<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Call
for Participation    ***Apologies for cross-posting***</span><br style>
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<span style>Graph-based Methods for Natural Language
Processing (TextGraphs-7)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">Workshop
at ACL 2012, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 13 2012<br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12">http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12</a></span></p>

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</span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white"><span style>Early
Registration:</span></span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white">Through 11:59PM EDT June 10, 2012<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>


<strong style="outline:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Late Registration:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background:white"> </span><span style="background:white">June
11, 2012 to 11:59PM EDT June 24, 2012</span><span style="color:#555555"></span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">You
are invited to attend the 7^th Workshop on Graph-based Methods for
Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs-7) which will be held with ACL 2012 in Jeju,
Republic of Korea, on July 13 2012.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">TextGraphs
is in its seventh edition! This shows that the disciplines graph theoretic
models and computational linguistics, are naturally connected, with a large
variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications adopting efficient
and elegant solutions from graph-theoretical framework. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222">The TexGraphs-7
program is now available at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12">http://www.textgraphs.org/ws12</a>
. In addition to 8 technical papers, the workshop will have a joint invited
talk by Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) and Rada Mihalcea
(University of North Texas). This year’s special theme of TexGraphs is "Understanding
and Mining Social Media Using Graphs: Information Propagation in Blogs and
Tweets".<span style="color:#222222"></span></span></p>

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<span style>We look forward to seeing you in Jeju this July!</span><br style>
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<span style>Gael Dias, Ahmed Hassan, and Irina Matveeva <br>
TexGraphs-7  Co-Chairs<br>
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