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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS

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IESL-2003 Second Call for papers

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

                           8-9 September 2003
                           Borovets, Bulgaria

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

                  Supported by the European Commission 
       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)



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. 


PC CHAIR

Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield University)


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
      
      Kalina Boncheva  (Sheffield University)
      Dan Cristea (University of Iasi)
      Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Saarbrucken)
      Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
      Maria Gavrilidou (ISLP, Athens)
      Jan Hajic (Charles University, Prague)
      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)
      Elena Paskaleva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
      Katerina Pastra (Sheffield University) 
      Stelios Piperidis (ISLP, Athens)
      Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
      Valentin Tablan (Sheffield University)
      Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb)
      Tamas Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
      Barbora Vidova Hladka (Charles University, Prague)



SUBMISSION details can be found at the workshop web-site
http://www.lml.bas.bg/IESL2003



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
<hellen at lml.bas.bg> and <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
(www.lml.bas.bg).  IESL-2003 is supported by the European Commission
under contract ICA1-2000-70016 "BIS-21 Centre of Excellence". 

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 the Linguistic Modeling Department, CLPP, BAS,
 URL: http://www.lml.bas.bg,  tel. 359-2-719313