WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY 
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
(http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html)

 

ACL'2001 Conference
Toulouse, France
July 6-7, 2001

Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management. Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription, extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how.

This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade.  The road map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of intermediate milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring our progress towards our goals.

The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will address new research in human language technology for knowledge management that addresses problems including but not limited to:

Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through technologies such as: The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and refinement of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade.  Participants will help formulate grand challenge problems, discuss possible data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods that could form the basis of more scientific methods, articulate the role of and necessary advances in human language technology to solve these challenges, as well as identify and characterize early innovations and issues (e.g., robustness, scalability, ontology, privacy).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers, developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language technology in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge management applications.  While we  project a high degree of interest in this topic, we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality of paper submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS

Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on HLT in general or its application to KM systems.  Papers targeted at the first day on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge management problem addressed, the technical approach to solving that, the novelty of the approach, its relation to previous work, the evaluation or performance of the system or method, and discussion of limitations. Papers targeted at the second day of on human language technology direction should be authored so they could be integrated into a more general HLT roadmap and so should include a definition of the HLT area addressed (e.g., information extraction, translation, speech recognition), a statement of the grand challenges or problems in the subfield, an articulation/analysis of the current state of the art, a vision of where the community wants to be in ten years from now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to set intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals.

Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see http://acl2001.dfki.de/style for the detailed guidelines. Submissions should be sent electronically in Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII text format to arrive no later than April 2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald (pmmmac@mitre.org).  As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to participate to include their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submission.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance, innovation, quality, and presentation according to the schedule below.

SCHEDULE

WORKSHOP DATE

July 6 and 7, 2001