Bayesian Methods for Natural Language Processing
Workshop at NIPS 2005
Organizers: Hal Daumé III and Yee Whye Teh

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nlp blog 		Call for Participation

We invite submission of workshop papers that discuss ongoing or completed work dealing with Bayesian techniques applied to natural language processing problems (see below for an incomplete list of possible topics). A workshop paper should be no more than four pages in the standard NIPS format (style files and examples are available here). Authorship should not be blind. Please submit a paper by emailing it in Postscript or PDF format to with the subject line "BNLP Submission". We anticipate accepting four to six such papers for 15 minute presentation slots (exact details will be worked out shortly). Please only submit an article if at least one of the authors will be able to attend the workshop and present the work.

We are especially interested in submissions from authors in the NLP community who have not previously attended a NIPS conference. If you fall into this category, please note this in your email when you submit your paper.

Relevant Topics:

  • Models that move beyond the bag-of-words assumption
  • Techniques that apply to problems other than language modeling
  • Structure-learning techniques for language
  • Bayesian extensions to well-known NLP models
  • Application of Bayesian techniques to NLP problems
  • Both supervised and unsupervised techniques are welcome
We also welcome position papers of at most two pages in length that discuss, with appropriate argumentation, whether or not Bayesian techniques are applicable to NLP problems and, if so, which ones. These should be submitted in the same way as standard workshop papers. These will be used to help guide discussion during panel sessions.

Important Dates:

18 Aug 05 -- Call for participation
1 Nov 05 -- Paper submission deadline
4 Nov 05 -- Notification of paper acceptance
25 Nov 05 -- Survey and position paper deadlines
9/10 Dec 05 -- Workshop in Whistler




Regardless of whether you submit a paper or not, if you are a researcher in either the Bayesian learning community or the NLP community, please complete our survey, which will serve to guide the panel discussions at the workshop.

The official text-based call for papers is available here.

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