JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Special Issue on
MEMORY-BASED LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Memory-Based Language Processing (MBLP) views language processing as
being based on the direct reuse of previous experience rather than on
the use of abstractions extracted from that experience. In such a
framework, language acquisition is modeled as the storage of
exemplars, and language processing as similarity-based reasoning.
MBLP derives from work in Artificial Intelligence (case-based
reasoning, memory-based reasoning, instance-based learning, lazy
learning), Linguistics (analogical modeling), Computational
Linguistics (example-based machine translation, case-based language
processing, data-oriented parsing), and Statistical Pattern
Recognition (k-nn models). In recent research, it has been shown that
the application of algorithms based on this framework leads to
accurate and efficient language models in diverse language processing
areas (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse).
We invite theoretical papers on models, algorithms and metrics for
memory-based language processing, and empirical studies comparing MBLP
variants to each other or to alternative non-memory-based approaches
for specific language processing tasks.
Time Table
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 1998
Notification Date: November 1, 1998
Deadline for final versions: January 1, 1999
Special Issue: Summer or Autumn 1999
Instructions for Authors:
1. The original manuscript and three clear copies should be submitted
to:
Walter Daelemans (guest editor)
ILK Research Group, Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
5037 GC Tilburg
Building B, Room 307
The Netherlands
+31 13 4663070 (Phone)
+31 13 4663110 (Fax)
walter.daelemans@kub.nl
All papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers.
2. All papers must be in English. The entire manuscript should be
typed on one side only of plain paper, either A4 or 8.5 x 11 inch,
with double spacing used throughout.
3. The first page of the manuscript should carry the title, the names,
institutional addresses, and institutional telephone numbers of the
authors, and a short title of no more than 50 characters (including
spaces) to be used as a running head. The second page of the
manuscript should carry an abstract of about 200 words. The remainder
of the text should not exceed 30 double spaced pages, including
references but excluding figures and tables. All figures and tables
must be referred to by number in the text.
4. An original set of professional quality figures should accompany
the manuscript. Line drawing may be India ink originals or glossy
prints. Halftone illustrations must be submitted as glossy
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5. Tables should be typed on separate pages, which should accompany
the text.
6. The text should be written in third person to facilitate blind
reviewing. The names of the authors or their institutions should
appear only on the title page.
7. The name-date style should be used for all references. All authors'
names should be included in the reference list. Journal names should
not be abbreviated. Inclusive page numbers must be given for all
references to articles in journals, proceedings volumes, or
books. With the exception of theses or dissertations, unpublished
works should not be included as references.
8. Footnotes may not be used. Endnotes may be used if necessary; they
should be collected on separate sheets at the end of the text.
9. Fifty free offprints will be provided to the first author of each
paper. There will be no page charges.