[Corpora-List] RANLP Workshop - Text Mining Research, Practice and Opportunities

[Babis Theodoulidis]

Text Mining Research, Practice and Opportunities



Workshop to be help in conjunction with



*** RANLP 2005 ***



Borovets - Bulgaria



http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005



*** 24th of September 2005 ***



Call for Papers



It is a well known fact that huge quantities of valuable knowledge are
embedded in unstructured texts that can be

found in the World Wide Web, in intranets and on personal desktop machines.
In recent years, there has been an

increasing research interest in technologies for extracting and analysing
useful structured knowledge from

unstructured texts. At the same time, there has been an increasing
commercial interest with a number of tools

appearing on the market that address the needs of the users to some extent.



The workshop will discuss recent advances regarding the research into text
mining approaches that combine research

from machine learning, text mining, natural language processing, information
extraction, information retrieval and

ontology learning. Emphasis will be given to approaches that emphasize the
complete document lifecycle i.e., from

document collection to document archiving and analysis.  At the same time,
the workshop will discuss the

deployment of text mining technology within everyday business problems.
Emphasis will be given on reports that

discuss the implementation of text mining projects that have lead to
significant and measurable improvements in

business operations or some other equally important benefit to society such
as an important scientific discovery.

Finally, the workshop will discuss the lessons learned from the deployment
of text mining technology and the

opportunities that appear on the horizon as future challenges for the
research community.



The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from
different communities (e.g. machine learning,

text mining, natural language processing, information extraction,
information retrieval, ontology learning) to

discuss recent research results and trends in mining knowledge from texts.
It will also bring together

practitioners of text mining technologies and applications to discuss the
current state-of-the art and identify

key requirements for the future.



The workshop will be organized around paper presentations and panel
discussions and it will also feature an

invited speaker.



The invited speaker for the workshop will be Alessandro Zanasi who is the
General Manager of TEMIS and has just

published a new book about Text Mining entitled: Text Mining and its
Applications to Intelligence, CRM & KM.





Areas of Interest



Areas of interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):

* text mining and machine learning

* text mining and information retrieval

* text mining and natural language processing

* text mining and web mining

* text mining and ontology learning

* innovative applications of text mining

* commercial and industrial tools for text mining

* text engineering life cycle and processes

* text representation,  categorization, segmentation

* information extraction

* scalability and performance of proposed approaches

* performance evaluation measures

* multilingual approaches to text mining

* domain knowledge and text mining





Important Dates



Deadline for submission: *** 30 June 2005 ***



Notification of acceptance: 29 July 2005



Camera-ready copy due: 19 August 2005



Workshop: 24 September 2005





Important Announcement



If the workshop is successful, we will issue a special call for a
thematically focused volume on text mining.

Workshop authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers
for this purpose.





Submission guidelines



Submissions should be A4, two-column format and should not exceed seven
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, postal and email address, followed by a
list of up to five keywords and an

abstract and continue with the first section of your paper. Papers should be
submitted electronically in **PDF**

format to:



Babis Theodoulidis  babis.theodoulidis at manchester.ac.uk



Please use also this email address for any other queries regarding the
workshop.



Each paper will be reviewed by up to three members of the program committee.
Authors of accepted papers will

receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their
papers for inclusion in the

proceedings.



Parallel submissions to the main conference and the workshop are allowed but
the review process will be

coordinated. Please declare this in the notification form.





Program Committee



* Bill Black, University of Manchester, UK

* Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK

* Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia

* Ronen Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

* Gregory Grefenstette, CEA, France

* Olivier Jouve, SPSS, USA

* Aaron Kaplan, Xerox, France

* Ian Lewin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

* David Milward, Liguamatics, UK

* Dr. Leonel Ruiz Miyares, Centro de Linguistica Aplicada, Santiago, Cuba

* Andreas Persidis, Biovista, Greece

* Stelios Piperidis, ISLP, Athens, Greece

* Marie-Laure Reinberger, University of Antwerp, Belgium

* Costas Spyropoulos,  NCSR Demokritos, Greece

* John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK

* Babis Theodoulidis, University of Manchester, UK

* Claire Thie, QinetiQ, UK

* Christos Tsalidis, Neurosoft, Athens, Greece

* Alessandro Zanasi, TEMIS, Italy