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abstract: Writing today, whether professional, academic, or private, relies heavily on computers. Most texts composed in the 21st century are probably written on computers or other electronic devices, such as mobile phones. People compose texts in word processors, text editors, content management systems, blogs, wikis, e-mail clients, and instant messaging applications. Each of these tools supports authors in different ways.

The Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Writing (CL&W 2010) aims to provide an overview of current developments in the area of computational linguistics for authoring aids, and an overview of recent advances in writing research. CL&W 2010 continues and builds on the workshops on authoring aids at LREC 2008 and SLTC 2008. We are interested in research that explores writing processes and text production, as well as in actual systems that support writers. In both areas, research on all languages is relevant, including less-resourced languages. We aim to bring together researchers from the computational linguistics and writing research communities communities, to identify areas where computational linguistics and writing research could benefit from each other and to stimulate discussion and interdisciplinary cooperation between these two areas of research.

abstract: The main theme of this workshop is intercultural collaboration, from both technical and socio-cultural perspectives. Topics will include collaboration support (such as natural language processing, Web, and Internet technologies), social psychological analyses of intercultural interaction, and case studies from activists working to increase mutual understanding in our multicultural world.

abstract: The Conference on Natural Language Processing (“Konferenz zur Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache”, KONVENS) aims at offering a broad perspective on current research and developments within the interdisciplinary field of natural language processing. It provides a forum for researchers from all disciplines relevant to this field of research to present their work.

The central theme of the 10th KONVENS is “Semantic approaches in Natural Language Processing”.

We especially encourage the submission of contributions addressing linguistic aspects of meaning. Topics of interest include deep as well as shallow approaches, and knowledge-based as well as data-driven methods for modelling and acquiring semantic information. We equally encouragesubmissions on the use of semantic information in applications of language technology. Submissions should describe original and unpublished research or innovative industrial applications.

abstract: The Computational Linguistics – Applications Workshop was created in 2008 in response to the fast-paced progress in the area.

Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers. Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a number of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems using sophisticated heuristics.

Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of the Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle unstructured text to allow search for information on the web. According to the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the key research areas for the upcoming years. The priority aim of the research in this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their native language.

CLA'10 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views and ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on practical outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to improve human-machine interaction.