The COLING Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held at COLING2002.

COLING2002 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, August 24th - September 1st, 2002 with workshops being held August 31st and September 1st, 2002.

COLING workshops provide organizers and participants with an opportunity to focus intensively on a specific topic within computational linguistics. Often, workshops concentrate on specific topics of technical interest (e.g., shallow parsing), particular areas of application for language processing technologies (e.g., NLP applied to multilingual cross-language retrieval), or community-wide issues that deserve attention (e.g., standardization of resources and tools). We welcome proposals on any topic that is of interest to the Computational Linguistics community, but we particularly encourage proposals that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of new techniques or applications, in particular with respect to multimodal communication, the semantic web, speech technology, information retrieval, text and data mining, biological information extraction, computational psycholinguistics, etc.

Proposals Submission Details

Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information:

• a title and brief description of the workshop topic;
  
  
• a budget proposal;
  
  
• the target audience and projected number of participants along with support for the projected count. Supporting evidence could include a list of potential submitters, a list of conferences that contained papers on the proposed topic, the number of new companies focused on this topic, or recent funding initiatives that address this topic;
  
  * the intended length (at least half a day, up to two days);
  
  
• resource needs such as room size and number of days. Include any special requirements for technical support (computer infrastructure, etc.);
  
  
• the name, postal address, phone number, e-mail address, and webpage of each chair. In addition, indicate the chairs' background in the workshop area.
  
  

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible but no later than JANUARY 15th , 2002.
The subject line should be: "COLING2002 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".

Please send the workshop proposals to: pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it

Prof. Antonio Zampolli
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Area della Ricerca di Pisa - Localita San Cataldo
Via Moruzzi, 1 - 56124 Pisa
ITALY

Important Dates

Proposals due: January 15th , 2002
Notification of acceptance: February 15th , 2002
Camera-Ready Files for Workshop Proceedings: July 10th, 2002
Workshops Date: August 31st - September 1st, 2002

Local Arrangement General Guideline

1. The registration fee will be the same for all the individual workshops with the same interval-length, and is roughly proportional to its associate interval-length (i.e., 1 day, or 2 days). The COLING-2002 Organizing Committee are responsible for collecting and managing the registration fee.
   
   
2. The on-line registration (and pre-registration) of the workshops will be integrated into the registration process of Coling-2002.
   
   
3. The COLING-2002 Organizing Committee will provide the on-site registration service, and maintain the information desk (including responsible personnel) during the workshop. The information desk will be a centralized one, which is shared by all the workshops.
   
   
4. The workshop organizer is responsible for collecting, compiling and typesetting the proceedings content (including preface, table of content, papers, numbering, index, etc.) and then converting it into formats conforming to the pre-specified standard (both PDF and Postscript, currently) set forth by the Academic/Publication sub-committee of COLING2002 organizing committee. To save the back-and-forth time, the Academic/Publication sub-committee might ask you to verify your electronic format (with the procedure specified later) before you send your file to them, and you are responsible for correcting those problems pointed out by the Academic/Publication sub-committee before the pre-specified deadline. Please note, you will be requested to mail the corresponding hard copy to us, if the Academic/Publication sub-committee still fail to print out the correct content from your files after having tried various approaches.
   
   The paper style and format should be the same as the main conference.
   
   
5. The COLING-2002 Organizing Committee are responsible for printing the workshop proceedings and producing the conference CD-ROM; all the proceedings of various workshops will be put into the same CD-ROM, which is different from the CD-ROM of the main conference.
   
   
6. Only the associated specific proceedings goes with the workshop registration (i.e., the workshop registration will not include the Workshop CD-ROM). The workshop proceedings CD-ROM must be purchased separately; however, the Workshop CD-ROM will be charged less, if you have registered for any workshop (please refer to the Coling-2002 associated web pages for more details).
   
   
7. The files for the workshop proceedings, prepared by the workshop organizer, must be sent to the Academic/Publication sub-committee before the pre-specified date. This is necessary to ensure that the workshop proceedings be included in the CD-ROM and be distributed on-site. The content will not be included in the CD-ROM and the Organizing Committee are not responsible for the later mail delivery cost, if the workshop organizer fails to deliver the correct files (in appropriate format specified by the Academic/Publication sub-committee) in time.
   
   
8. The COLING-2002 Organizing Committee will decide the number of copies of the proceedings to be printed, and are fully in charge of those extra copies. However, the workshop organizer will own the copyright and the right to re-print the proceedings in the future.
   
   
9. The COLING-2002 Organizing Committee will provide the conference room and general equipments (like LCD projectors, overhead projectors, and microphones, etc.) without extra charge. Special requirements, if any, should be explicitly requested in advance.
   
   
10. Two refreshment services will be provided freely per day (one in the morning break, and the other in the afternoon break). Since the refreshment services might be shared by several concurrent workshops, each workshop organizer will be requested to synchronize with the pre-specified break schedule, if it is the case.
    
    
11. For practical reasons, lunch box will be provided and included in the registration fee.
    
    
12. Any extra expense not mentioned above (e.g., reimbursement for invited speakers, banquet for the steering committee members, etc.) will be the workshop organizer's responsibility.

Revenue-Sharing Incentive for COLING-2002 Workshops

To encourage workshops with high academic standard and research innovation as well as to help workshop organizers defray some of the costs for organizing such a workshop, the COLING-2002 organizing committee will provide the following revenue-sharing incentive.

For any workshop with a paid-registration of over 60 participants, part of the registration fee will be re-imbursed to the organizer. The formula for calculating the reimbursement amount follows:

1. As reimbursement to the direct expenses of the workshop (original copies of receipts of the expenses will be required): fully reimbursable up to the amount determined by the above formula.
   
   
2. Exchange for free registration (as student fellowship, speaker privilege, or subsidy to scholars from countries with financial difficulties): fully exchangeable up to the amount determined by the above formula.
   
   
3. As direct payment to the individual or SIG organizer (in exchange for the service of organizing the workshop): fully payable, but subject to a 20% flat tax rate for income payment to foreigners in Taiwan.
   
   

Additional Conference Information

Please e-mail any inquiries on COLING2002 Conference to: COLING02@sinica.edu.tw.

For additional information, see the web site for the conference: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/.