Corpora: ACL'2000 Workshop Call for Papers

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Date: Thu Jun 01 2000 - 00:22:50 MET DST

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

           The second Chinese Language Processing Workshop

           Sponsored by SIGLEX, SIGDAT and SIGPARSE.

                           October 2000

           Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
               
                       In conjunction with ACL-2000
         
                    

    Growing interest in Chinese Language Processing is leading to the development
    of resources such as annotated corpora and automatic segmenters, part-of-speech
    taggers and parsers. The first Asia ACL provides an ideal opportunity to bring
    together influential researchers from Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and
    Beijing, as well as Chinese language researchers in the rest of the world, to
    discuss issues that are specific to the processing of Chinese. A critical tool
    for developing Chinese language processing tools is the availability of
    annotated corpora. The greater the consensus we have around guidelines for
    corpus annotation of part-of-speech tags, syntactic bracketing and other areas,
    the more useful this corpora will be.

    We welcome submissions that address the following topics on Chinese
    language processing:
       . word segmentation
       . POS tagging
       . phrase identification
       . parsing
       . grammar development
       . lexicon acquisition
       . corpus development
       

    We invite workshop participants to take advantage of two bracketed corpora:

      . The first one, Chinese Penn Treebank, was developed at University of
        Pennsylvania, USA. It includes 100-thousand words from Xinhua News.
        The corpus will be released via LDC at UPenn in one or two weeks.
        For more information and announcement of the release, please check the
        website "http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ctb/" after June 4th, 2000.

      . The second one, developed by CKIP, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, contains
        more than 30,000 sentences. A trial version of 1,000 sentences is now
        available for download by the public at
        http://godel.iis.sinica.edu.tw/CKIP/trees1000.htm
        The release of the complete treebank is being reviewed by Academia Sinica.
        Preliminary arrangements have been made for the treebank to be licensed
        through ROCLING. Please check their website
        (http://rocling.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ROCLING) for announcement.

     

     The workshop will be held either on Oct 1 or Oct 2. For latest update
    of the workshop (including the instruction for paper registration)
    and the release of the Chinese Penn Treebank, please
    check "http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ctb/". If you have any questions concerning
    the workshop or the Treebank, please email us at chinese@linc.cis.upenn.edu.

    Submissions:

      Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may not exceed 3200
    words (exclusive of title page and references). Papers outside the specified
    length are subject to be rejected without review.

      The style files for submission are the same as the ones for ACL regular paper,
    which can be downloaded from http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/fcfp.html. The reviewing
    of papers will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include the
    authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
    author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided.
    Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

     As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page
    will be required. The title page should include the following information:

            Title:
              Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
              Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
              Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
              Which Session: just put "G"
              Word Count, excluding title page and references:
              Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
              Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

      The identification page should contain all of the information in the title page,
    but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses.
    The format for the identification page should be as follows:

             Title:
               Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration)
               Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses
               Topic Area: one or two general topic areas
               Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
               Which Session: just put "G"
               Word Count, excluding title page and references:
               Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify):
               Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines)

     Submissions must be received by July 1, 2000. Late submissions (those arriving
    on or after July 2) will be rejected without review. The Program Committee is
    not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies
    (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page plus
    two (2) identification pages should be submitted to the following address:

       CLP-2000 submission
       c/o Fei Xia
       Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS)
       3401 Walnut St. Suite 400A
       Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

    Important Dates:
      July 1, 2000 Submission of full-length paper
      August 10, 2000 Acceptance notice
      September 5, 2000 Camera-ready paper due
      October 1 or 2 Conference date

            Organizational committee:
            
            Martha Palmer - UPenn
            Mitch Marcus - UPenn
            Fei Xia - UPenn
            Aravind Joshi - UPenn

    Program committee:
    Nianwen Xue - U of Delaware, USA
    Shengli Feng - U of Kansas, USA
    K.L.Kwok - Queens College, USA
    Amy Weinberg - U. of Maryland, USA
    Mary Ellen Okurowski - Department of Defense, USA
    John Kovarik - Department of Defense, USA
    Andi Wu - Mircrosoft, USA
    Bangalore Srinivas - AT&T Research Lab, USA
    Jin Yang - Systran, USA
    Ralph Weischedel - BBN, USA
    Dong Zhendong - Hownet designer, China
    Shiwen Yu - Peking University, China
    Qiang Zhou - Tsinghua University, China
    Chunfa Yuan - Tsinghua University, China
    Maosong Sun - Tsinghua University, China
    Joe Zhou - Intel China Research Center, China
    Chang-Ning Huang - Microsoft Research, China
    Gan Kok Wee - Hong Kong Science and Technology University
    Dekai Wu - Hong Kong Science and Technology University
    Benjamin K Tsou - Hong Kong City Univeristy
    Keh-Jian Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Chu-ren Huang - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Keh-Yih Su - Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
    Lua, Kim-Teng - National University of Singapore
    Tan Chew Lim - National University of Singapore
    Fuji Ren - Hiroshima City University, Japan



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