1st Cfp : The 6th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC'2007)

                    FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

                The 6th Discourse Anaphora and
                Anaphor Resolution Colloquium
                         (DAARC'2007)

                  Lagos (Algarve), Portugal
      hosted by University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences
                     March 29 - 30, 2007

                http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/


Anaphora is a central topic in the study of natural language and
has long been the object of research in a wide range of disciplines
such as theoretical, corpus and computational linguistics, philosophy
of language, cognitive science, psycholinguistics and cognitive
psychology. On the other hand, the correct interpretation of anaphora
has played an increasingly vital role in real-world natural language
processing applications, including machine translation, automatic
abstracting, information extraction and question answering. As a result,
the processing of anaphora has become one of the most productive
topics of multi- and inter-disciplinary research, and has enjoyed
increased interest and attention in recent years.

In this context, the Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution
Colloquia (DAARC) have emerged as the major regular forum for
presentation and discussion of the best research results in this area.
Initiated in 1996 at Lancaster University and taken over in 2002 by
the University of Lisbon, the DAARC series established itself as
a specialised and competitive forum for the presentation of the latest
results on anaphora processing, ranging from theoretical linguistic
approaches through psycholinguistic and cognitive work to corpus
studies and computational modelling.

The sixth Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium (DAARC’2007)
will take place in Lagos (Algarve), Portugal, in March 29-30, 2007.
We would like to invite anyone currently researching in the areas
of discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution, from any methodological
perspective or framework, to submit a paper to DAARC'2007.

The closing date for submission is October 16, 2006. Notification
of acceptance will be sent by December 15, 2006. Final versions
of selected papers to be included in the proceedings are expected by
January 19, 2007.

Submissions (extended abstracts) must be anonymous and at most 3 pages
in length. For further details on the submission procedure, and other
relevant info on the colloquium visit its website at:

http://daarc2007.di.fc.ul.pt/


Program Committee:

Mira Ariel, Tel Aviv Univ
Sergey Avrutin, OTS
Amit Bagga, Ask.com
Peter Bosch, Univ Osnabrueck
António Branco, Univ Lisbon
Donna Byron, Ohio State Univ
Francis Cornish, Univ Toulouse-Le Mirail
Dan Cristea, Univ Iasi
Robert Dale, Macquarie Univ
Richard Evans, Univ Wolverhampton
Martin Everaert, OTS
Lyn Frazier, MIT
Claire Gardent, LORIA
Jeanette Gundel, Univ Minnesota
Sanda Harabagiu, Univ Texas at Dallas
Lars Hellan, Norwegian Univ of Science and Technology
Erhard Hinrichs, Univ Tuebingen
Graeme Hirst, Univ Toronto
Yan Huang, Univ Reading
Andrew Kehler, Univ California San Diego
Andrej Kibrik, Russian Academy of Sciences
Emiel Krahmer, Tilburg Univ
Shalom Lappin, King's College
Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ
Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton
Constantin Orasan, Univ. Wolverhampton
Maria Mercedes Pinango, Yale Univ
Costanza Navarretta, CST
Massimo Poesio, Univ Essex
Eric Reuland, OTS
Jeffrey Runner, Univ of Rochester
Antonio Fernandez Rodriguez, Univ Alacant
Tony Sanford, Glasgow Univ
Roland Stuckardt, Univ Frankfurt am Main
Joel Tetreault, Univ. Rochester
Renata Vieira, Unisinos


Organisers:

Antonio Branco, Univ Lisbon
Tony McEnery, Lancaster Univ
Ruslan Mitkov, Univ Wolverhampton
Fátima Silva, Univ Oporto