Summer School

 July 28 - August 8, 2003
Bucharest, Romania

Programme
 

Call for Papers
Natural Language Processing will be one of the main beneficciary of the semantic web development.  On-line Machine translation, information retrieval and text summarization, as well as natural language interfaces tools, are already widespread. Howeever, mainly due to the empirical existent methodologies for accessing information on the Web, these tools have for the moment a poor quality compared with commercial applications.
The development of ontologies for semantic web, together with proper search mechanisms, the standard RDF addnotation of large pieces of data on the web, can be only benefic for mono and multilingual natural language web-applications.

The aim of the current workshop is to encourage young researchers in Natural language Processing , interested also in the semantic web, to present their results.
We invite original papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas including but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology, and morphology;  multilingual NLP; machine translation, electronicdictionaries; knowledge acquisition; terminology; word-sense disambiguation; anaphora resolution; information retrieval; information extraction; text summarisation;  dialogue systems; speech processing.

The submssions are expected from graduate and ungraduate Students, as well as from PH.Ds.

 Submission Requirements

Authors are invited to submit a 6-8 pages full papers in electronic form (postscript or PDF) by 28 th of June2 003. In the submission the authors should indicate their current status (student, graduate-master, PH.D).

Authors of accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format  not later than 10th ofJuly.
The documents must be in either postscript or pdf format (PDF is encouraged, but postscript documents are acceptable as well). If you have problems delivering your paper in one of these formats, please contact the organising comittee. Maximum length of paper should be about 10 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as EACL-2003. The instructions can be found here. Please do not insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem following the style please contact the organising committee as soon as possible. All the papers should be send to Cristina Vertan.

 Important Dates

 Submission Deadline :28th June 2003

 Notification of Acceptance: 5th July 2003

 Camera-ready Papers: 10th July 2003

 Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged.
 

 Registration

 Participants at  the workshop must be registered at the Eurolan'03 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'03 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register, and can apply for a grant to the summer school.
 

 Programme and Organising Commitee

 Dan Cristea (University "Al I Cuza" Iasi, Romania)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Walther von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)