7.0300 CFP II: Very Large Corpora (1/75)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 25 Nov 1993 16:27:35 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0300. Thursday, 25 Nov 1993.
Date: 19 Nov 1993 21:08:25 -0500 (EST)
From: ide@cs.vassar.edu (Nancy M. Ide)
Subject: for publication/information
From: kwc@research.att.com (Ken Church)
Subject: SECOND ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
SECOND ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
Call for Papers
WHEN: August 4, 1994 (just before Coling-94)
WHERE: Kyoto International Community House (Tentative), Kyoto, Japan
Corpus linguistics continues to be a hot topic. Text is more
available than ever before. All of this data provides a great
opportunity, as evidenced by all of the recent activity in Europe,
Asia and America, some of which was discussed at last year's meeting
in Ohio, just before ACL-93.
This year, there will be a special emphasis on parallel texts such as
the Canadian Hansards. Parallel texts have been used to study machine
translation, bilingual lexicography, and terminology research for
human translators. As a result, there has been considerable interest
in alignment programs that decide which parts of the source text
correspond to which parts of the target text. Performance has been
extremely promising, especially for pairs of European languages, though
it remains an open question how well these methods might generalize to a
broader range of language pairs such as English/Japanese.
Authors should submit three copies of a full-length paper (5-10 pages)
to the program chair by March 1, 1994. Paper submissions are strongly
preferred over electronic submissions. Notifications of acceptance or
rejection will be sent out by April 15, 1994. Relevant topics include
(but are not limited to)
Text Analysis Techniques:
- alignment of parallel text
- ``robust'' parsing
- part of speech tagging
- sense tagging
- identification of phrases
- collocation
- morphology
- discourse structure
Applications:
- Translation
- Lexicography
- Terminology
- Information Retrieval (IR)
- Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc.
- Spelling Correction
Program Chairs:
Pierre Isabelle
Kenneth Church
Program Committee:
to be announced
Registration fees:
10,000 Japanese yens
Contact:
Pierre Isabelle / WVLC2
CITI
1575 Chomedey Blvd.
Laval, Quebec
Canada H7V 2X2
e-mail: isabelle@citi.doc.ca