Second announcement and call for papers and other contributions
SUBMISSION DEADLINE SUNDAY MAY 5
A Roadmap for Computational Linguistics
Saturday, August 31 2002
Workshop in conjunction with COLING 2002
(August 24 - September 1, 2002, Taipei, Taiwan)
Organized by ELSNET
Context and objective
ELSNET is the European Network of Excellence in Human Language
Technologies, which was created in 1991, with a view to supporting and
facilitating research, development and training in the field of
language and speech technologies and related areas. The network funded
by the European Commission, but its scope is not limited to Europe.
This workshop should be seen as a step in ELSNET's aim to build a
roadmap for language and speech technology. It is one of a number of
workshops of this type that have been and will be organised in order
to arrive at a broadly supported roadmap for our field, which should
help us identifying major challenges, setting research priorities and
defining common goals. At this workshop we will
* confront the audience with the approach and the results of
ELSNET's roadmapping exercise thus far;
* invite participants to give their own presentation of what they
see as the main longer term challenges and internmediate
milestones in our field as well as their strategies to meet these
challenges;
* organise panel and discussion sessions aimed at reaching a
consensus on what the main challenges and priorities are.
As a special feature we will invite a number of rapporteurs to have a
critical look at the papers presented at the various thematic sessions
of the main conference, with a view to relating them to the main
challenges and milestones: do we spot new challenges, new milestones,
new strategies, new directions, regional differences, etc. All reports
and summaries of discussions will be integrated in ELSNET's Roadmap,
and given wide distribution via ELSNET's communication channels
(website, newsletter, discussion forums, etc).
Target audience
A workshop of this type will be most appealing to people who are
interested in developing longer term strategic views, e.g. senior
scientists in charge of longer term research policies (both in
academia and in industry), but also researchers and developers who
have specific views on what will happen or what should happen, should
feel invited to attend and contribute, as well as people who are
responsible for the education of future generartions of researchers
and developers.
Papers
We invite papers that can contribute to the creation and further
improvement of the roadmap for our field, such as (but not limited
to):
* visions of the future
* identification of major challenges emanating from research results
or from application needs
* identification of major milestones on our way towards our goals
and their interdependencies
* comparative assessment of technologies and their impact on our
future
* ways to address the growing demand for training, especially (but
noy exclusively) across disciplines and aimed at professionals
already working in the field
* ways to address the increasing needs for novel resources, both for
the commercially interesting languages and for other languages
Other contributions
We also invite proposals for other possible contributions to this
workshop, such as (but not limited to):
* Proposals for a panel session. Proposers should describe the
specific topic of a one hour panel session, including names of
potential panelists. The proposer of an accepted panel should be
prepared to assist the ELSNET team in the organisation of the
panel.
* Proposals to act as a rapporteur for a specific subtheme of the
main conference. Proposers should be willing to give an up to 15
minutes report on the impact the papers related to this subtheme
presented at the main conference on the future development of our
field. Proposals should identify the proposer's preferred
subtheme, and should provide evidence that the proposer has
sufficient professional experience to do this job (e.g. a CV,
pointers to relevant publications, supporting letters from
colleagues, etc.).
Panel reports and subtheme reports will be given wide distribution
after the workshop, but by their nature they can not be published in
the proceedings. In order to compensate panel organisers and
rapporteurs for the fact that their efforts -however impactful they
may turn out to be- will not result in standard academic publications,
ELSNET will reimburse their workshop registration fee.
Submission and calendar
Abstracts for workshop papers, panel proposals or proposals to act as
a rapporteur should not exceed four A4 pages, and should be sent
electronically in plain ASCII text, in MS Word or in PDF format to
Steven.Krauwer@elsnet.org by Sunday, May 05 2002.
Deadline for Submissions: Sun 05 May 2002
Notification of Acceptance for papers,
panels and rapporteurs: Fri 24 May 2002
Final Versions of Papers Due: Fri 28 June 2002
Workshop: Sat 31 August 2002
Registration and other information
Registration details and other information will be published on the
main conference website:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
The URL for this workshop is
http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-coling2002.html
Workshop PC
*composition to be confirmed*
Contact
Steven Krauwer (Chair), steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl
ELSNET / Utrecht University http://www.elsnet.org
Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050
3512 JK UTRECHT, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000
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