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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Well said Adam. I find the wilful blindness of this conference to the significant moral and legal issues that it should consider startling.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Adam Kilgarriff<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 8/12/2009 09:16<BR><B>To:</B> Jakub Piskorski<BR><B>Cc:</B> corpora@uib.no<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Mining User-Generated Content for Security - MINUCS 2009<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>> Submissions that focus on legal questions stemming<BR>> from snooping, spying, privacy infringement or violation, etc., will not be<BR>> considered relevant to the Theme of the Workshop
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<DIV>Hey we're the guys inventing the next Atom Bomb, we're much too busy to discuss ethics<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2009/8/11 Jakub Piskorski <SPAN dir=ltr><jakub.piskorski@frontex.europa.eu></SPAN><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote><BR><BR><BR><BR>-------------------<BR> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS<BR>-------------------<BR><BR>Mining User-Generated Content for Security - MINUCS 2009<BR><BR>9 December 2009, Venice, Italy<BR><BR>web: <A href="http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs" target=_blank>http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs</A><BR><BR>email: minucs [ad] cs [dot] helsinki [dot] fi<BR><BR>This event is co-located with the First International Conference on User<BR>Centric Media - UCMedia 2009 (<A href="http://www.usercentricmedia.org/" target=_blank>http://www.usercentricmedia.org/</A>) in Venice,<BR>9-11 December 2009<BR><BR>---------------<BR> AIM AND SCOPE<BR>---------------<BR><BR>The vast and growing amount of user-generated textual content, including<BR>online news streams, blogs, electronic encyclopedias (e.g., the Wikipedia),<BR>and other openly accessible and dynamically changing data readily available<BR>on the Web has led to the emergence of new approaches to extracting<BR>valuable, structured, and previously unknown information from such data. The<BR>aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and<BR>industry who develop technologies for mining open-source user-generated<BR>textual data on the Web, as well as end-users interested in exploiting such<BR>technologies for knowledge discovery. The emphasis is placed on large-scale<BR>text mining systems and application-oriented approaches to processing<BR>on-line textual content in the context of security-related applications.<BR>Examples of such applications include:<BR><BR> * global medical and epidemic surveillance,<BR> * conflict early warning,<BR> * early detection of man-made or environmental hazards,<BR> * risk assessment,<BR> * border surveillance,<BR> * cross-border crime detection,<BR> * terrorism counterintelligence,<BR> * other applications relevant for security, law enforcement, and public<BR>health institutions<BR><BR>Due to a multitude of challenges of diverse and complex nature that are<BR>related to automating the process of mining user-generated content on the<BR>Web, we believe that this workshop will serve as a forum to bring together<BR>researchers from different areas, including data mining, language<BR>technology, computational linguistics, information sciences, information<BR>retrieval and Web mining, for sharing ideas and discussion. In particular,<BR>we believe that there is an important gap to be filled, since the<BR>aforementioned research communities have had limited interaction previously<BR>in the context of the topic of the Workshop. The second major goal is to<BR>engage governmental and inter-state user communities, and to bring them<BR>together with scientists and funding agencies.<BR><BR>--------------------<BR> TOPICS OF INTEREST<BR>--------------------<BR><BR> * Mining from news streams, blogs, document repositories, and other openly<BR>accessible and dynamically changing data, including Web 2.0 content, for the<BR>purpose of identifying threats to security or public health,<BR><BR> * Emphasis on multilingual approaches, and work on languages other than<BR>English,<BR><BR> * Applications, such as information extraction, classification,<BR>summarization, sentiment detection, event detection, event forecasting,<BR>trend detection, information fusion, and more,<BR><BR> * Contributions in the form of applications (working systems and<BR>prototypes) as well as theoretical results are welcome,<BR><BR> * Application domains include crisis-related event reporting, political and<BR>environmental analysis, and medical intelligence, under the general umbrella<BR>of the security intelligence domain,<BR><BR> * Methods including machine learning, rule-based, and hybrid approaches.<BR><BR>NB: Please note, this Workshop welcomes all work on computational approaches<BR>to the analysis of textual data for gathering information from openly<BR>accessible sources only. Submissions that focus on legal questions stemming<BR>from snooping, spying, privacy infringement or violation, etc., will not be<BR>considered relevant to the Theme of the Workshop, and the Committee will not<BR>be able to review them.<BR><BR><BR>------------<BR> SUBMISSION<BR>------------<BR><BR>We invite papers addressing primarily the language technology, natural<BR>language processing, data mining and information retrieval communities, as<BR>well as the relevant end-user groups.<BR>Submissions are invited in two categories:<BR><BR> * regular: research papers presenting novel approaches and solutions, and<BR> * short (posters): system demonstrations, descriptions, and work in<BR>progress<BR><BR>Submissions are electronic and in PDF format via a web-based submission<BR>server.<BR>Authors are encouraged to use Springer LNICST style for LaTeX in producing<BR>the PDF document.<BR>More information on this style can be found at:<BR><A href="http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-564009-0" target=_blank>http://www.springer.com/computer?SGWID=0-146-6-564009-0</A><BR><BR>The page limit for regular papers is 6 pages, whereas short papers are<BR>limited to 4 pages.<BR>The information about the author(s) should be omitted in the submitted<BR>papers since the review process wil be blind.<BR><BR>More detailed information about submission is available on:<BR><A href="http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs/authors.shtml" target=_blank>http://www.usercentricmedia.org/workshops/minucs/authors.shtml</A><BR><BR>Each submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program<BR>Committee.<BR>Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce<BR>camera-ready versions.<BR><BR>-------------<BR> PUBLICATION<BR>-------------<BR><BR>All workshop papers will be published in the official proceedings, Springer<BR>Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and<BR>Telecommunications Engineering - LNICST, of the main conference.<BR><BR>Selected workshop papers will be published in "ACM Springer Mobile Networks<BR>and Applications (MONET) Journal Special Issue on Mobility and User-Centric<BR>Media".<BR><BR>All workshop papers will be also published on the UCMedia2009 Website.<BR><BR>-----------------<BR> IMPORTANT DATES<BR>-----------------<BR><BR>Paper submissions due: 27 September 2009<BR>Notification of acceptance: 20 October 2009<BR>Camera-ready versions due: 8 November 2009<BR>Workhop Date: 9 December 2009<BR><BR>------------------------------------<BR> PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be extended)<BR>------------------------------------<BR><BR>Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano (USI) - Faculty of Informatics,<BR>Switzerland)<BR>Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead, France)<BR>Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute,Slovenia)<BR>Ben Hachey (Macquarie University, Australia)<BR>David L. Hicks (Aalborg University, Denmark)<BR>Mijail Kabadjov (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy)<BR>Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan)<BR>Nasrullah Memon (The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Denmark)<BR>Maria Milosavljevic (Capital Markets CRC, Australia)<BR>Marie-Francine Moens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)<BR>Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)<BR>Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA)<BR>Ralf Steinberger (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy)<BR>Mark Stevenson (University of Sheffield, UK)<BR><BR>----------------------<BR> ORGANISING COMMITTEE<BR>----------------------<BR><BR>Ulf Brefeld (Technische Universität Berlin, Department of Computer Science,<BR>Germany)<BR>Jakub Piskorski (FRONTEX, Research&Development, Warsaw, Poland)<BR>Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science,<BR>Finland)<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no" target=_blank>Corpora@uib.no</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" target=_blank>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>-- <BR>================================================<BR>Adam Kilgarriff <A href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/" target=_blank>http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/</A> <BR>Lexical Computing Ltd <A href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/" target=_blank>http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/</A><BR>Lexicography MasterClass Ltd <A href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/" target=_blank>http://www.lexmasterclass.com/</A><BR>Universities of Leeds and Sussex <A href="mailto:adam@lexmasterclass.com" target=_blank>adam@lexmasterclass.com</A><BR>================================================<BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>