[on behalf of Fazel Keshtkar]
[Moderator's Note: Also of relevance to EDM is the FLAIRS Special Track on
Intelligent Learning Technologies: http://sites.google.com/site/flairsilt/]
Applied Natural Language Processing
(http://cstl-csm.semo.edu/fkeshtkar/anlpflairs29_2016/)
Special Track at
the 29th International FLAIRS Conference
In cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
(AAAI)
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Key Largo, Florida, USA
May 16-18, 2016
Paper submission deadline: November 16, 2015
Notifications sent by: January 18, 2016
Camera Ready paper due: February 22, 2016
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, multimodal communication, etc. We also encourage
papers in information retrieval, speech processing 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
18th, 2013. For FLAIRS-27, the 2014 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-29.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 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-29.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)
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Hampton University, (chutima.boonthum@xxxxxxxxxxxx
)
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
Boyi Xie, Columbia University, USA
Aminul Islam, Dal House Univesity, 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
· Chutima Boonthum-Deneck,Hamtone University, (
chutima.boonthum@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Questions regarding Special Tracks should be addressed to:
Conference Chair:
William (Bill) Eberle, Tennessee Technological University, USA (
WEberle@xxxxxxxxxx)
Program Co-Chairs:
Zdravko Markov, Central Connecticut State University, USA (markovz@xxxxxxxx)
Ingrid Russell, University of Hartford, USA (irussell@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Special Tracks Coordinator:
Vasile Rus, The University of Memphis, USA (vrus@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Invited Speakers: TBA
Conference Web Sites
· Paper submission site: follow the link for submissions at
http://www.flairs-29.info/
· FLAIRS-29 conference web page: http://www.flairs-29.info/
· Florida AI Research Society (FLAIRS): http://www.flairs.com
