Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 16, No. 529.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:21:27 +0000
From: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: Special issue of JNLE on Software Architecture for
Language Engineering
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Journal
Journal of Natural Language Engineering
Software Architecture for Language Engineering
Editors: Hamish Cunningham, Donia Scott
A number of researchers argued in the early and middle 1990s that the field
of computational infrastructure, or architecture, for Natural Language
Processing, merited an increase in attention. The reasoning was that the
increasingly large-scale and technologically significant nature of NLP
science was placing increasing burdens of an engineering nature on R&D
workers seeking robust and practical methods. Over the intervening period a
number of significant systems and practices have been developed in what we
may call Software Architecture for Language Engineering. Of the most
prominent are:
* RAGS, Reference Architecture for Generation Systems
(Brighton and Edinburgh)
* LT XML (Edinburgh)
* TEI, CES, XCES (Oxford, Vassar, etc.)
* ATLAS (LDC, NIST)
* Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure (Mitre)
* JENA (Hewlett Packard)
* Protg (Stanford)
* GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering (Sheffield).
This special issue represents an opportunity for pracititioners in this
area to report their work in a coordinated setting. The value to the
community at large will be to get a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in
infrastructural work, which may indicate where further take-up of these
systems can be of benefit. A wide range of topics are relevant, from
reference architectures to web services, from component repositories to
language resource standardisation, from grid-based distribution to
comparative studies of different architectures.
Important dates:
1st July 2003 deadline for submission of papers
1st November 2003 notification of acceptance
15th December 2003 final copy due
1st June 2004 special issue publication date
Submissions:
Initial submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to
Hamish Cunningham - hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Formatting instructions for final submissions are available from CUP at
http://assets.cup.org/NLE/nle_ifc.pdf
Editorial Committee:
Steve Appleby
Steven Bird
Kalina Bontcheva
Chris Brew
Hennie Brugman
Jean Carletta
Walter Daelemans
Robert Dale
David Day
Thierry DeClerck
Marin Dimitrov
Roger Evans
Nancy Ide
Atanas Kiryakov
Diana Maynard
David McDonald
Chris Mellish
Jon Patrick
Thomas Rist
Laurent Romary
Valentin Tablan
Yorick Wilks
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