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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*******************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>
EACL 2009 Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>
GEMS : GEometrical Models of Natural Language Semantics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>
Athens, Greece; March 30 or 31, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>
URL: </span><a href="http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/"><span lang=EN-US>http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/</span></a><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>
**** NEW Submission Deadline: December 23, 2008 , 23:59CET ****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>*******************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Distributional models and semantic
spaces represent a core topic in contemporary computational linguistics for
their impact on advanced tasks and on other knowledge fields (such as social
science and the humanities).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The goal of the GEMS workshop is to
further stimulate research on semantic spaces and distributional methods
for NLP, by adopting an interdisciplinary approach to allow a proper exchange
of ideas, results and resources among often independent communities. In
particular, the workshop will provide a common ground for a fruitful discussion
among experts of distributional approaches, collocational corpus analysis and
machine learning; researchers interested in the use of statistical models in
NLP applications (e.g. question answering, summarization and textual
entailment) and in other fields of science; and experts in formal computational
semantics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The workshop aims at gathering
contemporary contributions to large scale problems in meaning representation,
acquisition and use, based on distributional and vector space models. The
workshop aims also to shed new light on the use of such techniques
on complex linguistic tasks, such as linguistic knowledge acquisition, semantic
role labeling, textual entailment recognition, question answering, document
understanding/summarization and ontology learning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>TOPICS OF INTEREST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We invite submissions on any topic of
current interest related to the application of semantic spaces to NLP and
related disciplines, such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Document-based,
Collocational and Syntagmatic spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Eigenvector methods (e.g.
Singular Value and Tucker Decomposition)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Higher order tensors and
Quantum Logic extensions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Feature engineering in
machine learning models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Computational complexity
and evaluation issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Graph-based models over
semantic spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Logic and inference in
semantic spaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Psychological and cognitive
theories of semantic space models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Applications in the
humanities and social sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We also especially encourage submissions
on the empirical evaluation of the above computational models within
the following NLP tasks:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Word sense disambiguation
and discrimination<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Selectional preference
induction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Acquisition of lexicons
and linguistic patterns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Conceptual clustering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Kernels methods for NLP
(e.g. relation extraction and textual entailment)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Quantitative extensions
of Formal Concept Analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Modeling of linguistic
theories and ontological knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Authors are invited to submit papers on
original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. In addition to
long papers presenting completed work, we also invite short papers and demos:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Long papers should
present completed work and should not exceed 8 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Short papers/demos can
present work in progress or the description of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> a system,
and should not exceed 5 pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>One more page is eventually allowed for
bibliographic references only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>As reviewing will be blind, please
ensure that papers are anonymous. The papers should not
include the authors' names and affiliations or any references to web sites,
project names etc. revealing the authors' identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two
members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be published in
the workshop proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>All submissions are to be formatted
using the EACL 2009 stylefiles (see EACL 2009 page at: </span><a
href="http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/authors"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.eacl2009.gr/conference/authors</span></a><span
lang=EN-US>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission will be electronic, via the
Web-service at:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/submission.html"><span
lang=EN-US>http://art.uniroma2.it/gems/submission.html</span></a><span
lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please consult the Workshop web page for
more details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadline: December 23, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Notification of acceptance: January 30,
2009 Camera-ready papers due: February 13, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Workshop: either March 30 or 31, 2009
(to be announced)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>WORKSHOP CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Roberto Basili,
University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Marco Pennacchiotti,
Saarland University, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Marco Baroni, University
of Trento, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Johan Bos, University of
Roma La Sapienza, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Paul Buitelaar, DFKI,
Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - John A. Bullinaria,
University of Birmingham, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Rodolfo Dal Monte,
University of Venice, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Katrin Erk, University of
Texas, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Stefan Evert, University
of Osnabruck, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Alfio Massimiliano
Gliozzo, Reinvent Technology Inc., Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Jerry Hobbs, University of
Southern California, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> </span>- Alessandro Lenci,
University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <span lang=EN-US>- Jussi Karlgren, Swedish
Institute of Computer Science, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Will Lowe, University of
Nottingham, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Diana McCarthy,
University of Sussex, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Alessandro Moschitti,
University of Trento, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Saif Mohammad, University
of Maryland, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Sebastian Pado, Stanford
University, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Patrick Pantel, Yahoo!
Research, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Massimo Poesio,
University of Trento, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish
institute of Computer Science, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Fabrizio Sebastiani, CNR,
Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Suzanne Stevenson,
University of Toronto, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Sabine Schulte imWalde,
University of Stuttgart, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Peter D. Turney, National
Research Council Canada, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Dominic Widdows, Google
Research, US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> - Yorick Wilks, University
of Sheffield, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> </span>- Fabio Massimo
Zanzotto, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>CONTACTS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Roberto Basili (principal contact)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> Department of Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> </span>University of Roma Tor
Vergata<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> Italy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <a href="mailto:basili@info.uniroma2.it">basili@info.uniroma2.it</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Marco Pennacchiotti<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> Yahoo! Inc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> Santa Clara <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> <span lang=EN-US>US<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US> <a
href="mailto:pennac@yahoo-inc.com">pennac@yahoo-inc.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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