acl workshop translingual information management acl coling98 workshop translingual information management current levels future abilities august 16 1998 following acl coling98 university montreal montreal quebec canada call papers description development natural language applications handle multilingual multimodal information next major challenge facing field computational linguistics past 50 years variety languagerelated capabilities developed areas machine translation information retrieval speech recognition together core capabilities information extraction summarization parsing generation multimedia planning integration statisticsbased methods ontologies lexicon construction lexical representations grammar next years require extension technologies encompass multilingual multimodal information extending current technologies require integration various capabilities multifunctional natural language systems however today clear vision technologies could assembled coherent framework would involved connecting speech recognition system information retrieval engine using machine translation summarization software process retrieved text traditional parsing generation enhanced statistical techniques would effect carefully crafted lexicons traditional information retrieval workshop followon nsf sponsored workshop held conjunction first international conference language resources evaluation granada spain may 1998 international panel invited experts consider questions attempt identify effective future directions computational linguistics research especially context need handle multilingual multimodal information followon acl workshop intended open discussion computational inguistics community whole workshop include ample time discussion report summarizing discussions granada available acl workshop topics workshop focus following fundamental questions 1 current level capability major areas field dealing language related media human communication 2 functions integrated near future kind systems result 3 major considerations extending functions handle multilingual multimodal information particularly integrated systems type envisioned 2 particular consider questions relation following areas multilingual resources lexicons ontologies corpora etc information retrieval especially crosslingual crossmodal machine translation automated crosslingual summarization information extraction multimedia communication conjunction text evaluation assessment techniques areas methods techniques statisticsbased linguistics based preparsing parsing generation information acquisition etc invite submissions report work areas papers clearly identify work addresses issues questions outlined submissions hardcopy submissions accepted authors submit six 6 copies fulllength paper 35005000 words submissions sent nancy ide department computer science vassar college 124 raymond avenue poughkeepsie new york 126040520 usa style files templates preparing submissions found http colingacl 98 iro umontreal ca styles html official language conference english important deadlines submission deadline march 23 1998 notification date may 15 1998 camera ready copy due june 15 1998 scientific committee charles fillmore university california berkeley usa robert frederking carnegie mellon university usa ulrich heid tentative university stuttgart germany eduard hovy information sciences institute usa nancy ide vassar college usa lauri karttunen tentative rank xerox research france kimmo koskenniemi tentative university helsinki finland mun kew leong national university singapore joseph mariani limsi cnrs france mark maybury mitre corporation usa sergei nirenburg tentative new mexico state university usa akitoshi okumura tentative nec japan martha palmer university pennsylvania usa james pustejovsky brandeis university usa peter schaueble eth switzerland oliviero stock irst italy felisa verdejo uned spain piek vossen university amsterdam netherlands wolfgang wahlster dfki germany organizers robert frederking carnegie mellon university usa eduard hovy isi university southern california usa nancy ide vassar college usa information information workshop found http www cs vassar edu ide translingual html inquiries may addressed organizers robert frederking ref nl cs cmu edu eduard hovy hovy isi edu nancy ide ide cs vassar edu