INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SHARABLE NATURAL LANGUAGE RESOURCES (SNLR)

First Announcement and Call-for-paper

10--11 August 1994
(just after COLING-94)
Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Ikoma, Nara, Japan

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Real world text processing is getting greater concern of computational linguists than ever before since large scale real world texts are getting more and more available in a machine readable form. On one hand it is true, but on the other hand, lots of machine readable texts are not freely available to wide range of researchers. Furthermore, to undertake real world text processing, we need to have not only data to be analysed but also tools and data to analyse the texts.

We use the term natural language resources to refer to all the tools and the data that are necessary or useful for natural language processing. Various natural language resources are repeatedly built and abandoned in many researchers and research groups, resulting in a great loss to our community as a whole.

Natural language resources are classified into at least the following types:

Natural Language Tools:
- Part of speech taggers
- Morphological analysers
- Syntactic or semantic parsers
- Information retrieval tools
Natural Language Data:
- Dictionaries (monolingual, multi-lingual)
- Thesauruses
- Grammars
- Corpora (monolingual, multi-lingual)
- Semantic representation languages for NL
- Knowledge representation languages for NL
- Knowledge bases for NLP

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and developers who contribute toward providing natural language resources that can be shared among researchers. Authors are invited to submit papers with clear specification, characteristics, aim and coverage of any natural language resources that are SHARABLE. The presentation are to be accompanied by a demonstration. Papers without demonstration will receive less priority of acceptance.

NOTE: This workshop is not intended for commercial products.

Authors are invited to submit 4 copies of an extended abstract (4 pages or less on A4 or letter size papers). The submitted papers should include at least the following information of the resource(s):

Name of the resource(s):
Brief summary of the resource(s):
Availability of the documents/manuals:
Price: (hopefully free)
Limitation: (no limitation, academic use only, etc.)
FTP site:
Media: (e.g. 8mm, DAT, CD-ROM, MO, Floppy disk, etc.)
Format: (e.g. unix tar, ms-dos text file, etc.)
Style of demonstration: (on-line, video, etc.)
Contact person:

(for tools)

Platform: (e.g. Hardware, OS (version), Window systems, etc.)
Implementation language:
Size:

(for data)

Language:
Data type: (e.g. Grammar, Dictionary, Thesaurus, etc.)
Field: (e.g. Newspaper articles, Technical paper, etc.)
Character set:
Size:

Papers should be sent to:

   Prof Takenobu Tokunaga
   Department of Computer Science
   Tokyo Institute of Technology
   Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo, 108 Japan
   Email: take@cs.titech.ac.jp

Electronic submissions in LaTeX or PostScript form are strongly recommended. Submitted papers are reviewed in the following schedule:

   Deadline of extended abstract:	  11 April, 1994
   Notification of acceptance/rejection: 31 May,   1994
   Camera-ready copy due:		  30 June,  1994

Program Committee Members:

   Yuji Matsumoto (chair) Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
   Susan Armstrong-Warick ISSCO, Switzerland
   Louise Guthrie	  New Mexico State University, USA
   Nancy Ide	          Vasser College, USA
   Pierre Isabelle	  CITI, Canada
   Mark Liberman	  University of Pennsylvania, USA
   Hiroshi Sano	          Toshiba Kansai Research Lab., Japan
   Yuichi Tanaka	  Fujitsu Lab., Japan
   Henry Thompson	  University of Edinburgh, UK
   Takenobu Tokunaga      Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
   Shun Tutiya	          Chiba University, Japan
   Yorick Wilks	          University of Sheffield, UK
   Antonio Zampolli       University of Pisa, Italy

For general and further information, contact to:

   Prof Yuji Matsumoto
   Nara Institute of Science and Technology
   8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara, 630-01 Japan
   Phone: +81-7437-2-5240
   Fax:   +81-7437-2-5219
   Email: matsu@is.aist-nara.ac.jp

Related Event:

The following workshop will be held just before COLING-94 in Kyoto.

   SECOND ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON VERY LARGE CORPORA
   Date: August 4, 1994

Further information is available from:

   Pierre Isabelle / WVLC2
   CITI
   1575 Chomedey Blvd.
   Laval, Quebec
   Canada H7V 2X2
   e-mail: isabelle@condor.citi.doc.ca

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shimazu@atom.ntt.jp (Akira Shimazu)