Trends in Natural Language Processing Lugar Florida cod Pais Estados Unidos Inicio: 11 mayo 2006 Fin: 13 mayo 2006 Convocatoria: hasta 21-11-2005 Comentarios: Goal The track on Trends in Natural Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing(NLP)/computational linguistics(CL) and related areas. The rapid pace of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools capable to understand, organize and mine those materials. Novel human-computer interfaces, for instance talking heads, can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with big impact on user satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with disabilities (no typing needed) and elderly leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems. While papers and contributions on traditional basic and applied language processing issues are welcome, the 2006 track will emphasize novel challenges to the NLP/CL community: multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, security, etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech processing and machine learning that present novel approaches that can benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL. Topics We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas: 1. NL-based Knowledge Representations and systems 2. Lexical Semantics 3. Syntax 4. Semantics 5. Coreference Resolution 6. Word Sense Disambiguation 7. Text Cohesion and Coherence 8. Dialogue Management and Systems 9. Language Generation 10. Language Models 11. Human Computer Interfaces - in particular multimodal human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable human-computer communication channel for handicapped and elderly 12. Machine Learning applied to NL problems 13. Multilingual Processing 14. Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages 15. NL in Learning Environments 16. Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning 17. Applications: Machine Translation, Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction, etc. 18. others Submission Guidelines Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines. The papers should not exceed 6 pages and are due by November 21, 2005. Please note the change from 5 to 6 pages from the first CFP. Additional pages (7 and more) have to be cleared by the program chairs and will be $100 each. The papers should not identify the author(s) in any manner. Authors should indicate the special track if one exists that closely matches the topic of their paper. All submissions will be done electronically via the FLAIRS web submission system available through the paper submission site at http://earth.cs.ccsu.edu/~flairs/submission.html. Conference Proceedings Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2007. Further Information Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs: Vasile Rus at vrus@memphis.edu Viviana Nastase at vnastase@csi.uottawa.ca Important dates Paper submission deadline: November 21, 2005. Notifications sent by: January 20, 2006. Camera Ready paper due: February 13, 2006. * http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~vrus/flairs06.html