Dear Colleague<br>you are invited to submit a paper at the Workshop on:<br><br><p><b>Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content<br><a href="http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/News-Content-Workshop" target="_blank">http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/News-Content-Workshop</a><br>
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<p><b>September 15, 2009</b> </p>
<p>at the Conferences<br></p><p><a href="http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/WIhome.htm" target="_blank">Web Intelligence (WI'09)</a> <br> <a href="http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/IAThome.htm" target="_blank">Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'09)</a>
</p><p> </p>The content of news outlets - increasingly available freely online - contains<br><p>information of immense scientific and commercial potential, as well as belonging<br>to a very specific genre of textual data.</p>
<p>The content of news outlets is both a relatively focused domain, largely<br>looking at the same set of events, and at the same time unstructured and open<br>ended. The understanding and analysis of news content - be it text or speech,<br>
mono or multi lingual, etc - is a challenging and promising line of research, with<br>its own specific features and character.</p>
<p>Various projects exist in this direction, aimed either at simple aggregation,<br>or at translation, or summarisation, or content analysis of news. We will gather<br>the scientific and technical community working on these applications to discuss<br>
scientific and technological aspects, lessons learnt, and open problems in this<br>growing field, at the intersection of information extraction, machine learning,<br>machine translation, pattern discovery, etc.</p>
<p>Technologies in this area span the entire domain of Pattern Analysis: from<br>indexing to information extraction, from speech recognition to machine transla-<br>tion, from pattern discovery to text generation and summarisation, to network<br>
patterns analysis. Besides connecting to user modelling and personalisation,<br>the method also is a form of open source intelligence - see the applications to<br>epidemic detection for example. The key goal of the meeting is the sharing of<br>
experiences, and the comparison of results solutions, and long term goals.</p>
<p><b>Organizers</b>:<br><a href="http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/people/nello-cristianini" target="_blank">Nello Cristianini</a> (University of Bristol)<br><a href="http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/people/marco-turchi" target="_blank">Marco Turchi</a> (University of Bristol)</p>
<p><b>Program Committee: </b></p>
<p>Marko Grobelnik ( J. Stefan Institute)<br>Antonio Gulli (Ask.com/University of Pisa)<br>Steven Skiena (State University of New York)<br>Ralf Steinberger ( European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC))<br>Marco Turchi (University of Bristol)<br>
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol)<br>Justin Lewis (University of Cardiff) </p>
<p><b>Important Dates:</b> </p>
<ul><li> Due date for full workshop papers submission: <b><i>April 30, 2009</i></b></li><li>Notification of paper acceptance to authors: <i><b>June 8, 2009</b></i></li><li>Camera-ready of accepted papers: <i><b>June 30, 2009</b></i></li>
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<p><b>Submission:</b><br>The length of accepted papers should NOT
exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only available for one
more extra page).<br>For authors, please submit through the WI/IAT-2009
Workshop Paper Submission page. The link for paper submission will be
announced soon, please check <a href="http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/submission.htm" target="_blank">this</a> later. </p>
<p>Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of<span> WI</span>-IAT09 Workshops, IEEE-CS Press (<a href="http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/wrproposals.htm" target="_blank">here</a>).</p>
<b>Contact:</b><br>Please send inquiries to <a href="mailto:iapwnc@googlemail.com" target="_blank">iapwnc@googlemail.com</a>