WORKSHOP ON ROBUST PARSING - CALL FOR PAPERS
                           August 12 - 16, 1996

                              at ESSLLI'96
          European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
                         Prague, Czech Republic

BACKGROUND:
Parsing systems able to analyse natural language text robustly and
accurately at an appropriate level of detail would be of great value in
computer applications ranging from speech synthesis and document style
checking to message understanding and automatic translation. A number of
research groups worldwide are currently developing such systems, varying
in the depth of analysis from lexical parsing or tagging (identifying
syntactic features just of individual words), through shallow or phrasal
parsing (forming hierarchical syntactic structure but not exploiting
subcategorisation), to full parsers (which deal with unbounded
dependencies etc., and are able to recover predicate-argument structure).

To bring researchers in this area together to present and compare
state-of-the-art systems for robust parsing, a workshop will be held
August 12-16, 1996, during the first week of ESSLLI'96, the European
Summer School in Logic, Language and Information.

We invite the submission of papers describing implemented robust parsing
systems; also evaluations, comparisons, and critiques of different parsing
systems or technologies. The main aim of the workshop is to identify the
strengths and weaknesses in the diverse set of approaches currently being
investigated, and to discuss areas that require further work.

To facilitate comparison between systems, authors of accepted papers will
be supplied with a small corpus of 30 sentences and encouraged to run
these through their systems, using simple (supplied) criteria to evaluate
the results.

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE:
The workshop will consist of 5 90-minute sessions, with two papers in each
session. Please note that speakers will be expected to register for ESSLLI
(thus being eligible to attend all other workshops, as well as the many
courses and symposia). There is a small amount of money available to go
towards the expenses of those who have no other source of funding.

ORGANISERS:
John Carroll, University of Sussex
and Ted Briscoe, University of Cambridge

SUBMISSION DETAILS:
Authors should submit an extended abstract (2000-3000 words) either
electronically or as hard-copy. Electronic submissions must be either
plain ascii text or a single latex file. Your e-mail address should appear
on your paper, and unless requested otherwise, all further correspondence
will be conducted via e-mail.

SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: May 31
Notification of Acceptance: June 21
Final Papers for Inclusion in Proceedings: July 19
Workshop Dates: August 12-16, 1996

WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS TO:
John Carroll
Cognitive and Computing Sciences,
University of Sussex,
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
E-mail:    john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk

SUMMER SCHOOL CONTACT:
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