WVLC-4 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and its special 
interest group for linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to 
NLP (SIGDAT) are organizing the


	  FOURTH WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA (WVLC-4) 


WHEN: August 4, 1996 - in conjunction with COLING 96 
(Tutorials: Aug 2-3, Main conference: Aug 5-9, 1996). 

WHERE: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. 


WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:

This workshop, like preceding ones in the series, will offer an 
international and general forum for the presentation of new advances 
and applications in the area of large scale, corpus-based natural 
language processing.

The fourth workshop will focus on the theme of: 

       Innovative uses and applications of large corpora 

Large corpora, i.e. corpora ranging anywhere from 10^4 to 10^9 words, are
coming into existence for several different languages, and techniques for
analyzing them are improving. How are these resources actually being used? 
The workshop encourages contributions that show innovative applications of
corpus-based NLP to problems of practical industrial importance. 

The theme will provide an organizing structure to the workshop, and offer 
a focus for discussion and debate between researchers and industrialists. 
We also expect and will welcome a diverse set of submissions in all areas 
of statistical and corpus-based NLP, including (but not limited to) 

Text Analysis Techniques:
      - robust parsing
      - part of speech tagging
      - term and name identification
      - morphological analysis
      - alignment of parallel texts and bilingual terminology 
      - sense disambiguation
      - anaphora resolution
      - event categorization
      - discourse structure

Applications:
      - Information Retrieval
      - Lexicography
      - Machine Translation
      - Spelling and Grammar Correction
      - Recognition: Speech, OCR, handwriting, etc. 


PROGRAM CHAIRS:

Eva Ejerhed       - University of Umea, Umea, Sweden
Ido Dagan         - Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel



FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION: Authors should submit a full length paper 
(3500 - 8000 words), either electronically or in hard copy. Electronic
submissions should be mailed to "WVLC-4@ling.umu.se" and must be 
either (a) a plain ascii text, (b) a single postscript file, or 
(c) a single LaTex file (no separate figures or .bib files), following 
the COLING 96 stylesheet, which is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
ling.umu.se, /pub/SIGDAT/colsub.sty. A model submission is provided 
in /pub/SIGDAT/modelsub.tex. Hard copy submissions should be mailed 
to Ido Dagan (address below), and should include four (4) copies of 
the paper. 

REQUIREMENTS: Papers should describe original work. A paper accepted 
for presentation cannot be presented or have been presented at any other
meeting. Papers submitted to other conferences will be considered, as 
long as this fact is clearly indicated in the submission.


SCHEDULE:

Submission Deadline:      February 23, 1996
Notification Date:        March 26, 1996
Camera ready copy due:    April 26, 1996

The camera ready hard copies of final papers, prepared in a double 
column format and laser printed, should be air-mailed to Eva Ejerhed 
(address below) and must be received by April 26, 1996.

CONTACT:

Eva Ejerhed                 Ido Dagan
Dept of Linguistics, DGL    Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science
University of Umea          Bar Ilan University
S 90187 Umea, Sweden        Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
e-mail: WVLC-4@ling.umu.se  e-mail: dagan@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il

http://www.ling.umu.se/SIGDAT/WVLC-4.html