According to the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the key research areas for the upcoming years. The Computer Linguistics - Applications Workshop is in part a response to the fast-paced progress in the area.
The workshop will focus on the applied aspect of Computer Linguistics, i.e. the practical outcome of modeling human language.  
The aim of the Applied Computer Linguistics is to enable the user to communicate with the computer in his/her native language. This may be useful for retrieving information from databases or raw texts as well as controlling a robot (virtual or real). Computer Linguistics may help communicate people with each other by means of computerized translation. Computer Linguistics is applied to make the full use of the Internet: we need software that can handle texts if we want to find the information we need in the web.
Furthermore, because of its location within the framework of the IMCSIT conference, we hope to initiate dialog between researchers involved in Computer Linguistics and other areas of information technology to build bridges between disciplines and find a way of applying CL-based tools in other areas. In this spirit, we invite papers that present research on all aspects of Natural Language Processing such as (this list is not exhaustive):

• machine translation and translation aids
• proofing tools
• semantic ontologies in computer linguistics
• lexical resources
• POS-tagging
• corpus-based language modeling
• extraction of linguistic knowledge from text corpora
• ambiguity resolution
• parsing issues
• information retrieval
• text classification
  

In addition to theoretical papers, we invite all participants to present practical demonstrations of existing tools. We require the papers to include a section describing an existing tool (or a prototype), which demonstrates the theory.
We intend the workshop to be a demo session. In the first part of the workshop the authors will shortly (no longer than 5 minutes each) demonstrate their tools to the audience. For the second part we will arrange environment in which authors will be able to present their software and discuss it with other conference participants.
The best demonstrations will be elected to be shown to the audience of the conference at a plenary session.

 

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