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                        ** CALL FOR PAPERS **


                    4th International Workshop on
	     Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)

		 A workshop to be held at EACL-03
             the 11th Conference of the European Chapter
           of the Association for Computational Linguistics

 
		     Budapest, 14 April 2003

    	          http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03
		  http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03



ORGANIZED BY:

Anne Abeillé (Paris 7 & LLF, Paris)
Silvia Hansen (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University & DFKI, Saarbrücken)


TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly
important role for machine learning, evaluation, 
psycholinguistics as well as theoretical linguistics.  Many 
groups have started to create corpus resources annotated with
morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse 
information for a variety of languages.  Linguistic annotation
may consist of morphological analyses, trees, dependencies,
grammatical relations, word senses, (co)references, information
structure, semantic representations, discourse relations
and other types of linguistic information.  

We aim to bring together these activities in order to facilitate 
advanced and efficient corpus annotations which will provide
re-usable resources.   

The workshop will also provide a forum for reports on the 
scientific and technological exploitation of interpreted corpora
in general, computational or psycholinguistics.  Such reports 
on exploitation results are valuable for the comparison of 
alternative approaches and will thus serve as feedback to 
ongoing and new corpus annotation efforts.  

We invite submissions of papers constituting substantial, 
original, and unpublished work on all aspects of linguistically
interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to:
- creation of practical annotation schemes
- efficient annotation techniques including automation
- tools supporting corpus conversions
- consistency checking and validation
- tools and methods for searching and browsing
- qualitative and quantitative studies based on
  linguistically interpreted corpora
- technological advances achieved by the 
  exploitation of interpreted corpora

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Anne Abeillé (co-chair), Paris
Thorsten Brants, Palo Alto
John Carroll , Sussex
Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana
Silvia Hansen (co-chair), Saarbrücken
Frank Keller, Edinburgh
Stephan Oepen, Stanford
Geoffrey Sampson, Sussex
Kiril Simov, Sofia
Hans Uszkoreit (co-chair), Saarbrücken
Jean Veronis, Aix-en-Provence
Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki
Jakub Zavrel, Antwerp


SCHEDULE:

7 January 2003: Deadline for submitted papers
28 January 2003: Notification of acceptance
13 February 2003: Camera ready copy
14 April 2003: Workshop


REGISTRATION:

Please refer to the main conference web page 
(http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/) for registration details.


SUBMISSIONS:

Please send submissions in English as Postscript or PDF (preferably 
by email) to the address below.  Maximum length is 8 pages, formatted 
in the same way as for the main conference, see 

            http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/format.html

            Silvia Hansen (hansen@coli.uni-sb.de)
            Computational Linguistics
            Saarland University
            Postfach 15 11 50
            66041 Saarbrücken
            GERMANY