acl workshop translingual information management acl coling workshop translingual information management current levels future abilities august follow acl coling university montreal montreal quebec canada call papers description development natural language application handle multilingual multimodal information next major challenge face field computational linguistics over past variety languagerelate capability develop area machine translation information retrieval speech recognition together core capability information extraction summarization parse generation multimedium plan integration statisticsbase method ontology lexicon construction lexical representation grammar next few require extension technology encompass multilingual multimodal information extend current technology require integration various capability multifunctional natural language system however today clear vision technology assemble coherent framework involve connect speech recognition system information retrieval engine machine translation summarization software process retrieve text traditional parse generation enhance statistical technique effect carefully craft lexicon traditional information retrieval workshop followon nsf sponsor workshop hold conjunction first international conference language resource evaluation granada spain international panel invite expert consider question attempt identify most effective future direction computational linguistics research especially context need handle multilingual multimodal information followon acl workshop intend open discussion computational inguistic community whole workshop include ample discussion report summarize discussion granada available before acl workshop topics workshop focus follow fundamental question current level capability each major area field deal language relate media human communication function integrate near future kind system result major consideration extend function handle multilingual multimodal information particularly integrate system type envision particular consider question relation follow area o multilingual resource lexicon ontology corpus etc o information retrieval especially crosslingual crossmodal o machine translation o automate crosslingual summarization information extraction o multimedium communication conjunction text o evaluation assessment technique each area o method technique both statisticsbase linguistics base preparse parse generation information acquisition etc invite submission report work area papers clearly identify work address issue question outline above submissions hardcopy submission accept author submit six copy fulllength paper word submission send nancy ide department computer science vassar college raymond avenue poughkeepsie york usa style file template prepare submission http colingacl iro umontreal ca style html official language conference english important deadlines submission deadline march notification deat camera ready copy due june scientific committee charle fillmore university californium berkeley usa robert frederk carnegie mellon university usa ulrich heid tentative university stuttgart germany eduard hovy information science institute usa nancy ide vassar college usa laurus karttunen tentative rank xerox research france kimmo koskenniemus tentative university helsinkus finland mun kew leong national university singapore joseph marianus limsi cnrs france mark maybury mitre corporation usa sergeus nirenburg tentative mexico state university usa akitoshus okumura tentative nec japan martha palmer university pennsylvanium usa jame pustejovsky brandei university usa peter schaueble eth switzerland oliviero stock irst italy felisa verdejo uned spain piek vossen university amsterdam netherland wolfgang wahlster dfki germany organizers robert frederk carnegie mellon university usa eduard hovy isi university southern californium usa nancy ide vassar college usa information information workshop http www c vassar edu ide translingual html inquiry address organizer robert frederk ref nl c cmu edu eduard hovy hovy isus edu nancy ide ide c vassar edu 