Corpora: FINAL CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology & Knowledge Management

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    **** FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ****

    WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
    AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

    ACL/EACL 2001 Conference
    Toulouse, France
    July 6-7, 2001

    Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human
    computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management.
    Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription,
    extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for
    learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced
    awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and
    know-how.

    This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational
    linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language
    processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content
    extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language
    technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a
    road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The
    road
    map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of
    where
    we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate
    milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in
    measuring
    our progress towards our goals.

    The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will
    address
    new research in human language technology for knowledge management that
    addresses problems including but not limited to:

       * Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of
    distributed
         organizations and communities of experts.
       * Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of
    knowledge
         from unstructured multimedia data.
       * Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise
    and
         know-how.

    Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through
    technologies such as:

       * Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and
         knowledge from multimedia, multilingual, and multiparty information
         sources.
       * Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing
    of
         knowledge.
       * Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from
    unstructured
         multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news broadcasts).
       * Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and access
         (e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as geospatial
         Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri, encyclopedia, fact
    books)
       * Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source
       * Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and
         document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of
    distributed
         experts and communities of expertise
       * Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g.,
         knowledge maps, lessons learned).
       * Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and
         preferences from queries, created artifacts, and human computer
         interactions.

    The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and
    refinement
    of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade.
    Participants will help formulate grand challenge problems, discuss
    possible
    data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods that could form the basis of
    more scientific methods, articulate the role of and necessary advances
    in
    human language technology to solve these challenges, as well as identify
    and characterize early innovations and issues (e.g., robustness,
    scalability, ontology, privacy).

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

       * Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation, maybury@mitre.org
       * Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark,
         nob@nis.sdu.dk
       * Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl
       * Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University,
         becferi@fiu.edu
       * Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm,
         paul.heisterkamp@daimlerchrysler.com
       * Arjan van Hessen, IP GLOBALNET / U. Twente, hessen@cs.utwente.nl
       * Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle@xrce.xerox.com
       * Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta@open.ac.uk
       * Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo@die.upm.es
       * Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock@itc.it
       * Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh,
    ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
       * Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit@dfki.de
       * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk
       * Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik@boeing.com
       * Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it

    TARGET AUDIENCE

    The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers,
    developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language
    technology
    in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge management
    applications. While we project a high degree of interest in this
    topic,
    we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality of paper
    submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress.

    SPONSOR

    This workshop is sponsored by the European Network of Excellence in
    Human
    Language Technologies (ELSNET) who will be funding one or two invited
    speakers.

    SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS

    Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on HLT
    in
    general or its application to KM systems. Papers targeted at the first
    day
    on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge management problem
    addressed, the technical approach to solving that, the novelty of the
    approach, its relation to previous work, the evaluation or performance
    of
    the system or method, and discussion of limitations. Papers targeted at
    the
    second day on human language technology direction should be authored so
    they could be integrated into a more general HLT roadmap and so should
    include a definition of the HLT area addressed (e.g., information
    extraction, translation, speech recognition), a statement of the grand
    challenges or problems in the subfield, an articulation/analysis of the
    current state of the art, a vision of where the community wants to be in
    ten years from now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to
    set
    intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals.

    Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the
    two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see the ACL Style
    Guides
    for the detailed guidelines. Submissions should be sent electronically
    in
    Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII text format to arrive no later than
    April
    2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald (pmmmac@mitre.org). As soon as possible,
    authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention
    to
    participate to include their contact information and the topic they
    intend
    to address in their submission.

    Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance,
    innovation,
    quality, and presentation according to the schedule below.

    SCHEDULE

       o Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001
       o Notification : 30 April 2001
       o Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001
       o Conference Dates: 6-7 July 2001

    WORKSHOP DATE

    July 6 and 7, 2001

    WEBSITE

    A Workshop web site has been set up at
    http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html.
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    WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
    AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

    ACL/EACL 2001 Conference
    Toulouse, France
    July 6-7, 2001

    Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human
    computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management.
    Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription,
    extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for
    learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced
    awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how.

    This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational
    linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language
    processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content
    extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language
    technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a
    road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road
    map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where
    we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate
    milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring
    our progress towards our goals.

    The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will address
    new research in human language technology for knowledge management that
    addresses problems including but not limited to:

       * Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of distributed
         organizations and communities of experts.
       * Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of knowledge
         from unstructured multimedia data.
       * Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise and
         know-how.

    Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through
    technologies such as:

       * Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and
         knowledge from multimedia, multilingual, and multiparty information
         sources.
       * Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing of
         knowledge.
       * Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from unstructured
         multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news broadcasts).
       * Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and access
         (e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as geospatial
         Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri, encyclopedia, fact books)
       * Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source
       * Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and
         document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of distributed
         experts and communities of expertise
       * Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g.,
         knowledge maps, lessons learned).
       * Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and
         preferences from queries, created artifacts, and human computer
         interactions.

    The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and refinement
    of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade.
    Participants will help formulate grand challenge problems, discuss possible
    data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods that could form the basis of
    more scientific methods, articulate the role of and necessary advances in
    human language technology to solve these challenges, as well as identify
    and characterize early innovations and issues (e.g., robustness,
    scalability, ontology, privacy).

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

       * Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation, maybury@mitre.org
       * Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark,
         nob@nis.sdu.dk
       * Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl
       * Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University,
         becferi@fiu.edu
       * Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm,
         paul.heisterkamp@daimlerchrysler.com
       * Arjan van Hessen, IP GLOBALNET / U. Twente, hessen@cs.utwente.nl
       * Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle@xrce.xerox.com
       * Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta@open.ac.uk
       * Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo@die.upm.es
       * Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock@itc.it
       * Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh, ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
       * Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit@dfki.de
       * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk
       * Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik@boeing.com
       * Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it

    TARGET AUDIENCE

    The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers,
    developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language technology
    in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge management
    applications. While we project a high degree of interest in this topic,
    we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality of paper
    submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress.

    SPONSOR

    This workshop is sponsored by the European Network of Excellence in Human
    Language Technologies (ELSNET) who will be funding one or two invited
    speakers.

    SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS

    Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on HLT in
    general or its application to KM systems. Papers targeted at the first day
    on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge management problem
    addressed, the technical approach to solving that, the novelty of the
    approach, its relation to previous work, the evaluation or performance of
    the system or method, and discussion of limitations. Papers targeted at the
    second day on human language technology direction should be authored so
    they could be integrated into a more general HLT roadmap and so should
    include a definition of the HLT area addressed (e.g., information
    extraction, translation, speech recognition), a statement of the grand
    challenges or problems in the subfield, an articulation/analysis of the
    current state of the art, a vision of where the community wants to be in
    ten years from now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to set
    intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals.

    Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the
    two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see the ACL Style Guides
    for the detailed guidelines. Submissions should be sent electronically in
    Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII text format to arrive no later than April
    2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald (pmmmac@mitre.org). As soon as possible,
    authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to
    participate to include their contact information and the topic they intend
    to address in their submission.

    Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance, innovation,
    quality, and presentation according to the schedule below.

    SCHEDULE

       o Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001
       o Notification : 30 April 2001
       o Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001
       o Conference Dates: 6-7 July 2001

    WORKSHOP DATE

    July 6 and 7, 2001

    WEBSITE

    A Workshop web site has been set up at
      http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html.



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