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Second International Workshop
on UNL, other Interlinguas and their Applications

In conjunction with CICLing-2005, Mexico City, February 13-19.
Workshop date: February tentatively: 16, 2004

 NEW:  Papers of the Workshop are included in the
Special issue of Research on Computing Science, ISSN 1665-9899:

J. Cardeñosa, A. Gelbukh, E. Tovar (Eds.)
Universal Networking Language: Advances in Theory and Applications

Workshop description

This workshop will be devoted to the presentation of various approaches to the development and use of interlinguas. Interlinguas are primarily developed for machine translation, but it is obviously not the only application in which a meaning representation formalism, (relatively) neutral with respect to language, can be used. Other applications include information retrieval and dissemination, summarization, knowledge mining, and multilingual generation.

Among the existing interlinguas, special attention will be given to UNL (Universal Networking Language). This language is the basis of a large international effort initiated by the United Nations University and aimed at multilingual communication on the Internet. We hope that the groups engaged in UNL activities will present the current state of affairs.

The workshop seeks original papers on all aspects of interlinguas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, classical issues and novel applications, such as:

• Interlingua-based MT systems and multilingual generation.

• Issues related to novel applications of interlinguas: information dissemination, retrieval and extraction based on interlingual representations, creation of multilingual documents and their integration into Internet-based dissemination systems.

• Interlingual representations and interlingual lexicons as linguistic resources that can be integrated into NLP systems, and, conversely, existing resources which can be incorporated into interlingual systems.

• State of the art of the UNL modules for various languages.

• Evaluation of interlingual representations.

• Multilingual applications and services.

• Internet-based multilingual information dissemination.

• Multilingual information retrieval and information extraction

• Multilingual documents processing.

Program Committee

Workshop Organizers

Publication

All the accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the journal Research on Computing Science, ISSN 1665-9899. This issue will be also supplied with an ISBN.

Submissions

The format for submissions is the same as for CICLing-2005 conference, see Format instructions there (ignore the paper size limit indicated there). Note, however, that the contributions to the workshop will not be included in the CICLing-2005 Proceedings but instead will be included in a special issue of the journal Research on Computing Science. Each submission should include a  title page that should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submissions are to be sent by email in pdf or rtf format to:

Edmundo Tovar (etovar

fi.upm.es).

Papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee.

Camera-ready submission and copyright form

The rules for the camera-ready submission are the same as for CICLing-2005. You can send your files to either the address indicated on CICLing-2005 page, or the address indicated above (Edmundo Tovar).

Please fill the copyright form referred to here, and not the CICLing-2005 copyright form. You can either send it as a scanned image to any of the addresses for submission, or fax it to the faxes indicated at the CICLing-2005 page (if you have faxed it to the number communicated to you by Edmundo Tovar, it's OK, no need to re-send it).

Preliminary agenda

The list of accepted papers. Schedule.

The workshop will consist of two half-day sessions. For the first session, we invite submissions related to all aspects of the interlingua development. The second session will be devoted exclusively to UNL and will be of more practical orientation. We will begin by identifying some linguistic phenomena which caused difficulties for UNL encoding in various experiments and provoked disagreement among the encoders. Then we will propose and discuss some ways of overcoming these problems and, finally, we will have a practical encoding exercise aiming at testing and solidifying solutions arrived at during the discussion.

Important dates

• 30^th November, 2004: Deadline for submissions
• 15^th December: Notification of acceptance
• 10^th January, 2005: Firm deadline for final version submission (camera-ready)
• 16^th February: Workshop

Registration

Participants of the workshop will register to the CICLing-2005 conference; see the registration information there. The workshop participants, though, will not participate in CICLing-2005 Wednesday February 16 excursion.

Early registration for workshop participants is January 10. All authors of accepted papers are eligible for EARLY registration fee to be paid on site. Non-authors: please contact us for early registration details before the deadline. Please do not send us any money; please contact us first.

Cultural Program

CICLing-2005 will have an excellent excursion program; see info on the excursions. We are sorry that the participants of the workshop will not participate in Wednesday February 16 excursion (tentatively).

Site and Transportation, Hotel, Local Guide, and Other Local Issues

For the conference address, hotel information, local guide, and other local organization issued see CICLling-2005 .

Contact

For most questions you can write to the address indicated in the Submission section above. You can also address CICLling-2005 organizers, see contact info on www.CICLing.org/contact.html.

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