LINGUIST List 17.20: Computational Ling/USA

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Directory 1. Dragomir Radev, HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for NLP 2. Dragomir Radev, AAAI 2006 special track on AI and the Web Message 1: HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for NLP
Date: 28-Dec-2005 From: Dragomir Radev <radevumich.edu> Subject: HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Graph-Based Methods for NLP Full Title: HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Graph-based methods for NLP Date: 09-Jun-2006 - 09-Jun-2006 Location: New York City, NY, USA Contact Person: Dragomir Radev Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.textgraphs.org/ws06 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 10-Mar-2006 Meeting Description: The first workshop on graph-based methods for Natural Language Processing C A L L F O R P A P E R S HLT/NAACL 2006 Workshop Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing http://www.textgraphs.org/ws06 New York City, June 9, 2006 Graph theory is a well studied discipline, and so is the field of natural language processing. Traditionally, these two areas of study have been perceived as distinct, with different algorithms, different applications, and different potential end-users. However, as recent research work has shown, the two disciplines are in fact intimately connected, with a large variety of natural language processing applications finding efficient solutions within graph-theoretical frameworks. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the use of graph-based algorithms for natural language processing. The workshop is expected to bring together people working on areas as diverse as lexical semantics, text summarization, text mining, ontology construction, clustering and learning, connected by the common underlying theme consisting of the use of graph-theoretical methods for text processing tasks. We invite submissions of papers addressing the following or related topics: - Graph algorithms for text understanding - Graph matching for text mining - Graph algorithms for thesaurus construction - Graph methods for identification of semantic relations - Graph-based ranking algorithms for language processing - Random walk methods - Graph algorithms for information extraction - Spectral learning or clustering applied to NLP - Graph algorithms for word sense disambiguation - Lexical chaining algorithms and applications Submission format: Full paper submissions will consist of 8 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2006 guidelines. Short papers will be 4 pages long. Submission instructions will be announced on the workshop website. Important dates: Regular paper submissions March 10 Short paper submissions March 17 Notification of acceptance April 7 Camera-ready papers April 26 Workshop June 8 or 9 Organizers: Dragomir Radev - U. Michigan, radev at umich dot edu Rada Mihalcea - U. North Texas, rada at cs dot unt dot edu Program Committee: Lada Adamic, University of Michigan Razvan Bunescu, University of Texas at Austin Timothy Chklovski, USC / Information Sciences Institute Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas at Austin Beate Dorow, University of Stuttgart, Germany Gael Dias, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Kevin Gee, University of Texas at Arlington Lise Getoor, University of Maryland Gunes Erkan, University of Michigan John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University Lillian Lee, Cornell University Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Bo Pang, Cornell University Patrick Pantel, USC / Information Sciences Institute Paul Tarau, University of North Texas Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Research Florian Wolf, FW Consulting Dominic Widdows, Maya Design Hongyuan Zha, Penn State Xiaojin Zhu, University of Wisconsin Message 2: AAAI 2006 special track on AI and the Web
Date: 28-Dec-2005 From: Dragomir Radev <radevumich.edu> Subject: AAAI 2006 special track on AI and the Web Full Title: AAAI 2006 special track on AI and the Web Date: 15-Jul-2006 - 19-Jul-2006 Location: Boston, MA, USA Contact Person: Dragomir Radev Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.csee.umbc.edu/aaai06/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 16-Feb-2006 Meeting Description: AAAI 2006 special track on AI and the Web. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE WEB a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06 : 21ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, Boston, 16-20 July 2006 http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aaai06/ Co-Chairs: Tim Finin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan Dates: February 16, 2006 = Abstracts due February 21, 2006 = Full papers due July 16-20, 2006 = AAAI 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts Contact information: aiweb06cs.umbc.edu The web has quickly grown from a modest hypertext system of interest to computer researchers to a ubiquitous information system including virtually all of human knowledge. Today's Web provides ready access to not only text, images, and audio files, but also to structured and semi-structured information, services and people. It offers an open, decentralized (and uncontrollable!) environment in which anyone can publish information and services coupled with powerful search engines and agents to find and rank results. All of this is ubiquitously available from wired, wireless and mobile devices. Oh, and did we mention that it's free? The result is an environment enormously useful to people for research, learning, commerce, socializing, communication and entertainment. We have just begun to explore how this vast amount of machine accessible knowledge can be exploited and used by machines -- to better serve human needs as well as to discover new knowledge. The special track on ''AI and the Web'' invites technical papers on the use of AI techniques, systems and concepts involving the Web. We are especially interested in receiving papers in two active research areas: (i) using text and language analysis to interpret and understand natural language text found on the web and (ii) developing and exploiting ''Semantic Web'' languages and systems that explicitly encode knowledge using languages such as RDF and OWL. Innovative papers in other areas describing research involving both AI and the Web are definitely encouraged also. The AAAI-06 track on AI and the Web welcomes submissions on all topics relevant to the track, including: SEMANTIC WEB Information integration New/better/different KR languages for the Semantic Web (e.g., uleML) Semantic Web grounded policy languages Semantic web and agents Semantic web in mobile and pervasive computing Semantic web ontologies Semantic web services Social aspects of web semantics Tags and folksonomies Proof, trust and provenance for web information Applications NLP AND THE WEB Cross-language IR for the web Enhancing IR and web search Information extraction on the web Knowledge acquisition from the Web NLP for automating markup Machine translation for and using the Web Opinion extraction Question answering on the web Text summarization Applications OTHER AI AND THE WEB RELATED TOPICS AI and web-based ecommerce AI for P2P and GRID environments Intelligent information retrieval Intelligent user interfaces for Web systems Multi-agent systems on the Web Ontologies for the Web (not semantic web related) Mining web logs, query logs, blogs Recognizing web spam (e.g., link farms, blog spam) Recommendation systems Social networking and community identification Trend spotting Link-analysis and graph mining on the Web Graph based methods for analyzing Web information Web personalization and user modeling Prospective submitters unsure if their paper is relevant to this track may send queries to aiweb06cs.umbc.edu. Papers for this special track should be prepared and submitted following the general technical conference paper submission guidelines. Submitted papers will be reviewed by qualified reviewers drawn from a special track committee as well as the general program committee, with the final selections determined by the track co-chairs in conjunction with the AAAI-06 co-chairs. Submissions to this special track that are deemed not to be relevant may be considered for review for the general technical papers track at the discretion of the chairs. Additional information including the names of the program committee members is available at http://www.cs.umbc.edu/aaai06/. Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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