2002 Symposium on Reference Resolution in Natural Language Processing



          June 3-4, 2002 (immediately following LREC-2002)
                        University of Alicante, Spain
              http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/sanda/Alicante/alicante-symp.html

                              Co-chairs:

                Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas at Dallas
                Antonio Ferrandez, University of Alicante

With the advent of the Internet and the predominant representation of
on-line information in textual form, the quality and robustness of
natural language understanding systems has become critical. A major
obstacle in building robust systems that interpret, extract
information, summarize and answer questions from texts is the need to
identify the entities referred to by pronouns or other referential
expressions from texts.

Textual reference is a pervasive phenomenon that virtually interacts
with every aspect of semantic and discourse analysis. The objective of
this Symposium 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. This
call for papers invites submissions 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 theories and formalisms for reference resolution,
  o empirical methods in reference resolution, 
  o applications of reference resolution,
  o multilingual and multidocument reference resolution,
  o evaluation of reference resolution
  o resources used for reference resolution.

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Important Dates 

  Submission Deadline: March 30 2002
  Authors Notification: April 20 2002
  Camera-ready deadline: May 5 2002
  Conference: May 23-24 2002
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Program Committee: 

Donna Byron, University of Rochester 
Antonio Ferrndez, 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 
Lidia Moreno, University of Valencia 
Manuel Palomar, University of Alicante 
Massimo Poesio, University of Essex 
Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh 

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Submissions should be formatted according to the ACL style guide
(http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style) and must be in either
PS, PDF, or DOC format. These should be sent electronically to
sanda@utdallas.edu by the deadline shown above. Hard copies will be
accepted only if the authors explicitly make such arrangements with the
co-chairs at least one week prior to the official submission date. In
that case, the hard copies will still have to arrive by the submission
date.