Subject: SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
From: Eugene Charniak <ec@cs.brown.edu>
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 15:26:12 -0500 (EST)



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		SIXTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA


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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
	Steven Abney			Lillian Lee
	Eric Brill			Christopher Manning
	Ted Briscoe			Dan Melamed
	Rebecca Bruce			Scott Miller
	Claire Cardie			Raymond Mooney
	Bob Carpenter			James Pustejovksy
	Glen Carroll			Lance Ramshaw
	Ken Church			Adwait Rathnaparkhi
	Michael Collins			Ellen Riloff
	Joshua Goodman			Hinrich Schutze
	Vasilis Hatzivassiloglou	Ralph Weischedel
	Mark Johnson 			Janyce Wiebe
	Andrew Kehler			Dekai Wu
	John Lafferty			David Yarowsky

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

WEB SITES:  For COLING-ACL'98 - http://coling-acl'98.iro.umontreal.ca 

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.  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 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