Corpora: SCIE02 - Summer Convention on Information Extraction

[Maria Teresa Pazienza]

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SCIE02 - INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON INFORMATION EXTRACTION
A perspective to intelligent access, acquisition and delivery of knowledge
from Web sources
Frascati(ROMA),Italy, July 15-19,  2002
http://scie02.info.uniroma2.it

The AI Research Group of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy) is
pleased to announce next SCIE02 that will be held in Frascati (Roma) july
15-19, 2002 supported by: University of Roma Tor Vergata, European Space
Agency, AI*IA, ENEA, among others.

Following the tradition established by previous editions (SCIE97
Multidisciplinary contributions to an emerging Information Technology ,
SCIE99 Towards scalable, adaptable systems), SCIE02 will deal with new
specific aspects of IE: it will cover the new problems related to the
access, acquisition and delivery of knowledge from Web sources. Main covered
topics will be: Question/Answering, Dialogue Analysis, Text summarization,
Acquisition of domain models, Terminology extraction, Multimodal information
access, Interactions among linguistic agents.

SCIE02  will be really an environment in which each participant will be
stimulated to get actively involved, supported by lecturers and
infrastructures provided by the whole programme.
This initiative is aimed primarily at interested people working in research
institutions, universities, companies, information and documentation
centers. The Convention will provide an interesting environment to each
participant by offering several, different opportunities. SCIE02 program
foresees:

-	lectures on specific themes held by international experts ;
-	a scientific workshop ;
-	an on-site Open-Lab in which participants can be involved in
developing/testing activities on a personal base or under working group
responsibility;
-	technical meetings.

Grants are available: to apply for a grant, please contact the organizers by
e-mail: scie02 at info.uniroma2.it
The deadline for applying for a grant is June 15th, 2002.

Each SCIE02 participant will receive a copy of the book with all scientific
presentations collected and published by Springer-Verlag into LNAI series.

The overall convention program, events descriptions and registration details
are available at: http://scie02.info.uniroma2.it
Hope to meet you at SCIE02

Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (SCIE02 Chair)


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prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza
AI Research Group,
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via del Politecnico
00133 ROMA (ITALY)
tel: +39 06 72597378 (office);   +39 06 7259 7332 (lab)
fax +39 06 72597460;
e_mail: pazienza at info.uniroma2.it
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