[Corpora-List] Journal of Natural Language Engineering: Special Issue on Parallel Texts -- Final Call for Papers

From: Michel Simard (Michel.Simard@xrce.xerox.com)
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    F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S

    Journal of Natural Language Engineering

    Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS

    Guest Editors:
    Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
    Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe

    http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/jnle

    OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

    Parallel texts have become a vital resources for efficiently deriving
    many multi-lingual text processing tools. This special issue is devoted
    to advances in building and using parallel corpora. We invite papers on
    all topics related to parallel texts, including but not limited to:

    The collection, organization and processing of parallel corpora:
          - Identifying and harvesting parallel texts from the Web
            and other large collections
          - Evaluating the quality of parallel corpora (e.g. detecting
            omissions and gaps, translation errors or inconsistencies, etc.)
          - Sentence-, phrase- and word-level alignment
          - Alignment evaluation metrics and methods

    Active uses of parallel corpora for:
          - Building multilingual lexical resources
          - Deriving language processing tools and resources for new
            languages
          - Annotating corpora (e.g. word-sense disambiguation)
          - Machine translation (e.g. statistical and example-based MT)
          - Machine-assisted translation (e.g. translation memories and
            interactive MT)
          - Cross-linguistic information retrieval and information extraction

    While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or
    related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora
    addressing languages with scarce resources.

    SUBMISSION FORMAT

    We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously
    unpublished research, addressing issues related to the construction and
    use of parallel texts.

    Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions,
    and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is
    LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is
    available through anonymous ftp from the following address:
    ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of
    difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail:
    texline@cup.cam.ac.uk.

    Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous
    review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas,
    rada@cs.unt.edu and Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe,
    Michel.Simard@xrce.xerox.com

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper submissions: May 1, 2004
    Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2004
    Final versions due: November 30, 2004
    Journal publication: June, 2005

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University
    Susan Armstrong, ISSCO
    Michael Barlow, Rice University
    Ken Church, AT&T Labs Research
    Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University
    Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University
    George Foster, University of Montreal
    Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
    Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe
    Ulrich Germann, University of Toronto
    Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester
    Julio Gonzalo, UNED
    Cyril Goutte, Xerox Research Centre Europe
    Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation
    Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences
    Institute
    Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe
    Hitoshi Iida, Tokyo University of Technology
    Wessel Kraaij, TNO/TPD Netherlands
    Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal
    Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal
    Dan Melamed, New York University
    Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
    Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen
    Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute
    Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University
    Kishore Papineni, IBM
    Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth
    Jessie Pinkham, University of Chicago
    Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva
    Florence Reeder, MITRE
    Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
    Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
    Hideki Tanaka, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories
    Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe
    Jean Veronis, University of Provence
    Clare Voss, Army Research Lab
    Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield
    Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
    Kenji Yamada, Xerox Research Centre Europe

    ABOUT THE JOURNAL

    Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to
    meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of
    computerized language processing, whether from the perspective of
    theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or
    engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional
    computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical
    applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing
    research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine
    translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems
    and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its
    aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic
    community.

    Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a
    clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that
    consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical
    implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going
    research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products,
    and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market
    opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed.

    Edited by John I. Tait
    University of Sunderland, UK

    Branimir K. Boguraev
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA

    Christian Jacquemin
    CNRS-LIMSI, France

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