Journal of Natural Language Engineering - Call for special issue proposals (please post)

"Mitkov, Ruslan" <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:29:09 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.corpora,gmane.comp.information-retrieval.webir
Message-ID <9B5794214CA57F4C9EEA165836E2000A7909A117@EXCHMBX10I04.unv.wlv.ac.uk>
--===============6783475992433569956==
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
	boundary="_000_9B5794214CA57F4C9EEA165836E2000A7909A117EXCHMBX10I04unv_"

--_000_9B5794214CA57F4C9EEA165836E2000A7909A117EXCHMBX10I04unv_
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Journal of Natural Language Engineering

*** Call for special issue proposals ***


The area of Natural Language Engineering is following the trend of many oth=
er areas, becoming highly specialised with a number of application-orientat=
ed and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in importance. These develo=
pments, often coincident with a lack of related literature, necessitate and=
 warrant the publication of specialised volumes focusing on a specific topi=
c of interest to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research community.

The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE) invites proposals for sp=
ecial issues on a competitive basis on any topics about applied NLP which h=
ave emerged as important developments in Natural Language Engineering and w=
hich have attracted the attention of a number of researchers or research gr=
oups. In recent years, Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted=
 in high quality outputs (examples include Special Issues on Finite-State M=
ethods and Models in NLP, on Distributional Lexical Semantics, on Interacti=
ve Question Answering); this year we look forward to another successful com=
petition.

Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks and resources as well as=
 NLP-related applications but should focus on the practical implications of=
 operation on a large scale. Topics covering NLP methods, tasks and resourc=
es could include but are not limited to POS tagging, parsing, semantic role=
 labelling, word sense disambiguation, anaphora and coreference resolution,=
 named entity recognition, natural language generation, speech recognition,=
 speech synthesis, multimodal processing, statistical methods in Natural La=
nguage Engineering, machine learning, evaluation methodologies, corpora and=
 ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could include but are not lim=
ited to machine translation, translation memory and translation tools, summ=
arisation, information retrieval, information extraction, question answerin=
g, text and web mining, opinion mining and NLP for
biomedical texts.

Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a successful workshop or =
a body of work associated with a particular group or section of the communi=
ty. In all cases, however, the reviewing process of the accepted proposals =
will be rigorous and all submissions must be reviewed by at least 3 members=
 of the Guest Editorial Board or other suitable reviewers agreed by the JNL=
E Editors. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, the Gue=
st Editors will not be able to re-use previous workshop reviews. In additio=
n, the call for papers of the accepted proposals must be open to all intere=
sted parties and all authors will be given equal treatment; in the case of =
proposals based on previous workshops, submissions cannot be limited to wor=
kshop participants only.

Interested editors have the option of preliminary feedback by emailing expr=
essions of interest accompanied by a brief description of the intended spec=
ial issue to the Executive Editor ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]=
c.uk>). He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate=
 to Natural Language Engineering.  In the case of initial positive feedback=
, the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a sp=
ecial issue that will be reviewed by the Editors of the journal and by othe=
r members of the Journal Editorial Board. At least one proposal will be sel=
ected on a competitive basis for each call with the envisaged publication d=
ate for the successful proposal(s) from this call on or after May 2015.

The proposal for a special issue should include a brief outline of the fiel=
d and rationale as to why it is important to launch a special issue on the =
particular topic of interest. It should include a relevant literature surve=
y (related previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference procee=
dings) and should explain the added value of the proposed special issue aga=
inst the background of other relevant or competing
publications and volumes (if applicable).  It is desirable that a rough est=
imate on expected submissions to the special issue is provided. The proposa=
ls should also include a tentative Guest Editorial Board (it is desirable t=
hat at least one of the members of the Guest Editorial Board is a member of=
 the journal Editorial Board), tentative time-scale for the production of t=
he special issue and information about the prospective Guest Editors (relev=
ant experience, publications etc.).





  Time-scale



- Deadline for submission of special issue proposals:

  10 December 2013

  (proposals to be emailed to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>=
 with a copy to [email protected])



- Notification of acceptance/rejection:

 15 January 2014



- Final version of the successful proposal(s) and call for papers:

  15 February 2014


-- =0AScanned by iCritical.=0A

--_000_9B5794214CA57F4C9EEA165836E2000A7909A117EXCHMBX10I04unv_
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-micr=
osoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" =
xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns=3D"http:=
//www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"=
>
<meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
	{font-family:Calibri;
	panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
	{font-family:Times;
	panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
	{margin:0cm;
	margin-bottom:.0001pt;
	font-size:12.0pt;
	font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
p.MsoBodyText3, li.MsoBodyText3, div.MsoBodyText3
	{mso-style-link:"Body Text 3 Char";
	margin-top:0cm;
	margin-right:-9.0pt;
	margin-bottom:0cm;
	margin-left:0cm;
	margin-bottom:.0001pt;
	font-size:12.0pt;
	font-family:"Times","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
	{mso-style-priority:99;
	color:blue;
	text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
	{mso-style-priority:99;
	color:purple;
	text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
	{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
	font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
	color:windowtext;}
span.BodyText3Char
	{mso-style-name:"Body Text 3 Char";
	mso-style-link:"Body Text 3";
	font-family:"Times","serif";
	mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;}
.MsoChpDefault
	{mso-style-type:export-only;
	font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
	mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
	margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
	{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit">
<o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang=3D"EN-GB" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple">
<div class=3D"WordSection1">
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Journal of Natural Language Engineering <o:p></o:p><=
/p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">*** Call for special issue proposals ***<o:p></o:p><=
/p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">The area of Natural Language Engineering is followin=
g the trend of many other areas, becoming highly specialised with a number =
of application-orientated and narrow-domain topics emerging or growing in i=
mportance. These developments, often
 coincident with a lack of related literature, necessitate and warrant the =
publication of specialised volumes focusing on a specific topic of interest=
 to the Natural Language Processing (NLP) research community.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE) i=
nvites proposals for special issues on a competitive basis on any topics ab=
out applied NLP which have emerged as important developments in Natural Lan=
guage Engineering and which have attracted
 the attention of a number of researchers or research groups. In recent yea=
rs, Calls for Proposals for special issues have resulted in high quality ou=
tputs (examples include Special Issues on Finite-State Methods and Models i=
n NLP, on Distributional Lexical
 Semantics, on Interactive Question Answering); this year we look forward t=
o another successful competition.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Topics could cover a variety of NLP methods, tasks a=
nd resources as well as NLP-related applications but should focus on the pr=
actical implications of operation on a large scale. Topics covering NLP met=
hods, tasks and resources could include
 but are not limited to POS tagging, parsing, semantic role labelling, word=
 sense disambiguation, anaphora and coreference resolution, named entity re=
cognition, natural language generation, speech recognition, speech synthesi=
s, multimodal processing, statistical
 methods in Natural Language Engineering, machine learning, evaluation meth=
odologies, corpora and ontologies. Topics covering NLP applications could i=
nclude but are not limited to machine translation, translation memory and t=
ranslation tools, summarisation,
 information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, text an=
d web mining, opinion mining and NLP for
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">biomedical texts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Calls for special issue proposals may be based on a =
successful workshop or a body of work associated with a particular group or=
 section of the community. In all cases, however, the reviewing process of =
the accepted proposals will be rigorous
 and all submissions must be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Guest Ed=
itorial Board<span lang=3D"EN-US"> or other suitable reviewers agreed by th=
e JNLE Editors. In the case of papers previously submitted to workshops, th=
e Guest Editors will not be able to
 re-use previous workshop reviews. In addition, the call for papers of the =
accepted proposals must be open to all interested parties and all authors w=
ill be given equal treatment; in the case of proposals based on previous wo=
rkshops, submissions cannot be limited
 to workshop participants only. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">Interested editors have the option of preliminary fe=
edback by emailing expressions of interest accompanied by a brief descripti=
on of the intended special issue to the Executive Editor (<a href=3D"mailto=
:[email protected]"><span style=3D"color:windowtext">[email protected]</s=
pan></a>).
 He will give a brief indication of whether the topic is appropriate to Nat=
ural Language Engineering.&nbsp; In the case of initial positive feedback, =
the prospective Guest Editors will be asked to submit a proposal for a spec=
ial issue that will be reviewed by the
 Editors of the journal and by other members of the Journal Editorial Board=
. At least one proposal will be selected on a competitive basis for each ca=
ll with the envisaged publication date for the successful proposal(s) from =
this call on or after May 2015.<span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">The proposal for a special issue should include a br=
ief outline of the field and rationale as to why it is important to launch =
a special issue on the particular topic of interest. It should include a re=
levant literature survey (related
 previous special issues, volumes, workshop and conference proceedings) and=
 should explain the added value of the proposed special issue against the b=
ackground of other relevant or competing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal">publications and volumes (if applicable).&nbsp; It i=
s desirable that a rough estimate on expected submissions to the special is=
sue is provided. The proposals should also include a tentative Guest Editor=
ial Board (it is desirable that at least
 one of the members of the Guest Editorial Board is a member of the journal=
 Editorial Board), tentative time-scale for the production of the special i=
ssue and information about the prospective Guest Editors (relevant experien=
ce, publications etc.).&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p=
>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p=
>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbs=
p; Time-scale<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;se=
rif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">- De=
adline for submission of special issue proposals:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbs=
p;&nbsp;10 December 2013
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbs=
p;&nbsp;(proposals to be emailed to
<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]"><span style=3D"color:windowtext;text-=
decoration:none">[email protected]</span></a> with a copy to [email protected]=
k)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p=
>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">- No=
tification of acceptance/rejection:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbs=
p;15 January 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p=
>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">- Fi=
nal version of the successful proposal(s) and call for papers:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoBodyText3" style=3D"margin-right:0cm;text-align:justify"><sp=
an style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbs=
p;&nbsp;15 February 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Ca=
libri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
</div>

<br>=
<p>-- =0A<BR>Scanned by iCritical.=0A</p>
<br>=
</body>
</html>

--_000_9B5794214CA57F4C9EEA165836E2000A7909A117EXCHMBX10I04unv_--


--===============6783475992433569956==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline

_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
[email protected]
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

--===============6783475992433569956==--