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<font size="2">The workshop is organized as a part of SLTC, the Fourth Swedish
Language
Technology Conference, which takes place on 24-26 October 2012 in
Lund,
Sweden. The workshop is held on October 25,
2012.
Details about the conference: <a target="_blank" href="http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/">http://nlp.cs.lth.se/events/sltc_2012/</a>
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This workshop will investigate the relation and complementarity
between
factual and opinionated information for decision-making.
Traditionally,
natural language processing approaches and tools have segregated the
objective
and subjective treatments of information in two separate fields of
expertise
where the two never met. This workshop is an attempt to fill this gap
and
examine the relation and complementarity that exists between the factual
and
the speculative in order to build a more subtle representation of the state
of
affairs.
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In their everyday routine, managers, professionals, even laymen, must
deal
with a large amount of textual information to help make their
decisions.
Without appropriate language technology tools to extract, classify
and
synthesize this information, decision-makers would have to read a large
number
of so-called objective sources but arguably even more subjective
and
opinionated material. Facts and opinions would then be combined together
to
create an accurate picture of the entity or issue we seek to understand.
Facts
are of course crucial to make professional or personal decisions, but
opinions
may sometimes play a key role. For this workshop we have identified
two
specific domains where factual and subjective information have an
importance:
brand management and health (patient empowerment and education), with an
eye
towards clinical decision. However, any relevant domains where the factual
and
the opinionated co-exist would be
considered.
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<br />We encourage submissions addressing the following
questions:
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<ul>
<li><font size="2">Relevance of the extracted information (certainty,
speculation
and
subjectivity) in a decision making
context
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<li><font size="2">How to combine objective and subjective information in
NLP-based
decision
making to produce a better
understanding</font></li>
<li><font size="2">Exploitation of the objective and subjective
information:
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<ul>
<li><font size="2">How do managers combine the factual and the less
tangible to
favour the success of their
brand?
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<li><font size="2">How does the patient understand a medical decision
given
objective
information by the physician and subjective information related to
his/her
feelings, as well as discussions with other
patients?
</font></li>
<li><font size="2">How does a physician combine what the data show
about a patient
with
more subjective information like symptoms or informed opinion from a third
party?
</font></li>
</ul>
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We would like to invite anyone currently researching in the areas of
sentiment
analysis, information extraction, text mining, BioNLP or
automatic
summarization to submit
a
paper, including submissions presenting a discussion of a
system.
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Important
dates</span>
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<ul>
<li><font size="2">
September 10th: paper submission by email to
genereux@clul.ul.pt
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October 1st: notification of
acceptance
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<li><font size="2">
October 15th: camera-ready papers for
publication
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Submission</span>
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<br />
Papers should be a maximum of 8 pages, all included and follow the SLTC
format.
Only pdf files are
accepted.
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<br />
Style files: The style files will be the same as for SLTC
2010.
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;">(Confirmed) Program committee
members</span>
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<br />
Khurshid Ahmad (Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland)
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Agata Jackiewicz (Université Paris-Sorbonne,
France)
<br />
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI,
France)
<br />
Ricardo Ribeiro ((DCTI)/IUL (ISTA) of ISCTE-IUL,
Portugal)
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Jonathon Read (University of Oslo,
Norway)
<br />
Dina Demner-Fushman (NIH/NLM/LHC,
USA)
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<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Workshop
organisation</span>
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<br />The duration of the workshop is three hours. There will be regular
(short)
talks and according to the number and the quality of the submissions,
posters.
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<br />Every paper will be reviewed by 2 members of the program
committee.
All
accepted papers will be published in the NEALT Proceeding Series. Authors
of
the accepted papers will have to sign an agreement with NEALT
publishers.
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<br />Details on place and time are provided at the conference
website.
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<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Workshop
organizers</span>
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<li><font size="2">Michel Généreux (CLUL, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa,
Portugal,
genereux@clul.ul.pt
)
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<li><font size="2">Thierry Hamon (LIM&BIO, Université Paris 13, Bobigny,
France,
thierry.hamon@univ-paris13.fr )
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