CALL FOR PAPERS NLPRS'2001 Workshop Automatic Paraphrasing: Theories and Applications Tokyo, JAPAN, November 30, 2001 http://www.slt.atr.co.jp/~yamamoto/pub/NLPRS2001WS.html Today, we encounter a lot of electronic texts and documents everywhere. New NLP technologies that help us use these texts and documents easily are needed. For example, summarization of a text is necessary to reduce the text length to fit to small screen of mobile terminals: simplification of a text is beneficial to help children, elders, and non-natives understand the text more easily. The core technology that realizes these examples is automatic paraphrasing: it changes text parameters such as length, readability, and style for a specific purpose, without losing the core meaning of the text. In some sense, automatic paraphrasing can be viewed as machine translation within a single language. Paraphrasing ability may be closely connected to the ability to understand. If we can make a system that paraphrases a text, as human beings do, we may claim that the system understands the text. Recently, the number of researchers who are interested in paraphrasing is increasing in the research community of natural language processing. This workshop aims to bring together researchers of (automatic) paraphrasing to promote the exchange of their ideas and experiences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * what is paraphrasing? * relation between paraphrasing and understanding * word level paraphrasing, sentence level paraphrasing, discourse level paraphrasing * difference between paraphrasing and summarization * words defined by words or sentences * how to create knowledge for automatic paraphrasing * paraphrasing in text generation * paraphrasing for mobile terminal screen * paraphrasing for machine translation * paraphrasing for Web document summarization * paraphrasing for structured document such as XML Workshop schedule: * Workshop paper submissions August 4, 2001 * Notification of acceptance September 1, 2001 * Deadline for camera-ready papers September 20, 2001 Submission details: Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the two-column format prescribed by NLPRS'2001. Please see http://www.r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/NLPRS2001.html Papers should be sent electronically in either Word, pdf, or postscript format to: Satoshi Sato sato@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Program Committee: Satoshi Sato (Kyoto University, JAPAN) co-chair Hiroshi Nakagawa (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN) co-chair Kazuhide Yamamoto (ATR, JAPAN) Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology/PRESTO, JAPAN) Sadao Kurohashi (The University of Tokyo/PRESTO, JAPAN) Kentaro Torisawa (JAIST/PRESTO, JAPAN) Hideki Kashioka (ATR, JAPAN) Katashi Nagao (IBM, JAPAN) Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA) Toshihiko Watanabe (The University of Tokyo, JAPAN) Hidetaka Masuda (Tokyo Denki University, JAPAN)