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From: Chin-Yew Lin (cyl@ISI.EDU)
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    CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline Extended: Oct 31, 2003)
     
    "Recent Advances in Statistical Language Modeling - Beyond N-grams"
    Special issue of ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information
    Processing
    (TALIP)
     
    Guest Editors:
    Jianfeng Gao, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
    Chin-Yew Lin, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
     
    Website:
    http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/TALIP
     
    Theme:
    Statistical language modeling (SLM) aims to estimate probability
    distribution of various linguistic units, such as words, sentences,
    and documents, for the purpose of many natural language applications.
    Over the last two decades, many attempts have been made to improve
    the state of the art. In this issue, we solicit papers showing recent
    advances of SLM in both theory and applications.
     
    Theory:
    It is ironical that the most popular language model (n-grams) uses very
    little language knowledge. In recent years, many attempts have been made
    that try to "put language back into language model". But little
    improvement
    has been achieved so far in realistic applications due to two major
    obstacles: (1) the number of parameters of the knowledge-based models is

    usually too large to estimate; (2) the construction and use of these
    models
    requires a large annotated training corpus and a decoder that assigns
    linguistic structure, which are not always available. We are seeking
    ideas
    that enhance our understanding of these core problems in SLM. We
    encourage
    submissions that describe principles, concepts or models on which work
    in
    SLM could be based.
     
    Application:
    SLM has been successfully applied in many applications such as speech
    recognition, Asian language input, information retrieval, and machine
    translation. We welcome submissions that demonstrate significant
    improvement
    in performance using knowledge-based models, present novel applications
    of
    SLM in new areas such as paraphrasing, question answering, and text
    summarization, or how SLM techniques are used in novel ways to improve
    the
    system's performance.
     
    Areas of interest include, but are not limit to:
     
    - Theory of statistical language modeling (SLM), including
    o Formal models (N-gram model, HMM, maximal entropy model,
    structural
             language model, word/class model, grammar model, etc.)
    o Parameter estimation (model smoothing/combination/adaptation)
    o Evaluation
    o Resource (tagged training data) for SLM
     
    - Applications of SLM, including the application of SLM in the areas
    of
    o Paraphrasing
    o Question answering
    o Text summarization
    o Speech recognition
    o Asian language input
    o Information retrieval
    o Named entity recognition
    o Text generation
    o Machine translation
     
    - Other statistical natural language processing methods beyond the
    scope of SLM, e.g. statistical parsing, machine learning for NLP etc.
     
    The tentative plan is to publish this special issue as volume 3, issue
    1,
    January 2004.
     
    Instructions for Submission
     
    Papers should follow the style guidelines for the ACM Transactions on
    Asian
    Language Information Processing
    (http://www.cintec.cuhk.edu.hk/~talip/web/).
    Papers should be sent to the guest editors, by the submission date
    listed below.
    The submission should be either:
     
    - Electronically to jfgao@microsoft.com. The "Subject:" line should
    be:
    TALIP Special Issue Submission.
    The following formats are acceptable:
     
                 - Postscript
                 - Adobe PDF
     
    If you cannot produce an electronic version in either of these formats,
    or if
    the editor informs you of a problem with your electronic submission,
    then please
    follow the instructions for hardcopy submission.
     
    - Or, Three hardcopies to:
     
          Jianfeng Gao
          Microsoft Research Asia
          5F, Beijing Sigma Center
          No. 49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District
          Beijing, 100080, P.R.C
     
          or
     
          Chin-Yew Lin
          USC/Information Sciences Institute
          4676 Admiralty Way
          Marina del Rey, CA 90292
          USA
     
     
    Important Dates
    Call for Papers: April 1, 2003
    Submission of Papers: October 31, 2003 (extended!)
    Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2004
    Final Version Due: March 15, 2004
    Special Issue Date: June, 2004
     

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    Chin-Yew LIN
    email: cyl@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute
    tel: 310-448-8711 4676 Admiralty Way
    fax: 310-822-0751 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695
    homepage: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl



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