Topics of Interest
2004 Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL
The conference addresses advances in all aspects of human language
processing, with special interest in computational linguistics,
information retrieval, and speech research together. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:
- Speech processing, including:
- Speech recognition
- Speech generation
- Rich transcription: automatic annotation of information
structure and sources in speech
- Text summarization
- Question answering
- Information extraction
- Information retrieval
- Computational analysis of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
pragmatics, discourse, style
- Statistical and learning techniques for language processing, including
- Corpus-based language modeling
- Lexical and knowledge acquisition
- Language generation and text planning
- Parsing
- Discourse analysis
- Multilingual processing, including
- Machine translation of speech and text
- Cross-language information retrieval
- Multi-lingual speech recognition and language identification
- Multimodal representations and processing
- Evaluation, including
- Glass-box evaluation of HLT systems and system components
- Black-box evaluation of HLT systems in application settings
- Development of language resources, including
- Lexicons and ontologies
- Treebanks, proposition banks, and frame banks
- Understanding of human communication, including
- Natural language interfaces
- Dialogue structure and dialogue systems
- Message and narrative understanding systems