First Call for Papers
ROMAND 2000
1st workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural
language Data
Department of Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -
Lausanne
October 19-20 2000
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/
ROMAND 2000 is the first of a series of workshop that aims at bringing
together researchers working on robust methods in natural language processing.
The term "natural language" is intended as all possible modalities of human
communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken language.
The main goal of the workshop will be to bring together researchers working in
fields like artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, cognitive
science who are facing with the problem of feasible and reliable systems
implementation. Theoretical aspects of robustness in NLP are welcome as well
as engineering and industrial experiences.
The workshop will be held in collaboration with the TALN 2000 conference (le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - Automatic Natural Language
Processing) which will be held in Lausanne from October 16th to 18th. The
ROMAND workshop will be held just afterwards, from the 19th to 20th.
We invite abstracts on all topics related to robustness in natural language
processing, including, but not limited to:
Robust Text Analysis
Information Extraction
Spoken Dialogue systems
Multimodal human-computer interfaces
Natural Language Architectures
NLP and Soft Computing
Robust Semantics
Underspecification
Multimedia document analysis
Robust Parsing
Complexity of linguistic analysis
Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
Text Mining
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 6 (included
references) single-column pages with 10' body font size (for talks with a
duration of 20' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page specifying
the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts
should be submitted electronically (in postscript or pdf format) to:
romand@epfl.ch.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Papers due: July 23rd
Acceptance notice: August 14th
Final version due: September 28th
Conference: October 19-20
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:
Program chairs are
Afzal Ballim Afzal.Ballim@epfl.ch
Vincenzo Pallotta Vincenzo.Pallotta@epfl.ch
Hatem Ghorbel Hatem.Ghorbel@epfl.ch
Program committee
Steve Abney
Wolfgang Menzel
Jean-Pierre Chanod
Alberto Lavelli
Rens Bod
Giorgio Satta
Joachim Niehren
Roberto Basili
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Manuela Boros
Diego Molla' Aliod
Hervé Bourlard
B. Srinivas
C.J. Rupp
Peter Asveld
ORGANIZATION:
This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the TALN 7eme
conférence annuelle sur LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES NATURELLES (
http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ ). The workshop will take place at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. The workshop is endorsed by ATALA
(Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).
REGISTRATION:
Details about the registration procedure will be posted later at the official
web site. The registration fee will be:
Normal registration: 150.- CHF
For registered TALN attendee: 100.- CHF
FURTHER INFORMATION:
For any information related to the organization, please contact:
Vincenzo Pallotta
DI-LITH EPFL
IN F Ecublens
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
tel. +41-21-693 52 97
fax. +41-21-693 52 78
Vincenzo.Pallotta@epfl.ch
News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/
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