[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: NLPIX 2010 (COLING Workshop)

[Takehito UTSURO]

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                 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                  COLING 2010 Workshop

  The Second International Workshop on NLP Challenges
     in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX 2010)
 -- Large-scale and sharable NLP infrastructures and beyond --
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             Beijing, China, August, 28, 2010

Workshop Web Site: http://nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NLPIX2010/index.html

In Cooperation With: Info-plosion
http://www.infoplosion.nii.ac.jp/info-plosion/ctr.php/m/IndexEng/a/Index/


A long-standing problem in Natural Language Processing has been a lack
of large-scale knowledge for computers. The emergence of the Web and
the rapid increase of information on the Web brought us to what could
be called the "information explosion era," and drastically changed the
environment of NLP.  The Web is not only a marvelous target for NLP,
but also a valuable resource from which knowledge could be extracted
for computers.  Motivated by the desire to have a very first
opportunity to discuss early approaches to those issues and to share
the state-of-the-art technologies at that time, the first
International Workshop on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion
Era (NLPIX 2008) was successfully held in conjunction with WWW2008 in
Beijing.

The aim of the second workshop of the series of International Workshop
on NLP Challenges in the Information Explosion Era (NLPIX) is to bring
researchers and practitioners together in order to discuss large-scale
and sharable NLP infrastructures, and furthermore to discuss emerging
NEW issues beyond them.


[Registration]

 Register at: http://www.coling-2010.org/Registration.htm


[Invited Speakers]

 Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia)
 Hoifung Poon (University of Washington)


[Program]

9:30 Opening

9:40-10:30 Invited Talk I
 Query Understanding in Web Search - By Large Scale Log Data Mining
 and Statistical Learning
 Hang Li

10:30-11:00 Tea Break

11:00-12:15 Session I: Information Access
 Exploiting Term Importance Categories and Dependency Relations for
 Natural Language Search
 Keiji Shinzato and Sadao Kurohashi

 Summarizing Search Results using PLSI
 Jun Harashima and Sadao Kurohashi

 Automatic Classification of Semantic Relations between Facts and Opinions
 Koji Murakami, Eric Nichols, Junta Mizuno, Yotaro Watanabe, Hayato
 Goto, Megumi Ohki, Suguru Matsuyoshi, Kentaro Inui and Yuji Matsumoto

12:15-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:20 Invited Talk II
 Statistical Relational Learning for Knowledge Extraction from the Web
 Hoifung Poon

14:20-15:35 Session II: Lexical Acquisition
 Even Unassociated Features Can Improve Lexical Distributional Similarity
 Kazuhide Yamamoto and Takeshi Asakura

 A Look inside the Distributionally Similar Terms
 Kow Kuroda, Jun'ichi Kazama and Kentaro Torisawa

 Utilizing Citations of Foreign Words in Corpus Based Dictionary Generation
 Reinhard Rapp and Michael Zock

15:35-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:15 Session III: Coreference and Semantics
 Large Corpus-based Semantic Feature Extraction for Pronoun Coreference
 Shasha Liao and Ralph Grishman

 Mining Coreference Relations between Formulas and Text using Wikipedia
 Minh Nghiem Quoc, Keisuke Yokoi, Yuichiroh Matsubayashi and Akiko Aizawa

 Adverse-Effect Relations Extraction from Massive Clinical Records
 Yasuhide Miura, Eiji Aramaki, Tomoko Ohkuma, Masatsugu Tonoike,
 Daigo Sugihara, Hiroshi Masuichi and Kazuhiko Ohe


[Workshop Organizers]

* Sadao Kurohashi, Kyoto University, Japan
* Takehito Utsuro, University of Tsukuba, Japan


[Program Committee]

* Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT, India
* Thorsten Brants, Google, USA
* Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, INRIA, France
* Atsushi Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
* Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
* Kentaro Inui, NAIST, Japan
* Noriko Kando, NII, Japan
* Daisuke Kawahara, NICT, Japan
* Jun'ichi Kazama, NICT, Japan
* Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd., UK
* Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
* Hang Li, Microsoft, China
* Dekang Lin, Google, USA
* Tatsunori Mori, Yokohama National University, Japan
* Satoshi Sekine, New York University, USA
* Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
* Kentaro Torisawa, NICT, Japan
* Marco Turchi, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy
* Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University, China


[Contact Us]

 Email: nlpix2010 at nlp.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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