[Corpora-List] STEP 2008 shared task: comparing semantic representations

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                 STEP 2008: CALL FOR SHORT PAPERS

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          *** SHORT PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 6, 2008 ***

              Symposium on Semantics in Text Processing

         http://project.cgm.unive.it/html/STEP2008/index.htm

                        September 22-24, 2008

                    Auditorium Santa Margherita
                          Venice (Italy)

         Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL special interest group
                   on computational semantics


 WORKSHOP SCOPE
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The goal of the STEP workshop is to provide a forum for anyone active
in semantic processing of text to discuss innovative technologies,
representation issues, inference techniques, prototype
implementations, and real applications. The preferred processing
targets are large quantities of texts -- either specialised domains,
or open domains such as newswire text, blogs, and wikipedia-like text.
Implemented rather than theoretical work is emphasised in STEP.
In particular, relevant topics are:

- wide-coverage semantic/logical analysis of text
- computation and use of discourse relations
- use of lexical-conceptual and semantically related resources
- thematic role labelling in semantic representations
- word sense disambiguation in semantic representations
- implementations of specific semantic phenomena
- anaphora or ellipsis resolution in semantic representations
- implementations of sentiment analysis
- automatic detection of subjective and non-literal language
- acquisition of lexical knowledge and paraphrase from raw corpora
- background knowledge acquisition, representation, and selection
- semantic lexicons and ontologies for text interpretation
- learning semantic representations from raw text
- automated reasoning in the service of semantic analysis of text
- creation of gold standard meaning representations
- evaluation of semantic representations
- textual entailment and consistency checking
- systems that extract, represent or manipulate text meaning
- applications of semantic analysis in text processing

Applications inlude, but are not limited to, machine translation, text
understanding, question answering, summarisation, information
extraction, and the semantic web.


 SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are now invited to submit short papers presenting system
descriptions, position papers, project descriptions, or ongoing work.
Selected short papers will be presented at the workshop during the
poster session.

Submissions should be in Abobe PDF format, not exceed four A4-sized
pages, written in English and typeset in a 11 point font.  Detailed
guidelines and a latex stylefile package are available at the STEP
2008 web page. Paper submission will be electronic using the EasyChair
system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=step2008

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.


 INVITED SPEAKER
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        Harry Bunt (University of Tilburg)


 IMPORTANT DATES
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        Short Paper submission:         June 6, 2008
        Notification of acceptance:    June 23, 2008
        Camera-ready version due:      July 25, 2008
        Workshop:                   Sept 22-24, 2008


 ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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        Rodolfo Delmonte (Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice)
        Johan Bos (Universita' La Sapienza, Rome)


 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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        Roberto Basili (University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)
        Amedeo Cappelli (CELCT, Trento Italy)
        Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
        Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
        Sanda Harabagiu (HLT, University of Texas, USA)
        Alexander Koller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
        Leonardo Lesmo (DI, University of Tourin, Italy)
        Katja Markert (University of Leeds, UK)
        Dan Moldovan (HLT, University of Texas, USA)
        Srini Narayanan (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
        Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland, USA)
        Malvina Nissim (University of Bologna, Italy)
        Vincenzo Pallotta (Universitaet Freiburg, Schweiz)
        Emanuele Pianta (ITC, Trento, Italy)
        Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy)
        Stephen Pulman (Oxford University, UK)
        Michael Schiehlen (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
        Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)

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