18.2621, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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Date: 07-Sep-2007
From: Horacio Saggion < saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk >
Subject: Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction

 

	
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From: Horacio Saggion [saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk]
Subject:  Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction
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Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction... 
Short Title: MMIES 

Date: 26-Sep-2007 - 26-Sep-2007 
Location: Borovets, Bulgaria 
Contact: Horacio Saggion 
Contact Email: saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Call for Participation - RANLP/MMIES 2007 Workshop - Multi-source, Multilingual
Information Extraction and Summarization 

http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies.html 

    Workshop to be held in conjunction with  

          RANLP 2007 

       http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/ 

           Borovets - Bulgaria 
       26th of September 2007 

Overview

Information extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are key technologies 
aiming at extracting relevant information from texts  and other
sources and  presenting the information to the user in condensed  forms.
Recent years have  witnessed an explosion of information,
making IE and TS particularly important  for the information
society. These technologies, however, face new challenges  with the
adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm (e.g. blogs, wikis) because of their
inherent multi-source nature. These technologies have to deal no longer with 
isolated texts or single narratives but with large scale repositories,
or  sources -- in one or many languages -- containing a multiplicity
of views,  opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or
events. There is  thus a need to adapt and/or develop new techniques
to deal with these new  phenomena. The ``Multi-source, Multilingual
Information Extraction and  Summarization'' workshop  will cover  the
following topics:

- Mono-lingual and Multi-lingual Cross-document Coreference;

- Multi-source Information Extraction;

- Social Networks' Learning and Visualisation;

- Relation Extraction;

- Cross-lingual Information Extraction and Document Retrieval; and 

- Ontology-based Information Extraction

Invited  Speaker

Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST). 

Programme

10:00 - 10:10 Welcome

10:10 - 11:30 Invited Talk: Bernardo Magnini - ITC-IRST - Italy     

11:30 - 12:00  Coffee Break    

12:00 - 13:00 Papers
  
   12:00 - 12:30  Disambiguation of Standardized Personal    Name
Variants.  Patricia Driscoll and David Yarowsky. 

   12:30 - 13:00 Using Information Extraction to Improve Cross-lingual Document
   Retrieval. Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Heng Ji, and Ralph Grishman   

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch    

14:30 - 15:30 Papers  

   14:30 - 15:00   Ontological Integration of Information Extracted
from Multiple    Sources.  Adam Funk, Diana Maynard, Horacio Saggion, and Kalina
   Bontcheva. 

   14:30 - 15:00 Combining Information about Epidemic    Threats from
Multiple Sources. Roman Yargarber, Clive Best, Peter von Etter, Flavio Fuart,
David Horby, and Ralf Steinberger. 

15:00 - 15:30  Coffee Break 

15:30 - 16:00 Papers  

   15:30 - 16:00  Unsupervised Learning of Social Networks from a
Multiple-Source    News Corpus. Hristo Tanev.  

   16:00 - 16:30  Multilingual Multi-document    Continuously-updated
Social Networks. Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, and Jenya Belyaeva.  

16:30 - 17:00 Open Discussion 

  17:00 - 17:10 Farewell 

Workshop Organizers

-Thierry Poibeau  

      LIPN-CNRS, U. Paris 13 

      France 

- Horacio Saggion 

      NLP Group, U. Sheffield 

      United Kingdom 

Registration:

The address to register to the workshop is:

http://www.euromap.bas.bg/reg/

Program Committee

-Sophia Ananiadou (U. Manchester, UK) 

-Roberto Basili (U. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) 

-Kalina Bontcheva (U. Sheffield, UK) 

-Nathalie Colineau (CSIRO,  Australia) 

-Nigel Collier (NII, Japan) 

-Hercules Dalianis (KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden) 

-Thierry Declerk (DFKI, Germany) 

-Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, France) 

-Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan) 

-Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 

-Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada) 

-Diana Maynard (U. Sheffield, UK) 

-Jean-Luc Minel (CNRS-Modyco, France) 

-Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 

-Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia) 

-Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France) 

-Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) 

-Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) 

-Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft  Research, USA) 

-Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) 

-Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland) 

-Liang Zhou (ISI, USA) 

-Michael Zock (LIF, France) 

Contact Us

e-mails: thierry.poibeau _at_ lipn.univ-paris13.fr (replace _at_ with @) 
         saggion _at_ dcs.shef.ac.uk (replace _at_ with @)






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