%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Apologies to those of you who receive this more than once ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages A workshop to be held at EACL-03 the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Budapest, 13 April 2003 http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/ http://nl.ijs.si/mpsl03/ TOPIC AND MOTIVATION: The problems of morphological analysis of Slavic languages in natural language processing are more often that not approached independently for different languages in spite of their structural similarities. Different approaches to modelling morphological structure, to lexical and corpus annotation and to processing of morphological information have been developed, and some of them for more than one language. Yet annotation schemes, morphological analysers, part-of-speech taggers or language resources that encompass all - or even a larger number - of the Slavic languages are rare. At the same time, a systematic review of existing approaches to morphological processing of Slavic languages and their relations does not yet exist. The topic of the workshop is the morphological computational analysis and annotation of Slavic languages, encountered on both the inflective and the derivational levels. The workshop will try to reveal lexical structures necessary for morphological analysis and will discuss standardisation efforts in the field that can, for instance, enable transfer of applied methods from one language to the other or inform the annotation of morphological information in corpora. Other areas of interest are the connection of morphological analysis for Slavic languages to word-level syntactic tagging, collocation and term extraction, integration into semantic networks, and the transfer of morphological information between aligned corpora. Submissions are invited on all aspects of morphological processing applicable to Slavic languages, including, but not limited to: * multilingual annotation schemes and lexical databases * word and sentence level tagged corpora (treebanks) * morphology in semantic annotation * term variability * resources and methods for machine learning * knowledge transfer between related languages * methods for annotation and disambiguation * derivational analysis of unknown words * compound analysis * recognition of composite tenses * constraints on agreement WORKSHOP CHAIRS Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana Dusko Vitas, University of Belgrade PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Frantisek Cermak, Charles University, Czech Republic Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey, UK Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Roger Evans, University of Brighton, UK Karel Pala, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Vladimir Petkevic, Charles University, Czech Republic Vladimir Plungian, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Max Silberstein, Universite de Franche-Comte, France Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb, Croatia Dusko Vitas, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia SUBMISSIONS Papers describing work in all areas of morphological processing of Slavic languages, in particular related to the workshop topics above, should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 4-8 pages long in PDF format following the guidelines at the workshop site http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/format.html Send your submission to Tomaz Erjavec (tomaz.erjavec@ijs.si). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: 7 January 2003 Notification of acceptance: 28 January 2003 Camera-ready copies due: 13 February 2003 Registration deadline: as ACL Workshop dates: 13 April 2003 REGISTRATION The registration fees include attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the EACL site (http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03) and indicate that you would like to attend the workshop.