• Fazel Keshtkar, ST JOHN'S University [keshtkaf@stjohns.edu]

• Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hamtone University, [chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu]

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.

Who might be interested?

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.

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, Luiziana University, Canada

Rajendra Banjade, University of Memphis, USA

Rebeca Cerezo, University of Oviedo, Spain

Verena Henrich, IBM Research & Development GmBh, Germany

Anna Farzindar, USC, USA

Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada

Christoforos Christoforou, St. John's University, USA

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).

Conference Proceedings

Papers will be refereed and all accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, which will be published by AAAI Press.

In cooperation with: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

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 19^st, 2018. For FLAIRS-32, the 2019 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-32.info/).

• Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account 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-32.info/ for further information.

Invited Speaker: TBA

Further Information

Questions regarding the Applied Natural Language Processing Special Track should be addressed to the special track co-chairs:

• • Fazel Keshtkar, ST JOHN'S University, keshtkaf@stjohns.edu

  • Chutima Boonthum-Deneck,Hamtone University, (chutima.boonthum@hamptonu.edu)

For information about the program contact:

• For information about the program contact:

  • Roman Barták at bartak@ktiml.mff.cuni.cz and

  • Keith Brawner at keith.w.brawner.civ@mail.mil

• For Special Tracks Proposals contact:

  • Eric Bell at Eric.Bell.FLAIRS32@gmail.com

• For general information about the conference contact Vasile Rus at vrus@memphis.edu

• Submit papers using this link: EasyChair