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CALL FOR PAPERS
Goal
The track on Trends in Natural Language Processing is a forum for
researchers working in natural language processing(NLP)/computational
linguistics(CL) and related areas. The rapid pace of development of online
materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media
(visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools capable to
understand, organize and mine those materials. Novel human-computer
interfaces, for instance talking heads, can benefit from language
understanding and generation techniques with big impact on user
satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction
for people with disabilities (no typing needed) and elderly leading to an
ever increasing user base for computer systems.
While papers and contributions on traditional basic and applied language
processing issues are welcome, the 2006 track will emphasize novel
challenges to the NLP/CL community: multilingual processing, learning
environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, security,
etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech processing
and machine learning that present novel approaches that can benefit from
or have an impact on NLP/CL.
Topics
We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited
to, the following areas:
1. NL-based Knowledge Representations and systems
2. Lexical Semantics
3. Syntax
4. Semantics
5. Coreference Resolution
6. Word Sense Disambiguation
7. Text Cohesion and Coherence
8. Dialogue Management and Systems
9. Language Generation
10. Language Models
11. Human Computer Interfaces - in particular multimodal human-computer
communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer
communication channel for handicapped and elderly
12. Machine Learning applied to NL problems
13. Multilingual Processing
14. Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation
Languages
15. NL in Learning Environments
16. Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning
17. Applications: Machine Translation, Summarization, Intelligent
Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction, etc.
18. others
Submission Guidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting
guidelines. The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by
November 21, 2005.
Please note the change from 5 to 6 pages from the first CFP.
Additional pages (7 and more) have to be cleared by the program chairs and
will be $100 each. The papers should not identify the author(s) in any
manner. Authors should indicate the special track if one exists that
closely matches the topic of their paper. All submissions will be done
electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system available through the
paper submission site at http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html.
Conference Proceedings
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Selected
authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a
special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence
Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2007.
Organizing Committee
Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis
Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa
Programme Committee
Andrew Gordon, USC/ICT
Art Graesser, University of Memphis
Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
Nicoletta Calzollari, CNR, Italy
Susan Haller, University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA
Tudor Muresan, Technical University of Cluj
Stephen Anthony, University of Sydney
Andrew Olney, University of Memphis
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa
Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University
Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis
Vivi Nastase, University of Ottawa
Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton
Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
Max Louwerse, University of Memphis
Carlo Strapparava, IRST
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University
Paul Morarescu, University of Texas, Dallas
Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School
Christian Hempelmann, Georgia Southern University
Roberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Peter Clark, Boeing
Further Information
Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to
the track co-chairs:
Vasile Rus at vrus@memphis.edu
Viviana Nastase at vnastase@csi.uottawa.ca
Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the
FLAIRS-2006 program co-chairs:
Geoff Sutcliffe, University of Miami
Randy Goebel, University of Alberta
General questions concerning the conference should be addressed to
the FLAIRS-2006 conference co-chairs:
Philip Chan, Florida Institute of Technology
Debasis Mitra, Florida Institute of Technology
Special Tracks Chair
Barry O'Sullivan, University College, Cork
Invited Speakers
Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Bob Morris, NASA Ames Research Center
Mehran Sahami, Stanford University and Google
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
Conference Web Sites
Paper submission site:
http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html
NLP Special Track web page:
http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~vrus/Flairs-06.html
FLAIRS-2006 conference web page:
http://www.indiana.edu/~flairs06/
Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS):
Related Special Track on KR and NL.
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