[Corpora-List] Workshop on "Named Entity Recognition for Natural Language Processing"

[Eiko Yamamoto]

Workshop on "Named Entity Recognition for Natural Language Processing Applications"
In Conjunction with the First International Joint Conference on
Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04)

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 19 DECEMBER 2003

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Chair: Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)


Call for Papers

Named Entities (NEs) occupy a considerable proportion in natural language
and have remained an important area in natural language processing (NLP).
The recognition of proper names as unknown words has long been an issue in
word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging, especially for non-alphabetic
Asian languages and interlingual NLP involving these languages.  Named
entities constitute significant pieces of data in information extraction.
Proper transliteration of named entities, especially proper names, is
critical for the intelligibility and accuracy of machine translation output.
This workshop aims at bringing researchers together to discuss the issues
and advances in NE recognition and extraction, and how NE could be handled
most cost-effectively in a variety of NLP applications.

Papers are invited for original and unpublished research on all aspects of
NE recognition and extraction, including but not limited to:

- Symbolic and statistical models for NE recognition
- NE recognition systems
- Translation of NEs across multiple languages
- Resources (lexicons, grammars) for NE extraction
- NE recognition as a subtask in NLP applications
- Evaluation of NE processing in NLP applications


Important Dates

Submission Deadline:  19 December 2003  *** Extended ***
Notification of Acceptance: 10 January 2004
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 24 January 2004
Workshop Date: 26 March 2004


Submission Method

Papers should be written in English and may not exceed 7 pages (including
references, and using 11pt or 12pt for the main text).  Simultaneous
submission to other conferences or workshops must be clearly indicated on
the identification page (see below).  Nevertheless, a paper accepted for
presentation in this workshop cannot be presented or have been presented in
any other meeting with publicly published available proceedings.

We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or MS-Word document
template for IJCNLP-04.  These style files can be downloaded from
http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ijc-nlp04/submission.html.

As reviewing will be blind, self-references that reveal the author's
identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) .") should be avoided in
the submission.  Instead, use references like "Smith previously showed
(Smith, 1991) .".

Please include, on a separate identification page, the following
information: title, name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s), email address(es),
up to 5 keywords, whether the paper is under consideration for other
conferences, and a short summary of the paper.

Please submit your paper electronically to rlolivia at cityu.edu.hk by 19
December 2003. Acceptable file formats are Portable Document Format (.pdf),
PostScript (.ps), and MS Word (.doc), with all non-ASCII fonts embedded.