[Corpora-List] CFP: Workshop on Ontology and Information Extraction

[Vincenzo Pallotta]

Ontologies and Information Extraction

International Workshop held as part of the
EUROLAN'03 Summer School
July 28 - August 8, 2003
Bucarest, Romania


Call for Papers
Information Extraction systems were designed to filter, to select and to
classify the increasing amount of information available nowadays, mainly
on the Web. Most of them were based on shallow natural language
processing techniques, but semantics was not really used, due to the
unavailability of generic ontologies.

During last years, some generic ontologies become available and a lot of
research projets tried to take into account semantic aspects to obtain
more precise results for IE systems.
Meanwhile, important efforts concentrate on developping tools for
semi-automatic building of domain-specific ontologies, based on IE and
text-mining techniques.

This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names
in the field and researchers involved in the development of
ontology-based IE systems or semi-automatic tools for building
ontologies. We would like to invite researchers, master and Ph.D.
students to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

-       semantic annotation;

-       content-based indexing and retrieval;

-       robust analysis of language data;

-       text mining;

-       platforms for semi-automatic ontology extraction;

-       formalisms for ontology representations.



Submission Requirements
Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages extended abstract in
electronic form (postscript or PDF) by 22th of April 2003. Authors of
accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format not
later than 15th of June.
The documents must be in either postscript or pdf format (PDF is
encouraged, but postscript documents are acceptable as well). If you
have problems delivering your paper in one of these formats, please
contact the organising comittee. Maximum length of paper should be about
10 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as EACL-2003. The
instructions can be found at http://ic.epfl.ch/~pallotta/ontoIE/
. Please do not insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any
problem following the style please contact the organising committee as
soon as possible.
All the papers should be send to Amalia.Todirascu at utt.fr
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Important Dates
Submission Deadline: 22th April 2003

Notification of Acceptance: 10th May 2003

Camera-ready Papers: 15th June 2003

Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged.

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Registration
People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered at the
Eurolan'03 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all
Eurolan'03 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made
available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the
workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they
register.

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Programme Commitee

Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome 2 "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Bill Black (UMIST, Manchester, UK)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Amedeo Cappelli (University of Pisa, Italy)
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Malvina Nissim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
Manuela Speranza (IRST, Trento, Italy)
Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France)
Patrick Ruch (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK)
Steffen Staab (AISB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Valentin Tablan (University of Sheffield, UK)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)

Organising commitee
Amalia Todirascu (Technological University of Troyes, France)
Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)


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