20.1515, Calls: Computational Ling/Bulgaria

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Subject: 20.1515, Calls: Computational Ling/Bulgaria

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Date: 20-Apr-2009
From: Kiril Simov < kivs at bultreebank.org >
Subject: Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains

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Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:21:39
From: Kiril Simov [kivs at bultreebank.org]
Subject: Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains

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Full Title: Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains 

Date: 18-Sep-2009 - 18-Sep-2009
Location: Borovets, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Kiril Simov
Meeting Email: kivs at bultreebank.org

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Jun-2009 

Meeting Description:

Adaptation of Language Resources and Technology to New Domains
RANLP 2009 Workshop 

Call for Papers

Workshop motivation and aims:
It is widely acknowledged that despite the great advances in Computational
Linguistics nowadays, the creation of new Language Resources (LR) and Language
Technology (LT) for a new domain or task is still quite expensive and
time-consuming. At the same time there are already a lot of varieties of LR and
LT, developed for various languages and purposes. What happens when new tasks
come? Do we have to develop new resources and technology from the beginning, or
can we re-use or adapt the existent ones? Last, but not least alternative is to
combine both strategies depending on the task. 

The first option seems reasonable when richer and larger data is needed for the
new applications. The second option is justified only if such a resource or
technology does not exist at all, or some new approach is applied. The third one
is the ever 'compromising', but also very realistic option. As the machine
learning techniques have matured enough to successfully support real
applications within various domains, a new bottleneck became the requirement for
large and adequate training data for input. Thus, the NLP community faced the
question of the relevant LR and LT adaptation. It concerns the operability
between general domain NLP toolkits and specific domain tasks with respect to
terminology, language, structure, steps of preprocessing etc. Thus, the Workshop
is devoted to various methods for transferring the linguistic knowledge and
supportive technology from the existing language resources in one domain into a
different one.

Topics:
- parameters of adaptivity and re-usability of LR and LT
- methods for adaptation of existing NLP resources to specific tasks
- domain specific requirements to the LR and LT
- general domain vs. specific domain processing
- profiling LR
- extrapolation of richer annotations to large data
- evaluation of adapted LR and LT

Organizers:
Núria Bel, Pompeu Fabra University
Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen University (co-chair)
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & Sofia University
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (co-chair)

Invited Speaker: tba

Submission Details:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract up to 5000 words. Abstracts
should describe existing research connected to the topics of the workshop. The
final paper should not exceed 15 A4 pages. The following formats are accepted:
PDF, PS, MS Word, ASCII text. Each submission should provide the following
information: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail
address, postal address.

The papers should be sent electronically to:
Petya Osenova
Email: petya at bultreebank.org

by the deadline listed below. The submissions will be reviewed by the workshop's
programme committee. The accepted papers will appear in the workshop
proceedings. The format of the final versions will be PDF, PS.

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission:  7th June 2009
Notification of acceptance: 7th July 2009
Final version of the papers: 23rd August 2004

Program Committee
(uncompleted)

Núria Bel, Pompeu Fabra University
Gosse Bouma, Groningen University
António Branco, Lisbon University
Walter Daelemans, Antwerp University
Markus Dickinson, Indiana University
Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen University
Josef van Genabith, Dublin City University
Iryna Gurevych, Technische Universität Darmstadt - UKP Lab
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext OOD
Vladislav Kubon, Charles University
Sandra Kuebler, Indiana University
Bernardo Magnini, FBK
Detmar Meurers, Tuebingen University
Paola Monachesi, Utrecht University
Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore
John Nerbonne, Groningen University
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & Sofia University
Gabor Proszeky, MophoLogic
Adam Przepiorkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Marta Sabou, Open University - UK
Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Cristina Vertan, Hamburg University

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