18.1782, Confs: Computational Ling, Baltic Lang/Czech Republic

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LINGUIST List: Vol-18-1782. Tue Jun 12 2007. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 18.1782, Confs: Computational Ling, Baltic Lang/Czech Republic

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Date: 11-Jun-2007
From: Dr. Ralf Steinberger < Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it >
Subject: Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2007

 

	
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:03:59
From: Dr. Ralf Steinberger < Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.it >
Subject:  Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2007 
 

Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2007 
Short Title: BSNLP 2007 

Date: 29-Jun-2007 - 29-Jun-2007 
Location: Prague, Czech Republic 
Contact: Jakub Piskorski 
Contact Email: Jakub.Piskorski at jrc.it 
Meeting URL: http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Baltic; Slavic Subgroup 
Meeting Description: 

ACL Workshop: Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2007 (BSNLP 2007)
with Special Theme: Information Extraction and Enabling Technologies

June 29, 2007 
Prague, Czech Republic
http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007 

We cordially invite you to participate in the forthcoming
ACL Workshop
Prague, 29 June 2007
Balto-Slavonic Natural Language Processing 2007
Special Theme: Information Extraction and Enabling Technologies
http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007/

There are over 400 million speakers of Balto-Slavonic (BS) languages
world-wide. As of 2007, almost a third of the 23 official European Union
languages belong to this group. For some BS-languages, there is a rich
linguistic heritage and Language Technology is rather advanced, but many
others lag behind. This is partly due to a lack of basic linguistic
resources, which unfortunately often leads to a linguistic brain-drain:
instead of working on their own BS languages, scientists develop methods 
and tools for English or other widely spoken languages because resources for
these are freely available.

The objective of this ACL workshop, organised by the European
Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), is to promote the work on
Balto-Slavonic languages, and especially work on Information Extraction, by
helping scientists to describe and share their resources and to describe their
efforts, hoping that the experiences of a few will be useful for many
others.

The presentation subjects at the workshop (see the program at
http://langtech.jrc.it/BSNLP2007/m/program.html for details) will include:
Information Extraction (scenario template filling, Named EntityRecognition,
definition extraction), name lemmatisation, word-sense discrimination,
topical text segmentation, WordNet-related developments, morphological
corpus annotation, term extraction, and hybrid POS-tagging. Most of the
talks will address, at some point, the specificities of analysing BS
languages.

The invited speaker, Adam Przepi=F3rkowski from the Polish Academy of
Sciences, will give an overview of specific linguistic phenomena of 
Slavonic languages. He will show how these specific features can make
Information Extraction sometimes harder and sometimes easier than in Germanic
and Romance languages.

Organizing Committee:
European Commission, Joint http://www.jrc.it/  Research Centre, 
LanguageTechnology Group http://langtech.jrc.it/

Jakub Piskorski

Bruno Pouliquen

Ralf Steinberger

Hristo Tanev






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