Applied Natural Language Processing

Special Track at the 20th International FLAIRS Conference In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Goal

The track of Applied Natural Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP)/computational linguistics(CL), applied linguistics(AL) and related areas. The rapid pace of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools able to understand, organize and mine those materials. Innovative human-computer interfaces, for instance interactive agents, can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with a large impact on user acceptance and satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for people with special needs leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems.

 

While papers and contributions on traditional issues are welcome, the 2007 track will emphasize applications by the NLP/CL community, particularly in areas such as multilingual processing, learning environments, multimodal communication, bioNLP, spam filtering, humor processing, security, language teaching, textual assessment, language varieties, materials development, and educational applications etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval, speech processing and machine learning that present actual applications that can benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL.

Topics

We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to, the following areas:

 

 

Conference Proceedings

Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings which will be published by AAAI Press.  Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) to be published in 2007. 

Organizing Committee

Philip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent Systems
Christian Hempelman, Hakia Inc.

Program Committee

Cederick Bellissens, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University

Peter Clark, Boeing

Scott Crossley, Mississippi State University

Sidney D’Mello, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Nick Duran, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Anna Feldman, Montclair State University

Chris Gates, Hakia Inc.

Patrick Jeuniaux, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Charles Hall, University of Memphis

Christian Hempelmann, Hakia Inc.

Diana Inkpen, University of Toronto

Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh

Christopher Kurby, Northern Illinois University

Max Louwerse, University of Memphis

Philip McCarthy, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas

Paul Morarescu, University of Texas at Dallas

Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University

Tudor Muresan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Roberto Navigli, University of Rome “La Sapienza”

Sergei Nirenburg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Andrew Olney, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton

John Paolillo, Indiana University

Srinivasa Pillarisetti, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen

Vasile Rus, University of Memphis

Roger Taylor, Institute for Intelligent Systems

Joel Tetreault, University of Pittsburgh

Stacey Todaro, Northern Illinois University

Katrina E. Triezenberg, Purdue University

Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University

Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield

 

Further Information

Questions regarding the NLP Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs:

Questions regarding paper submission should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2007 program co-chairs:

General questions concerning the conference should be addressed to the FLAIRS-2007 conference co-chairs: 

Special Tracks Chair

Rainer Knauf, Ilmenau Technical University, Ilmenau, Germany

Invited Speakers

Victor Raskin, Purdue University

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