SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS EACL 2003 Workshop on The Computational Treatment of Anaphora April 14th 2003 Budapest, Hungary Workshop Topic The study of anaphora has long been central to work in natural language processing, in terms of both the resolution and generation of anaphoric forms. Work in the area stretches from the extremely theoretical, where issues in the philosophy of language are raised, to the extremely practical, as evidence by the coreference task in the Message Understanding Conferences. Submissions from across this spectrum are invited for this workshop, whose aim is to encourage more speculative thinking in areas that we believe have been underexplored. In particular: First, recent interest in information extraction has tended to focus interest in the resolution of pronominal anaphora and reduced definite NP anaphora, particularly with respect to proper names. Although these topics are obviously of great significance, this focus has meant that work on other aspects of anaphora has been, in our view, neglected. Second, we recognise that relevant work in each of natural language understanding (where the major focus has been pronominal anaphor resolution) and natural language generation (where the major focus has been the generation of subsequent references) has generally been pursued independently of the other. We would like to encourage papers that explore how insights from one area can be used in the other. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - one-anaphora - associative anaphora - forms of anaphora where either the anaphor or the antecedent is not a noun phrase - presuppositions as anaphora - shared knowledge sources in analysis and generation - the development and exploitation of annotated corpora - evaluations of anaphor resolution and generation - cross-document coreference - comparisons of formal and computational treatments of anaphora - knowledge-poor vs knowledge-rich approaches Workshop Format The workshop will be one day in duration. Each presentation will last for 20 minutes, followed by a 10 minute discussion period. Submission Format Authors should submit a full paper of no more than six pages by the deadline stated below. Your paper should include a descriptive abstract of around 100 words, and should follow the formatting guidelines for the main EACL conference, as detailed at http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03. Submissions should be made electronically as either PDF or PS files, preferably the former: if you are submitting a PS file, please send a version of this a week before the stated deadline so that we can ensure there are no problems with printing. Submissions should be sent by email to eacl03ws@ics.mq.edu.au. Workshop Registration Refer to the main conference web pages at http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03 for details of registration. Important Dates Call for Papers distributed November 1, 2002 Submissions Deadline January 7, 2003 Notification Date January 28, 2003 Camera ready copy due February 13, 2003 Workshop Date April 14, 2003 Program Chairs Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Kees van Deemter, University of Brighton, UK Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Program Committee Members Amit Bagga, Avaya, USA David Beaver, Stanford, USA Antonio Branco, Lisbon, Portugal Claire Gardent, CNRS Nancy, France Helmut Horacek, Saarbruecken, Germany Pam Jordan, Pittsburgh, USA Rodger Kibble, London, UK Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg, The Netherlands Shalom Lappin, London, UK Josef Meyer, Macquarie, Australia Massimo Poesio, Essex, UK Ehud Reiter, Aberdeen, UK Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh, UK Contact Information If you have any enquiries regarding this workshop, contact the organisers via the workshop email address eacl03ws@ics.mq.edu.au. If for any reason this is problematic, contact Robert Dale Centre for Language Technology Division of Information and Communication Sciences Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia Email: Robert.Dale@mq.edu.au Tel: +61 2 9850 6331 Fax: +61 2 9850 9529