[Corpora-List] 1st CfP QA (JAL)

From: Raffaella Bernardi (bernardi@inf.unibz.it)
Date: Mon Dec 13 2004 - 17:33:00 MET

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    "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives"

    A Special Issue of the Journal of Applied Logic
    (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15708683)

    We have been invited by the "Journal of Applied Logic" to prepare a
    Special Issue stimulated by the 2nd CoLogNET-ELSNET Symposium on
    "Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives".

    BACKGROUND:

    The symposium was the second of three devoted to the exploration of the
    common ground between the "Logic and Natural Language Processing" Area
    of CoLogNET (Network of Excellence in Computational Logic,
    http://www.colognet.org/) and ELSNET (Network of Excellence in Human
    Language Technologies, http://www.elsnet.org/). It addressed both the
    logical foundations underlying QA, and technological implications for
    question answering systems.

    TOPIC OF INTEREST FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE:

    Based on the successful symposium experience, we invite papers on
    both theoretical issues involved in question answering or practical
    issues involved in querying systems for integrated structured domains
    (like databases, ontologies,..) as well as for open domain sources
    (like web-based documents). A (non-exclusive) list of relevant
    issues includes:

      - Questions: linguistic analysis of interrogatives
      - Theoretical and practical approaches to question semantics
      - Presuppositions/implicatures in questions and how to deal with them
      - Interpretation of questions in context
      - Query interpretation and query extension in IR
      - Questions that do not look like questions
      - Paraphrasing questions for answer detection,
      - Answering how and why questions
      - Questions/answers that relate multiple events
      - Comparing and/or evaluating answer candidates
      - Answering comparison questions
      - Contextual binding of candidate answers -- i.e., temporal and
          spatial dependencies,
      - Quantified and conditional questions
      - Quantified and conditional answers

    SUBMISSION DETAILS

    The final version of accepted papers has to follow the standard
    layout guidelines of the "Journal of Applied Logic". Instructions
    for authors and the latex style files are available from

    http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi/qajal_style

    Although not mandatory, we suggest to use the corresponding style
    files from that web-page also for your initial submission. The
    issue aims at high quality papers with a length around 20 to max. 30
    pages. Please send your submission in postscript or pdf no later
    than January 31st, 2005 to

                                    bernardi@inf.unibz.it.

    Please, write "QA special issue: Submission" in the subject.

    Notice that all papers will be refereed to ensure their suitability
    for journal publication.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Deadline for Submissions: January 31, 2005
    Notification Deadline: March 18, 2005
    Camera Ready Deadline: May 1, 2005

    GUEST EDITORS of the Special Issue

    Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) &
    Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)

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    Raffaella Bernardi | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano |
    Faculty of Computer Science |
    P.zza Domenicani 3 | I-39100 Bolzano | Room: 2.28 |
    Phone:+39 0471 0 16122 | Fax: +39 0471 0 16009
    http://www.inf.unibz.it/~bernardi

    Research Assistant | CoLogNet (Area 6, Logic and NLP) |
    http://www.colognet.org
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