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:
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Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of distributed
organizations and communities of experts.
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Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of knowledge
from unstructured multimedia data.
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Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise and
know-how.
Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through
technologies such as:
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Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and knowledge
from multimedia, multilingual, and multiparty information sources.
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Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing of knowledge.
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Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from unstructured multimedia
data (e.g., documents, web, video news broadcasts).
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Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and access (e.g.,
lexicosemantic such as WordNet, semantic such as geospatial Gazetteers,
semistructured such as thesauri, encyclopedia, fact books)
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Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source
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Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and document
analysis/understanding in support of discovery of distributed experts and
communities of expertise
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Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g., knowledge
maps, lessons learned).
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Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and preferences
from queries, created artifacts, and human computer interactions.
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
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Dr. Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation, maybury@mitre.org
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Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark, nob@nis.sdu.dk
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Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer@let.uu.nl
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Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, becferi@fiu.edu
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Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm, paul.heisterkamp@daimlerchrysler.com
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Arjan van Hessen, COMSYS / U. Twente, hessen@cs.utwente.nl
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Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle@xrce.xerox.com
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Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta@open.ac.uk
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Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo@die.upm.es
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Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock@itc.it
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Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh, ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
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Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit@dfki.de
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Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik@boeing.com
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Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it
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
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Submission Deadline:
2 April 2001
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Notification :
30 April 2001
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Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May
2001
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Conference Dates:
6-7 July 2001
WORKSHOP DATE
July 6 and 7, 2001