From cook@cse.uta.edu Wed Mar 2 17:59:43 EST 1994 Article: 20826 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20826 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!ghost.dsi.unimi.it!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news!cse.uta.edu!cook From: cook@cse.uta.edu (Diane Cook) Subject: Call For Papers, NTNLP workshop Message-ID: <1994Feb15.220744.23953@news.uta.edu> Sender: news@news.uta.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: cse.uta.edu Organization: Computer Science Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 22:07:44 GMT Lines: 88 ================================================================================ Call for Papers North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop ================================================================================ Motivation Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a fast growing area of research and development. Both government and industry have high interest in NLP systems, and there is a need for more research and progress in this area. A workshop in NLP is being organized at UT-Arlington with the intent of bringing researchers together to share their recent results with each other. Participants from industry as well as academia are invited to attend the workshop, and to participate in discussions. Research in NLP is timely because there is a convergence in several areas such as high-performance computer technology, large data storage systems, and new results in parsing and reasoning. Recently, several research sites have gained experience in building systems with large knowledge bases for processing natural language. Some of these sites have participated in the TIPSTER program, and some in the Message Understanding Conferences (MUC). The availability of large ontologies such as WordNet will undoubtably stimulate construction of even larger linguistic knowledge bases. Workshop Format Researchers are invited to submit an extended summary (approximately 1000 words) of their papers to the workshop committee. Abstracts should describe original results. The intent is to accommodate as many presentations as possible and to allow ample time for discussion. Currently, the workshop is intended for one day; however, if there are a large number of participants, the workshop will be extended to two days. Participation is open to all interested individuals, and is not restricted to researchers from North Texas. Individuals who do not wish to submit a paper for presentation are invited to attend the workshop and participate in discussions. Important Dates Extended summaries should be submitted to the workshop committee no later than March 15, 1994. Authors will be notified of paper acceptance by April 11, 1994, and final copies of papers are due on May 10, 1994. Papers must be submitted in hard copy to the address below, and will be assembled into the proceedings, which will be available at the workshop. Electronic versions of ASCII or Postscript submissions may also be sent to ntnlp@centauri.uta.edu. The workshop will take place at the University of Texas at Arlington on May 23. Registration information will be sent to all submitters and will be available upon request. Cost The workshop fee is $50.00, and includes a copy of the proceedings and refreshments. Workshop Committee Diane Cook, co-chair University of Texas at Arlington Dan Moldovan, co-chair Southern Methodist University Don Burquest University of Texas at Arlington Jerry Edmondson University of Texas at Arlington Charles Hannon University of Texas at Arlington Sanda-Maria Harabagiu University of Southern California Kenneth J. Hendrickson University of Southern California John Paolillo University of Texas at Arlington Lynn Peterson University of Texas at Arlington Gary Simons International Linguistics Center (SIL) Send all correspondences to North Texas Natural Language Processing Workshop c/o Diane Cook University of Texas at Arlington Box 19015 Arlington, TX 76019 ntnlp@centauri.uta.edu