LINGUIST List 19.725: Computational Ling/UK; Applied Ling/Cuba

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Tue Mar 04 2008 Calls: Computational Ling/UK; Applied Ling/Cuba Editor for this issue: F. Okki Kurniawan <okkilinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. Horacio Saggion, Information Extraction and Summarization 2. Leonel Ruiz Miyares, 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Message 1: Information Extraction and Summarization
Date: 04-Mar-2008 From: Horacio Saggion <saggiondcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: Information Extraction and Summarization E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Information Extraction and Summarization Short Title: MMIES2 Date: 23-Aug-2008 - 23-Aug-2008 Location: Manchester, United Kingdom Contact Person: Horacio Saggion Meeting Email: saggiondcs.shef.ac.uk Web Site: http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 05-May-2008 Meeting Description: The objective of the 2nd MMIES Workshop: Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of extraction, summarization, and other information access technologies, to discuss recent approaches to multi-source and multi-lingual challenges. Approaches to handling the idiosyncratic nature of the new Web2.0 media are especially welcome, including: mixed input, new jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, and emotional discourse. Call for Papers MMIES2: Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization Workshop Manchester, 23 August, 2008 Held in conjunction with COLING-2008 (http://www.coling2008.org.uk/), the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 18-22 August, 2008. Workshop Web Site: http://doremi.cs.helsinki.fi/mmies2/ Organisers: - Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, India) - Thierry Poibeau (CNRS / Universite Paris 13, France) - Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) - Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland) Information extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are key technologies aiming at extracting from texts information that is relevant to a user's interest, and presenting it to the user in concise form. The on-going information explosion makes IE and TS particularly critical for successful functioning within the information society. These technologies, however, face new challenges with the adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm (e.g. blogs, wikis) because of their inherent multi-source nature. These technologies must no longer only deal with isolated texts or single narratives, but with large-scale repositories or sources -- possibly in several languages -- containing a multiplicity of views, opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or events. There is thus a need to adapt and/or develop new techniques to deal with these new phenomena. Recognising similar information across different sources and/or in different languages is of paramount importance in this multi-source, multi-lingual context. In information extraction, merging information from multiple sources can lead to increased accuracy as compared with extraction from a single source. In text summarization, similar facts found across sources can inform sentence scoring algorithms. In question answering, the distribution of answers in similar contexts can inform answer ranking components. Often, it is not the similarity of information that matters, but its complementary nature. In a multi-lingual context, information extraction and text summarization can provide solutions for cross-lingual access: key pieces of information can be extracted from different texts in one or many languages, merged, and then conveyed in many natural languages in concise form. Applications need to be able to cope with the idiosyncratic nature of the new Web 2.0 media: mixed input, new jargon, ungrammatical and mixed-language input, emotional discourse, etc. In this context, synthesizing or inferring opinions from multiple sources is a new and exciting challenge for NLP. On another level, profiling of individuals who engage in the new social Web, and identifying whether a particular opinion is appropriate/relevant in a given context are important topics to be addressed. It is therefore important that the research community address the following issues: - What methods are appropriate to detect similar/complementary/contradictory information? Are hand-crafted rules and knowledge-rich approaches convenient? - What methods are available to tackle cross-document and cross-lingual entity and event coreference? - What machine learning approaches are most appropriate for this task -- supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised? What type of corpora are required for training and testing? - What techniques are appropriate to synthesize condensed synopses of the extracted information? What generation techniques are useful here? What kind of techniques can be used to cross domains and languages? - What techniques can improve opinion mining and sentiment analysis through multi-document analysis? How do information extraction and opinion mining connect? - What tools exist for supporting multi-lingual/multi-source access to information? What solutions exist beyond full document translation to produce cross-lingual summaries? Important Dates: - Paper submission deadline: 5 May - Notification of acceptance of Papers: 6 June - Camera-ready copy of papers due: 1 July - Workshop: 23 August Paper Submission: Papers should describe original work and should indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. We strongly recommend the use of the Coling 2008 LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference (http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/harold.somers/coling/style.html). Submission will be electronic (pdf format only), using the START paper submission webpage dedicated to the workshop https://www.softconf.com/coling08/MMIES2/. Programme Committee:] Javier Artiles (UNED, Spain) Kalina Bontcheva (U. Sheffield, UK) Nathalie Colineau (CSIRO, Australia) Nigel Collier (NII, Japan) Hercules Dalianis (KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden) Thierry Declerk (DFKI, Germany) Michel Généreux (LIPN-CNRS, France) Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Ralph Grishman (New York University, USA) Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan) Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada) Diana Maynard (U. Sheffield, UK) Jean-Luc Minel (Modyco-CNRS, France) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia) Maria Teresa Pazienza (U. of Roma tor Vergata, Italy) Bruno Pouliquen (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) Satoshi Sekine (NYU, USA) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, France) Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France) Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft Research, USA) Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Additional Information: Information about the previous MMIES Workshop, at RANLP-2007 in Borovets, Bulgaria can be found at (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies/index.html) Message 2: 11th International Symposium on Social Communication
Date: 04-Mar-2008 From: Leonel Ruiz Miyares <leonellingapli.ciges.inf.cu> Subject: 11th International Symposium on Social Communication E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Short Title: 11 ISSC Date: 19-Jan-2009 - 23-Jan-2009 Location: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Contact Person: Leonel Ruiz Miyares Meeting Email: leonellingapli.ciges.inf.cu Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Call Deadline: 01-Jul-2008 Meeting Description: 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago De Cuba January 19-23, 2009 The Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce the Eleventh International Symposium on Social Communication dedicated to the 60 anniversary of the large work in defense of the Spanish language of professors Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Julio Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 19 through the 23, 2009. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Mass Media, and Art, Ethnology and Folklore. Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Keynote speechs - Round Tables - Books presentation - Cultural activities The Symposium will be also sponsored by: - University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais Garcia' Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - African Cultural Centre 'Fernando Ortiz' Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Provincial Branch of Ministry of Culture, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Filial del Equipo de Servicios de Traductores e Interpretes de Santiagode Cuba - University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands - Semantic Technology Institute (STI), Innsbruck, Austria - Basque Country University, Spain - University of Valparaiso, Chile Call for Papers Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Linguistics: - Applied Linguistics - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Quantitative Linguistics - Morphology and Syntax - Anthropology Linguistics or Ethnolinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Sociolinguistics - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Terminology - Translations - Linguistics Rights - Linguistics Policy 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistics research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Electronic dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaryngology - Stomatology 4. Mass Media: - Linguistics research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 5. Art, Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Pre-Symposium Seminars: The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists. The seminars will take place Monday, January 19th, 2009. One of the courses will be: ''Last trends and applications in Linguistics Engineering'' Prof. Dr. Kepa Sarasola Basque Country University Basque Country, Spain The second course will be announced in next March. Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 25.00 Cuban Convertible Pesos will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. Round Table: Two round tables will be held on the occasion of the 11th International Symposium on Social Communication. Keynote Speeches: During the symposium several keynote speeches will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands - Prof. Dra. Gloria Corpas University of Malaga Spain - Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck, Austria - Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Paper Presentations: The deadline of submission of papers is July 1st, 2008. The papers should not exceed 5 pages. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 31th, 2008. Papers: To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation -as we did in the 5th ('97), 6th ('99), 7th ('01), 8th ('03), 9th ('05) and 10th ('07) Symposiums-, accepted papers must be sent before August 31, 2008 if the Scientific Committee had done some observations. Requirements for Papers: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 3½-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English, French or Portuguese. 5. The pages of the text should be unnumered. Instructions for Paper Submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 9 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 10 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 9 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, 9 points size and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic, 8 points size. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 8 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva del Comite Organizador XI Simposio Internacional Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: 53-22-642760, 53-22-643507 E-mail: leonellingapli.ciges.inf.cu Official Languages: Spanish, English, French and Portuguese Registration Fee: Speakers and Delegates 200.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Companions 100.00 CUC (Cuban Convertible Pesos) Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings where your paper is printed, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail and other cultural activities. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the Proceedings. Accommodation: The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. Important Reminders: - Papers submission deadline: July 1st, 2008 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 31, 2008 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3½-inch diskette: August 31, 2008 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 19, 2009 - 11th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 20 through 23, 2009 Other Aspects of Interest: Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. Scientific and Organizing Committee: - Pedro Beaton Soler Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Emeritus Academic Academy of Science of Cuba Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Centre for Applied Linguistics President of the Organizing Committee 11th International Symposium on Social Communication Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Nancy Cristina Alamo Suarez Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Celia Maria Perez Marques Researcher Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Celia Esther Alvarez Moreno Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Zaida Valdes Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Ena Elsa Velazquez Cobiella Rector Pedagogical University ''Frank Pais'' Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland - Iñaki Alegría Loinaz Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain - Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain - Xabier Artola Zubillaga Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain - Xabier Arregi Iparragirre Professor and Researcher Basque Country University Spain - Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Malaga, Spain - Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Martha Cordies Jackson Director and Researcher African Cultural Centre ''Fernando Ortiz'' Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Centre for Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba - Yamile Haber Guerra Professor and Researcher University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - Lucia Marconi Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy - Paola Cutugno Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy - Daniela Ratti Researcher Institute for Computational Linguistics Pisa, Italy Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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