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Antal van den Bosch a écrit:
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> CoNLL-2002
> Sixth Conference on Natural Language Learning
>
> COLING-2002 workshop W11
> Taipei, Taiwan, August 31 - September 1, 2002
>
> http://www.aclweb.org/signll/cfp.html
>
> Background and Scope
> --------------------
>
> CoNLL is the yearly meeting organized by SIGNLL, the Association for
> Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Natural Language
> Learning. Previous CoNLL meetings were held in Madrid (1997), Sydney
> (1998), Bergen (1999) Lisbon (2000) and Toulouse(2001).
>
> The 2002 event will be held as a two-days workshop at the 19th
> International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 24
> August - September 1, 2002 in Taipei, Taiwan. CoNLL is organised in
> cooperation with SIGDAT.
>
> CoNLL is an international forum for discussion and presentation of
> research on natural language learning. We invite submission of papers
> about natural language learning topics, including, but not limited to:
>
> * Computational models of human language acquisition
> * Computational models of the origins and evolution of language
> * Learning from very large corpora
> * Machine learning methods applied to natural language processing
> tasks (speech processing, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
> discourse processing, language engineering applications)
> * Symbolic learning methods (Rule Induction and Decision Tree
> Learning, Lazy Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, Analytical
> Learning, Transformation-based Error-driven Learning)
> * Biologically-inspired methods (Neural Networks, Evolutionary
> Computing)
> * Statistical methods (Bayesian Learning, HMM, maximum entropy,
> SNoW, Support Vector Machines)
> * Reinforcement Learning
> * Active learning, ensemble methods, meta-learning
> * Computational Learning Theory analysis of language learning
> * Empirical and theoretical comparisons of language learning methods
> * Models of induction and analogy in Linguistics
>
> Special Theme
> -------------
>
> As in previous years, in addition to submissions on the general topics
> listed above, we encourage submissions on a special theme. This year's
> special theme is:
>
> Using unsupervised and semi-supervised learning methods
> in natural language learning
>
> Many machine learning approaches to natural language problems require
> supervision, typically in the form of labeled examples. Due to the
> difficulty annotating data, there has been a significant interest
> recently in the study of methods that can benefit from large amounts
> of unlabeled data, perhaps in addition to relatively small amounts of
> labeled examples. The purpose of the special theme is to present and
> discuss progress in this direction in the context of natural language
> learning and highlight both theoretical and experimental studies on a
> variety of approaches to these issues.
>
> Special Session: Shared Task - Named Entity Recognition
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> This year's workshop will also accept submissions for a shared task:
> named entity recognition. Participating groups will be provided with
> the same training and testing material (in several languages), and
> will all use the same evaluation criteria, thus allowing comparison
> between various learning methods.
>
> More information on the shared task is available at:
>
> http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2002/ner/
>
> Invited Speaker
> ---------------
>
> John Lafferty (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
> Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
>
> Submissions
> -----------
>
> Main Session Submissions
>
> Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words (Postscript, PDF or plain
> text ASCII) by May 2nd, 2002 electronically to the address below.
> Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to produce a full paper
> to be published in the proceedings of the workshop, which will be
> available at the workshop for participants, and distributed
> afterwords by COLING. Final submissions must follow the COLING style
> (http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/psg.html). We strongly
> recommend the use of these style files also in the submission.
>
> Submit main session abstracts to:
>
> Dan Roth, danr@uiuc.edu
> Department of Computer Science,
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> 1304 West Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 USA
> Tel: 217 244 7068 Fax: 217 244 6500
>
> or
>
> Antal van den Bosch, Antal.vdnBosch@kub.nl
> Computational Linguistics, Tilburg University,
> P.O. Box 90153
> NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
> Tel: +31.13.4663117 Fax: +31.13.4663110
>
> Shared Task Submissions
>
> Submit an abstract of maximum 1500 words describing the learning
> approach, and your results on the test set by April 6, 2001 to the
> address below (preferably by email). A special section of the
> proceedings will be devoted to a comparison and analysis of the
> results and to a description of the approaches used. Submit shared
> task submissions to:
>
> Erik Tjong Kim Sang, erikt@uia.ua.ac.be
> Centrum Nederlandse Taal en Spraak
> Linguistics, Department of Germanic languages and literature
> UIA, University of Antwerp
> Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium
>
>
> Important Dates
> ---------------
>
> * Deadline for Abstract Submission: May 2, 2002
> * Deadline for Shared Task Submission: May 2, 2002
> * Notification: May 22, 2002
> * Deadline camera-ready full paper: June 8, 2001
> * Conference: August 31-September 1, 2002
>
> Programme Committee
> -------------------
>
> Dan Roth (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA (co-chair)
> Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Netherlands) (co-chair)
> Thorsten Brants (PARC, USA)
> Claire Cardie (Cornell University, USA)
> Ken Church (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)
> James Cussens (University of York, UK)
> Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
> Diane Litman (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
> Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
> John Nerbonne (Groningen University, Netherlands)
> Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh, UK)
> David Powers (Flinders University, Australia)
> Adwait Ratnaparkhi (WhizBang! Labs-Research, USA)
> Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
> David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
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