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Subject: [SICStus] Call for Papers: NLULP'02 Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:25:20 +0200 (IST) From: Shuly Wintner shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il To: shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il

NLULP-02 The 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming

An affiliated workshop with ICLP, as part of FLoC'02

Copenhagen, Denmark, 27-28 July, 2002

http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shuly/nlulp02

Description

The International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming was first organized in Rennes, France, in 1984. Since then similar workshops took place in Vancouver, Canada (1987), Dalgharten, Sweden (1991), Nara, Japan (1993), Lisbon, Portugal (1995) and most recently, the 6th NLULP took place in Las Cruces, New Mexico in December 1999, as part of the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'99). This year, NLULP is affiliated again with ICLP, The International Conference on Logic Programming, which is held as part of FLoC'02, The 2002 Federated Logic Conference, the major computational logic event of the year.

Topics of interest include all aspects of the intersection of Natural Language Understanding with Logic Programming and Constraint (Logic) Programming, both theoretical and practical, in all levels of linguistic investigation. Special emphasis will be given to works addressing the logical, mathematical and computational relationships between linguistic formalisms and logic programming. Relevant issues include, but are not limited to, investigations of the logical theory underlying linguistic formalisms; alternative approaches to the semantics of such formalisms; applications of constraint logic programming to ``constraint-based'' linguistic formalisms; issues governing grammar engineering, scalability, modularization, information encapsulation, etc; applications of inductive logic programming methods to NLP; higher-order logic programming; applications of functional programming to NLP; etc. However, all works dealing with issues of natural language and logic programming are welcome.

Submission

Papers should be written in English and describe original, unpublished work. They should emphasize completed rather than proposed work. The state of completion of reported results should be clearly indicated. Papers must be anonymous and refrain from self-reference. Accepted papers cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences or workshops must indicate this on the title page.

Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages (A4 or Letter format, single column, 11pt, at least 2.5cm / 1 inch margins), including title (but no author names), abstract, keywords and references. All contributions are to be made electronically, preferably as PDF attachments. Please send your anonymous submission to the organizer, shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the organizer. The deadline for submission is Sunday, 17 February, 2002.

The anonymous submission should be accompanied by an e-mail listing the following details:

* Authors' names and affiliations * Address * E-mail addresses * Title * Keywords * Abstract

All submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. The accepted papers will be made available electronically as part of the Workshop's Proceedings. Depending on the quality of the submissions, we intend to publish selected papers in a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation.

Program Committee

* Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University), veronica@cs.sfu.ca * Sandiway Fong (NEC Research Institute), sandiway@research.nj.nec.com * Nissim Francez (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology), francez@cs.technion.ac.il * Mark Johnson (Brown University), Mark_Johnson@Brown.edu * Gregers Koch (University of Copenhagen), gregers@diku.dk * Gabriel Pereira Lopes (New University of Lisbon), gpl@di.fct.unl.pt * Detmar Meurers (Ohio State University), dm@ling.ohio-state.edu * Guido Minnen (Motorola Human Interface Laboratories), minnen@labs.mot.com * Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen), vannoord@let.rug.nl * Gerald Penn (University of Toronto), gpenn@cs.toronto.edu * Fred Popowich (Gavagai Technology Incorporated), popowich@gavagai.net * Monique Rolbert (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille), Monique.Rolbert@lim.univ-mrs.fr * Paul Sabatier (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille), Paul.Sabatier@lim.univ-mrs.fr * Jun'ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo), tsujii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin), vogel@cs.tcd.ie * Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa), shuly@cs.haifa.ac.il

Important dates

* February 17, 2002: Deadline for submissions * April 14, 2002: Notification of acceptance * May 14, 2002: Final version due * July 27-28, 2002: Workshop dates

Further information

The Workshop is organized by Shuly Wintner, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. For further information about ICLP or FLoC'02 please visit http://floc02.diku.dk/.

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