[Corpora-List] CFP: COLING 2008 Workshop TextGraphs-3: Graph-based Algorithms for Natural Language Processing

[Torsten Zesch]

CALL FOR PAPERS

COLING 2008 Workshop TextGraphs-3: Graph-based Algorithms for  
Natural Language Processing
Manchester, UK, August 24, 2008 
http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/


This workshop is part of the 22nd International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008)


Recent years have shown an increased interest in bringing the 
field of graph theory into natural language processing. 
Traditionally, these two areas of study have been perceived as 
distinct, with different algorithms, different applications, 
and different potential end-users. However, as recent research 
work has shown, these two disciplines are in fact intimately 
connected, with a large variety of natural language processing 
applications finding efficient solutions within graph-
theoretical frameworks. 

In many NLP applications entities can be naturally represented 
as nodes in a graph and relations between them can be 
represented as edges. Recent research has shown that graph-
based representations of linguistic units as diverse as words, 
sentences and documents give rise to novel and efficient 
solutions in a variety of NLP tasks, ranging from part of 
speech tagging, word sense disambiguation and parsing to 
information extraction, semantic role assignment, 
summarisation, sentiment analysis and up to the study of the 
evolutionary dynamics of language. 

The TextGraphs workshop addresses a broad spectrum of research 
areas and brings together researchers working on problems 
related to the use of graph-based algorithms for natural 
language processing as well as on the theory of graph-based 
methods. We are interested in looking at graph-based methods 
from the perspective of diverse applications to facilitate a 
discussion about the theory of graph-based methods and about 
the theoretical justification of the empirical results within 
the NLP community. 

Starting with TextGraphs-3 we would like to have one area of 
graph-based NLP research as the primary topic for discussion. 
This year's focus is on large scale lexical acquisition and 
representation. Efficient graph methods can help to alleviate 
the acquisition bottleneck for lexicon construction and 
resource building. They also provide smarter representation 
schemes for the lexicon that facilitate fast search and word 
retrieval. SIGLEX endorsed our workshop proposal for COLING-
08. 

We invite submissions of papers on graph-based methods applied 
to NLP problems. Especially, we encourage submissions 
regarding 

* Large-scale lexical acquisition using graph representations 
* Graph-based representation schemes of the mental lexicon 

Other topics include, but are not limited to: 

* Graph representations for ontology learning 
* Graph labeling and edge labeling for semantic representations 
* Encoding semantic distances in graphs 
* Graph algorithms for word sense disambiguation 
* Graph methods for Information Retrieval, Information 
Extraction, Text Mining and Understanding 
* Random walk graph methods 
* Spectral graph clustering 
* Small world graphs in natural language processing 
* Semi-supervised graph-based methods 
* Statistical network methods and analysis 
* Dynamic graph representations for NLP 

Organisation Committee 

Irina Matveeva, Accenture Technology Labs, matveeva AT 
cs.uchicago.edu 
Chris Biemann, Powerset, biem AT informatik.uni-leipzig.de 
Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, monojit AT 
microsoft.com
Mona Diab,Columbia University, mdiab AT cs.columbia.edu 

Program Committee 

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country 
Edo Airoldi, Princeton University 
Regina Barzilay, MIT 
Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Montreal
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research 
Andrew Goldberg, University of Wisconsin 
Hany Hassan, IBM Egypt 
Samer Hassan, University of North Texas 
Gina Levow, University of Chicago
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan
Uwe Quasthoff, University of Leipzig 
Aitor Soroa, University of the Basque Country
Hans Friedrich Witschel, University of Leipzig
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Torsten Zesch, University of Darmstadt

Important Dates 

Regular paper submissions May 5, 2008 
Short paper submissions May 19, 2008 
Notification of acceptance June 6, 2008 
Camera-ready papers July 1, 2008 
Workshop August 24, 2008

Author Instructions 

Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 
pages and short papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following 
the COLING 2008 formatting guidelines. Papers should be 
submitted using the online submission form. For any questions, 
please contact one of the organisers.

Please, follow the instructions on the workshop website:

http://lit.csci.unt.edu/~textgraphs/ws08/

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