[Corpora-List] Final CFP + Deadline extension (7th April): ROMAND'04 (COLING'04 workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data)

From: Vincenzo Pallotta (Vincenzo.Pallotta@epfl.ch)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 17:35:10 MET DST

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    LAST CALL FOR PAPER
    !!! Submission Deadline extended: April 7th !!!

    ROMAND 2004
    3rd workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data
    A satellite event of COLING 2004
    Geneva - August 29th 2004
    http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2004/

    Robustness in Computational Linguistics has been recently recognized as
    a central issue for the design of interactive applications based on
    natural language communication. If a failure of the system can be
    acceptable in batch applications requiring a human intervention, an
    on-line system should be capable of dealing with unforeseen situations
    in a more flexible way. When we talk about system failure we do not
    think at inherent program failures like infinite loops or system
    exception, we consider, rather, failures related to the processing of
    the input and its assimilation in the system's knowledge base. A failure
    of this kind means simply that the system does not "understand" the
    input. The automated analysis of natural language data has become a
    central issue in the design of Intelligent Information Systems.
    Processing unconstrained natural language data is still considered an
    AI-hard task. However, various analysis techniques have been proposed in
    order to address specific aspects of natural language. In particular,
    recent interest has been focused on providing approximate analysis
    techniques, assuming that when perfect analysis is not possible, partial
    results may be still very useful.

    ROMAND 2004 is the third of a series of workshops aimed at bringing
    together researchers and students that work in fields like artificial
    intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction,
    cognitive science and are interested in robust methods in natural
    language processing and understanding. The term "natural language" is
    intended as all the possible modalities of human communication and it is
    not restricted to written or spoken language. Theoretical aspects of
    robustness in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Understanding (NLU)
    are welcome as well as engineering and industrial experiences. We are
    also interested in research works that investigate different types of
    linguistic modules integration, in order to characterise their
    advantages and disadvantages with respect to different types of
    applications, and works that propose different types of NLP/NLU systems,
    ranging from sequential/pipelined architectures to more loosely-coupled
    multi-level distributed architectures.

    We invite papers on all topics related to robustness in natural
    language processing, including, but not limited to:

    * Natural Language Architectures
    * Robust Morpho-Syntactic Parsing
    * Robust Semantics
    * Robust Discourse Analysis
    * Robust Computational Pragmatics
    * Complexity of linguistic analysis
    * Spell checking and automated spell correction
    * NLP and Soft Computing
    * Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
    * Information Extraction
    * Multimedia Document Analysis
    * Spoken Language Understanding
    * Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces
    * Cognitive Linguistics

    INVITED TALKS
    Dr. Frank Keller, University of Edinburgh:
    "Gradient Grammaticality: Applications in Robust Parsing"

    SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
    Authors should submit an anonymous paper (avoiding, as much as
    possible, hints for the identification of authors) of at most 10 pages
    (including pictures and references), intended for talks with a duration of
    20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussions. The paper should follow the
    COLING formatting style available on the main conference web site
    (http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/), and the authors must also send
    us a wrapper e-mail message indicating:

    1. the AUTHOR'S NAMES, AFFILIATION, ADDRESS, and E-MAIL address of
         (at least) the contacting author,
    2. an ABSTRACT of the submitted paper (less than 500 words),
    3. a list of KEYWORDS (no more than 5).

    The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferred) or
    postscript format to:

    mailto:romand@epfl.ch.

    NEW! IMPORTANT DATES:
    Papers submission: April 7th
    Acceptance notification: May 15th
    Final version: June 15th
    Workshop: August 29th

    PROGRAM CHAIRS
    Vincenzo Pallotta (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne and
                        International Computer Science Institute - Berkeley)

    Amalia Todirascu (University of Troyes and University of Iasi)

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    Afzal Ballim
    Alberto Lavelli
    Alexander Clark
    Atro Voutilainen
    Bangalore Srinivas
    C.J. Rupp
    Dan Cristea
    Diego Molla'-Aliod
    Eric Wherli
    Jose' Iria
    Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
    Fabio Rinaldi
    Frank Keller
    Giovanni Coray
    Guenther Goerz
    Hatem Ghorbel
    Jean-Cedric Chappelier
    Jean-Pierre Chanod
    Joachim Niehren
    John Carroll
    Kay-Uwe Carstensen
    Manuela Boros
    Maria Teresa Pazienza
    Martin Rajman
    Michael Hess
    Patrick Ruch
    Roberto Basili
    Rodolfo Delmonte
    Salah Ait-Mokhtar
    Susan Armstrong
    Wolfgang Menzel
    Yuji Matsumoto

    LOCAL ORGANIZATION
    Violeta Seretan (University of Geneva)
    Hatem Ghorbel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne)

    CONTACT INFORMATION:
    All inquiries should be sent to [romand@epfl.ch]. Please note that
    general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are
    taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers.

    More information are available the workshop's Web page at
    http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2004/



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