FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing
- CSLP 2005 http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2005.html

Co-located with ICLP 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/iclp2005
in Sitges, close to Barcelona, Spain
- See also CP 2005 http://www.iiia.csic.es/cp2005

Wednesday 5 October 2005

The first workshop which took place September last year in Roskilde,
Denmark, was very successful and motivated a continuation of the series;
you can find all details at http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2004.html
(proceedings published as Springer LNCS 3438).

The purpose of the workshop is to provide an overview of activities in
the field of Constraint Solving with special emphasis on Natural=20
Language
Processing and for researchers to meet and exchange ideas.

Constraint Solving (CS), in particular Constraint Logic Programming=20
(CLP),
is a promising platform, perhaps the most promising present platform,
for bringing forward the state of the art in language processing.
The data subjected to processing via constraint solving may include
written and spoken language, formal and semiformal language, and even
general input data to multimodal and pervasive systems.

CLP and CS have been applied in projects for shallow and deep analysis
and generation of language, and to different sorts of languages.
The view of grammar expressed as a set of conditions simultaneously
constraining and thus defining the set of possible utterances has
influenced formal linguistic theory for more than a decade.

CLP and CS provide flexibility of expression and potential for
interleaving the different phases of language processing, including
handling of pragmatic and semantic information, e.g. ontologies.

Topics considered relevant for the workshop include (but are not=20
limited to)

* CS technologies for NLP
* Linguistic analysis and linguistic theories biased towards CS or CLP
* Application of CS or CLP for NLP
* CS and CLP for other than (purely) textual or spoken languages, e.g.,
biological, multimodal human-computer interaction, visual, ...

Invited Speakers:

To be announced later.

Submission:

Authors are invited to submit either a 6 page extended abstract or a
full paper of up to 16 pages. Each submission will be commented by two=20=

or
three reviewers. Preliminary proceedings are distributed at the=20
workshop.
It is planned to publish selected revised full papers after the workshop
in Springer's LNCS/LNAI series. Authors are strongly recommended to
prepare their submissions according to the LNCS/LNAI guidelines:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Please submit papers as PDF files to cslp2005@ruc.dk

Important Dates:

     * Submissions: 7 August 2005
     * Notification: 1 September 2005
     * Camera-ready versions for preliminary proceedings: 12 September=20=

2005
     * Workshop: 5 October 2005

Notice that the ICLP 2005 early registration deadline is before the
CSLP 2005 notification date.

Program Committee:

Philippe Blache, Aix-en-Provence, France
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde, Denmark (Chair)
Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Denys Duchier, Lille, France
John Gallagher, Roskilde, Denmark
Claire Gardent, LORIA, France
Michael Johnston, ATT, USA
Shalom Lappin, London, UK
Bernd Meyer, Monash, Australia
J=F8rgen Fischer Nilsson, Technical University of Denmark
Gerald Penn, Ontarion, Canada
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Science
Peter Skadhauge, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
J=F8rgen Villadsen, Roskilde, Denmark

Organizers:

Philippe Blache, Univ. Aix-en-Provence, France
Henning Christiansen, Roskilde University, Denmark (Chair)
Veronica Dahl, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Gerald Penn, Univ. of Toronto, Canada

Practical Arrangements:

Henning Christiansen & J=F8rgen Villadsen, Roskilde, Denmark

Please send all queries regarding CSLP 2005 to cslp2005@ruc.dk
(registration and accommodation are handled by the ICLP 2005 and
CP 2005 conferences)

The workshop is supported by the CONTROL project, CONstraint based
Tools for RObust Language processing, funded by the Danish Natural
Science Research Council