--------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------- Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2) WHEN: August 1-2, 1997 (Immediately following AAAI-97) WHERE: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION: In the spirit of SIGDAT events, this conference will offer a general forum for novel research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - robust parsing, phrase structure analysis - part of speech tagging - term and name identification - word sense disambiguation - morphological analysis - anaphora resolution - event categorization - discourse structure identification - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology - language modelling - lexicography - machine translation - spelling and grammar correction SPECIAL SESSIONS: INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL In addition, we encourage submissions that describe and evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, and recent advances in corpus-based NLP as applied to INFORMATION EXTRACTION and INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (IR). In recent years a number of corpus-based techniques for the automatic linguistic annotation of text have been developed. How well do these techniques for lexical tagging, parsing, anaphora resolution, etc., handle the specific problems encountered in practical language processing tasks like information extraction and information retrieval? When and how do current techniques fail? What new methods have been developed to address the deficiencies of existing algorithms for these tasks or to address problems specific to information extraction? What problems still lack an adequate empirical solution? How can data-driven NLP methods be used to improve the performance of IR systems? Conversely, how can feedback from an IR system effectively inform empirical techniques for natural language understanding? PROGRAM CHAIRS: Claire Cardie Cornell University (chair) Ralph Weischedel BBN Systems and Technologies (co-chair) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Ted Briscoe Cambridge University Rebecca Bruce Southern Methodist University Mike Collins University of Pennsylvania Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst Carl de Marcken Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joshua Goodman Harvard University Eduard Hovy USC Information Sciences Institute Nancy Ide Vassar College K.L. Kwok Queens College, CUNY John Lafferty Carnegie Mellon University Steve Maiorano ORD Kemal Oflazer Bilkent University Philip Resnik University of Maryland Dekai Wu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology David Yarowsky Johns Hopkins University LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Eugene Charniak Brown University SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP) FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full-length paper (3500-8000 words) either electronically or in hardcopy. Electronic submissions should be mailed to "cardie@cs.cornell.edu" and must either be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file (US letter format), or (c) a LaTex file. In the latter case, please use the aclsub style file and include only .EPS (encapsulated postscript) figures. The aclsub style file is available at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty or via ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/cardie/emnlp/aclsub.sty. Hardcopy submissions should be mailed to Claire Cardie (address below), and should include six (6) copies of the paper. REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission. SCHEDULE: Submission deadline: March 3, 1997 Notification date: April 21, 1997 Camera-ready copy due: June 10, 1997 Conference dates: August 1-2, 1997 CONTACTS: Claire Cardie Ralph Weischedel Cornell University BBN Systems and Technologies Department of Computer Science 70 Fawcett Street 4142 Upson Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Ithaca, NY 14850 USA USA cardie@cs.cornell.edu weischedel@bbn.com (607)255-9206 (617)873-3496 FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/cardie/emnlp2.html http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html