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CoNLL 2010 : Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning | |||||||||||||||
Link: http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll/ | |||||||||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||||||||
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CoNLL-2010 Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning Uppsala, Sweden July 15-16, 2010 http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll/ ====================================================================== Call for Papers ====================================================================== CoNLL is the yearly international conference on natural language learning organized by SIGNLL (the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning). This year, CoNLL will be collocated with ACL 2010 in Uppsala, Sweden. Important Dates --------------- * Paper submission deadline: March 8, 2010, 23:59 GMT * Notification of acceptance: April 15 * Camera-ready copy deadline: May 6 * Conference: July 15-16 Topics ------ We invite submission of papers about natural language learning topics including: * Supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language * Computational models of human language acquisition and processing * Optimisation methods and inference algorithms for natural language * Active learning for natural language processing tasks * Computational learning theory analysis of language learning * Empirical and theoretical comparisons of language learning methods including novel evaluation methods * Computational models of language evolution and historical change * Algorithms for grammatical inference applied to natural language See http://ifarm.nl/signll/ and http://ifarm.nl/signll/conll/ for more information about SIGNLL and CoNLL. Invited Speakers ---------------- * Lillian Lee (Cornell University) * Zoubin Gharamani (University of Cambridge) Special Topic of Interest ------------------------- This year in CoNLL-2010 the special topic of interest is: Grammar induction We encourage submissions on papers relating to grammar induction, from a machine learning, natural language engineering and cognitive perspective. We wish to bring together researchers working on varying aspects of grammar learning in a number of different areas including statistical methods, pattern recognition, neural networks, computational linguistics, computational learning theory, automata theory, and language acquisition. Specifically, we encourage submissions of papers addressing: * Different models of grammar induction: e.g., learning from examples, learning using examples and queries, incremental versus non-incremental learning, distribution-free models of learning, learning under various distributional assumptions, learning from single versus multiple languages, learning synchronous grammars. * Different settings for grammar induction: unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches to grammar induction; supervised learning augmented by grammar induction techniques, e.g. state splitting using latent grammar symbols. Online learning, bootstrapping approaches, and Bayesian approaches to grammar induction * Theoretical results in grammar induction of formal languages with application to natural language learning: e.g., impossibility results, complexity results, characterizations of representational and search biases of grammar induction algorithms. * Cognitive models of grammar induction: e.g., models that faithfully represent the cognitive operations involved in human language acquisition or models that help explain facts about grammar acquisition (e.g., poverty of the stimulus). * Empirical comparison of different approaches to grammar induction. * Demonstrated or potential applications of grammar induction in natural language processing, machine translation, dialogue systems, computational biology, structural pattern recognition, adaptive intelligent agents, and other domains. Best Paper Award ---------------- As in previous CoNLL conferences, a Best Paper Award will be given to the authors of the highest quality paper. The most important aspects in judging the quality of a paper for this award will be: originality, innovativeness, relevance, and impact of the presented research. Main Session Submission Details ------------------------------- A paper submitted to CoNLL-2010 must describe original, unpublished work. Submit a full paper by March 8 2009, 23:59 GMT. Papers must have at most 8 pages of content, plus any number of pages that contain references. Submission must be done electronically through the web form at: https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/acl2010conll/submit.html We require the use of the ACL 2010 LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. Papers must conform to the official ACL 2010 style guidelines. Authors who are unable to use these style files or submit a PDF file electronically should contact the program co-chairs. Since reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations, and there should be no self-references that reveal the authors' identity. In the submission form, you will be asked for the following information: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses, contact author's email address, a list of keywords, abstract, and an indication of whether the paper has been simultaneously submitted to other conferences (and if so which conferences). The contact author of an accepted paper under multiple submissions should inform the program co-chairs immediately whether he or she intends the accepted paper to appear in CoNLL-2010. A paper that appears in CoNLL-2010 must be withdrawn from other conferences. Authors of accepted submissions are to produce a final paper to be published in the proceedings of the conference, which will be available at the conference for participants, and distributed afterwards by ACL. Final papers must also follow the ACL 2010 style and should have at most 8 pages of content plus extra pages for references only. The camera ready submission deadline is listed above. At least one author is expected to register for the conference and present the paper. Please do not submit a paper if you do not plan to attend the conference. As in previous years, CoNLL-2010 will include a shared task which is organized by a separate committee. The details of the shared task are included in this CFP (see below). Please note the different submission details and deadlines for the shared task. Conference Chairs ----------------- Anoop Sarkar School of Computing Science Simon Fraser University anoop (at) cs.sfu.ca Mirella Lapata School of Informatics University of Edinburgh mlap (at) inf.ed.ac.uk For the full program committee please visit the CoNLL-2010 website: http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/conll/ Shared Task ----------- "Learning to detect hedges and their scope in natural language texts" In Natural Language Processing (NLP) - in particular, in Information Extraction (IE) - many applications aim at extracting factual information from text. In order to distinguish facts from unreliable or uncertain information, linguistic devices such as hedges (indicating that authors do not or cannot back up their opinions/statements with facts) have to be identified. Applications should handle detected speculative parts in a different manner. Hedge detection has received considerable interest recently in the biomedical NLP community, including research papers addressing the detection of hedge devices in biomedical texts, and some recent work on detecting the in-sentence scope of hedge cues in text. Exploiting the hedge scope annotated BioScope corpus and publicly available Wikipedia texts, the goals of the Shared Task are 1) learning to detect hedge cues in natural language texts and 2) learning to resolve the in-sentence scope of hedge cues. The task is described in detail in its own Call for Participation at http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st Shared Task contact email: rfarkas (at) inf.u-szeged.hu (Richard Farkas, University of Szeged) Shared Task tentative dates and deadlines: * January 11, 2010: release of trial datasets and scorer; * January 18, 2010: registration for the task opens; * February 1, 2010: training and development sets available; * March 28, 2010: test set available; * April 2, 2010: systems' outputs collected; * April 18, 2010: deadline for system paper submission; * May 2, 2010: notification of acceptance; * May 9: deadline for camera ready paper submission. Shared Task Submissions ----------------------- See the shared task web page for detailed instructions at http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/rgai/conll2010st Shared Task Organizers ---------------------- Richard Farkas, Human Language Technology Group, University of Szeged (rfarkas at inf.u-szeged.hu) Organizers: * Veronika Vincze, Human Language Technology Group, University of Szeged (vinczev at inf.u-szeged.hu) * Gyorgy Szarvas, Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universitaat Darmstadt (szarvas at tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de) * Gyorgy Mora, Human Language Technology Group, University of Szeged (gymora at inf.u-szeged.hu) * Janos Csirik, Research Group of Artificial Intelligence, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (csirik at inf.u-szeged.hu) Information Officer ------------------- Erik Tjong Kim Sang University of Groningen (The Netherlands) e.f.tjong.kim.sang (at) rug.nl Please direct questions about the CoNLL website to Erik. |
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