[Corpora-List] W4 (WS of IJCNLP-04) deadline extension

[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)


*** SUBMISSION DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED TO 16 JANUARY 2004 ***


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Papers are invited for original and unpublished research on all aspects of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:  16 January 2004  *** Extended ***
Notification of Acceptance: 31 January 2004
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 10 February 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 16
January 2004. Acceptable file formats are Portable Document Format (.pdf),
PostScript (.ps), and MS Word (.doc), with all non-ASCII fonts embedded.


Program Committee

Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome)
Ralph Grishman (New York University, New York)
Kevin Humphreys (Microsoft, Redmond)
Hideki Isozaki (NTT Communication Science Labs, Kyoto)
Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH, Pohang)
Masaaki Nagata (NTT Cyber Space Laboratories, Kanagawa)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Thierry Poibeau (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales,
Paris)
Manabu Sassano (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki)
Satoshi Sekine (New York University, New York)
Rou Song (Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing)
Kiyotaka Uchimoto (Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto)
Takehito Utsuro (Kyoto University, Kyoto)
Jingbo Zhu (Northeastern University, Shenyang)