SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2003. The conference will be held on July 11-12 in Sapporo, Japan, immediately following the 41^st meeting of the ACL (ACL 2003).

We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to:

• information extraction
• information retrieval
• language and dialogue modeling
• lexical acquisition
• machine translation
• multilingual technologies
• question answering
• statistical parsing
• summarization
• generation
• tagging
• term and named entity extraction
• word sense disambiguation
• word, term, and text segmentation
• general NLP-related machine learning techniques:
  theory, methods and algorithms
  

In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is

• Statistical processing of syntactic formalisms which give detailed analyses, such as LFG, CCG, HPSG, or TAG.
• Extraction of logical form/predicate-argument structure, or information extraction that goes beyond named entities to relations between entities.
• Statistical approaches to dialogue systems.
• Statistical approaches to generation.
• Corpus-based approaches to machine translation which make use of deeper analyses than the original IBM alignment models.
• Empirical and statistical work on Natural Language "Understanding".
• Work connecting statistical NLP to research in probabilistic reasoning and representation in AI, for example reinforcement learning and belief networks.

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