** 1st Call for Papers**

                        International Workshop on
                "Computational Approaches to Collocations"

                           22., 23. July 2002
                            Vienna, Austria




Chair:
     Brigitte Krenn (OFAI, Vienna)
Organising Committee:
     Brigitte Krenn (OFAI, Vienna),
     Geoffrey Willians (Universite de Bretagne Sud, France),
     Ulrich Heid (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)



Workshop description:

"Computational Approaches to Collocations" will be a two day workshop
with paper presentations and special topic sessions.  The scope of the
workshop will cover computational models and strategies for
collocation identification and their use in computational linguistic
applications. For more information see
http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/colloc02/index.html.

The workshop is intended to complement the EURALEX Workshop on
"Lexicographic applications of computational approaches to
collocations: Restricted collocations in dictionaries" chaired by
Geoffrey Williams and Ulrich Heid (see
http://www.cst.dk/elx2002/workshop/index.html).

Papers are invited on all computational aspects of identifying and
processing lexical collocations, including, but not limited to:
statistics-based and hybrid methods on collocation identification, the
development and testing of association measures, the discussion of
significance versus relevance of identification results, the
application of collocations in information extraction, in machine
translation, in the development of lexical resources, in the
evaluation of smoothing methods, etc.


Format of submissions:

 (*) Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
 (*) Use 12pt, two column style, set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle
     of approx. 16.5 x 23cm (6.5 x 9 inches).
 (*) Review will be blind: please provide author information on an additional
     header page and avoid obvious self references in the text.
 (*) Electronic submissions are strongly preferred.
 (*) Electronic format: Postscript or PDF documents.
 (*) Hardcopy submission (if electronic submission is not possible):
     send four (4) copies to the contact addresse indicated below.
 (*) Submissions should be send to colloc02@oefai.at.


Important Dates:

  (*) 25th February, 2002: Deadline for submitted papers.
  (*) 8th April, 2002: Notification of acceptance.
  (*) 6th May, 2002: Camera ready copy.
  (*) 22nd, 23rd July, 2002: Workshop.


Contact:
Brigitte Krenn
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
Schottengasse 3
1010 Vienna, Austria
email: colloc02@oefai.at


Programme Committee:
Beatrice Daille (France)
Gregor Erbach (Germany)
Stefan Evert (Germany)
Thierry Fontenelle (USA)
Patrick Hanks (UK)
Ulrich Heid (Germany)
Adam Kilgarriff (UK)
Brigitte Krenn (Austria)
Anke Luedeling (Germany)
Christopher Manning (USA)
Ted Pedersen (USA)
Patrick Schone (USA)
Dan Tufis (Romania)
Eric Wehrli (Suisse)
Geoffrey Willians (France)