Final Call for Papers
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb 11, 2004 ***
CoNLL-2004: Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language
Learning
Organized at HLT/NAACL 2004, Boston, MA, USA
May 6-7, 2004
http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2004/
CoNLL is an international conference 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 evolution of language
- 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
We encourage the submission of papers combining (statistical) machine
learning with symbolic knowledge sources.
CoNLL is the yearly conference 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), Toulouse (2001), Taipei
(2002), and Edmonton (2003).
See http://www.aclweb.org/signll/ and http://ilk.uvt.nl/~signll/conll.html
for more information about SIGNLL and CoNLL.
Shared Task
This year's conference will also accept submissions for a shared task:
machine learning approaches to automatic labeling of semantic roles.
Participant groups will use the same training and testing material,
and the evaluation will be done according to fixed criteria, thus
allowing comparison between various learning strategies.
More information on the shared task is available at the shared task
web page:
http://cnts.uia.ac.be/conll2004/roles/
Invited Speaker
To be announced later.
Submissions
Main Session Submissions
A paper submitted to CoNLL-2004 must describe original, unpublished
work. Submit a full paper of no more than 8 pages in PDF format by Feb
11, 2004 electronically to the email address
conll04@comp.nus.edu.sg. The subject line of the email message should
be "CoNLL-2004 submission", with the PDF paper as an attachment
file. Only email submissions will be accepted. The submitted paper
should be in two column format and follow the ACL style. Since
reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations, and there should be no self-references that
reveal the authors' identity. In the submission email message body,
include the following information: paper title, authors' names,
affiliations, and email addresses, contact author's email address, a
list of keywords, abstract, and an indication of whether the paper has
been simultaneously submitted to other conferences (and if so which
conferences). The contact author of an accepted paper under multiple
submissions should inform the program co-chairs immediately whether he
or she intends the accepted paper to appear in CoNLL-2004. A paper
that appears in CoNLL-2004 must be withdrawn from other conferences.
Authors of accepted submissions are to produce a final paper to be
published in the proceedings of the conference, which will be
available at the conference for participants, and distributed
afterwards by ACL. Final papers must follow the ACL style and are due
Mar 15, 2004.
Shared Task Submissions
Submit a paper of maximum 4 pages describing the learning approach,
and your results on the development set by Feb 23, 2004 to the email
address conll04st@lsi.upc.es (see the shared task web page for
concrete formats and styles). 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.
Important Dates
Deadline for main session paper submission: Feb 11, 2004
Deadline for shared task submission: Feb 23, 2004
Notification of acceptance: Mar 1, 2004
Deadline for camera-ready papers: Mar 15, 2004
Conference: May 6-7, 2004
Conference Organizers
Hwee Tou Ng
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing
National University of Singapore
3 Science Drive 2
Singapore 117543
Email: nght@comp.nus.edu.sg
and
Ellen Riloff
School of Computing
University of Utah
50 S. Central Campus Drive, RM 3190 MEB
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-9205
USA
Email: riloff@cs.utah.edu
Shared Task Organizers
Xavier Carreras and Lluis Marquez
Software Department (LSI),
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Campus Nord).
Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3
Barcelona E-08034, Catalonia Spain
Email: {carreras,lluism}@lsi.upc.es
Program Committee
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore (Singapore), co-chair
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah (USA), co-chair
Xavier Carreras, UPC (Spain), shared task co-chair
Lluis Marquez, UPC (Spain), shared task co-chair
Steven Abney, University of Michigan (USA)
Regina Barzilay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Thorsten Brants, Google Inc (USA)
Claire Cardie, Cornell University (USA)
Eugene Charniak, Brown University (USA)
James Cussens, University of York (UK)
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Ido Dagan, Bar Ilan University / LingoMotors (Israel)
Radu Florian, IBM (USA)
Ulf Hermjakob, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Hang Li, Microsoft (China)
Dekang Lin, University of Alberta (Canada)
Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA)
Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin (USA)
John Nerbonne, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)
Franz Josef Och, USC Information Sciences Institute (USA)
Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh (UK)
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth (USA)
David Pierce, SUNY Buffalo (USA)
David Powers, Flinders University (Australia)
Adwait Ratnaparkhi, Microsoft (USA)
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Suzanne Stevenson, University of Toronto (Canada)
Cynthia Thompson, University of Utah (USA)
Antal van den Bosch, Tilburg University (Netherlands)
Janyce Wiebe, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
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