WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
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 inter-mediate 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 tech-nology for knowledge
management that addresses problems including but not limited to:
* Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of
distributed organizations and communities of experts.
* Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of
knowledge from unstructured multimedia data.
* Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise
and know-how.
Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges
through technologies such as:
* Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and
knowledge from multimedia, multilin-gual, and multiparty
information sources.
* Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing
of knowledge.
* Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from
unstructured multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news
broadcasts).
* Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and
access (e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as
geospatial Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri,
encyclopedia, fact books)
* Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source
* Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and
document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of
distributed experts and communities of expertise
* Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g.,
knowledge maps, lessons learned).
* 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
* Dr. Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Arjan van Hessen, COMSYS / U. Twente, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Enrico Motta, The Open University, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ex-traction, translation,
speech recognition), a statement of the grand challenges or problems
in the subfield, an ar-ticulation/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 elec-tronically in Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII
text format to arrive no later than April 2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald
([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 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
+ Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001
+ Notification : 30 April 2001
+ Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001
WORKSHOP DATE
July 6 and 7, 2001
WORKSHOP URL
http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html
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