[Corpora-List] CBA-2008: 2nd Call for Abstracts

[Montse Nofre]

CBA-2008:  2nd^ Call for Abstracts

“Corpus-Based Approaches to Coreference Resolution in Romance Languages”

13-15 November 2008

Deadline for abstract submission: Thursday September 25, 2008

Workshop location: Universitat de Barcelona.

Workshop Email : cba2008 at ub.edu <mailto:cba2008 at ub.edu>

DESCRIPTION

Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya begin 
a series of workshops devoted to Corpus-based Approaches to Discourse 
Analysis – CBA Workshops. We are particularly interested in innovative 
perspectives on the use and exploitation of corpora in going one step 
beyond the state of the art.

The first workshop in this series, CBA-2008, will focus on “Coreference 
Resolution in Romance Languages.”

This workshop aims to exploit annotated data in order to make the most 
of machine learning techniques for coreference resolution. For 
coreference we understand identifying the full chain of mentions for 
each entity in the discourse, rather than pairs of antecedent-anaphor. 
We believe there is a need to bring together linguists and computer 
scientists, and we invite unpublished contributions which relate to 
issues of this field with a special emphasis on – though not limited to 
– Romance languages.

Topics of interest:

- Exploring techniques/strategies for collecting better data in this area

- Studies of relevant features for coreference resolution

- Studies of knowledge sources for coreference resolution and strategies 
for inferring useful linguistic cues

- ML algorithms of coreference resolution

- Learning features from annotated/raw corpora

- Portability of English coreference resolution systems to Romance languages

Further information is available on the web http://stel.ub.edu/cba2008

Registration is free!

INVITED SPEAKERS
Véronique Hoste (Hogeschool Gent)

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)

Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)

Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, Università di Trento)

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: 25 September 2008

Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2008

Final version of abstracts: 1 November 2008

Workshop: 13-15 November 2008

Early version of full papers: 15 January 2009

Camera ready full papers: 5 March 2009

Submission GUIDELINES

Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length, including references, 
using a 12 pt. font with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Abstracts should 
be in form of a PDF file and should be submitted electronically using 
the abstract submission software available at 
http://stel.ub.edu/cba2008/submission.php

PROCEEDINGS

After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a monographic 
issue of the SEPLN journal: /Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural,/ 42 
(April 2009).

Program Committee

Antonio Balvet (Université Lille 3, France)

Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

M. Antònia Martí (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Patricio Martínez-Barco (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Roser Morante (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

Rafael Muñoz (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)


    Costanza Navarretta (CST – Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark)

Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)

Lluís Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK / Università di Trento, Italy)

Marta Recasens (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Horacio Rodríguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Mihai Surdeanu (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)

Mariona Taulé (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)

Jordi Turmo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)

Alfonso Ureña (Universidad de Jaén, Spain)

Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)

Organizing Committee

M. Antònia Martí

Lluís Padró

Marta Recasens

Emili Sapena

Mariona Taulé

Jordi Turmo

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