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lip6.fr>PKDD'2000 Workshop : MACHINE LEARNING AND TEXTUAL INFORMATION ACCESS September 12, 2000. Lyon, France. Preceding the Fourth European Conference on Principles and Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD'2000). PKDD'200 : http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~pkdd2000/ WORKSHOP : http://www-connex.lip6.fr/mltia2000.htlm CALL FOR PAPERS DESCRIPTION: - ---------- Until recently, the exploitation of large textual collections was mainly limited to sorting and retrieving documents. On the other hand, systems capable of extracting meaningful document fragments dealt only with small domain dependent tasks and models. On-line information is becoming widely available and utilized, and demand for tools capable of harnessing this information increases rapidly. As this information is inherently structured and complex, classic models are insufficient. New technological challenges arise, the solution of which require the cooperation of several research domains. By the term "Textual Information Access" we denote here an emerging interdisciplinary community of researchers from different fields sharing an interest on textual data objects, and Machine or Statistical Learning techniques to develop automatic text analysis systems. Among the new important challenges we will mention the need for automatically parametrizable systems (since hand-crafted models cannot cope with the heterogeneous nature of data and tasks), the exploitation of new structure formalisms for documents and collections (e.g. XML), the relations between textual and not textual data, and more generally the emerging text-mining and web-mining tasks. In order to solve these challenges, a combined approach is needed, exploiting technologies from different domains. TOPICS OF RELEVANCE: - ------------------ Textual Information Access models and applications relating to: Information Retrieval and Filtering Information Extraction Multi-media Information Access Knowledge Acquisition Topic Detection and Tracking Text Summarization Representation techniques of: Textual Information Structure Semantics User-feedback models and applications User-modeling models and applications Clustering methods and applications Large corpus, scalability and performance issues Evaluation techniques SOLICITED CONTRIBUTIONS - --------------------- Long papers (up to 12 pages), reporting original completed research, development activities, original state of the art surveys, etc. Short papers (from 4 to 6 pages), reporting ongoing research, promising new approaches, position papers. All papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will presented during the Workshop and will appear in the Workshop Proceedings. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - ------------------ Jean-Cedric Chappelier, EPFL, Switzerland, Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK, Patrick Gallinari, LIP6, Universite de Paris 6, France, Thorsten Joachims, Universitaet Dortmun, Germany, Martin Rajman, EPFL, Switzerland, Hugo Zaragoza, Universite de Paris 6, France (Chairman). SUBMISSION - -------- Submissions should include a short abstract (200 words) and comply with the following format: A4, 1 column, 2.5cm margins, Times New Roman 12point font, single spacing. Postscript is preferred but other standard formats will be accepted (Word, latex, etc.) Submissions should be done electronically by e-mail to Hugo Zaragoza (Hugo.ZaragozaMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uibk.ac.at>- -------------------- Call for papers - -------------------- 35th Colloquium of Linguistics 35. Linguistisches Kolloquium 35e Colloque Linguistique 20 - 22 September 2000 Innsbruck University Institute of Translation Studies We cordially invite all linguists to participate in the 35th International Colloquium of Linguistics, whose motto is "A Europe of Languages: Language Competence - Multilingualism - Translation" and which will take place at Innsbruck University, Institute of Translation Studies, on 20 -22 September 2000. This event is an international conference of long-standing tradition, organised at changing European venues, which in past years have included among others such cities as Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), Graz (Austria), Aarhus (Denmark), Gdansk (Poland), Bern (Switzerland) and Thessaloniki (Greece). Continuing the tradition of the Colloquium of Linguistics which represents an openness towards all fields and paradigms of linguistics, the Innsbruck event offers flexibility with regard to the choice of topics and an opportunity to present the most recent developments in various linguistic areas in parallel sessions. As usual, the wide variety of topics will also enable attendees to learn about issues beyond their own field of research. On the other hand, the colloquium represents an innovative forum for the latest linguistic approaches and has become a major platform for the linguistic dialogue between East and West thanks to its openness towards young academics and different linguistic approaches. Please forward your paper and the ready-to-copy abstract of between 200 and 300 words to Prof. Dr. Lew Zybatow,Institute of Translation Studies, Innsbruck University, Herzog-Siegmund-Ufer 15, A - 6020 Innsbruck, Austria; tel.: +43 512 07 4252, fax: +43 512 507 2885. email: lk35Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue