[Corpora-List] Third CFPs: Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction

[Kiril Simov]

       Natural Language Processing for Metadata Extraction
                          (NLP4ME 2006)
             http://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/
      Workshop to be held on September 12th as part of the
                      AIMSA 2006 Conference
                  Varna, September 13-15, 2006
                 http://www.aimsaconference.org

Workshop Motivation and Aims

In spite of the massive amount of work in the last years in the
area of Semantic Web, the problem of the creation of semantically
annotated electronic content is still one of the main bottlenecks
for the Semantic Web technology. A key technology, which is
employed to overcome this problem is Natural Language Processing,
because most of the content of the web is still textual. Any
support for automatic and semi-automatic extraction, elicitation
of metadata to such content will be of great assistance to the
authors and users of the web content.

The workshop aims at being a forum for researchers to present
their work in the area of semantic annotation, key word
extraction, practical compositional semantics etc. It will
provide an opportunity to present and discuss original methods
for identification of metadata in text, semantic annotation of
text, dealing with multilingual content, interconnecting metadata
with ontologies, etc.

Topics of interest are connected with, but not limited to the
following suggestions:

- extraction of metadata from texts
- metadata and ontologies
- extraction of concepts and keyphrases from text
- metadata in a multilingual environment
- metadata in WWW
- role of linguistic metadata in document processing
- harmonization of metadata across documents
- use of metadata in search, retrieval and visualization of documents
- extraction of metadata from multimodal documents (including text, video,
images, sounds, graphics)
- metadata annotation tools
- standards for metadata


Important dates

Deadline for workshop abstract submission: 20th May 2006
Notification of acceptance: 24th June 2006
Final version of paper: 30th July 2006
Workshop: 12th September 2006


Invited Speaker

Paul Buitelaar, DFKI


Submissions

Papers should describe existing research connected to the topics
of the workshop. The presentation at the workshop will be 30
minutes long (25 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for
questions and discussion). Each submission should show: title;
author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address,
postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Extended abstracts
(maximum 1500 words, plain-text format) should be sent to:

                 Petya Osenova
                 Email: petya at bultreebank.org

We encourage also demonstration of tools. Please, specify in
the abstract if you would like to present your system.


Program Committee:

António Branco (Lisbon)
Gosse Bouma (Groningen)
Dan Cristea (Iasi)
Peter Dolog (Hannover)
Walter von Hahn (Hamburg)
Hamish Cunningham (Sheffield)
Erhard Hinrichs (Tübingen)
Susanne Jekat (Zürich)
Alexander Killing (Zürich)
Atanas Kiryakov (Sofia)
Vladislav Kubon (Prague)
Matthias Kunkel (Koeln)
Lothar Lemnitzer (Tübingen)
Paola Monachesi (Utrecht)
Petya Osenova (Sofia)
Adam Przepiórkowski (Warsaw)
Anne de Roeck (London)
Mike Rosner (Msida, Malta)
Kiril Simov (Sofia)
Tamás Váradi (Budapest)
Cristina Vertan (Hamburg)



Organizing Committee:

Kiril Simov
Linguistic  Modelling  Laboratory, IPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Sofia
Bulgaria
Emial: kivs at bultreebank.org

Paola Monachesi
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics - OTS
Utrecht University
Utrecht
The Netherlands
Emial: Paola.Monachesi at phil.uu.nl

Lothar Lemnitzer
Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft
Eberhard-Karls-Universität
Tübingen
Germany
Emial: lothar at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de


Local Organizing Committee:

Kiril Simov
Linguistic  Modelling  Laboratory, IPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Petya Osenova
Linguistic  Modelling  Laboratory, IPP,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences


Support

The workshop is organized within the EU project LT4eL.

http://www.let.uu.nl/lt4el/index.php

Workshop Web Page

http://www.bultreebank.org/NLP4ME2006/

Conference Web Page

http://www.aimsaconference.org