SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA

Preliminary Call for Papers

WHEN: August 15-16, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)

WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

As in past years, the workshop will offer a general forum for new research in corpus-based and statistical natural language processing. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):

• robust parsing, phrase structure analysis
• part of speech tagging
• term and name identification
• word sense disambiguation
• morphological analysis
• anaphora resolution
• event categorization
• discourse structure identification
• alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
• language modelling
• lexicography
• machine translation
• spelling and grammar correction

PROGRAM CHAIR:

Eugene Charniak Brown University

SPONSOR: SIGDAT (ACL's special interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP)

FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:

Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-8000 words) to Eugene Charniak at the Johns Hopkins University address below. Authors should consult the primary call for papers in February for updated specifications.

SCHEDULE:

Submission Deadline: April 20, 1998
Notification Date: June 1, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 22, 1998

CONTACT:

   Eugene Charniak
   e-mail ec@cs.brown.edu

   Address:     Before February 1, 1998 and After June 1, 1998

        Department of Computer Science
        Brown University
        Providence RI 02912-1910

   Address:     From February 1, 1998 until June 1, 1998

        Department of Computer Science
        Johns Hopkins University
        NEB 224, 3400 N. Charles Street
        Baltimore, MD 21218-2694