When Summarization meet Winterization=====April 1ST Day

Who said computing Scientist is boring :P Here is the computational linguists' way of celebration Fool's day ;))))

Jason's idea of a joke:

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Unnatural Language
> Date: April 1, 2005 8:48:16 PM PST
> To: friends@allover.edu
> Subject: Unnatural Language Processing Workshop
> Reply-To: Unnatural Language
>
> First and Last Call for Papers (April 1, 2005)
>
> Frankly, NLP is just too hard, and unsupervised learning is getting
> itself into all kinds of trouble now that it's in its teens. Here in
> the heart of the Silicon Swamp, we're alarmed to find ourselves
> uttering random n-grams just for emphasis. It's time to treat the
> world
> to 99.9% accuracy. It's time to redefine the task. It's time for the
>
> 1st Workshop on Unnatural Language Processing
>
> Johns Hopkins University CLSP
>
> TALK ABSTRACTS of up to 1 page due by APRIL 30, 2005 to ulp@cs.jhu.edu.
> We will attempt to collect these in an online proceedings. As this is
> an electronic workshop, there is no time limit on the talks themselves,
> although there is also no guarantee that anyone will be within earshot.
>
> Self-invited talks (highest bidder)
> -----------------------------------
> Question Evasion: Lessons from the Loebner Prize Competition
> Understanding Abney's Exposition of Blum & Mitchell's Reinterpretation
> of the Yarowsky Algorithm
>
> Shared task
> -----------
>
> Zero-Sum Corpora: Destructive Mining of the Web
>
> Twenty teams. One Web. Three days.
> Are you computational linguist enough?
>
> Government panel
> ----------------
> Is Document Classification Easier on Classified Documents?
> Information Extraction: A Government and Binding Approach
> Anti-Discriminative Training
> A Sin Tax for Some Antics
> English Unzipfed: No Unigram Left Behind
>
> Suggested paper topics
> ----------------------
> (We hasten to assure you that our purported theme on punitive
> linguistics is merely a strategem to extract abstracts from you.
> You know that workshop organizers would never actually twist your arm
> in
> a way that might keep you from typing something. Thus, we concede that
> we would grudgingly salivate over any overly original work at all:
> i.e., topics that have never been addressed before, and for good
> reason.)
>
> * Scaling Down: From Universal Grammar to Galactic Grammar
> * Corpse Linguistics (transducer decomposition, final states,
> the ultimate epsilon transition ...)
> * Doonerism Spetection
> * To Ken is at ion correct ion
> * Self-Reference and its Implications for This Workshop
> * Sentence Fragment Assembly and
> * Cataphora Resolution (see below)
> * Dynamic Time Warping (again)
> * When Summarization Meets Wintarization
> * Degenerative Grammar
> * The Phrenology-Phrenetics Interface
> * Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a.k.a. Machine-Assisted Charisma)
> * The New Irrationalist-Experientialist Debate
>
> Machine miseducation track:
> + Overbearingly Supervised Techniques for Very Small Corpora
> + Mixtures of Pundits, Worldly Bayes Classifiers, & other Sadistical
> Models
> + The Information Turtleneck Algorithm
> + Aping Syntax: Monkey c-command, Monkey do command
> + Support Vector Hotlines and Other Monologue Systems
> + Bootstrapping Without the Boot
>
> Program Committee (unconfirmed, indeed unwitting)
> -------------------------------------------------
> To preserve plausible deniability, we are adopting a triple-blind
> procedure in which the reviewers will not be known even to themselves.
> The most we can disclose here is that we will be noisily channeling
> Claude Shannon and other emanations grises.
>
> Sponsors
> --------
> We are grateful for moral support from the Notional Science
> Foundation, the Defense Advanced Delirium Agency (DADA), and
> the Linguistic Stipulation Consortium.