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ics.mq.edu.au>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS EACL 2003 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Anaphora April 14th 2003 Budapest, Hungary Workshop Topic The study of anaphora has long been central to work in natural language processing, in terms of both the resolution and generation of anaphoric forms. Work in the area stretches from the extremely theoretical, where issues in the philosophy of language are raised, to the extremely practical, as evidence by the coreference task in the Message Understanding Conferences. Submissions from across this spectrum are invited for this workshop, whose aim is to encourage more speculative thinking in areas that we believe have been underexplored. In particular: First, recent interest in information extraction has tended to focus interest in the resolution of pronominal anaphora and reduced definite NP anaphora, particularly with respect to proper names. Although these topics are obviously of great significance, this focus has meant that work on other aspects of anaphora has been, in our view, neglected. Second, we recognise that relevant work in each of natural language understanding (where the major focus has been pronominal anaphor resolution) and natural language generation (where the major focus has been the generation of subsequent references) has generally been pursued independently of the other. We would like to encourage papers that explore how insights from one area can be used in the other. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: -one-anaphora -associative anaphora -forms of anaphora where either the anaphor or the antecedent is not a noun phrase -presuppositions as anaphora -shared knowledge sources in analysis and generation -the development and exploitation of annotated corpora -evaluations of anaphor resolution and generation -cross-document coreference -comparisons of formal and computational treatments of anaphora -knowledge-poor vs knowledge-rich approaches Workshop Format The workshop will be one day in duration. Each presentation will last for 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Submission Format Authors should submit a full paper of no more than six pages by the deadline stated below. Your paper should include a descriptive abstract of around 100 words, and should follow the formatting guidelines for the main EACL conference, as detailed at http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. Submissions should be made electronically as either PDF or PS files, preferably the former: if you are submitting a PS file, please send a version of this a week before the stated deadline so that we can ensure there are no problems with printing. Submissions should be sent by email to eacl03wsMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
yahoo.com>2nd Call for papers EACL 2003 Workshop on: Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable? 13 April 2003, Budapest, Hungary 11th conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (April 12-17, 2003) http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina/EACL03-eval This is a second call for papers for the EACL 2003 workshop on the reuse of evaluation resources. Details on this event can be found at the workshop's webpage: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina/EACL03-eval Topics of interest: We welcome submissions of both discussion-papers and papers presenting applied experiments relevant with -but not limited to- the following topics: - cross-fertilization of evaluation methods and metrics - reuse of resources for evaluation (corpora, evaluation tools etc.) - feasibility experiments for the reuse of established evaluation methods/metrics/resources in different NLP system types - reusability obstacles and the notion of compositionality of NLP tasks - evaluation needs and challenges for less strenuously evaluated system types (e.g multimodal dialogue systems ), possible benefits from established evaluation practices - evaluation standards and reusability - reuse within big evaluation initiatives - application of e.g. Machine Translation methods to Information Retrieval: implications for evaluation Submission format: Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the style-files suggested for the EACL main conference submissions at: http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~hajic/eacl03/submission.html Please, mail your submissions to Katerina Pastra: e.pastraMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue