Subject: WVLC-5 CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 96 11:03:17 EST
From: joez@lexis-nexis.com (Joe F. Zhou)
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, sigart@vaxa.isi.edu, linguist@tamsun.tamu.edu

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special
interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to
NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the


      FIFTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-5) 


WHEN: August 18-20, 1997  

WHERE:  Tsinghua University, Beijing, China            (August 18, 1997)   
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (August 20, 1997)

     WVLC5 will immediately precede ROCLING '97 (Aug 22-24, Taiwan) 
     and IJCAI '97 (Aug 24-29, Nagoya, Japan).

     This workshop will take place in two consecutive sessions sharing a 
     common program committee and proceedings. Authors may specify at 
     which session(s) they wish to present their papers. 

SPONSORED BY:

   The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
   LEXIS-NEXIS, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

   This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer a
   general international forum for the presentation of new advances
   and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural
   language processing.

   The fifth workshop will focus on the theme of:
  
         Innovative and practical uses of large corpora in real-world 
	 applications
  
   Gigabytes and terabytes of on-line unrestricted natural language text
   have become commonplace today. How are these resources actually being 
   used in commercial as well as research applications? What robust and 
   efficient techniques exist for analyzing and organizing these resources?
   The workshop encourages contributions that demonstrate innovative 
   applications of corpus-based NLP to problems of practical commercial
   importance.
  
   The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer
   a focus for discussion and debate between academic researchers and 
   industrial practitioners. We also expect and will welcome a diverse set 
   of submissions in all areas of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including 
   (but not limited to)
  
   Text Analysis Techniques:
        - part of speech tagging
        - term and name identification
        - morphological analysis
        - robust parsing
        - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology
        - sense disambiguation
        - anaphora resolution
        - event categorization
        - discourse structure
  
   Applications:
        - information retrieval
	- information extraction
	- text categorization and summarization
        - lexicography
        - machine translation
        - spelling and grammar correction
        - recognition: speech, OCR, handwriting, etc.


PROGRAM CHAIRS:

   Huang Changning - Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)
   Ken Church      - AT&T Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ, USA)
   Joe Zhou        - LEXIS-NEXIS (Dayton, OH, USA)


FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION:   Authors should submit a full-length paper
(3500-8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "WVLC5@lexis-nexis.com" and must either 
be (a) plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or (c) a single 
latex file following the ACL-97 stylesheet (no separate figures or .bib 
files). Hard copy submissions should be mailed to Ken Church (address 
below), and should include four (4) copies of the paper.

REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any
other meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered,
as long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission.

SCHEDULE:

  Submission Deadline:    April 7, 1997
  Notification Date:      May 20, 1997
  Camera ready copy due:  July 1, 1997

CONTACT:

   Ken Church                         Joe Zhou
   Room 2B-421                        LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier
   AT&T Laboratories                  9555 Springboro Pike
   Murray Hill, NJ 07974  USA         Dayton, OH 45342  USA
   e-mail: kwc@research.att.com       email: joez@lexis-nexis.com