Return-Path: Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05897; 14 Dec 93 21:15:13 EST Received: from Csli.Stanford.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa17837; 14 Dec 93 21:15:03 EST Received: from localhost.Stanford.EDU by CSLI.Stanford.EDU (4.1/25-CSLI-eef) id AA08732; Tue, 14 Dec 93 16:54:13 PST Message-Id: <9312150054.AA08732@CSLI.Stanford.EDU> From: pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Paul Jacobs) (by way of yarowsky@unagi.cis.upenn.edu (David Yarowsky)) Subject: 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing - Call for Papers To: empiricists@CSLI.Stanford.EDU Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 16:54:12 -0800 Sender: roscheis@CSLI.Stanford.EDU CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing Stuttgart, Germany October 13-15, 1994 sponsored by Association for Computational Linguistics PURPOSE Like previous ACL Applied conferences, this meeting will bring together researchers and developers from around the world to focus on the application of natural language processing to real problems. The program will include invited and contributed papers, an industrial exhibition, and demonstrations. This year's conference will aim especially to promote participation from both industry and academia and to feature work with potential business impact. AREAS OF INTEREST Original papers are solicited in all areas of applied natural language processing, including but not limited to: dialog systems; integrated speech and natural language systems; machine translation; explanation and generation; database interface systems; tool development; text and message processing; automated document management; grammar and style checking; corpus development; knowledge acquisition; lexicons; language teaching aids; evaluation; adaptive systems; multilanguage systems; multimedia systems; help systems; and other applications. Papers may discuss applications, evaluations, limitations, and general tools and techniques. Papers that critically evaluate an approach or language processing strategy are especially welcome. REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION Authors should submit, by 2 May 1994, a) six copies of a full-length paper (min 9, max 15 double-spaced pages, minimum font size 12, exclusive of references); and b) 16 copies of a 20-30 line abstract. A paper accepted for presentation at the meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. Papers arriving after the deadline will be returned unopened. FAX papers will not be reviewed; however, electronic submissions will be allowed using the same guidelines as the 1994 ACL conference. Papers should be submitted to the Program Chair: Paul Jacobs (ANLP-94) Institute for Research in Cognitive Science 3401 Walnut St., Suite 400C, Rm. 420 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 +1-215-898-0332 pjacobs@unagi.cis.upenn.edu +1-215-573-2048 fax Electronic submissions should be either self-contained LaTeX source or plain text. Submissions should include the words ``ANLP-94 submission'' in the subject field. LaTeX submissions must use the ACL submission style (aclsub.sty) retrievable from the ACL LISTSERV server (access to which is described below) and should not refer to any external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14 and LaTeX 2.09. A model submission modelsub.tex is also provided in the archive, as well as a bibliography style acl.bst. (Note that the bibliography for a submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file.) Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by 5 July 1994. Full-length versions of accepted papers, prepared according to instructions, must be received, along with a signed copyright release statement, by 22 August 1994. All papers will be reviewed by members of the program committee, which includes the Program Chair and the following individuals: Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Peter Norvig, Sun Microsystems Harry Bunt, Tilburg University Hans Joachim Novak, IBM Jim Cowie, NMSU/CRL Martha Palmer, Univ. of Penn. Ido Dagan, AT&T Bell Labs Manny Rayner, SRI Robert Ingria, BBN Donia Scott, Univ. of Brighton Richard Kittredge, Univ. of Montreal Oliviero Stock, IRST Kazunori Muraki, NEC Annie Zaenen, Xerox VIDEOTAPES Videotapes are sought that display interesting research on NLP applications to real-world problems, even if presented as promotional videos (not advertisements). An ongoing video presentation will be organized that will demonstrate the current level of usefulness of NLP tools and techniques. Authors should submit one copy of a videotape of at most 15 minutes duration, accompanied by a submission letter giving permission to copy the tape to a standard format and two copies of a one to two page abstract that includes: title, name and address and email or fax number of authors; tape format of the submitted tape (VHS, any of NTSC, PAL or SECAM); duration. Tape submissions should be sent to the same address as the papers (see above). The timetable for submissions, notification of acceptance or rejection, and receipt of final versions is the same as for the papers. See above for details. DEMONSTRATIONS In addition to demonstrations carried on within a regular booth at the industrial exhibition, there will be a program of demonstrations on standard equipment available at the conference (SUN's, MAC's, etc.). Prizes may be awarded to the best industrial and non-industrial demos. Anyone wishing to present a demo should send a one-page demo description and a specification of the system requirements by 20 June 1994 to: Uwe Reyle Institut f"ur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universit"at Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart +49-711-1211361 Germany +49-711-1211366 fax reyle@ims.uni-stuttgart.de TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION The conference will have facilities for a variety of special events, including tutorials and workshops before the conference, and an industrial exhibition during the conference. Proposals for workshops, and inquiries about the industrial exhibition, should be sent to Uwe Reyle at the address above. Persons wishing to arrange an exhibit should send a brief description with a specification of physical requirements (space, power, telephone connections, etc.) by 2 May 1994. Tutorials will be coordinated by: Christian Rohrer Institut f"ur Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung Universit"at Stuttgart Azenbergstr. 12 D-70174 Stuttgart +49-711-1211364 Germany +49-711-1211366 fax rohrer@ims.uni-stuttgart.de GENERAL INFORMATION Local arrangements are co-chaired by Uwe Reyle and Christian Rohrer. For information regarding facilities and local arrangements, contact Uwe Reyle at the above adress. ACL LISTSERV LISTSERV is a facility to allow access to an electronic document archive by electronic mail. The ACL LISTSERV has been set up at Columbia University's Department of Computer Science. Requests from the archive should be sent as e-mail messages to listserv@cs.columbia.edu with an empty subject field and the message body containing the request command. The most useful requests are "help" for general help on using LISTSERV, "index acl-l" for the current contents of the ACL archive and "get acl-l " to get a particular file named from the archive. 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