28.2153, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2153. Mon May 08 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2153, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Bulgaria

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Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:33:09
From: Michael Oakes [Michael.Oakes at wlv.ac.uk]
Subject: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Workshop

Full Title: Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Workshop 
Short Title: NLPIR 

Date: 07-Sep-2017 - 08-Sep-2017
Location: Varna, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Michael Oakes
Meeting Email: Michael.Oakes at wlv.ac.uk
Web Site: http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/events/NLPIR/home.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2017 

Meeting Description:

Since the 1990s, people have mooted the probability of enriching search engine
algorithms with higher levels of linguistic processing. However, this idea was
one of “promise rather than substance” (Smeaton), and search engines today
still work predominantly with the “bag of words” model, where single words are
considered in isolation. The main exceptions, which have for some time have
led to significant improvements, are the linguistically simple methods of
stopwords and stemming. Higher levels of linguistic processing, such as
parsing and Word Sense Disambiguation, have yielded only small improvements or
even a degradation in performance, at the cost of increased storage costs and
computational complexity (Brants, 2014). 

Recently though, there have been breakthroughs, with the word2vec model being
derived from distributional semantics, and the idea of semantic search where
the documents are annotated with semantic codes corresponding to meaning. Away
from core information retrieval, natural language processing has proved itself
useful in many tasks associated with peripheral information retrieval:
Question Answering, Text Summarisation, Information Extraction, Speech
Processing, and Natural Language Generation, Word Prediction, Terminology
Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, Anaphor Resolution and Cross-Language
Information Retrieval. Russell-Rose and Stevenson (2009) describe how the use
of Natural Language Processing in Text Analytics or Text Mining, the discovery
of new knowledge from unstructured text resources has now become mainstream. 

Conversely, search engines have a role to play in studies of natural language,
particularly those involving corpora or large collections of real-life text
stored electronically. Search engines are needed to retrieve that data which
is pertinent to the focus of linguistic enquiry, especially since many people
have regarded the whole WWW as a corpus. Specialised search engines are needed
to retrieve text which is annotated for a specific purpose, such as all
occurrences of the word “spring” when it is a noun, or when it is a
grammatical error made in a corpus of learner English. Search engines are also
needed in the creation of corpora, for example finding all the texts on the
web in a given lesser-resourced language. This workshop will focus mainly on
the use of NLP in information retrieval tasks. 

Call for Papersː

Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Workshop.
RANLP 2017.
http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/events/NLPIR/home.html

This RANLP 2017 Workshop seeks original papers on the role of natural language
processing or computational linguistics in information retrieval.

The workshop is held for the first time. It encourages high quality
contributions from all over the world. 

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of RANLP 2017 and will be
published in the ACL anthology. 

- Papers submission deadline: 30 June 2017
- Papers acceptance notification: 28 July 2017
- Papers camera-ready versions: 20 August 2017

Submission Detailsː

Submissions to NLP IR workshop must be original, unpublished contributions.
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf submission software at
https://www.softconf.com/ranlp2017/nlpir/
Papers are limited to 8 pages in ACL format: MS Office or LaTex and must be
written in English (Templates are available at
http://acl2017.org/downloads/acl17-word.zip and
http://acl2017.org/downloads/acl17-latex.zip)
Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three experts from a related field.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the
RANLP 2017 conference, attend the workshop, and present the paper.

Mireille Makary and Michael Oakes, University of Wolverhampton, England.

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