[CLA'10] Computational Linguistics - Applications (CLA'10) Preliminary Announcement
Piotr W. Fuglewicz
Wisla, Poland, October 18-20, 2010
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Workshop Goals
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The Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop was created in
2008
in response to the fast-paced progress in the area.
Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists
specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers.
Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics,
computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a
number
of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes
developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems
using sophisticated heuristics.
Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of
the
Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle
unstructured text to allow search for information on the web.
According to
the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the
key
research areas for the upcoming years. The priority aim of the
research in
this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their
native language.
CLA'10 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views
and
ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on
practical
outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to
improve human-machine interaction.
Paper Topics
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This call is for papers that present research and developments on all
aspects of Natural Language Processing used in real-life applications,
such
as (this list is not exhaustive):
* information retrieval
* extraction of linguistic knowledge from text corpora
* semantic ontologies in computer linguistics
* lexical resources
* machine translation and translation aids
* ambiguity resolution
* text classification
* corpus-based language modeling
* POS-tagging
* parsing issues
* proofing tools
* dialogue systems
* machine learning methods applied to language processing
* ontology and taxonomy evaluation
* opinion mining
* question answering
* sentiment analysis
* speech and audio processing
* text summarization
* use of NLP techniques in practical applications
Paper Presentation
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The presentation of the paper has to include a demonstration of an
existing
tool. The papers should include a section describing the tool (or a
prototype), which demonstrates the theory discussed in the paper.
The presentation is divided into two parts. First, the author(s)
shortly
demonstrate their tools to the audience. In the second part, the
authors
discuss their work with other participants and let the audience test
their
software.
Papers will be evaluated and accepted on the basis of their technical
merit, usefulness of the real life application and relevance to the
workshop scope by the CLA'10 Program Committee. The paper will be
assessed
by academics as well as industry representatives in order to assure
fair
and balanced assessment.
All accepted and presented papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore(r) database. The best
demonstrations will be selected to be shown to the general audience of
the
conference at a plenary session.
Papers Submission
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* Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord
file).
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE
style).
IEEE style templates will be available ASAP.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific
merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore(r) database.
* Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between IMCSIT
events.
Important dates
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31.05.2010 (May 31, 2010) - Full paper submission
12.07.2010 (July 12, 2010) - Notification of acceptance
23.08.2010 (August 23, 2010) - Camera-ready version of the accepted
paper
CLA'09 post conference report
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It seems that the motto of our workshop "Show the system in action"
has
been accepted by the NLP community. This year 33 papers were submitted
(90%
increase from last year); 19 of them were accepted by the programming
committee. 15 papers were presented during the workshop - our guests
from
Iran or Tunisia seemingly found Poland too far away from their
homelands.
Still, 11 countries were represented in the workshop, mainly from the
Western Europe.
The workshop was composed of oral presentations and the demo-poster
session. Presentations, given on Tuesday (October, 12th), were divided
into
three sessions:
1. Information Retrieval,
2. Use of NLP Tools In practical application,
3. Parsing issues; Linguistic resources.
In the evening the audience voted for the best presentations of each
of the
session as well as the best overall performance. The voters used their
mobile phones and the result were known immediately - to the chairman.
The
winners were presented officially at the Gala Ceremony (In the Oscar
Ceremony fashion). The Information Retrieval session was one by Igor
Leturia from Spain - or rather his virtual agent who could fluently
answer
any question posed in the Basque language. The session on Practical
Applications was won by Eric Wehrli from Switzerland and his micro-
scanner
that read German texts and translated them into English. Parsing
issues
were best presented by charming Katarzyna Moroz from Poznan (Poland)
who
convinced the audience that her new parsing algorithm using pregroup
grammars will soon outperform existing ones. And finally, after the
three
nominees had been presented, the Oscar went to...Spain.
The demo-poster session took place on Wednesday morning. It looked as
if
the participants had not celebrated too long into the Tuesday night -
at 9
a.m. almost all of them were ready to put their applications under the
pressure of real tests. Well, the winner did not understand the
chairman's
Basque too well... she obviously preferred her master, Igor.
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