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Directory         1.     Preslav Nakov , Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition Message 1: Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition Date: 05-Jun-2011 From: Preslav Nakov <preslavngmail.com> 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. All these recent developments have posed not only new challenges, but have also created a number of opportunities, opening new research directions, and offering new useful resources. For example, the growth of Wikipedia has given rise to DBpedia and other collaboratively-created resources such as Freebase. Today, IE and KA researchers can even create annotations and resources on demand as they need them for a very low price using crowd-sourcing tools such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The workshop will provide a place for researchers to discuss all these exciting developments and their implications for the future of IE and KA. Workshop Venue: The workshop is being held in conjunction with RANLP 2011 in Hissarya, Bulgaria. See the RANLP 2011 web site at http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011 for further details. 2nd Call for Papers: Topics of Interest: The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - 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 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 All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours) Submission Instructions: We invite regular papers 8 pages as well as demo papers and project notes 4 pages (excluding references). Accepted short papers will be presented either as short oral presentations or as posters. Submissions must be made using the START system: http://www.softconf.com/ranlp11/ieka2011/ The authors should use the templates at http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2011/submissions.php and follow the guidelines there. All papers accepted for presentation will appear in the Workshop Proceedings and will be uploaded at the ACL Anthology. Review and Multiple Submission Policy: All submissions should be anonymous. The workshop calls for papers describing original research. Multiple submissions are allowed, but this needs to be declared at submission time. 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 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 06-Jun-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.