WORKSHOP ON MACHINE LEARNING IN HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
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MACHINE LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI'99)
5-16 July 1999, Chania, Greece
(http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99)
European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) (http://www.eccai.org)
& Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN) (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn)
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Workshop Objectives
The Workshop aims to present current Machine Learning (ML) research activities in the area
of Human Language Technology (HLT) (i.e. Written and Spoken Language Recognition /
Understanding / Generation). The fields of interest include (but are not limited to):
speech processing, natural language processing, machine translation, optical character
recognition, speaker recognition, text processing, information retrieval, semantic
disambiguation, commonsense reasoning, language modelling, dialogue modelling, user
modelling, corpus handling, data mining, etc. The techniques used have to exhibit an
intelligent adaptive behaviour resulting to the gradual improvement of system performance.
Such techniques include (but are not limited to): hidden Markov models, neural networks,
genetic algorithms, decision trees, rule-based models, simulated annealing, fuzzy reasoning,
hybrid models, etc.
Workshop Background
The area of Human Language Technology is an emerging field which is expected not only to
facilitate future applications as the natural improvement of today's Graphical User
Interfaces, but also to provide applications of significant importance like machine
translation systems and tele-services. The use and testing of existing and innovative
machine learning techniques in the field of Human Language Technology will effect
significantly the overall performance of such systems and will indicate new directions for
research and development. The machine learning field is mature enough to provide solutions
and methodologies from which an emerging technology like HLT will certainly benefit. It is
important for the scientific community to realise in what extend these two fields can
cooperate and what promises lie towards this direction.
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Organizing Committee
Assist. Prof Nikos Fakotakis
Wire Communications Lab., University of Patras, GR-26500, Greece
Tel: +30.61.996216 Fax: +30.61.991855
e-mail: fakotaki@wcl.ee.upatras.gr
Dr. Kyriakos Sgarbas
Wire Communications Lab., University of Patras, GR-26500, Greece
Tel: +30.61.991722 Fax: +30.61.991855
e-mail: sgarbas@wcl.ee.upatras.gr
Dr. George Demetriou
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Tel: +44 114 222 1800, Fax: +44 114 222 1810
e-mail: demetri@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Assoc. Prof. Maria-Teresa Pazienza
Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzion
Universita' di Roma, Tor Vergata ITALY
Tel. +39 067259 7378
e-mail: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it
Dr. Roberto Basili
Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzion
Universita' di Roma, Tor Vergata, ITALY
Tel. +39 067259 7391
e-mail: basili@info.uniroma2.it
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Submission Format
Interested authors are requested to submit a paper, of no more than 10 pages,
before 20 February 1999 (FINAL DEADLINE)
The authors are requested to state clearly the problem examined and the machine learning
method used as well as to discuss the costs and benefits of their approach. Performance
evaluation results are also encouraged. Authors of accepted papers will be asked to provide
a camera-ready version of their paper before 1 April 1999.
Submission should be sent by e-mail to:
Assist. Prof Nikos Fakotakis
Wire Communications Lab., University of Patras, GR-26500, Greece
Tel: +30.61.996216 Fax: +30.61.991855
e-mail: fakotaki@wcl.ee.upatras.gr
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Organisational Issues
Up to 10 accepted papers will be presented (each 15 min). The Workshop will take place
during the afternoon sessions of ACAI-99, from 14:30 to 18:00. The exact date of the
workshop (between 5 and 16 July) will be finalized soon by the ACAI-99 organizing committee.
Anyone registered for the main ACAI-99 event can also attend all the workshops. For the
Workshop participants who will not be registered for the whole ACAI-99 there will be a fee
of 100 ECUs.
Proceedings will be published as a technical report in collaboration with the ACAI-99
organization committee.
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Important Dates
20 February, 1999 Deadline for paper submission
10 March, 1999 Notification of acceptance
1 April, 1999 Deadline for final camera ready papers
The Workshop will be held between 5 and 16 July, 1999, in the framework of ACAI'99. The
exact date will be finalised soon and will be announced in the ACAI'99 Web-page
(http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99)