[Corpora-List] Learning Language in Logic: 2nd CFP

[James Cussens]

			SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

		    The 4th International Workshop
				  on
		  Learning Language in Logic (LLL05)
	       http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/aig/lll/lll05/

		  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 April 2005

       Special Theme: Extracting Relations from Bio-medical Texts
	    http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/texte/LLLchallenge

			   Bonn, Germany
			   7 August 2005

			 Hosted by ICML 2005,
	The 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning
		  http://icml2005.kdnet.org/icml.php

INTRODUCTION

This workshop is the fourth Learning Language in Logic (LLL) workshop
following previous LLL workshops in Bled (99), Lisbon (00) and
Strasbourg (01). The purpose of the workshop is to provide a focus for
work which applies machine learning using logical representations to
natural language. Much existing work in this area uses techniques from
inductive logic programming (ILP), and increasingly statistical
relational learning. More details on the LLL state-of-the-art are
available from the LLL home page ( http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/aig/lll/ )
which includes links to many LLL papers, including introductory ones.
We encourage submission of papers on any aspect of logic-based machine
learning for natural language learning.

One of the principal motivations for proposing such a workshop now is
the increasing interest in applying logic-based machine learning to
the problem of Information Extraction from bio-medical texts. For this
reason the workshop has an associated "challenge task" where the aim
is to learn IE rules which can be used to extract information on
gene/protein interactions. Information on the challenge task is given
below. Although, bio-medical IE is a special theme of the workshop, we
very much encourage good quality articles on any aspect of logic-based
machine learning for natural language learning. Here is a
non-exhaustive list of possible topics:

  * Explanation-based learning
  * Extracting predicate-argument structure
  * Grammar learning
  * Higher-order logic for LLL
  * Handling very complex terms in ILP
  * Information extraction
  * Instance-based approaches in ILP
  * Logical approaches to statistical NLP
  * Learning subcategorisation frames
  * Morphological analysis
  * Multi-predicate learning
  * POS and morphosyntactic tagging
  * Semantic role labelling
  * Shallow parsing
  * Theory revision
  * Using ILP with large data sets
  * Word sense disambiguation


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CHALLENGE TASK
http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/texte/LLLchallenge

The LLL05 challenge task is to learn rules to extract gene/protein
interactions from bio-medical abstracts. The challenge task team at
MIG-INRA are providing training data containing the following information:

- annotation indicating agent and target of an interaction
- dictionary of named entities (including variants and synonyms)
- linguistic information: word segmentation, lemmatisation, syntactic
   categories and syntactic dependencies

This data and full details of the LLL05
bio-medical challenge task are available from the challenge task
web page ( http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/texte/LLLchallenge ).

Results for this task are to be reported by the submission of a 4 page
paper.

Challenge task schedule:

11 February 2005  Initial version of the data made available
  3 March    2005  Final version of the data made available
27 April    2005  Submission of papers with results
11 May      2005  Challenge task papers notification

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SUBMISSION DETAILS FOR NORMAL LLL WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS

Deadline: 1 April 2005 (23:59:59 GMT)

Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, and should be in line with the
ICML formatting guidelines given on their website (
http://icml2005.kdnet.org/papers/format/ ), except that there is no
need to make your submission anonymous. Simply email your submission
as PDF to James Cussens at the following (deliberately mangled) email
address: "firstname.lastname AT cs DOT york DOT ac DOT uk".

For challenge task submission instructions go to:
http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/texte/LLLchallenge

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ORGANISERS:

James Cussens, University of York, UK (workshop)
Claire Nédellec, INRA, France (challenge task)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

     * Zoltán Alexin, University of Szeged, Hungary
     * Érick Alphonse, INRA, France
     * Mary Elaine Califf, Illinois State University, USA
     * Vincent Claveau, Université de Montréal, Canada
     * James Cussens, University of York, UK
     * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
     * Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
     * Tomaz Erjavec, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
     * Dimitar Kazakov, University of York, UK
     * Suresh Manandhar, University of York, UK
     * Claire Nédellec, INRA, France
     * Lubos Popelínský, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
     * Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford, UK
     * Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
     * Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, France
     * Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA


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IMPORTANT DATES:

  1 April    2005  Normal paper submission deadline
22 April    2005  Normal paper notification
27 April    2005  Challenge task paper submission deadline
11 May      2005  Challenge task paper notification
13 May      2005  Normal paper (final version) deadline
30 May      2005  Workshop notes available on-line

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Department of Computer Science                Tel  +44 (0)1904 434732
University of York                            Fax  +44 (0)1904 432767
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