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dsi.uniroma1.it>************************************************************* * * * International Workshop * * "LEXICON DRIVEN INFORMATION EXTRACTION * * * * July 16, 1997 * * Frascati (Roma), Italy * * * * * * * ************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS A workshop entitled "Lexicon driven Information Extraction" will be held in Frascati, near Roma, in conjunction with the International School on Information Extraction SCIE97. Selected papers from the proceedings of the workshop will be considered for publication as a volume in the Studies in NLP Series published by Cambridge University Press TOPICS OF INTEREST Linguistic techniques and theories are playing a strong role in the emerging technology of information extraction (IE), which is not to be confused with the more mature technology of Information Retrieval, which selects a relevant subset of documents from a larger set. IE extracts information from the text of documents, normally from available electronic sources such as news wires.The technology is now coming on to the marketnd is of great interest to information end-user industries of all kinds, especially finance companies, banks, publishers as well as governments. The algorithms to do IE are dependent on a range of forms of linguistic information-- morphological, syntactic and semantic--in addition to a domain model, but this information (especially semantic and domain knowledge) is often manually built "ad hoc" for specific sublanguages and knowledge extraction tasks. The workshop especially welcomes contributions that address the problem of defining automatic techniques to push the boundaries of IE technology from its present template and domain-limited technolgy. Areas of interest are: customizing template construction, adapting lexicons to domains, acquisition of domain-dependent knowledge for IE (new words, new senses of words, new constructions). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Roberto Basili (University of Roma II, Italy) Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Ralph Grishman (NYU, USA) Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma II, Italy) Costas Spyropulos (NCSR, Greece) Barbara Vauth (University of Fribourg) Paola Velardi (University of Roma I,Italy) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, England) PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 4000 words and 10 pages. HARD COPIES: Three hard copies should be sent to: Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 00198 Roma Italy ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Electronic submission is also possible. Latex and Word (ver. 5 or 6) per Mac submissions must be sent to a special FTP site: address: ultra2.dsi.uniroma1.it user: LDIE97 password : !workshop (available from april 15 to may 5) Please send ALSO a message to: Paola Velardi velardiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
phobia.ss.uci.edu>CALL for PAPERS CALL for PAPERS CALL for PAPERS CALL for PAPERS **** Deadline: July 31, 1997 **** ========================================================== Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages ========================================================== Place/Venue: New York (in conjunction with LSA) Date: January 9-10, 1998 Deadline for receipt of abstracts: July 31, 1997 ========================================================= The Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages will meet in New York, January 9-10, 1998, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America at The Grand Hyatt Park Avenue at Grand Central New York, NY l00l7 Single/Double occupancy $89.00 / $99.00 Phone: (212) 883-1234 FAX: (212) 697-3772 Abstracts for a 20-minute paper on phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, lexicon, social aspects of language, history of the discipline or any pertinent issue involving pidgin and creole languages are invited for anonymous review by a five member panel. Abstract: Two abstracts of different length should be submitted: (1) A short, publishable abstract for the 1998 LSA Meeting Handbook (for format specifications, see attached form or the December 1997 LSA Bulletin) (2) a longer, single spaced one-page version of the abstract (the panel of reviewers will use this abstract for evaluating your submission). Format: Your name, address, affiliation, status (student, faculty) E-mail address, FAX, and phone number should appear on a separate page. Please also indicate whether you need audio-visual equipment (overhead projector, tape recorder, etc.). Membership: Membership in SPCL includes a subscription to the Journal of Pidgin & Creole Languages (only one member within the same household need subscribe to the journal). The cost for both membership and the journal is US $58.00 or Dutch guilder (Hfl.) 97.00 per year. Students may participate in the conference without subscribing to the journal, but they must be a member of the SPCL. Regular membership dues and subscriptions should be sent to John Benjamins Publishing Company (address below). Students opting not to subscribe to the journal should send the $8.00 membership fee directly to Prof. A. Schwegler at UC Irvine (address below). John Benjamins B.V. Amsteldijk 44 - P.O. Box 75577 1070 AN Amsterdam / HOLLAND e-mail: customer.servicesMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue