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                         EACL 2003 Workshop on

                LANGUAGE MODELING FOR TEXT ENTRY METHODS

                   April 13, 2003, Budapest, Hungary

    The EACL 2003 Workshop on Language Modeling for Text Entry
    Methods will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference
    of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational
    Linguistics that will take place April 12-17, 2003, in Budapest,
    Hungary.

    Papers are invited on any aspects of language modeling for text
    entry methods.

    GENERAL SCOPE

    There are two application areas where there is a strong need to
    support the user in text production:

    On palm-sized or watch-sized electronic devices, the physical
    size of the device and/or the available keyboard makes typing
    difficult and thus inefficient. For motor and/or speech
    impaired persons, typing often is slow or very difficult. This
    is critical especially for people relying on communication aids.

    In both application areas, various text entry methods have been
    suggested to provide a more efficient input of texts with lower
    motor demands. Usually, they combine specific typing devices
    (enhancing the typing rate) with methods that aim at reducing
    the number of necessary key strokes. Among these are word
    prediction, abbreviation expansion, ambiguous typing and text
    compansion.

    At their core, these methods rely on statistical and (to a
    lesser extent) rule-based language models to predict and
    complete the user input and thus save keystrokes. Unlike in
    speech recognition, the language models are also used to change
    and evaluate the way how to enter text.

    The goal of our workshop is to bring together researchers in the
    two application communities to focus on the variety of text
    entry methods with language models. In particular, we like to
    discuss parameters and criteria for a comparable evaluation of
    text entry methods with language models. Questions of interest
    include but are not limited to:

    * How are text entry methods improved by language models?

    * At which linguistic levels do language models improve text
    entry methods?

    * In what way should the language model adapt to the user's text
    entry?

    * How can the added cognitive load of using text entry methods
    be minimized?

    * What kind of resources (e.g. corpora, lexica) are needed for
    text entry methods with language models?

    * How can we evaluate and compare text entry methods with
    language models?

    * Where do situational contexts lead to better language models
    for text entry methods?

    * What are the specifics of language models for text entry
    methods in particular languages and writing systems?

    Although there has been some transfer of technology between the
    two application areas, communication between the two research
    communities has been sparse up to now. We invite researchers of
    the different application areas to share their results and ideas
    with the other communities in computational linguistics.

    SUBMISSIONS

    Authors are invited to submit full papers on original,
    unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions
    should be formatted using the EACL 2003 stylefiles with overt
    author's and afficilation's information and not exceeding 8
    pages. The EACL 2003 stylefiles are available at
    http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/eacl03/submission.html. Please
    send your Postscript or PDF file no later than January 7, 2003,
    to kuehn@uni-koblenz.de.

    Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
    programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the
    workshop proceedings.

    REGISTRATION

    Workshop participants not registered to EACL 2003 will have to
    pay a raised workshop registration fee. More information on
    registration will be provided at the conference web page.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    January 7, 2003 Deadline for workshop papers
    January 28, 2003 Notification of acceptance
    February 13, 2003 Camera-ready papers due
    April 13, 2003 EACL 2003 Workshop

    PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

    Norman Alm
    Graeme Hirst
    Sherri Hunnicutt
    Cliff Kushler
    Kathleen McCoy
    Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Karin Harbusch
    University Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz/Germany

    Michael Kuehn
    University Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz/Germany

    Harald Trost
    OeFAI, Vienna/Austria

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Workshop web page
    http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~compling/eaclws2003/

    Conference web page
    http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/

    CONTACT INFORMATION

    Michael Kuehn
    Universitaet Koblenz-Landau
    Forschungsgruppe Computerlinguistik
    Postfach 201 602
    D-56016 Koblenz
    Germany

    Tel +49 261 287-2613
    Fax +49 261 287-2754

    E-mail kuehn@uni-koblenz.de
    Web http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~kuehn/

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    Michael Kühn 	               http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~kuehn/
    Forschungsgruppe Computerlinguistik                        B 304
    Universität Koblenz-Landau                   +49 (0)261 287-2613   
    Postfach 201 602, 56016 Koblenz             kuehn@uni-koblenz.de
    



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