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2ND CALL FOR PAPERS<BR>
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NAACL-HLT 2010 Workshop on Semantic Search (SemanticSearch 2010)<BR>
June 5 or 6, Los Angeles, CA<BR>
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Workshop Website: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.semsearch.info/">http://www.semsearch.info/</a><BR>
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Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010<BR>
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Information retrieval (IR) research has been actively driven by the challenging information <BR>
overload problem and many successful general-purpose commercial search engines. While <BR>
the popularity of the largest search engines are a confirmation of the success and utility <BR>
of IR, the identification, representation, and use of the often-complex semantics behind <BR>
user queries has not yet been fully explored. <BR>
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In this workshop we target methods that exploit semantics in search-related tasks. One of <BR>
the major obstacles in bridging the gap between IR and Natural Language Processing (NLP) <BR>
is how to retain the flexibility and precision of working with text at the lexical level <BR>
while gaining the greater descriptive precision that NLP provides. We encourage contributions <BR>
on automatic analysis of queries and documents in order to encode and exploit information <BR>
beyond surface-level keywords: named entities, relations, semantic roles, etc.<BR>
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This workshop is meant to accelerate the pace of progress in semantic search techniques by <BR>
connecting IR and NLP, bridging semantic analysis and search methodologies, and exploring <BR>
the potentials of search utilizing semantics. We also focus on forming an interest group <BR>
from different areas of research, exploring collaboration opportunities, providing deeper <BR>
insight into bringing semantics into search, and provoking or encouraging discussions on <BR>
all of its potential.<BR>
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We invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:<BR>
- Query Parsing and Semantic Tagging<BR>
- Query Suggestion and Recommendation<BR>
- Query Expansion<BR>
- Query Intention Detection<BR>
- Web Query Analysis and Mining<BR>
- Semantic Annotation and Indexing<BR>
- Language Modeling for Information Retrieval<BR>
- Information Extraction and Summarization for Indexing and Search<BR>
- Question Answering<BR>
- Search Reranking Integrating Semantic Features<BR>
- Search Relevance Evaluation using Semantic Technology<BR>
- Topic Modeling and Semantic Tagging<BR>
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IMPORTANT DATES<BR>
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Mar 1, 2010 Submissions due<BR>
Mar 30, 2010 Notification of acceptance<BR>
Apr 12, 2010 Camera-ready due<BR>
Jun 5 or 6, 2010 Workshop date<BR>
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WORKSHOP WEBSITE<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.semsearch.info/">http://www.semsearch.info/</a><BR>
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ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS<BR>
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Submissions should follow the two-column format of NAACL HLT 2010 proceedings <BR>
without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus one extra page for references. <BR>
We strongly recommend the use of ACL LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style <BR>
files tailored for this year's conference, which are available on the conference <BR>
website under <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/authors.html">http://naaclhlt2010.isi.edu/authors.html</a></U></FONT>. Submissions must conform <BR>
to the official style guidelines, and must be electronic in PDF.<BR>
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As the reviewing will be blind, the paper must not include the authors' names and <BR>
affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., <BR>
"We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." must be avoided. Instead, use citations <BR>
such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to <BR>
these requirements will be rejected without review. In addition, please do not post <BR>
your submissions on the web until after the review process is complete.<BR>
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All contributions should be submitted via the NAACL online submission system: <BR>
<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/semanticsearch/">https://www.softconf.com/naaclhlt2010/semanticsearch/</a><BR>
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<BR>
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Donghui Feng, AT&T Interactive, <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="donghui.feng@att.com">donghui.feng@att.com</a><BR>
</U></FONT>Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="callan@cmu.edu">callan@cmu.edu</a><BR>
</U></FONT>Eduard Hovy, USC/ISI, <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="hovy@isi.edu">hovy@isi.edu</a><BR>
</U></FONT>Marius Pasca, Google Inc., <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="mars@google.com">mars@google.com</a><BR>
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<BR>
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Srinivas Bangalore, AT&T Labs-Research<BR>
Raman Chandrasekar, Microsoft Research<BR>
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, IBM Research <BR>
Patrick Haffner, AT&T Labs-Research<BR>
Nikesh Garera, Kosmix<BR>
Ralph Grishman, New York University<BR>
Liang Huang, USC/ISI<BR>
Zornitsa Kozareva, USC/ISI<BR>
Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia<BR>
Dekang Lin, Google Inc.<BR>
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore<BR>
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah<BR>
Dan Roth, UIUC<BR>
James Shanahan, AT&T Interactive<BR>
Young-In Song, Microsoft Research Asia<BR>
Qin Wang, AT&T Interactive<BR>
Kenji Yamada, AT&T Interactive<BR>
Remi Zajac, AT&T Interactive<BR>
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CONTACT INFORMATION<BR>
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Donghui Feng<BR>
AT&T Interactive<BR>
611 N. Brand Blvd, 5th Flr.<BR>
Glendale, CA, 91202, USA<BR>
Email: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="donghui.feng@att.com">donghui.feng@att.com</a><BR>
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