EACL 2003 Workshop

                        CALL FOR PAPERS

            Language Technology and the Semantic Web
            3rd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2003)
        http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/NLPXML3.html


Within the NLP community, XML is accepted as the standard for
data representation, especially for purposes of interchange and
software interoperability. However, XML and the standards that
surround it (XML schemas, XSL and XSLT, etc.) not only provide a
standard representation format, but, more abstractly, also define
a modeling language that has important ramifications for the ways
in which we organize data, annotations, software architecture,
etc. In addition, the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) and the
Ontology Web Language (OWL) define an overall architecture for
resources of all kinds whose eventual implications for natural
language processing are less well understood within the NLP
community.

The goal of this workshop is two-fold: (1) to provide a forum for
presentation and discussion of the use of XML and related
standards (RDF, OWL, etc.) in NLP (including resource and
software development, applications, tools, etc.); and (2) to
clarify the "big picture" for NLP applications and resources vis
a vis the XML framework and development of the Semantic Web. As
such, the workshop is intended not only for those already using
XML, but also members of the NLP community who seek a fuller
understanding of the motivations and implications of XML, the
Semantic Web, and related standards for the field.

Rather than arguing the overall merits and possibilities of the
Semantic Web, the workshop is intended to focus on the more
technical aspects of its use and implementation. The workshop
will include invited presentations that will cover in some depth
the XML/RDF/OWL/Semantic Web architecture and attempt to identify
the interactions among various activities (resource creation and
annotation, application development, etc.) as well as the
potential interactions with the RDF and Semantic Web layers. The
number of presented papers will be limited to allow ample time
for discussion and comment after each. This format should provide
a forum for interaction among members of possibly disparate
research communities, and a means for attendees to increase their
knowledge and understanding of Semantic Web technologies.

This workshop will be the third in a series, following on from
the first NLPXML Workshop held at NLPRS 2001 in Tokyo, Japan and
the second at COLING 2002 in Taipei, Taiwan. The purpose of the
workshop series is to enable communication and cooperative
development of XML/Semantic Web practices and standards for
language resource creation and use, application development, etc.


SUBMISSIONS

Topics

We invite submissions on (but not necessarily limited to) the
following topics:

- concrete examples of the use XML, RDF, OWL and the Semantic Web
  for NLP resources and applications
- XML/RDF/OWL use for linguistic annotation, including overall
  data architecture, implications for editorial practices,
  linkage mechanisms and issues for NLP data, etc.
- use of XML, RDF and OWL in Semantic Web-based question
  answering and document generation applications
- definition of data models and data categories for NLP using
  XML, RDF, OWL
- XML/RDF-based standards for NLP and language resources
- use of XML mechanisms (schemas, XSL, XSLT, links, etc.) in
  specific applications/resources
- XML/RDF-aware NLP tools

Submission format

Submissions should not exceed 8 pages in length, and must follow
the EACL style guidelines at 
    http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/format.html. 
Please send submissions in PDF or PS format as an email 
attachment to ide@cs.vassar.edu.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions due: 7 January 2003
Notification of acceptance: 28 January 2003
Camera-ready papers due: 13 February 2003
Workshop Date:  14 April 2003



WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Nancy Ide
Vassar College, USA
e-mail : ide@cs.vassar.edu

Laurent Romary
LORIA/CNRS, France
e-mail : romary@loria.fr

Graham Wilcock
University of Helsinki, Finland
e-mail: graham.wilcock@helsinki.fi


PRELIMINARY PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Germany)
Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)
Steve DeRose (Brown University, USA)
David Durand (Brown University, USA)
Tomaz Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Christophe Laprun (NIST, USA)
Ewan Klein (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Jimmy Lin (MIT, USA)
Chieko Nakabasami (Toyo University, Japan)
Naoyuki Nomura (Justsystem/Hosei University, Japan)
Antonio Pareja-Lora (UCM, Spain)
Laurent Romary (Loria/CNRS, France)
Manfred Stede (U Potsdam, Germany)
Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Fabio Vitali (University of Bologna, Italy)
Kuansan Wang (Microsoft, USA)
Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki, Finland)

CONFERENCE and REGISTRATION INFO

See the conference website at  
    http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/