(EMNLP/VLC-2000) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) October 7-8, 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology In conjunction with ACL-2000: The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM --------------------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS Soumen Chakrabarti John Lowe --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CORPORATE SPONSORS Ask Jeeves Behavior Design Corporation GroupFire Inc Intel China Research Center LEXIS NEXIS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss empirical and corpus-based natural language processing through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * statistical parsing * language and dialog models * machine translation * information retrieval * information extraction * comparative evaluation of empirical vs. rule- and knowledge-based technologies * lexical acquisition * statistical language understanding * phrase identification * noun phrase coreference * question answering * word sense disambiguation * word and term segmentation and extraction * alignment * bilingual lexicon extraction * text categorization This year, we are especially interested in papers discussing these topics in the context of web-oriented applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Submissions are limited to original, unpublished and empirically evaluated work. Reviewing of papers will be blind. Electronic submissions are required; author instructions, stylesheets and a web-based submissions interface may be found at http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/~sigdat2k. Submitted papers should conform to the colacl.sty style file (or the provided MSWord equivalent) for final 2-column format, with the exception that name, affiliation and address should be replaced with 'XXX'. Full paper-length submissions are strongly encouraged, and should not exceed 9 pages in specified format. Submissions must be received on or before June 30, 2000. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: June 30 Submission of full-length paper July 28 Acceptance notice August 29 Camera-ready paper due October 7-8 Conference date --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Chair: Hinrich Schuetze, GroupFire (hinrich@groupfire.com) Co-Chair: Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corp. (kysu@bdc.com.tw) Einat Amitay, Macquarie University & CSIRO Sophia Ananiadou, University of Salford Susan Armstrong, University of Geneva Thorsten Brants, Saarland University Eric Brill, Microsoft Research Jason Chang, National Tsing Hua University Francine Chen, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Key-Sun Choi, Korea Adv. Inst. of Science & Technology David Elworthy, Microsoft Research Cambridge Tomaz Erjavec, Institute Jozef Stefan Pascale Fung, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe Niyu Ge, Brown University Nancy Ide, Vassar College Martin Jansche, Ohio State University Andy Kehler, UC San Diego Geunbae Lee, Pohang University of Science & Technology Lillian Lee, Cornell University Dekang Lin, University of Alberta Kim-Teng Lua, National University of Singapore Chris Manning, Stanford University Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Inst. of Science & Technology Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong Masaaki Nagata, NTT Cyber Space Labs Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University Bing Swen, Peking University Mark Wasson, Lexis-Nexis Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Jakub Zavrel, University of Antwerp http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/emnlp-vlc2000.html