ROMAND 2006
4th International workshop on RObust
Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data
Held as an EACL 2006 Workshop
April 3rd 2006, Trento, Italy
Registration
TOPICS
Robustness in Computational Linguistics has been recognized as an
important issue for the design of Natural Language Processing
applications but is not particularly well addressed by common
evaluation procedures where test and training data are usually obtained
from the same source. Robustness, however, can be defined as a
smooth degradation in the performance of a system when faced with
unexpected input. Therefore, robustness is the ability to deal with
deviation from the norm and has much in common with issues like
scalability and portability.
To develop a deeper understanding of the mechanisms underlying robust
behaviour, papers are invited addressing aspects of robustness in HLT
from different perspectives including psycholinguistic insights. Of
particular interest are submissions dealing with issues of robustness
for a range of challenging NLP applications such as (but not limited
to)
Machine Translation, Information Extraction, Summarization,
Question-Answering, and Spoken Dialogue Systems. Moreover, the workshop
will also make an attempt to strengthen the empirical basis of research
into issues of robustness
by inviting participants to contribute proposals for the design of
Evaluation Frameworks which would allow to measure the degree of
robustness and make it comparable, perhaps even across different
Natural Language Processing tasks.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work
in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions
should be formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles with overt author
and affiliation information and not exceeding 8 pages. The EACL 2006
stylefiles are available at
http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm
Please send your PDF file no later than January 6, 2006, to both:
Vincenzo.Pallotta(at)unifr.ch
and Menzel(at)informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.
Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are
allowed; if you submit to the main session, do indicate this when you
submit to the workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main
session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon
notification by the main session.
REGISTRATION
Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at
the conference web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
January 6, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers
January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance
February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due
April 3, 2006 - ROMAND 2006 Worskhop
As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT
possible.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Afzal Ballim
Alberto Lavelli
Alexander Clark
Amedeo Cappelli
Amalia Todirascu
Atro Voutilainen
Beth-Ann Hockey
Bangalore Srinivas
Dan Cristea
Dan Tufis
Diego Mollá-Aliod
Eric Wehrli
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto
Fabio Rinaldi
Florentina Hristea
Frank Keller
Frank Schilder
Jean-Cédric Chappelier
Jean-Pierre Chanod
Joachim Niehren
John Dowding
Josè Iria
Kay-Uwe Carstensen
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Manny Rayner
Martin Kay
Michael Hess
Geertjan van Noord
Gian Lorenzo Thione
Günther Görz
Roberto Basili
Rodolfo Delmonte
Salah Ait-Mokhtar
Vincenzo Pallotta
Violeta Seretan
Wolfgang Menzel
Yuji Matsumoto
FURTHER INFORMATION
The EACL 2006 Workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural
language Data will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of
the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
that will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy.
Workshop web page http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~vincenzo/romand2006/
Conference web page http://eacl06.itc.it/
EACL 2006 Workshops site
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/
CONTACT INFORMATION
Vincenzo Pallotta: Vincenzo.Pallotta(at)unifr.ch
