LINGUIST List 22.1979 Sat May 07 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Preslav Nakov , Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition Message 1: Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition Date: 05-May-2011 From: Preslav Nakov <nakovcomp.nus.edu.sg> Subject: Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition Short Title: IEKA'2011 Date: 15-Sep-2011 - 16-Sep-2011 Location: Hissar, Bulgaria Contact Person: Preslav Nakov Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://sites.google.com/site/ranlpieka/ Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 17-Jun-2011 Meeting Description: Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition 15 or 16 September 2011 at RANLP'2009 http://sites.google.com/site/ranlpieka/ Until a decade ago, the fields of information extractions (IE) and knowledge acquisition (KA) were limited to identifying and extracting named entities, semantic and ontological relations, events, templates, and facts in relatively small text corpora using a small variety of external resources such as gazetteers, thesauri, and lexical hierarchies. Today everything has changed. The size of corpora has grown dramatically: using Gigaword-scale data is common, and it is almost standard to use the Web, which contains quadrillions of words, or at least the Web 1T 5-grams (Google n-gram corpus). More importantly, new types of communication have emerged, such as chats, blogs and, in the last 2-3 years, Twitter, whose informal language poses many challenges to automatic IE and KA, yet they are becoming increasingly important, e.g., for learning customer opinions on various products and services. Social network analysis is another emerging topic, where data is naturally much more interconnected than in the rest of the Web. Workshop Organizers: Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore Zornitsa Kozareva, University of Southern California Kuzman Ganchev, Google Inc. Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California Program Committee: Javier Artiles, Queens College Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield Razvan Bunescu, Ohio State University Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield Mona Diab, Columbia University Greg Druck, University of Massachusetts Amherst Georgi Georgiev, Ontotext AD Filip Ginter, University of Turku Jennifer Gillenwater, University of Pennsylvania Andrew Gordon, USC/ICT Joao Graca, University of Pennsylvania Chikara Hashimoto, NICT Nitin Indurkhya, eBay Hagen Fürstenau, Saarland University Alex Kulesza, University of Pennsylvania Maussam, University of Washington Su Nam Kim, The University of Melbourne Alexandre Klementiev, Johns Hopkins University Ana-Maria Popescu, Yahoo! Ryan McDonald, Google Andres Montoyo, University of Alicante Rafael Munoz, University of Alicante Roberto Navigli, University of Rome Manuel Palomar, University of Alicante Siddharth Patwardhan, IBM Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Heidelberg Sampo Pyysalo, University of Tokyo Sujith Ravi, ISI, University of Southern California Ellen Riloff, University of Utah Alan Ritter, University of Washington Paolo Rosso, University of Valencia Kenji Sagae, USC/ICT Thamar Solorio, University of Alabama Ralf Steinberger, JRC Mihai Surdeanu, Stanford University Idan Szpektor, Yahoo Research Valentin Tablan, University of Sheffield Jörg Tiedemann, University of Uppsala Ivan Titov, Saarland University Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Alexander Yates, Temple University Call for Papers: Topics of Interest: - Knowledge discovery and mining on the Web - Social networks and folksonomy analysis - Ontology population and induction - Cross-lingual and multi-lingual approaches to IE and KA - Using crowd-sourcing tools, such as Mechanical Turk, for IE and KA - IE and KA and the Semantic Web - Multi-lingual named entity recognition and disambiguation - Event extraction - Paraphrase extraction - Temporal data mining - Using resources such as Wikipedia, DBpedia, Freebase - IE and KA from informal text: chats, instant messages, blogs, Twitter We invite long (8) and short (4) papers. Accepted short papers will be presented either as short oral presentations or as posters. More information on abstract guidelines can be found at http://sites.google.com/site/ranlpieka/submission-guidelines Important Dates: Submission deadline: June 17, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2011 Camera-ready copy due from authors: August 22, 2011 Workshop: September 15 or 16, 2011 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 07-May-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.