Artificial neural networks (ANN) based natural language processing (NLP)
research began in the early 1980s with papers on implementing semantic
networks in ANNs, word-sense disambiguation, anaphora resolution, and
syntactic parsing. Since then, with the boom of NLP research based on
very large corpora, the ANN, as a powerful parallel and distributed
learning/processing machine, has attracted a great deal more attention from
both the ANN and NLP researchers and has been successfully used in many
areas of NLP.
This second workshop on NLP and ANN is to be held in Tokyo as a
post-conference workshop of NLPRS2001. It continues the work of the
first workshop on NLP and ANN, NLPNN99, successfully held in Beijing
two years ago. NLPNN2001 will provide a forum for researchers in the
areas of ANN and NLP who are interested in advancing the state of the
art in developing NLP techniques using neural networks.
Submissions are invited on all NLP topics in the context of using ANN
techniques. A submission consists of a two-page summary (2000 words or
less), accompanied by paper title, author information including full
names, affiliations of all authors, and the postal and email addresses
of the corresponding author.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Workshop Program Committee, and
authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by email.
Summary submission deadline: July 31, 2001
Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2001
Camera ready papers due: September 26, 2001
After notification of acceptance, the authors are requested to make
camera-ready papers, no more than 8 pages long, and in the format
prescribed by
NLPRS 2001. The detailed guidelines for preparing final complete
papers will be announced later.
Inquiries concerning the workshop can be sent to one of the organizers
either by email to qma@crl.go.jp or by post to
the following address:
Dr. Qing Ma
Computational Linguistics Group
Keihanna Human Info-Communication Research Center
Communications Research Laboratory
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0289, Japan
Organizers
Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Qing Ma (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Program Committee
Qing Ma (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan), Chair
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Bao-Liang Lu (RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan)
Caroline Lyon (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Daniel Memmi (LEIBNIZ-IMAG, France)
Risto Miikkulainen (University of Texas, USA)
Ron Sun (University of Missouri-Columbia, USA)
Naoto Takahashi (AIST, Japan)
Stefan Wermter (University of Sunderland, UK)
Byoung-Tak Zhang (Seoul National University, Korea)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research China, China)