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		CALL For PAPERS

ACL-2004 Workshop on Reference Resolution and Its Applications
		  July 25-26 2004
		  Barcelona, Spain
		  Forum Convention Centre
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Reference resolution algorithms are applicable for the processing of
discourse and dialog and more recently became important tools for
textual Questions Answering (QA) systems or Summarization systems. The
objective of this ACL workshop is to bring together researchers whose
work focuses on the resolution of reference in natural language and to
create a forum for the presentation and discussion of their current
results. We shall invite submission of papers describing recent novel
and challenging work/results in reference resolution. The range of
topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to:

o new reference resolution algorithms,
o reference resolution and its contribution to discourse processing,
o new applications of reference resolution methods,
o theories and formalisms for reference resolution,
o empirical methods in reference resolution,
o multilingual and multi-document reference resolution,
o evaluation of reference resolution,
o resources used for reference resolution.
o reference resolution for factual questions answering 
o reference resolution for summarization
o reference resolution for dialog processing
o reference resolution for the identification of discourse relations and 
  discourse structure

To find more about the Workshop please visit

http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~cristina/workshop
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Important dates

Paper submission deadline:		April 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance for papers:	April 25, 2004
Camera ready papers due:		May 15, 2004
Workshop date:				July 25-26, 2004

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Symposium Organizers:
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas
David Farwell, New Mexico State University


Program Committee:

Donna Byron, Ohio State University
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale-
CNR, Pisa
Claire Cardie, Cornell University
Dan Cristea, University of Iasi
Rodolfo Delmonte, Ca' Foscari University
David Farwell, New Mexico State University
Antonio Ferrández, University of Alicante
Udo Hahn, University of Freiburg
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas, Dallas
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
Steve Maiorano, University of Sheffield
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
Carol Van Ess-Dykema, DoD
Renata Vieira, PEPCA Unisinos, Brazil
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh

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Submission procedure
Authors should submit full papers of maximum 8 pages, including references 
and figures, following the main conference ACL style format.

Submissions should be in electronic format (PDF is preferred) and should 
be sent to both of the organizers.

Sanda Harabagiu:

    * sanda@hlt.utdallas.edu or
    * sanda@cs.utdallas.edu 

David Farwell:

    * david@crl.NMSU.Edu or
    * farwell@lsi.upc.es. 
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Contact:

Sanda Harabagiu

Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX 75083-0688, USA
Office: ECSS-3.908A
Email: sanda@cs.utdallas.edu or sanda@hlt.utdallas.edu
Phone: (972) 883-4654
Fax: (972) 883-2349