LINGUIST List 17.3684: Named Entities/Computational Ling/Lingvisticae Investig... (Jrnl)

LINGUIST List 17.3684

Wed Dec 13 2006

Calls: Named Entities/Computational Ling/Lingvisticae Investig... (Jrnl)

Editor for this issue: Hannah Morales <hannahlinguistlist.org>

Directory 1. Elisabete Ranchhod, Lingvisticae Investigationes

Message 1: Lingvisticae Investigationes
Date: 13-Dec-2006
From: Elisabete Ranchhod <elisabetlabel.ist.utl.pt>
Subject: Lingvisticae Investigationes

Full Title: Lingvisticae Investigationes

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 29-Dec-2006

Named Entities: Recognition, Classification and Use

Special Issue of Lingvisticae Investigationes

Special issue website: http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/SpecialIssueNERLingInv/index.html

This special topic issue of the journal Lingvisticae Investigationes isscheduled to come out in early 2008 on the broad topic of Named Entities.

The aim is to bring out innovative papers on the issues and advances inNamed Entity recognition, classification and use, and how Named Entitiescould be handled more effectively in a variety of Natural LanguageProcessing (NLP) applications.

Guest Editors

The guest editors for this special issue will be (in alphabetical order):

Elisabete RanchhodUniversity of Lisbon

Satoshi SekineNew York University

Background

Since the MUC Conferences about Information Extraction, Named EntityRecognition and Classification (NERC) is a well-established task in the NLPcommunity and is regarded as a crucial technology for many NLP applications.The definition of what is a Named Entity (NE), however, still remains anovert question. NEs include classical classes of proper names (persons,organizations, geographic locations, geo-political entities) and numericexpressions (time, currencies, percentages).

However, the correct identification and classification of single andmultiword domain specific expressions (e.g., disease names, biologicalagents causing health problems, drugs used in disease treatment) should bean important issue for a number of NLP applications (IE, MT, QA, etc.) anddealing with these questions has become part and parcel of the problemsdealt by the NE camp. Likewise, reference to definite events or entitiesno longer referenced as proper names in text, as encompassed by the ACEprogram, has long been accepted as part of the NER discipline.

Topics

The guest editors seek papers on original and unpublished research on allaspects of NE recognition, classification, and use. Special topics ofinterest include, but are not limited to:

* Real applications that employ NERC technology* Linguistic properties of proper names* Resources (lexicons, grammars, gazetteers, ontologies) for NERC* The relevance of NERC as a subtask in NLP applications (e.g.question-answering (QA), information retrieval (IR), summarization,machine translation (MT))* Evaluation of NERC systems and of the import of NERC in larger applications* Cross-language issues in named entity research* Philosophical and methodological concerns in NERC* NEs in speech and transcribed speech and other media* Tools for rapid development of NERC resources* Learning of NERC rules* Domain adaptability of NERC systems

Guest Scientific Committee

Roberto BasiliEckhard BickRobert GaizauskasRalph GrishmanDimitrios KokkinakisNicolas NicolovThierry PoibeauElisabete RanchhodDan RothSatoshi SekineChrista Womser-Hacker

The Journal

Lingvisticae Investigationes (LI) is a thirty-year-old internationaljournal, founded by Maurice Gross. It is published and distributed by JohnBenjamins Publishing Company. Seehttp://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=LI orhttp://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/LI/LINGVISTICAEINVESTIGATIONES.html.

Submission Information

Manuscripts must be submitted in English.

The format for submissions can be found athttp://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/LI/LINGVISTICAEINVESTIGATIONES.html, morespecifically at 'Submission.'

Paper Submission

Contributions (20 pages maximum) have to be sent by e-mail in PDF, DOC orRTF format, to the two addresses below:

Elisabete Ranchhod, elisabete.ranchhodcs.nyu.edu

Important Dates

Deadline for submission: 29/12/2006Notification to authors: 16/02/2007Final version of the papers due: 30/03/2007