Organizers:
Hans Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants, Brigitte Krenn
Computational Linguistics and DFKI, Saarbrücken, and Austrian Research Center for AI, Vienna

Background:
Large linguistically interpreted (annotated) corpora are urgently needed in an increasing number of projects in the field of computational linguistics. Many groups have started to create corpus resources for a variety of languages. These corpora are used for a broad range of different applications and theoretical investigations. We aim at bringing together these activities in order to facilitate advanced and efficient corpus annotation, in order to provide re-usable resources.

Aim:
The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results in the field of corpus annotation, taking into account different types of information (morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, ...). We invite submissions of papers constituting substantial, original, and unpublished work on all aspects of linguistically interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to:

• creation of practical annotation schemes
• efficient annotation techniques
• automation of corpus annotation
• tools supporting annotation
• consistency checking of corpora
• browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic phenomena

Programme Committee:
Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbrücken (chair)
Thorsten Brants, Saarbrücken (chair)
Brigitte Krenn, Wien (chair)
Rens Bod, Leeds
Pierrette Bouillon, Geneva
Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana
Jan Hajic, Prag
Veronique Hoste, Antwerp
Wojciech Skut, Saarbrücken
Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki

Submission Format:

• Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references.
• Use 12pt, one column style, set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of approx. 16.5 x 23cm (6.5 x 9 inches)
• Review will be blind: please provide author information on an additional header page and avoid obvious self references in the text.
• Electronic submissions are strongly preferred
• Electronic format: Postscript or PDF documents
• Hardcopy submission (if electronic submission is not possible): please send four (4) copies
• Submissions should be send to the contact address below

Schedule:
26th March, 1999: Deadline for submitted papers.
16th April, 1999: Notification of acceptance.
23rd April, 1999: Camera ready copy.
12th June, 1999: Workshop.

Contact:
Thorsten Brants
Saarland University
Computational Linguistics, Geb. 17
P.O.Box 151150
D-66041 Saarbrücken
GERMANY
email: thorsten@coli.uni-sb.de