2015-02-08
First CfP: Workshop on Variations of Controlled Natural Language (CNL) - Different purposes and applications of CNL, in Matsue (Japan), 20 June 2015

The "Workshop on Variations of Controlled Natural Language (CNL) - Different purposes and applications of CNL" will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting week of ISO/TC 37. It is a one-day forum for the collaboration and current progress in the field of CNL and related fields. The simplification of text for the sake of effective communication can be applied for many purposes like machine translation, information management, knowledge acquisition from web data, linked data fusion, language and content integrated learning (CLIL), etc.

The topics of interest are related but not limited to: models, processing algorithm, terminology aspects, standardization, R&D projects, use cases, related aspects in summarization, question and answering, machine translation, etc.

Particularly, it is intended to discuss about the standardization issues and shared tasks in the topic of Controlled Natural Language Simplifying Language Use.

Submissions should be around six pages, eight pages maximum, and should be in ACL 2014 format.

Important Dates:
Submission Due:       9th of March, 2015
Notification:              13th of April, 2015
Camera-Ready Due:   18th of May, 2015
Workshop:                20th of June, 2015