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ACL/SIGPARSE will host the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03) on October 9 and 10, 2005 in conjunction with the 2005 Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT/EMNLP).
IWPT'05 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organized by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000; Beijing (China) in 2001; and Nancy (France) in 2003.
On-line registration is now available through the HLT/EMNLP web page.
Spontaneous speech: Challenges and opportunities for parsing
Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington
Recent advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR) provide new opportunities for natural language processing of speech, including applications such as understanding, summarization and translation. Parsing can play an important role here, but much of current parsing technology has been developed on written text. Spontaneous speech differs substantially from text, posing challenges that include the absence of punctuation and the presence of disfluencies and ASR errors. At the same time, prosodic cues in speech can provide disambiguating context beyond that available from punctuation. This talk looks at means of leveraging prosody and uncertainty models to improve parsing (and recognition) of spontaneous speech, and outlines challenges in speech processing that impact parsing.
Parse this! — How we handle student writing
Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service
Educational applications for the analysis and evaluation of student writing have become a productive research field in the past 10 years. Many deployed capabilities now exist, and are being used by thousands of students internationally in the area of writing practice in English. From the earliest efforts at Educational Testing Service to explore writing analysis applications, parsing technology has been central to the development and deployment of automated essay scoring, and additional capabilities for more detailed analyses of student writing, such as grammar error detection. This talk will focus on the many uses of parsing technology within writing evaluation applications, and the issues associated when integrating parsing into deployed applications. We will also take a close look at data differences between student writing and traditional well-edited text used for parser development.
The workshop schedule is here.
| Deadline for paper submission | 5 July 2005 | (closed) |
| Notification of acceptance | 5 August 2005 | |
| Final papers due | 28 August 2005 | |
| Workshop | 9–10 October 2005 |
The deadline for camera ready paper submissions (maximum of 12 pages for full papers or two pages for posters, electronic submission in ps or pdf) is AUGUST 28, 2005. If you any foresee problems getting your final paper in by this date, please let us know as soon as possible.
To submit yout paper, please format it according to the style sheet for the HLT/EMNLP proceesings, name the file IWPT05-[first author's last name].[ps or pdf], and send it to iwpt05@bulba.sdsu.edu by August 28, 2005.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by (or under the supervision of) the international IWPT'05 Program Committee, consisting of the following members:
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Bob Carpenter (Alias-i, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, USA)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence, RI, USA)
Ulf Hermjakob (USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, USA)
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Ronald Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Dan Klein (UC Berkeley, USA)
Sadao Kurohashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA)
Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Bob Moore (Microsoft, Redmond, USA)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Stefan Riezler (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy)
Khalil Sima'an (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Hozumi Tanaka (Chukyo University, Japan)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI and Univeritat des Saarlandes, Germany)
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, Rocquencourt, France)
K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)Program Chair:
Rob Malouf (San Diego State University, USA)Logistic Arrangements Chair:
Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Additional information about IWPT'05 is available at the URL http://bulba.sdsu.edu/iwpt05. At the site SIGPARSE site you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities.
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