and co-located with the
15th IFIP World Computer Congress
IFIP'98
to be held in Vienna and Budapest, August 31 - September 4, 1998
http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html
Workshop proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
THEME
The past decades have witnessed a rapidly growing interest in natural
language technology such as natural language interfaces, text retrieval
and
summarization, word sense disambiguation and document categorization,
information filtering and extraction, or machine translation. For all
these
domains several useful systems have already been developed and there
exist
realistic expectations of future developments. Despite these successes
we
could witness the situation that for many disciplines of computational
linguistics the euphoric mood of the first days gave place to a
pessimistic
period of stagnation. The most famous example is certainly the field of
early machine translation, but also the interest in natural language
interfaces faded away after they could not fulfill the unrealistic
promises
of the first hype.
The change of perspective had also the positive side-effect of replacing
phantasms of computers that excel in human communication by a more
realistic
view. In recent years many researchers have done the first steps in this
direction by renouncing the creation of "universal, ideal, general"
unattainable systems in favor of the development of useful tools and
implementations for practical applications. This paradigm shift away
from
investigating artificial, small-scale problems to developing real-world
end-user applications is in particular essential to cope with the rising
flood of information. Each citizen of the coming information society
will be
confronted with the "information overload" problem. Therefore, powerful
assistance for the effective administration of information will be
crucial.
Natural language engineering is here one of the key technologies besides
user modeling, hypermedia, database systems, collaboration, or
intelligent
agents.
The main objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from
both natural language and information systems with the aim of
encouraging
the exchange of ideas and experience between these two communities. It
will
represent an international forum to give an overview of the most recent
trends in these two active research fields and will provide a common
starting-point to attack the urgent problems of information processing.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Natural language interfaces
* Multimodal interfaces
* Adaptive interfaces
* Natural language engineering for information system design
* Natural language engineering for information retrieval and
filtering
* Spelling error correction
* Terminology and ontologies
* Collaborative issues
* Multilingual issues
* Machine translation
* Word sense disambiguation
* Document categorization
* Information extraction
* Text summarization
* Natural language learning
* Natural language generation
* Evaluation of natural language systems
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: 20 February 1998
* Notification of acceptance: 30 April 1998
* Camera-ready copies: 19 June 1998
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Authors are invited to submit research contributions representing
original,
previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully
evaluated
based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. All papers will be refereed by at least two members of the
program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer
Society Press as proceedings of the DEXA'98 workshops. All submitted
papers
MUST be formatted according to the author guidelines provided by IEEE
Computer Society Press and MUST NOT be longer than FIVE pages. The
author
guidelines can be found at http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/format.html.
If
you use LaTeX, at http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis98.tex is an
example
document and at http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/nlis98.ps the
corresponding
output.
Electronic Submission
Please submit your paper electronically to our ftp site. Please prepare
your
paper as plain ASCII PostScript only, with NO encoding, condensing, or
encapsulation. Please use TrueType 1 fonts wherever possible. Do not use
bitmapped fonts such as Computer Modern if you can avoid it. Guidelines
for
generating and submitting PostScript files are available at
http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm.
File Name
Please save your file using your name, i.e. John Smith's file would be
smith.ps. If you are submitting two or more files, please number them:
smith1.ps, smith2.ps, etc.
Transferring to FTP Site
When transferring files to the FTP site, if you have a choice between
ASCII
and binary modes, use binary. Although ASCII mode works well most of the
time, binary mode incurs fewer problems.
Our FTP site: ftp.ifs.univie.ac.at
Log on as: anonymous
Place files in subdirectory: incoming/nlis98
Notification
When you have put your file(s) in the FTP subdirectory, please send an
email
to winiwarter@acm.org with the following information: Your name, phone,
fax,
URL (your Web address, if you have one), your email address, the title
of
your paper, and the filename(s) you used. (Do NOT send a copy of your
postscript file via email.)
Hard Copy Paper
If, for some reason, you cannot place an electronic copy of your paper
on
our ftp site, ONLY THEN you may submit it as four hard copies to the
following address:
Dr. Werner Winiwarter
Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems
University of Vienna
Liebiggasse 4/3
A-1010 Wien
AUSTRIA
Please send also a electronic copy of your abstract, in ASCII format and
including the paper title, keywords, author names, addresses, and
affiliations, to winiwarter@acm.org.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
* Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria
* Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
* Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Harvey Abramson, Aizu University, Japan
* Masatoshi Arikawa, Hiroshima City University, Japan
* Walter Daelemans, Tilburg University and University of Antwerp,
Netherlands
* Robert Dale, Microsoft Research Institute and Macquarie University,
Australia
* Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
* Christian Jaquemin, IUT de Nantes, France
* Larry Kerschberg, George Mason University, USA
* Ee-Peng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
* Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan
* Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
* Maria Orlowska, The University of Queensland, Australia
* Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands
* David Powers, The Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
* Erich Schweighofer, University of Vienna, Austria
* Stefano Spaccapietra, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne,
Switzerland
* Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
* Kazumasa Yokota, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan
For any further questions or inquiries please contact:
Dr. Werner Winiwarter
Institute of Applied Computer Science & Information Systems
University of Vienna
Liebiggasse 4/3
A-1010 Wien
AUSTRIA
Email: winiwarter@acm.org
URL: http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/~ww/
Phone: +43-1-406-23-67
Fax: +43-1-406-01-97
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