Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing

The track on applied natural language processing is a forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics (CL), and related areas. The rapid pace of development of online materials, most of them in textual form or text combined with other media, has led to a revived interest for tools capable of understanding, organizing and mining those materials. Novel human-computer interfaces (such as talking heads), can benefit from language understanding and generation techniques. Dialoguebased intelligent tutoring systems require advanced dialogue processing, language understanding and generation components in order to assess students' natural language inputs and provide appropriate feedback. Moreover, language can facilitate human-computer interaction for the handicapped (no typing needed) and elderly leading to an ever increasing user base for computer systems.