================================================ EACL 2003 Workshop on "Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages -- Expanding Synergies with Europe" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and participation ================================================= Monday April 14 2003, Agro Hotel, Budapest, Hungary. To be held in conjunction with the EACL 2003 conference – see The Context ------------- The languages of South Asia, which include many of the major languages of humanity, are also important minority languages in Europe and many other parts of the world. Much mutual benefit will be gained by exploring and expanding synergy between Europe and South Asia in the area of computational linguistics for these languages. Format of the workshop ------------------------ The workshop will open with a keynote address from Prof Aravind Joshi following which we will have a number of sessions each addressing some key issue. Each session will be introduced by a short presentation from some member of the workshop, and be expected to reach some conclusion about the current state of computational linguistics for South Asian languages and what the important future work is. By the end of the workshop we hope to have evolved a common roadmap for the growth of computational linguistics of these languages. Call for Papers and participation --------------------------------- Participation will be by invitation based on submitted papers. Papers, which may be either full papers or position papers as described later, are invited on all aspects of computational linguistics relevant to the context of the workshop, including, but not limited to, the following main areas: 1. Language Models, Tools and Applications: Work bringing out commonalities and differences in the processing of the languages of Europe and South Asia: a) Adaptation of models, tools and applications ` developed for European languages to South Asian languages. b) Models, tools and applications specifically designed for South Asian languages, and their adaptation to European languages. 2. Development of Lexical Resources: Work in language engineering, with particular focus on collaborative development of lexical resources, and standards and tools for processing South Asian languages: a) Text corpora and associated tools, standards and techniques. b) Large-scale electronic dictionaries, lexicons and Wordnets. c) Speech corpora and associated tools, standards and techniques. *Full papers* may be up to 8 A4 pages (Times 10 point), and should cover substantial, original and unpublished work. They should describe completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. *Position papers* should be 2 or 3 A4 pages (Times 10 point) and may cover work in progress, exhibiting competence and interest in the area of the workshop. Papers should be in English, using the EACL 2003 submission formats available from . Lengths given above include references, tables, figures and equations. Where non-Latin scripts are used, they should either be included as figures (preferred), or all the relevant font(s) and any other necessary files along with instructions, should be attached as annexes to the paper, to enable correct viewing and printing of the paper. Full papers should include an abstract of about 150 words. Papers outside the specified length may be subject to rejection without review. Accepted papers of those who attend will be published in the workshop proceedings. A small number of people may be invited to present their papers or related work during the workshop, as part of the process of the workshop arriving at its findings. Following the workshop a report will be produced by the organisers and included in the proceedings. Submission ----------- All submissions should indicate clearly whether they are full papers or position papers. Submissions should be in electronic form, and MUST be either in PS or PDF. They should be sent by email to both the two workshop co-ordinators whose addresses are given in Contact Information at the end. Deadlines ---------- Paper submissions deadline: January 7, 2003 Notification of acceptance: January 28, 2003 Camera ready papers due: February 13, 2003 Workshop Date: April 14, 2003 Fees and Financial Support --------------------------- The registration fees for the workshop will be announced later. Financial support for travel, stay and registration for the workshop is available for a small number of persons travelling from South Asia or within Europe. Support will come from separate funds made available from the European Union under the SCALLA project ASI/B7-301/97/0126-05. Please indicate in your covering email with your submission whether you are seeking such financial support, and whether your participation will be dependent upon such support. Workshop Co-ordinators ------------------------- Pat Hall, Open University, UK. Durgesh Rao, DR Systems, India. Programme Committee (subject to confirmation) ----------------------- Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Research Pushpak Bhattacharya, IIT Bombay Sushama Bendre, IIIT Hyderabad B B Chaudhuri, ISI Kolkata (Programme Co-Chair) Khalid Choukri, ELRA Venu Govindaraju, CEDAR, SUNY Buffalo B D Jayaram, CIIL Mysore Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania Adam Kilgarriff, Brighton University Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (Programme Co-Chair) Hema Murthy, IIT Madras K Narayana Murthy, University of Hyderabad Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton RMK Sinha, IIT Kanpur Udaya Narayan Singh, CIIL Mysore Harold Somers, UMIST Roger Tucker, HP Labs, UK. Contact Information -------------------- Professor Pat Hall, Computing Department, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Telephone: +44 1908 652694, +44 1825 71 2661, +44 7813 603376 (mobile) Email: Web /pah7/> Durgesh D Rao, DR Systems, S-27, Lane 1, Sector 9, CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai 400614, India. Email: