[Corpora-List] [corpora -List] International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution

[Sobha.L]

International Workshop on Referential Entity Resolution
15-17, January 2008
AU-KBC Research Centre, MIT Campus of Anna University, Chennai
and
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.

We plan to organize an International Workshop on Referential Entities 
Resolution at Chennai, India, from 15th to 17th of January, 2008. This 
is organized jointly by AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University, Chennai 
and Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of 
Hyderabad. In this event we would like to bring to the audience both the 
Computational and Theoretical aspects of Entities Resolution in English 
and other European languages as also in Indian languages. In the Indian 
language scenario, not much work has been done on referential entities 
from the computational point of view, although a lot of work has gone on 
from a theoretical point of view.

Background and Motivation

Research and development in Natural Language Processing has been going 
on in the Indian language context for the last two decades. Many areas 
such as Part of Speech tagging, NP chunking etc have been taken up in 
many Indian languages. But there is very little work being done in the 
area of referential entities. Referential entities play a major role in 
understanding a language and resolving references is very important in 
many of the applications such as question answering and machine 
translation.

Cohesion in a text is maintained by referential entities such as 
pronominals, reflexives and ellipsis. Resolving such references has been 
considered a research area both in formal and computational linguistics. 
Though substantial work has been done on referential entities in 
European languages from the computational point of view, very little 
work has been done in South Asian languages, especially in Indian 
Languages. Theoretical aspects of referential entities have been worked 
out extensively in both European and South Asian languages.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in 
Theoretical and Computational aspects on to a single platform to share 
their interests in entity resolution which will further help in this 
area of research.
Paper Submission

Both Theoretical and  Computational aspect of Entity Resolution papers 
can be submitted.

Papers have to be written in English. There are two categories of 
papers: long and short depending on the review. Maximum length of  a 
paper can be up to 8 pages  (including references, figures, tables 
etc.). All selected papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

The papers should be formatted using the LaTeX or MS Word using 
suggested styles/templates and submitted in pdf format. Reviewing will 
be blind. The draft papers should not contain any information that can 
identify the authors. (Kindly visit the website for style sheets. The 
website will be up soon.)

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: October 15, 2007
Notification of Paper Acceptance: Oct 30, 2007
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: Nov 15, 2007

Patron

Prof.. Dr. D. Viswanathan (Vice Chancellor,  Anna University, Chennai)

Advisory Committee

Prof. Rajeev Sangal ( IIIT, Hyderabad, India)

Prof. Ruslan Mitkov(Wolverhampton University, UK)

Prof. Barbara .C. Lust(Cornell University, USA)

Prof. C.N. Krishnan (AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai-Inida)

Prof. Udaya Narayan Singh (CIIL, Mysore , India)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (subject to confirmation in some cases)

Amit Bagga (Ask.com, USA)

Amritavalli (CIEFL, Hyderabad, India)

Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Christer Jahnson (University of Bergen, Norway)

Dipti Misra Sharma (IIIT, Hyderabad. India)

Jayaseelan (CIEFL, Hyderabad, India)

Narayana Murthy K (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India - *Co-Chair*)

Mallikarjun (CIIL, Mysore)

Patrick St Dizzier ( IRIT, Toulouse, France)

Patnaik. B. N (CIIL Mysore, India)

Rajat Kumar Mohanty (IIT, Mumbai)

Sivaji Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India)

Subbarao, K.V. (University of Delhi, Delhi)

Sudeshna Sarkar (IIT, Kharakpur)

Sobha, L (AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India - *Chair*)

Contact
 Dr. Sobha.L
Computational Linguistics Group 
AU-KBC Research Centre
MIT Campus, Anna University, Chennai-44
sundar at au-kbc.org / sobha at au-kbc.org
              www.au-kbc.org


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