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The 16th International FLAIRS Conference
In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
2003 Special Track on
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing
Casa Monica Hotel
St. Augustine, Florida
May 11-15, 2003
Call for Papers
The Special Track on "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing"
invites researchers from academia, government, and industry to submit
papers reporting on recent advances in all aspects of Natural Language
Processing, including but not limited to:
- pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and the lexicon;
- phonetics, phonology, and morphology;
- text understanding and generation;
- language-oriented information retrieval, question answering,
summarization and information extraction;
- language-oriented machine learning;
- multi-lingual processing, machine translation;
- natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- electronic dictionaries;
- knowledge acquisition;
- text mining;
- message and narrative understanding systems;
- tools and resources;
- evaluation of systems
The conference also encourages submission of papers on applications
of natural language processing in areas such as, biomedicine, finance,
etc. We especially welcome any contribution to the area of language
processing showing important developments in information technology.
Submission Guidelines
Authors must submit an electronic copy (ps or pdf) of their complete
manuscript to the contact chair by October 25, 2002. All submissions
must be original, previously unpublished work, and they should not
exceed 10 double spaced pages. Also, the papers should not identify
the author(s) (for details see FLAIRS-03 Paper Submissions at
http://www.cs.uwp.edu/flairssubsys/index.php3) and be accompanied
by a cover letter that indicates the contact authors, paper's title,
and appropriate subject areas under which the paper can be classified.
Notification of acceptance will be emailed around January 7, 2003.
Authors of accepted papers will be expected to submit the final
camera-ready copy of their full papers by February 17, 2003.
Journal Publication
The Editor-In-Chief of the International Journal on Artificial
Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) will have a special issue of the journal
devoted to FLAIRS-03. After the conference, authors of selected
papers will be invited to submit revised versions of their papers for
journal publication.
Important Dates
Paper submissions due: October 25, 2002
Notification letters sent: January 7, 2003
Camera ready copy due: February 17, 2003
Conference: May 11-15, 2003
Co-chairs:
Roxana Girju Baylor University, USA (contact chair:
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Program Committee:
Adrian Atanasiu University of Bucharest, Romania
Peter Clark Boeing, USA
Dan Cristea "A.I.Cuza" University, Romania
Roxana Girju Baylor University, USA
Christopher Khoo Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Udo Hahn Freiburg University, Germany
Susan Haller University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA
Sanda Harabagiu University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA
Chin-Yew Lin ISI/University of Southern California, USA
Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Horacio Rodriguez Politechnical University of Catalunya, Spain
Tomek Strzalkowski University of New York at Albany, USA
Stefan Trausan "Politechnica" University of Bucharest,
Romania
Dan Tufis Romanian Academy
Takashi Yukawa Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan
Bonnie Webber University of Edinburgh, UK
Yorick Wilks Sheffield University, UK
Conference location
This 15th FLAIRS conference will take place May 11-15, 2003 in St.
Augustine, Florida, the oldest city in the United States, truly unique
for its charm of Spanish history. For more information please visit
the St.Augustine website (www.oldcity.com).
For more information contact Roxana Girju at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
or check the website of the Special Track on Recent Advances in Natural
Language Processing at http://www.flairs.com/flairs2003.
