--------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 9-10 October, 2005 Vancouver, BC, Canada ~~~~ http://bulba.sdsu.edu/iwpt05 ~~~~ ACL/SIGPARSE will host the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03) on October 9 and 10, 2005 in conjunction with the 2005 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP; see http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ml/HLT-EMNLP05/home.html). IWPT'05 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organized by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000; Beijing (China) in 2001; and Nancy (France) in 2003. Topics of interest for IWPT'05 -------------------------------- Topics of interest for IWPT'05 include, but are not limited to: theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) or signed languages, multimedia (web) documents, and parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both knowledge-based and statistical approaches are welcome. Submitting Papers ----------------- Two types of submissions are invited: - full papers, to be presented as such during the workshop and to be published in the workshop proceedings (maximally 12 pages); - short papers, to be presented at the workshop in the form of a poster plus a summary oral presentation in a short-paper session; two-page summaries will be published in the workshop proceedings. Prospective authors are invited to send their submissions electronically through the website http://bulba.sdsu.edu/iwpt05 (see below for formatting and submission instructions). Full papers should not exceed 12 pages; short papers should not exceed 8 pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript or pdf form. Send electronic submssions to: iwpt05@bulba.sdsu.edu Only in case electronic submission is impossible, four (4) hard copies of the the paper should be sent. Hardcopy submissions should be sent to the program chair: Rob Malouf Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182-7727 USA Time schedule: Deadline for paper submission: 1 July 2005 Notification of acceptance : 5 August 2005 Final papers due : 28 August 2005 Workshop : 9-10 October 2005 Instruction for authors ----------------------- Detailed formatting and submission instructions for authors are available through the IWPT'05 home page at: http://bulba.sdsu.edu/iwpt05 or can be obtained from the program chairman (see address above). Program Committee ------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by (or under the supervision of) the international IWPT'05 Program Committee, consisting of the following members: Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA) Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA) John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) Ulf Hermjakob (USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, USA) Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Ronald Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA) Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA) Dan Klein (UC Berkeley, USA) Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Bob Moore (Microsoft, Redmond, USA) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway) Stefan Riezler (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA) Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Grenoble, France) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK) Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI and Univeritat des Saarlandes, Germany) Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France) K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Organization ------------ General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Program Chair: Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA) Logistic Arrangements Chair: Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'05 is available at the URL: http://bulba.sdsu.edu/iwpt05 At the site http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities.