ANLP 2014 - Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP), Chutima Boonthum-Denecke and Mihai Linten

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:
1. NL-based representations and knowledge systems
2. Syntax and Semantics (similarity metrics, lexical semantics)
3. Co-reference Resolution
4. Word Sense Disambiguation
5. Text Cohesion and Coherence
6. Dialogue Management and NL-based Human-Computer Interaction
7. Language Generation (answer and question generation)
8. Language Models
9. NL in Learning Environments
10. Machine Learning applied to NL problems
11. Multilingual Processing
12. BioNLP
13. Standardization, Language Resources, Corpora Building and Annotation Languages
14. Semantic Web, Ontologies, Reasoning
15. Applications: Machine Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization, Intelligent Tutoring, Question Answering, Information Extraction and others
16. 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).