Applied Natural Language Processing
(https://sites.google.com/site/flairsanlp2017/flairsanlp2018)
Melbourne, Florida, USA
May 21-23, 2018
Paper submission deadline: November 20, 2017
Notifications sent by: January 22, 2018 Camera Ready paper due: February 26, 2018
Organizers and Chairs:
Fazel Keshtkar, ST JOHN'S University [keshtkaf@stjohns.edu]
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hamtone University, [chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu]
Call for Papers
What is ANLP?
The track on Applied Natural Language Processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing(NLP)/computational linguistics(CL) and related areas.
The rapid pace of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined
with other media (visual, audio), has led to a revived interest for tools capable to understand,
organize and mine those materials. Novel human-computer interfaces, for instance talking heads,
can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques with big impact on user
satisfaction. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for the handicapped
(no typing needed) and elderly leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems.
Goal of ANLP
The goal of the ANLP track is to inform researchers as to current project
and studies that identify, investigate, and (begin to) resolve issues that
relate to human/computer language interaction.
Who might be interested?
Papers and contributions on traditional basic and applied language processing issues are
welcome as well as novel challenges to the NLP/CL community: BioNLP, spam filtering,
security, multilingual processing, learning environments, Educational Data Mining,
Learning Analytics Knowledge, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Dialog Systems, Big Data,
multimodal communication, etc. We also encourage papers in information retrieval,
speech processing, Data Mining, and machine learning that present novel approaches
that can benefit from or have an impact on NLP/CL.
Topics
We invite highly original papers that describe work in, but not limited to,
the following areas:
· NL-based representations and knowledge systems
· Lexical Semantics
· Syntax
· Co-reference Resolution
· Word Sense Disambiguation
· Text Cohesion and Coherence
· Educational Data Mining
· Learning Analytics Knowledge
· Tutoring and Dialoge Systems
· Dialogue Management Systems
· Language Generation
· Language Models
· Human Computer Interfaces –
· Multimodal human-computer communication
· Human-computer communication channel for handicapped and elderly
· NL in Learning Environments
· Machine Learning applied to NL problems
· Multilingual Processing
· Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages
· Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning
· Semantic Similarity Metrics
· Applications: Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Intelligent
· Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction and others
· Other related topics
Note: We invite original papers (i.e. work not previously submitted,
in submission, or to be submitted to another conference during the
reviewing process).
Submission Guidelines
Interested authors should format their papers according to AAAI formatting guidelines.
The papers should be original work (i.e., not submitted, in submission, or submitted to another
conference while in review). Papers should not exceed 6 pages (2 pages for a poster) and are due
by November 21st, 2016. For FLAIRS-30, the 2017 conference, the reviewing is a double blind
process. Fake author names and affiliations must be used on submitted papers to provide
double-blind reviewing. Papers must be submitted as PDF through the EasyChair conference
system, which can be accessed through the main conference web site (http://www.flairs-31.info/).
Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChairaccount information is
hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the ANLP special track for submissions.
The proceedings of FLAIRS will bepublished by the AAAI. Authors of accepted papers will be
required to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to AAAI. FLAIRS requires that
there be at least one full author registration per paper.
Please, check the website http://www.flairs-31.info/ for further information.
Conference Proceedings
Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the
conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI Press.
Organizing Committee
Fazel Keshtkar, ST JOHN'S University [keshtkaf@stjohns.edu]
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hamtone University, [chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu]
Program Committee
Eric Bell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, USA
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy
Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada
Fazel Keshtkar, ST JOHN'S University, USA
Xiaofei Lu, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Nobal Niraula, University of Memphis, USA
Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Vasile Rus University of Memphis, USA
Michael Wiegand, Saarland University, Germany
Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA
Fatiha Sadat, UQAM, Canada
Boyi Xie, Columbia University, USA
Aminul Islam, Dal House Univesity, Canada
Rajendra Banjade, University of Memphis, USA
Rebeca Cerezo, University of Oviedo, Spain
Verena Henrich, IBM Research & Development GmBh, Germany
Further Information
Questions regarding the Applied Natural Language Processing Special Track should
be addressed to the track co-chairs:
Fazel Keshtkar, ST JOHN'S University, keshtkaf@stjohns.edu
Chutima Boonthum-Deneck,Hamtone University,
(chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu)
Questions regarding Special Tracks should be addressed to:
Invited Speakers: TBA
Conference Web Sites
- Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at
http://www.flairs-31.info/
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