[on behalf of Fazel Keshtkar] Applied Natural Language Processing Special Track at FLAIRS-28, Hollywood, Florida USA Organizers: · Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University ( fkeshtkar@xxxxxxxx) · Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, vrus@xxxxxxxxxxx Full Title: Applied Natural Language Processing Date: May 18 – 20, 2015 Call Deadline: November 17, 2015 Location: Hollywood, Florida, USA Web Site: http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/anlpflairs-2015/ Field(s): Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science Email: Fazel Keshtkar (fkeshtkar@xxxxxxxx) Vasile Rus (vrus@xxxxxxxxxxx) Applied Natural Language Processing Special Track at The 28th International FLAIRS Conference In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Hollywood, Florida, USA May 18 - 20, 2015 Paper submission deadline: November 17, 2014. Notifications: January 19, 2015. Camera ready version due: February 23, 2015. All accepted papers will be published in FLAIRS proceedings by the AAAI. 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. What is the GOAL of the track? 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, Educationa Data Mining, Learning Analytics Knowldge, 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. What kind of studies will be of interest? 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 - in particular multimodal human-computer communication and language as the only acceptable 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 (4 pages for a poster) and are due by November 17, 2014. For FLAIRS-28, the 2015 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-28.info/). Note: do not use a fake name for your EasyChair login - your EasyChair account information is hidden from reviewers. Authors should indicate the [your track name] special track for submissions. The proceedings of FLAIRS will be published 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-28.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, Southeast Missouri State University (fkeshtkar@xxxxxxxx) Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, vrus@xxxxxxxxxxx Current Program Committee Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India Lee Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Cosmin Adrian Bejan, University of Southern California, USA Eric Bell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Chutima Boonthum, Hampton University, USA Justin Brunelle, Old Dominion University, USA Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy Andrea Corradini, University of Southern Denmark, DK Asif Ekbal, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India Stefano Faralli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Anna Feldman, Montclair State University, USA Katherine M Forbes Riley, University of Pittsburg, USA Christian Hempelmann, RiverGlass Inc. and Purdue University, USA Verena Henrich, University of Tubingen, Germany Diana Inkpen, University of Ottawa, Canada Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburg, USA Christel Kemke, University of Manitoboa, Canada Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University, USA Travis Lamkin, University of Memphis, USA Mihai Lintean, University of Memphis, USA Xiaofei Lu, Pennsylvania State University, USA Mehdi Manshadi, University of Rochester, USA Phil McCarthy, University of Memphis, USA Manish Mehta, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Cristina Nicolae, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Nobal Niraula, University of Memphis, USA Constantin Orasan, University of Wolverhampton, UK Shiyan Ou, University of Wolverhampton, UK Gilles Richard, Paul Sabatier University, France Vasile Rus University of Memphis, USA Hansen A. Schwartz, University of Central Florida, USA Svetlana Stoyanchev, The Open University, UK Rene Venegas, Pontificia University, Chile Nina Wacholder, Rutgers University, USA Michael Wiegand, Saarland University, Germany Alistair Willis, The Open University, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, USA Fatiha Sadat, UQAM, Canada Further Information Questions regarding the Applied Natural Language Processing Special Track should be addressed to the track co-chairs: Fazel Keshtkar, Southeast Missouri State University, fkeshtkar@xxxxxxxx Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, vrus@xxxxxxxxxxx Questions regarding Special Tracks should be addressed to Chair Zdravko Markov at MarkovZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Conference Chair: Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hampton University, USA ( chutima.boonthum@xxxxxxxxx) Program Co-Chairs: William (Bill) Eberle, Tennessee Technological University, USA Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA (irussell@xxxxxxxxxxxx Special Tracks Coordinator: Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA (markovz@xxxxxxxx) Invited Speakers To be announced Conference Web Sites Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at http://www.flairs-28.info/ FLAIRS-28 conference web page: http://www.flairs-28.info/ Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com