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<span lang="EN-US"> [Apologies for cross-postings]<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><b>LREC 2010 workshop:
Resources and Evaluation for Entity Resolution and Entity Management</b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This workshop, open to all LREC
participants, builds on the success of the workshop held at LREC08 on
Resources
and Evaluation for Identity Matching, Entity Resolution and Entity
Management.<span style=""> </span>We hope to leverage results
achieved since
that workshop and advance the state of the art.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There is currently great
interest in the
extraction and management of structured information from unstructured
text – a
need that continues to grow with ever increasing production of
unstructured
information.<span style=""> </span>Much of the information
extracted focuses on people, and this information must be managed – and
searchable – when stored in a structured repository.<span style=""> </span>This
workshop will address the intersection
of the name/record matching, entity resolution, and entity management
problems,
with a focus on evaluation methodologies suited to such systems and the
language resources necessary both to perform these tasks and to
evaluate them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Whereas entity extraction
systems <span style=""> </span>are usually evaluated using MUC
methodology,
for example, the case is less clear for these “follow-on” technologies.<span
style=""> </span>Even a seemingly simple task such as matching
person names in a database context is problematic, and although <b>name</b>
or <b>record</b>
matching systems can be evaluated using IR evaluation methodologies (à
la CLEF
or TREC), there are still interesting methodological issues to resolve
before
we can refer to a “standard” evaluation methodology for name/record
matching.<span style=""> </span>Moreover, it is much less
clear how to effectively evaluate <b>identity</b> matching,
resolution, and
management systems, or even what it means to perform an effective
identity
match.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We solicit papers discussing
state-of-the-art approaches to name and record matching, identity
resolution,
and identity management, as well as novel proposals for methodologies
to
evaluate these technologies.<span style=""> </span>Suggested
topics include, but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Research
in name
/ record matching<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Research
in
entity disambiguation / resolution / deconfliction<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Descriptions
of
systems or best practices for entity management</span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Descriptons
of
systems that incorporate entity resolution as an essential component<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Evaluation
of
record matching, entity disambiguation, or entity management in context<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Resources
for
identity matching, identity resolution, or identity management<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span lang="EN-US">Resources
for
evaluation of these technologies</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Position papers on the
evaluation and
integration of identity resolution technologies will also be considered
for
acceptance.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Although we are distributing a
call for
papers and there will be papers accepted for presentation at the
workshop, this
workshop will not be a “mini-conference”.<span style="">
</span>Rather, this workshop will be an interactive and dynamic event.<span
style=""> </span>Presentations will serve to introduce topics
for discussion and to shape the day.<span style=""> </span>A
significant portion of time will be devoted to interactive exercises,
brainstorming, and other "work."<span style="">
</span>The workshop will be organized such that all attendees
(including the
organizers) leave the workshop more informed—having made progress
toward a
contextualized and principled evaluation of identity matching,
resolution, and
management systems—as well as more connected, having begun interactive
discussions that will continue after the conference.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Organizing Committee:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Keith J. Miller (The MITRE
Corporation)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Mark Arehart (The MITRE
Corporation)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Sherri Condon (The MITRE
Corporation)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jason Duncan (M.I.T. Lincoln
Labs)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Louise Guthrie (University of
Sheffield)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Christopher Dozier (Thomson
Reuters)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="IT">Elizabeth
Schroeder (The MITRE Corporation)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="IT">Massimo Poesio
(Universita’ di Trento)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="IT">Emanuele Pianta
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="IT"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Important Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><span
style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Deadline for Paper Submission:<span
style=""> </span>Friday, 12 February 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Notification to Authors:
Friday, 26
February 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Submission of Final Version:
Friday, 12
March 2010</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US">Workshop
at LREC: Saturday, 22 May 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span lang="EN-US">Submission Information:<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Papers should be submitted to
the START Conference
Manager at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/Entity2010/"><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/Entity2010/</span></a>.
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide
essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for
the
work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. For
further
information on this new initiative, please refer to <a
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources</a><u>.
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