Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-99)
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CALL FOR PAPERS (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll99)
A workshop at EACL-99, Bergen, Norway, 12th June, 1999.
With the help of the Special Interest Group in Natural Language
Learning.
Following on from CoNLL 98 (Adelaide, South Australia) and CoNLL 97
(Madrid, Spain), SIGNLL, in conjunction with the TMR Project Learning
Computational Grammars, are pleased to announce CoNLL99.
Topics of the Workshop
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As usual, papers are solicited on the broad area of computational
language learning, including, but not limited to:
o Suitability of different Machine Learning approaches
(ILP, Lazy Learning, Neural Networks, Statistical Estimation Methods, etc)
for solving classes of NLP tasks (phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, discourse; analysis, generation, translation; speech
technology).
o Case studies of NLP tasks solved with ML techniques.
o Theoretical results in computational learnability theory relevent to
language learning
Shared Task
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Additionally, CoNLL invites groups to take part in a shared task:
o Annotating sentences with NP boundary information.
o Annotating recognised NPs with an internal parse.
Participating groups would all be provided with the same training
and testing material, and would all use the same evaluation criteria,
thus allowing comparison between
various learning technologies. Although the task is focussed, it is of
importance in Information Retrieval, Information Extraction and other,
similar tasks, and so not artifical. The TMR homepage
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/tmr/lcg-tmr.html
gives further details of the task. Interested groups should contact
Miles Osborne (osborne@let.rug.nl) for further information.
Invited Speaker
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(to be announced)
CHAIRS
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o Miles Osborne (U. Groningen) osborne@let.rug.nl.
o Erik Tjong Kim Sang (U. Antwerp) erikt@uia.ac.be.
COMMITTEE
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o Ted Briscoe (U. Cambridge)
o Walter Daelemans (U. Antwerp)
o John Nerbonne (U. Groningen)
o David Powers (U. Flinders)
o Christer Samuelsson (Xerox)
o Jeffrey Mark Siskind (NEC)
Submissions should preferably be by email, and consist of a uuencoded,
gzipped postscript file, sent to <Miles Osborne(osborne@let.rug.nl).
Alternatively, hard copies (three) should be sent to the following address:
Miles Osborne
Alfa-Informatica
Faculteit der Letteren
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Postbus 716
9700 AS GRONINGEN
Papers should be a maximum of 10 sides long and prepared using
LaTeX with the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty), which is available from:
ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/ACL97/aclsub.sty.gz
SCHEDULE
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26th March, 1999: Deadline for submitted papers.
16th April, 1999: Notification of acceptance.
23rd April, 1999: Camera ready copy.
12th June, 1999: Workshop.