HLT 2002
Human Language Technology Conference
March 24-27, 2002
San Diego, California
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Human language technology (HLT) incorporates a broad spectrum of
disciplines working towards two closely related goals: to enable
computers to interact with humans using natural language capabilities,
and to serve as useful adjuncts to humans in language understanding by
providing services such as automatic translation, information
retrieval and information extraction. The HLT 2001 Conference in
March 2001 provided a single unified forum for researchers across this
entire spectrum of disciplines to present very recent high-quality,
cutting-edge work, to exchange ideas and to explore emerging new
research directions. Following the great success of HLT 2001, the
Conference and Program Chairs invite submissions for HLT 2002 from
researchers in computer science, linguistics, engineering, psychology,
etc., who are exploring innovative methods for improving human
language technology. Further information will be available at the
Conference web site, http://hlt2002.org.
The Conference will span four days, running from Sunday noon through
mid-day Wednesday. It will include peer-reviewed research
presentations, posters, demonstrations, panel sessions and time for
discussion. We expect it to include a session of invited "best of"
papers from conferences of sponsoring organizations focussing in
particular subdisciplines of HLT.
HLT 2002 will also include a special focus on Language Processing of
Biological Data, which includes both Information Extraction of
Biological Data and Language Modeling of Biological Data, an emerging
research area involves a linguistic/language processing view of
biological data from the perspective of bioinformatics. The purpose
of this special focus within the HLT2002 context is to bring to the
attention of a wide audience of HLT researchers the research
opportunities and recent breakthroughs in these newly emerging areas.
The special focus will comprise back-to-back tutorial sessions at the
opening of the conference and a paper session within the larger
conference setting.
Because of the conference site, space at the Conference is limited to
330 participants. Space will automatically be reserved for authors of
accepted papers, posters, and demonstrations.
AREAS OF INTEREST
HLT submissions outside of the special focus should be in any area of
advanced HLT research, including but not limited to such areas as:
Dialogue systems
HLT Resources, architectures, and evaluation
Information retrieval
Information extraction
Machine translation
Question answering
Speech recognition and synthesis
Text summarization
IMPORTANT DATES
January 7 Extended abstract submissions due
February 11 Notification of acceptance
March 11 Camera-ready "notebook" papers due
March 24-27 Conference
April 22 Final copy of proceedings papers due
July 29 Proceedings published
CONFERENCE VENUE
The HLT Conference will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San
Diego, California. The famous San Diego Zoo is the home of Hua Mei,
the only baby giant panda to be born in the US. Sea World is one of
the area's better known attractions, where you can see the killer
whale Shamu. San Diego also houses Balboa Park, the largest urban
cultural park. You can stroll through the Gaslamp Quarter or through
Old Town. Nearby La Jolla houses the Birch Aquarium, and Carlsbad
houses Legoland. Heading south gets you to Tijuana, Mexico.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
General chair: Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Co-chair: David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins
Executive Program Committee:
James Allan, University of Massachusetts (USA)
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Ralph Grishman, New York University (USA)
Donna Harman, NIST (USA)
Lynette Hirschman, MITRE (USA)
Eduard Hovy, ISI (USA)
Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado (USA)
Kevin Knight, ISI (USA)
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS (France)
John Makhoul, BBN Technologies (USA)
Nelson Morgan, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington (USA)
Hans Uszkoreit, Saarland University and DKFI (Germany)
Demonstration Co-chairs:
Clifford Weinstein, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (USA)
Bob Younger, SPAWAR Systems Center (USA)
Special Focus Committee:
Chair: Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania (USA)
Co-chair:Lynette Hirschman, MITRE (USA)
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
HLT submissions for papers, posters and demonstrations are due on or
before January 7, 2002. All submissions will be 3-4 page extended
abstracts of the proposed presentation, cannot exceed 1500 words
exclusive of bibliography, and must include enough information for the
reviewers to judge the applicability and novelty of the work. It is
expected that the Conference will include diverse areas within HLT and
preference will be given to papers that will appeal to multiple
fields. There will be separate submissions for papers, posters and
demonstrations, but work cannot be submitted both as a paper and as a
poster. Submissions will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF.
Complete submission information will be available at
http://hlt2001.org. In order to encourage late-breaking research
results, the submission deadline for HLT 2001 is very close to the
Conference. There is insufficient time to produce a bound proceedings
for the Conference. Instead, all accepted papers, posters, and
demonstrations will have their extended abstracts (revised based on
reviewer comments) published in notebook proceedings that will be
available at the Conference. After the Conference, authors will have
an opportunity to revise their papers for the final bound proceedings.
SPONSORSHIP
HLT 2002 is sponsored by several U.S. government agencies, DARPA, NSF
and ARDA. We are currently arranging sponsorship of U.S. and
international research organizations in the range of human language
technologies for this and the continuing series of HLT conferences.
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