The ANLP-NAACL 2000 Submission Notification Form is now available on the conference Web site: http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000 This form should be filled out by November 10, one week before the paper submission deadline of November 17. Language Technology Joint Conference Applied Natural Language Processing and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics General Conference Chair: Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies ANLP Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU NAACL Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, NMSU CALL FOR PAPERS Contents: 1. Overview 2. ANLP Call for Papers 3. NAACL Call for Papers 4. Format for Submissions 5. Deadlines 1. Overview The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) conference and the first conference of the new North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May 2000 in Seattle, Washington. The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of computational linguistics and natural language processing, from theory and methodology to their application in commercial software. For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17 November 1999. See submission details below. The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following subject areas: * Monolingual text processing systems * Multilingual text processing systems * Spoken language and multimodal systems * Integrated NLP systems * Tools and resources for developing NLP systems * Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches, algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main areas: * Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics * Semantics and the Lexicon * Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology * Generation and Summarization * Spoken Language * Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing * Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction * Multilingual Natural Language Processing There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP, authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a particular problem. A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. A paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is withdrawn from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be indicated on the paper. Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However, in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial distinctions. We also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from both a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective; we welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission needs to make a significant contribution on its own. Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts with your submission, though decisions will be made independently and acceptance of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other. Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission template empty. 2. ANLP Call for Papers ANLP Call for Papers Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference 29 April to 3 May 2000 Seattle, Washington Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following subject areas: Monolingual Text Processing Systems. Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information extraction, text summarization and related applications. Multilingual Text Processing Systems. Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation, machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval, multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization, text data mining and related applications. Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems. Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms. Integrated NLP Systems. Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, USA Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded NLP systems and integration of legacy systems. Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems. Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies, processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP systems. Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems. Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA Methodologies, case studies and tools. 3. NAACL Call for Papers NAACL Call for Papers 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 29 April to 3 May 2000 Seattle, Washington Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms, models, analyses, and experiments. See the separate Call for Student Papers (to be announced) for requirements for submissions to the student sessions. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main areas, as follows. Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics. Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research. Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue; Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation; Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design, evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing. Semantics and the Lexicon. Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto. Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories; Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development. Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology. Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research. Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic, morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and shallow parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal properties of symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars. Generation and Summarization. Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization; User-customized generation and summarization; Evaluation methodologies for generation and summarization; Application of generation, information extraction, and information retrieval techniques to summarization. Spoken Language. Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International. Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.); Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for speech recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g., dialogue) for speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into sentences, topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with other modalities such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech translation. Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing. Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba. Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping between schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs; Induction of patterns and structures such as selectional frames and concept hierarchies; Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining and knowledge discovery from text; Distributional similarity; Learning applied to NLP, including bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy learning. Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland. Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing, language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition; Use of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of interfaces that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia interfaces), by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical methods. Multilingual Natural Language Processing. Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute. Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments, including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation (direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual, statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons; Lexical acquisition for machine translation and cross-language information retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing tasks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their submission corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of these areas are also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least three experts. There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP, authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a particular problem. 4. Format for Submissions Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word style ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page) and may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title page and references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the required format will be available on the conference web page. If you cannot access the conference web page, send email to anlp-naacl2000@bbn.com with subject SUBSTYLE. Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages are required. The identification page should include the following. It should be sent in a separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself. * Title * Paper ID Code: see below * Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP) * Word Count, excluding title page and references * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary The title page should include: * Title * Paper ID Code: see below * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP) * Word Count, excluding title page and references * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....". Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being rejected without review. SUBMISSION QUESTIONS NAACL submission questions should be sent to: naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu Program Chair, NAACL 2000 Computing Research Laboratory BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 ANLP submission questions should be sent to: anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu Program Chair, ANLP 2000 Computing Research Laboratory BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials, workshops, and the student session will be available on the conference web site. The conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home Page, www.aclweb.org, in the near future. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE 1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission by filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before the submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID number that should be included on the identification page, the title page and the header of every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all correspondence with the program committee chair. The form will be available on the web after October 1. 2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your submission to: naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g., "naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc". Please submit the identification page in a separate email. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made. 5. Deadlines Submission notification deadline: 10-Nov-99 Paper submission deadline: 17-Nov-99 Notification of acceptance for papers: 01-Feb-00 Camera ready papers due: 12-Mar-00 Regular sessions begin: 01-May-00 A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final version.