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Call for Participation 2002/08 [apology for multiple posts]
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COLING-2002 TUTORIALS
24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN
URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html
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CONF PROGRAM: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/c-conference.html
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REMINDER: On line registration is nearly closed !!
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* Online registration deadline: 15 August (Thu) (GMT+0800) [Save Your Fees!!]
(http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html)
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Special Issues on:
Computational Linguistics && Chinese Language Processing (*) 08/24 am/pm
Bio-Informatics && NLP Issues 08/25 am/pm
Open-Domain Textual Question Answering 08/25 am
Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics 08/25 pm
(*) Co-Sponsored by ACL-SIGHAN: Special Interest Group on Chinese Language
Processing (http://www.sighan.org/)
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COLING has been the most important international conference on Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for nearly 40 years.
The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING
2002) will be held in the Howard International House and Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan, from August 24 to September 1, 2002.
The biennial conference COLING 2002 this year will provide both
pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops, in addition to the
main conference. There will be four major tutorial issues divided into
six 3-hour units during COLING 2002.
The first major issue will be Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language
Processing. This tutorial will focus on Chinese language processing topics
including Intelligent Character Encoding (Ching-Chun Hsieh, Academia Sinica),
Treebanking and Parsing (Keh-jiann Chen, Academia Sinica), and Corpus-Based
Methods in Chinese Morphology (Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs). The whole scope
will cover most of the interesting and special characteristics that make
Chinese language processing a different and difficult task. It will be
co-sponsored with the ACL-SIGHAN. People interested in Chinese language
processing issues should not miss the two tutorial units and the SigHan
Workshop (http://www.sighan.org/swclp/).
The second major issue focuses on NLP and Bio-Informatics. People
nowadays are becoming more and more interested in knowing how the
languages of humans differ from the languages of God. NLP researchers
and biologists feel strongly that the two communities can work together
to make things different. Our biologists, Toshihisa Takagi, Takako Takai
(University of Tokyo), Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tokyo, JAPAN) will
discuss some theoretical issues in Bio-Informatics and how NLP techniques
can help extracting and migrating biological data from the huge amount
of historical archives and databases to speedup biology study. Our
computational linguists, Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and UMIST,
ICCL permanent member), and Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania,
ICCL permanent member), on the other hand, will talk about the application
of Information Extraction techniques in Bio-informatics and some applications
of NLP Techniques for Modeling Biological Sequences in this tutorial.
You could expect that such interaction between the biologists and
computational linguists will bring to our communities many brand new ideas.
While simple information retrieval and information extraction techniques
are useful for many language processing tasks, including mining biological
rules as discussed in the above major issue, such techniques combined
in an intuitive way may not really provide us with good answers for
many critical questions. In the third major tutorial issue, our QA experts,
Professors Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas) and Dan Moldovan
(University of Texas) will tell us how an Open-Domain Textual Question
Answering system could be constructed to serve well. Professor Harabagiu's
systems had proved to be outstanding in the community. Therefore, you
should really attend this course if you want more secrete behind the scenes.
The forth major tutorial issue is Probabilistic Computational
Psycholinguistics. This issue is important because every sentence that
we processed has its psycholinguistics and cognitive process behind it.
The more we know such psycholinguistic models the more we can process
the sentences better. Professor Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado)
will lead you to the world of computational psycholinguistics and
cognitive modeling in the sentence, lexical and discourse levels
through this course.
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Course Outlines:
Please refer to the following web-page for course outlines and further
information:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html.
Additional information about on-line registration can be found on:
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html.
Official URL of COLING-2002 is: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
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ICCL Advisor on Workshops and Tutorials
Prof. Antonio Zampolli
Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale, CNR
Via della Faggiola 32
I-56100 Pisa,
ITALY tel:+39-50-560481
fax:+39-50-589055
Email: [log in to unmask]
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TUTORIALS CHAIR
Chu-Ren Huang
Institute of Linguistics
Academia Sinica
Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan
Email: [log in to unmask]
TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS
Kathleen Ahrens
Graduate Institute of Linguistics
National Taiwan University
1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road
Taipei 106, Taiwan
Email: [log in to unmask]
Jing-Shin Chang
Computer Science & Information Engineering
National Chi-Nan University
1 University Road, Puli
Nantou 545, Taiwan
Email: [log in to unmask]
Martha Palmer
Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
200 S. 33rd Street
Phila. PA 19104-6389, USA
Email: [log in to unmask]
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COLING-2002 (Taipei)
The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
24 August - 1 September, 2002
Official URL:http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
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Important Dates:
* Online registration deadline: 15 August (Thu) (GMT+0800) [Save Your Fees!!]
(http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html)
Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House)
Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica)
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