABSOLUTELY FIRM.

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Steven Abney Lillian Lee
Eric Brill Christopher Manning
Ted Briscoe Dan Melamed
Rebecca Bruce Scott Miller
Claire Cardie Raymond Mooney
Bob Carpenter James Pustejovksy
Glen Carroll Lance Ramshaw
Ken Church Adwait Rathnaparkhi
Michael Collins Ellen Riloff
Joshua Goodman Hinrich Schutze
Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou Ralph Weischedel
Mark Johnson Janyce Wiebe
Andrew Kehler Dekai Wu
John Lafferty David Yarowsky

SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data
and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

WEB SITES: For COLING-ACL'98 - http://coling-acl'98.iro.umontreal.ca

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. 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: April 27, 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