[Corpora-List] Call for Participation: 2nd Workshop on Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources - COLING 2010

Mon Jul 26 13:27:14 UTC 2010

==================================================================

                 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
                  COLING 2010 Workshop

  The 2nd Workshop on "The People's Web meets NLP:
   Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources" 
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/coling-2010-workshop/
-----------------------------------------------------------------

             Beijing, China, August, 28, 2010
                        COLING 2010

KEYWORDS:
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose,
Folksonomies, Twitter, Social Networks

INVITED TALK
Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore

REGISTRATION
http://www.coling-2010.org/Registration.htm

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks

9:30-10:00
Constructing Large-Scale Person Ontology from Wikipedia, Yumi Shibaki, Masaaki
Nagata and Kazuhide Yamamoto

10:00-10:30
Using the Wikipedia Link Structure to Correct the Wikipedia Link Structure, Benjamin
Mark Pateman and Colin Johnson

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30
Extending English ACE 2005 Corpus Annotation with Ground-truth Links to Wikipedia,
Luisa Bentivogli, Pamela Forner, Claudio Giuliano, Alessandro Marchetti, Emanuele
Pianta and Kateryna Tymoshenko

11:30-12:00
Expanding textual entailment corpora from Wikipedia using co-training, Fabio Massimo
Zanzotto and Marco Pennacchiotti

12:00-12:30
Pruning Non-Informative Text Through Non-Expert Annotations to Improve Aspect-Level
Sentiment Classification, Ji Fang, Bob Price and Lotti Price

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:00
Invited Talk by Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore

15:00-15:30
Measuring Conceptual Similarity by Spreading Activation over Wikipedia's Hyperlink
Structure, Stephan Gouws, G-J van Rooyen and Herman A. Engelbrecht

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-16:30
Identifying and Ranking Topic Clusters in the Blogosphere, M. Atif Qureshi, Arjumand
Younus, Muhammad Saeed, Nasir Touheed, Emanuele Pianta and Kateryna Tymoshenko

16:30-16:50
Helping Volunteer Translators, Fostering Language Resources, Masao Utiyama, Takeshi
Abekawa, Eiichiro Sumita and Kyo Kageura

16:50-17:30 Discussion

ORGANIZERS

Iryna Gurevych
Torsten Zesch

Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andras Csomai         Google Inc.
Anette Frank          Heidelberg University
Benno Stein           Bauhaus University Weimar
Bernardo Magnini      ITC-irst Trento
Christiane Fellbaum   Princeton University
Dan Moldovan          University of Texas at Dallas
Delphine Bernhard     LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay
Diana McCarthy        Lexical Computing Ltd
Elke Teich            Technische Universität Darmstadt
Emily Pitler          University of Pennsylvania
Eneko Agirre          University of the Basque Country
Erhard Hinrichs       Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Ernesto De Luca       Technische Universität Berlin
Florian Laws          University of Stuttgart
Gerard de Melo        MPI Saarbrücken
German Rigau          University of the Basque Country
Graeme Hirst          University of Toronto
Günter Neumman        DFKI Saarbrücken
György Szarvas        Technische Universität Darmstadt
Hans-Peter Zorn       European Media Lab, Heidelberg
José Iria             University of Sheffield
Laurent Raumary       LORIA, Nancy
Magnus Sahlgren       Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede         Potsdam University
Omar Alonso           A9.com, Inc.
Pablo Castells        Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid
Paul Buitelaar        DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
Philipp Cimiano       Delft University of Technology
Razvan Bunescu        University of Texas at Austin
Rene Witte            Concordia University Montréal
Roxana Girju          University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saif Mohammad         University of Maryland
Samer Hassan          University of North Texas
Sören Auer            Leipzig University
Tonio Wandmacher      CEA, Paris

INTRODUCTION

The workshop builds upon the success of the first ACL "The People's Web
meets NLP" Workshop in 2009 that attracted 21 submissions. Accepted
submissions included papers on Wikipedia [1], Wiktionary [2], Mechanical
Turk [3], and game-based construction of semantic resources [4]. This
clearly demonstrates a substantial and growing interest of the NLP
community in collaboratively constructed semantic resources (CSRs),
also evidenced by the increasing number of publications in this area
and the EMNLP 2009 Web 2.0 track. In many works, CSRs have been used
to overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck and coverage problems
pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources. The greatest
popularity in this respect can so far certainly be attributed to
Wikipedia [1]. However, other resources, such as folksonomies or the
multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary Wiktionary, have
also shown great potential. Thus, the scope of the workshop deliberately
includes any collaboratively constructed resource, not only Wikipedia.

Effective deployment of CSRs to enhance NLP introduces a pressing need
to address a set of fundamental challenges, e.g. the interoperability
with existing resources, or the quality of the extracted lexical
semantic knowledge. Interoperability between resources is crucial as
no single resource provides perfect coverage. The quality of CSRs is
a fundamental issue, as they lack editorial control and entries are
often incomplete. Thus, techniques for link prediction [5] or
information extraction [6] have been proposed to guide the "crowds"
while constructing resources of better quality.

[1] Olena Medelyan, David Milne, Catherine Legg and Ian H. Witten.
    Mining meaning from Wikipedia.
    In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 67(9), 2009.
[2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Mueller and Iryna Gurevych
    Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
    Proceedings of the Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
    (LREC), 2008.
    http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/
    http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
[3] Rion Snow, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Jurafsky and Andrew Y. Ng.
    Cheap and Fast---But is it Good? Evaluating Non-Expert Annotations
    for Natural Language Tasks.
    Proceedings of EMNLP. 2008.
[4] Luis von Ahn and Laura Dabbish.
    General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose.
    Communications of the ACM, 2008.
[5] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai
    Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic Knowledge.
    Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and
    Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
[6] Daniel S. Weld et al.
    Intelligence in Wikipedia.
    Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.

_______________________________________________
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora