[Corpora-List] Information Extraction for Slavonic and other CEE Languages

Mon Apr 7 14:36:22 UTC 2003

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS

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First Call for papers

                           WORKSHOP IESL-2003
                                  on
              Information Extraction for Slavonic and other=20
                  Central and Eastern European Languages

                           8-9 September 2003
                           Borovets, Bulgaria

                       <http://www.lml.bas.bg/IESL2003>
http://www.lml.bas.bg/IESL2003

                  Supported by the European Commission=20
       under contract ICA1-2000-70016 "BIS-21 Centre of Excellence"

   IESL-2003 will be held in conjunction with the Conference RANLP'2003
                    ( <http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003>
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003)

WORKSHOP GOALS

The workshop will focus on Information Extraction (IE) for Slavonic and
other Central and Eastern European languages. Information Extraction is
the process of deriving quantifiable, unambiguous data from natural
language text or speech. Various types of data may be extracted, from
simple entity identification, through entity reference resolution and
descriptive modifier attachment, to the identification of complex events
and relations.

TOPICS include but are not limited to:

- unique challenges for IE in these languages
- architectures and development environments for IE in these languages
- portability of existing IE tools for other languages
- named entity recognition
- relation extraction
- template filling and scenario templates
- corpus studies and statistical techniques for IE in these languages
- linguistic aspects of IE for these languages
- evaluation of IE for these languages

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on
Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern
European languages in EU and the candidate countries. There is now a
growing body of research in this area and this workshop aims to provide
a forum for these researchers to exchange insight and discuss problems.
This will also give an opportunity to push further the discussion on
portability of information extraction tools across languages.=20

PC CHAIR

Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield University)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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      Kalina Boncheva (Sheffield University)
      Dan Cristea (University of Iasi)
      Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield University)
      Maria Gavrilidou (ISLP, Athens)
      Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Saarbrucken)
      Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
      Vladimir Khoroshevsky (Russian Academy of Sciences)
      Nina Leontyeva (Moscow State University)
      Diana Maynard (Sheffield University)
      Nicolas Nicolov (IBM)
      Kemal Oflazer (Sabanci University, Istanbul)
      Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)=20
      Elena Paskaleva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
      Stelios Piperidis (ISLP, Athens)
      Valentin Tablan (Sheffield University)
      Marko Tadi=E3 (University of Zagreb)
      Tamas Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

SUBMISSION

Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven
pages (poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 5 pages),
including cover page, figures, tables and references. Times New Roman =
12
font is preferred. The first page should state the title of the paper,
the author's name(s), affiliation, surface and email address(es),
followed by keywords and an abstract and continue with the first =
section
of your paper. Papers should be submitted electronically in **PDF** or
as **MS-Word** and **PS** files. In exceptional circumstances hard
copies may be accepted.

Send your electronic submission to < <mailto:iesl03 at lml.bas.bg>
iesl03 at lml.bas.bg> with a copy to
< <mailto:hellen at lml.bas.bg> hellen at lml.bas.bg>

Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to
produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the
proceedings. Guidelines for producing camera-ready versions and Demo
text can be found at the RANLP conference web site:
  <http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003> http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2003.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

      Paper Submission Due: ***20 May 2003***
      Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2003
      Camera-ready Paper Due: 5 August 2003
      Tutorials: 7-9 September 2003
      IESL Workshop: 8-9 September 2003
      RANLP Conference: 10-12 September 2003

LOCATION

The picturesque resort of Borovets is located in the Rila mountains and
is one of the most famous winter resorts in South-East Europe, a
frequent meeting place for the elite in world skiing. The resort is =
1350
m above sea level, at the foot of peak Moussala (2925 m) - the highest
on the Balkan Peninsula. The resort of Borovets is 73 km from Sofia and
126 km from Plovdiv (see the map at the conference site), which means
that both Sofia and Plovdiv with their international airports can serve
as arrival/departure points. In addition to regular public transport,
the organisers will provide daily shuttle buses from Sofia airport to
the conference location at an inexpensive rate. A taxi from Sofia to
Borovets is relatively cheap, so it is also possible to take a taxi =
from
the international airport in Sofia to the workshop venue.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information can be obtained from Elena Paskaleva
< <mailto:hellen at lml.bas.bg> hellen at lml.bas.bg> and <
<mailto:iesl03 at lml.bas.bg> iesl03 at lml.bas.bg>

ORGANIZERS and SPONSORS

The main local organizer is the Linguistic Modeling Department, Central
Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
( <http://www.lml.bas.bg> www.lml.bas.bg).  IESL-2003 is supported by
the European Commission
under contract ICA1-2000-70016 "BIS-21 Centre of Excellence".=20

Partial support for attending the workshop would be provided especially
for authors of accepted papers, who work permanently in the associated
countries, in West Balkans and New Independent States.

THE TEAM BEHIND IESL-03

Elena Paskaleva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC chair)
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK

Elena Paskaleva, Head of LMD, CLPP, BAS, tel, 71-93-13, fax - 70-72-73,
http://www.lml.bas.bg <http://www.lml.bas.bg

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Petya Osenova, PhD
BulTreeBank Project
www.bultreebank.org
Linguistic Modelling Laboratory, CLPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Acad. G.Bonchev St. 25A
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: petyaosenova at hotmail.com
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