3rd Workshop on Robust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data - ROMAND 2004 -
 
We invite papers on all topics related to robustness in natural
language processing, including, but not limited to:

* Natural Language Architectures
* Robust Morpho-Syntactic Parsing
* Robust Semantics
* Robust Discourse Analysis
* Robust Computational Pragmatics
* Complexity of linguistic analysis
* Spell checking and automated spell correction
* NLP and Soft Computing
* Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
* Information Extraction
* Multimedia Document Analysis
* Spoken Language Understanding
* Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces
* Cognitive Linguistics

Submission Procedure:

Authors should submit an anonymous paper (avoiding, as much as
possible, hints for the identification of authors) of at most 10 pages
(including pictures and references), intended for talks with a
duration of minutes plus 10 minutes for discussions. The paper should
follow the COLING formatting style available on the main conference
web site (http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/), and the authors must
also send us a wrapper e-mail message indicating:

1. the author's names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address of (at least) the contacting author,
2. an abstract of the submitted paper (less than 500 words),
3. a list of keywords (no more than 5).

The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferred) or
postscript format to: mailto:romand@epfl.ch.

Important Dates:

Papers submission: March 31st
Acceptance notification: May 7th
Final version: June 4th
Workshop: August 29th

Contact Information:

All inquiries should be sent to [romand@epfl.ch]. Please note that
general organizational details (registration, accommodation, etc.) are
taken care of by COLING 2004, not by the workshop organizers.