Given the centrality of corpora to contemporary language engineering, it is remarkable how little research there has been to date on the question. Studies in text classification, genre and sublanguage are also salient, but it is rarely evident how well the technologies ddeveloped in these fields are suited to measuring corpus similarity or homogeneity. The workshop will welcome contributions concerned with measuring and comparing corpora using quantitative methods, from any field. The workshop will last half a day and will be on either 7th or 8th Oct, the main ACL conference being 3rd-6th October. The venue will be the same.
Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work.
OR postscript OR rtf format. The reciprocal challenge for NLP research is to scale up, adapt and possibly reshape techniques and resources to help bridge the gap between document and information retrieval in practical applications. Papers describing pragmatic, empirically tested approaches facing these issues are especially welcome. No hardcopy submission is required.