Applied Natural Language Processing
 

Topics

We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas:

    * NL-based Knowledge Representations and Systems
    * Applied Linguistics and First and Second Language Acquisition
    * English for Specific Purposes
    * Textual assessment indices
    * Syntax
    * Semantics
    * Coreference Resolution
    * Word Sense Disambiguation
    * Text Cohesion and Coherence
    * Dialogue Management and Systems
    * Language Generation
    * Language Models
    * Human Computer Interfaces - in particular, multimodal human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer communication channel for the handicapped and elderly
    * Machine Learning applied to NL problems
    * Multilingual Processing
    * Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and     Annotation Languages
    * NL in Learning Environments
    * Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning
    * Applications: Machine Translation, Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction, etc.
    * 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, 2006. 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. For FLAIRS-20, the 2007 conference, the reviewing is not blind. 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://www.easychair.org/FLAIRS20/.
Please, check the website http://www.flairs.com/ for information regarding submission.
 
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.
 
Further Information

Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs:

    * Philip McCarthy, pmmccrth@memphis.edu
    * Christian F. Hempelmann, hempelma@mac.com

 

    * http://homepage.mac.com/hempelma/flairs07.html