- ---------------------------------------------------------- 2001 Australasian Natural Language Processing Workshop Friday, 20th April 2001 Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia - ---------------------------------------------------------- Purpose We are organizing a one-day workshop on Natural Language Processing at Macquarie University in Sydney. The goals of the workshop are to bring together the growing NLP community in Australia and New Zealand, and to provide an opportunity for the broader computer science community to become aware of local NLP research. Our hope is to get as many Austral- asian NLPers together as possible to encourage dialogue be- tween those working on similar topics and between areas with a potential to interact. We invite the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of natural lan- guage processing, including, but not limited to, speech understanding and generation; phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse; interpreting and gen- erating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathemat- ical, and psychological models of language; language-ori- ented information extraction and retrieval; corpus-based and statistical language modeling; machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; message and narrative understanding systems; and computational lexicography. As you can see we welcome submissions on any topic that is of interest to the NLP community, but we particularly en- courage submissions that broaden the scope of our commun- ity through the consideration of practical NLP applications. We especially invite people from industry working on NLP to send us their submissions and offer an opportunity to dis- cuss and demonstrate their latest applications in front of an informed audience. Program Committee Rolf Schwitter, Macquarie University (Chair); Dominique Estival, Syrinx Speech Systems; Cecile Paris, CSIRO; and Alistair Knott, University of Otago Submission Format Initial submissions should be in the form of four-page extended abstracts,printed single-spaced in 12 point font. The first page should include the paper title, author(s) name(s), complete addresses including email address and fax number, and a short (5 line) summary. We only accept electronic submissions of PDF or PostScript files. If we cannot print your file by the submission date it will be rejected without being reviewed. Therefore you are encouraged to send an early version with the typo- graphical complexity of your final intended version so that we can check it is printable. Electronic submissions should be sent to schwitt@ics.mq.edu.au. Deadlines Electronic submissions must be received by Friday 2nd March 2001. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Friday 16th March 2001. Camera-ready copies of final eight-page papers must be received by Friday 6th April 2001. - Rolf Schwitter Email: schwitt@ics.mq.edu.au Department of Computing Phone: +61 2 9850 9533 Macquarie University NSW 2109 / Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------