CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Special Issue on MEMORY-BASED LANGUAGE PROCESSING Memory-Based Language Processing (MBLP) views language processing as being based on the direct reuse of previous experience rather than on the use of abstractions extracted from that experience. In such a framework, language acquisition is modeled as the storage of exemplars, and language processing as similarity-based reasoning. MBLP derives from work in Artificial Intelligence (case-based reasoning, memory-based reasoning, instance-based learning, lazy learning), Linguistics (analogical modeling), Computational Linguistics (example-based machine translation, case-based language processing, data-oriented parsing), and Statistical Pattern Recognition (k-nn models). In recent research, it has been shown that the application of algorithms based on this framework leads to accurate and efficient language models in diverse language processing areas (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse). We invite theoretical papers on models, algorithms and metrics for memory-based language processing, and empirical studies comparing MBLP variants to each other or to alternative non-memory-based approaches for specific language processing tasks. Time Table Deadline for submissions: September 1, 1998 Notification Date: November 1, 1998 Deadline for final versions: January 1, 1999 Special Issue: Summer or Autumn 1999 Instructions for Authors: 1. The original manuscript and three clear copies should be submitted to: Walter Daelemans (guest editor) ILK Research Group, Computational Linguistics Tilburg University Warandelaan 2 5037 GC Tilburg Building B, Room 307 The Netherlands +31 13 4663070 (Phone) +31 13 4663110 (Fax) walter.daelemans@kub.nl All papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers. 2. All papers must be in English. The entire manuscript should be typed on one side only of plain paper, either A4 or 8.5 x 11 inch, with double spacing used throughout. 3. The first page of the manuscript should carry the title, the names, institutional addresses, and institutional telephone numbers of the authors, and a short title of no more than 50 characters (including spaces) to be used as a running head. The second page of the manuscript should carry an abstract of about 200 words. The remainder of the text should not exceed 30 double spaced pages, including references but excluding figures and tables. All figures and tables must be referred to by number in the text. 4. An original set of professional quality figures should accompany the manuscript. Line drawing may be India ink originals or glossy prints. Halftone illustrations must be submitted as glossy prints. Illustrations cannot be printed in color. 5. Tables should be typed on separate pages, which should accompany the text. 6. The text should be written in third person to facilitate blind reviewing. The names of the authors or their institutions should appear only on the title page. 7. The name-date style should be used for all references. All authors' names should be included in the reference list. Journal names should not be abbreviated. Inclusive page numbers must be given for all references to articles in journals, proceedings volumes, or books. With the exception of theses or dissertations, unpublished works should not be included as references. 8. Footnotes may not be used. Endnotes may be used if necessary; they should be collected on separate sheets at the end of the text. 9. Fifty free offprints will be provided to the first author of each paper. There will be no page charges.