nlp

SHARED TASK DESCRIPTION

We are excited to organize the first shared task in Native Language Identification (NLI) which is the task of identifying the native language (L1) of a writer based solely on a sample of their writing. The task is framed as a classification problem where the set of L1s is known a priori. Most work has focused on identifying the native language of writers learning English as a second language. This problem has been growing in popularity and has motivated several ACL, NAACL and EMNLP papers, as well as a master's and doctorate thesis.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic to ordinary
to scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, metaphor becomes
an important problem for natural language processing. Its ubiquity in
language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the
role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological
experiments. This makes metaphor an important research area for
computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic
identification and interpretation indispensable for any
semantics-oriented NLP application.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Submission deadline EXTENDED to 8 September (Sat).

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1st Workshop on Games and NLP (GAMNLP-12)
23 October 2012, Kanazawa, Japan

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DEADLINE EXTENSION

Second Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Writing (CL&W 2012):
Linguistic and cognitive aspects of document creation and document
engineering

Workshop at EACL 2012 http://eacl2012.org/

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 4, 2012 (24:00 CET)

Web site: http://www.lingured.info/clw2012/

Workshop date: April 23, 2012

Location: Avignon, France

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The School of Informatics of the Universidad Andres Bello, sponsored by NAACL invites to our I Virtual Workshop in Linguistics Engineering. This event has the goal of developing collaboration networks between researchers and students of both, linguistics and engineering.Our intention is to meet, in a virtual space, researchers of the field interested in sharing experiences, and to motivate to other academics and students to discover relations among linguistic and engineering (and viceversa). The language of this workshop will be Spanish.

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The workshop covers all aspects of weighted automata, ranging from the theory of weighted automata and quantitative logics to applications for real-time systems and natural language processing. The aim is to present tutorials and survey lectures by outstanding scientists in this area. Moreover, we encourage everybody to participate in this workshop and present their own technical contribution in this area.

Tutorials:

• Javier Esparza and Michael Luttenberger (Munich, Germany)
• Orna Kupfermann (Jerusalem, Israel)
• Anoop Sarkar, provisional (Burnaby, Canada)

Further to the workshops held in conjunction to the
International Conferences "Recent Advances in Natural
Language Processing" RANLP-2005, RANLP-2007 and RANLP-2009,
we are pleased to announce a call for workshop proposals for
RANLP-2011.

RANLP-2011 invites the submission of workshop proposals on
any topic of interest to the NLP community, ranging from
fundamental research issues to more applied industrial or
commercial aspects. The format of the workshop will be
determined by the organisers. Workshops can vary in length
from a half day to full 1-2 days and can also feature demo

RANLP 2011 Second Call for Papers

RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most established and competitive NLP conferences. The 8th RANLP conference will be held in Augusta hotel, Hissar, Bulgaria (12-14 September 2011). The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus presentations of peer-reviewed individual papers. There will also be an exhibition area for poster and demo sessions. The conference will be preceded by two days of tutorials (10-11 September 2011). Post-conference workshops will be held on 15-16 September 2011.

BioNLP 2011 is the tenth workshop on biomedical natural language processing being held in conjunction with the annual ACL or NAACL meeting. BioNLP 2011 will be held at the ACL/HLT 2011 meeting in Portland, Oregon, under the auspices of SIGBIOMED, the ACL's special interest group for biomedical natural language processing. The meeting will be held June 23-24, 2011.