Corpora: LREC Workshop: Call for participation

Tue May 21 08:28:50 UTC 2002

Apologies for multiple posts.

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                       Call for participation

  Creating and Using Semantics for Information Retrieval and Filtering

              State of the Art and Future Research

               Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain
                        2nd of June 2002

                 Held in conjunction with the

Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

                       (LREC 2002)

The goal of this full day workshop is to bring together researchers
in the domain of information management and extraction, and in particular,
researchers concerned by the utility of enhancing queries with semantic
information gleaned from languages resources and processes.

Workshop scope and aims
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Several experiments have been carried out in the last 15 years
investigating the use of various resources and techniques (e.g.,
thesauri, synonyms, word sense disambiguation, etc.) to help refine or
enhance queries. However, the conclusions drawn on the basis of these
experiments vary widely. Results of some studies have led to the
conclusion that semantic information serves no purpose and even
degrades results, while others have concluded that the use of semantic
information drawn from external resources significantly increases the
performance of retrieval software. At this point, several question
arise:

  - Why do these conclusions vary so widely?
  - Is the divergence a result of differences in methodology?
  - Is the divergence a result of a difference in resources? What
    are the most suitable resources? Do results using manually
    constructed resources differ in significant ways from results
    using automatically extracted information?
  - From corpus building to terminology structuring, to which
    methodological requirements resources acquisition has to
    comply with in order to be relevant to a given application?
  - What is the contribution of specialized resources?
  - Are present frameworks for evaluation (e.g., TREC) appropriate
    for evaluation of results?.

These questions are fundamental not only to research in document retrieval,
but also for information searching, question answering, filtering, etc.
Their importance is even more acute for multilingual applications, where,
for instance, the question of whether to disambiguate before translating
is fundamental.

Moreover, the increasing diversity of monolingual as well as multilingual
documents on the Web invite to focus attention on lexical variability in
connection with textual genre and with questioning the resources
reusability stance.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in the domain
of document retrieval, and in particular, researchers on both sides of the
question of the utility of enhancing queries with semantic information
gleaned from languages resources and processes.

The workshop will provide a forum for presentation of the different points
of view, followed by a roundtable in which the participants will assess the
state of the art, consider the results of past and on-going work and the
possible reasons for the considerable differences in their conclusions.
Ultimately, they will attempt to identify future directions for research.

Important dates
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- Workshop: June 2nd, 2002

Program
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9 h 00	Welcome and introduction

9 h 20	Semantics for information management session (C. Fluhr)
9 h 20-9 h 40
	H. Liu & H. Lieberman
	Robust Photo Retrieval Using World Semantics
9 h 40-10 h 00
	R. F. Mihalcea
	The Role of Semantic Networks in Information Retrieval
10 h 00-10 h 20
	T. Brants & R. Stolle
	Finding Redundancy in Document Collections
10 h 20-10 h 40
	C. de Loupy & M. El-Bèze
	Managing Synonymy and Polysemy in a Document Retrieval
	System Using WordNet
10 h 40-11 h 00
	F. Sadat, A. Maeda, M. Yoshikawa & S. Uemura
	Statistical query disambiguation, translation and
	expansion in cross-language information retrieval

11 h 00-11 h 20	coffee break

11 h 20	Word Sense Disambiguation session (N. Ide)
11 h 20-11 h 40
	B. Jacquemin, C. Brun & C. Roux
	Enriching a Text by Semantic Disambiguation for
	Information Extraction
11 h 40-12 h 00
	G. Ramakrishnan & P. Bhattacharyya
	Word Sense Disambiguation Using Semantic Sets based
	on WordNet
12 h 00-12 h 20
	H. Kaji & Y. Morimoto
	Towards Sense-Disambiguated Association Thesauri

12 h 20-13 h 50	lunch

13 h 50	TermAcq session (A. Nazarenko & M. Slodzian)
14 h 00-14 h 20
	N. Grabar, P. Zweigenbaum
	Lexically-Based Terminology Structuring: a Feasibility
	Stud
14 h 20-14 h 40
	G. de Chalendar & B. Grau
	Expansion by a Contextual Use of Classes of Nouns
14 h 40-15 h 00
	A. Balvet
	Integrating Common and Specific Knowledge in a Rules-
	Based Information Retrieval System

15 h 00	State of the art and future plan Session (C. de Loupy)
15 h 00-15 h 20
	R. Krovetz
	On the Importance of Word Sense Disambiguation for
	Information Retrieval
15 h 20-16 h 20	Round Table

Registration
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The registration fee for the workshop is

     90 Euro if you are attending LREC
     140 Euro if you are NOT attending LREC

The fee includes two coffee breaks and the workshop proceedings.

Participation in the workshop is limited by the venue. Requests for
participation will be processed on a first come first served basis.
Registration is handled by the LREC Secretariat.

Venue
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The workshop will take place at the Palacio de Congreso de Canarias,
where the main LREC Conference will be held. For more information, please
refer to the LREC website : http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html

Conference Information
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General information on LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2002/index.html
Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Las Palmas
and the Canary Islands can be obtained from:

     Octavio Grondonna Morales
     Viajes El Corte Inglés
     Avda. Juan XXIII, 9
     35004 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
     Tel: +34 928 292402
     Fax: +34 928 291876
     E-mail: commercial_lpa at viajeseci.es

Program Committee
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  - Roberto Basili, Univ. Roma, Italy
  - Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA
  - Tony Bryant, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  - Theresa Cabré, IULA-UPF, Spain
  - Phil Edmonds, Sharp Laboratories of Europe LTD, United Kingdom
  - Marc El-Bèze, Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France
  - Christian Fluhr, CEA, France
  - Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
  - Natalia Grabar, AP-HP & INaLCO, France
  - Thierry Hamon, LIPN, Université de Paris-Nord, France
  - Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Canada
  - John Humbley, Univiversité de Paris 7, France
  - Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
  - Adam Kilgarriff, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
  - Marie-Claude L'Homme, Université de Montréal, Canada
  - Claude de Loupy, Sinequa, France
  - Christian Marest, Mediapps, France
  - Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN, Université de Paris-Nord, France
  - Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI, France
  - Monique Slodzian, CRIM, INALCO, France
  - Piek Vossen, Irion Technologies, The Netherlands
  - Pierre Zweigenbaum, AP-HP, Université de Paris 6, France

Contact Person
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  Claude de Loupy
  Sinequa
  51-59 rue Ledru-Rollin
  94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France
  Tel: +33 1 49 87 06 00 / Fax: +33 1 49 87 06 01
  email: loupy at sinequa.com

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Sinequa - http://www.sinequa.com
Home page: http://www.langnat.com/~loupy (in French, sorry)