[Corpora-List] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:TextGraphs-5: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

[Swapna Sundaran]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:


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TextGraphs-5: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
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Workshop at ACL 2010
Association for Computational Linguistics Conference Uppsala, Sweden -
July 16th, 2010 http://www.textgraphs.org/ws10/

Important Dates
July 16, 2010 	TextGraphs-5 Workshop
July 2, 2010  	Deadline Late registration on-line
June 15, 2010  	Deadline Early registration on-line

Website
http://www.textgraphs.org/ws10/

TextGraphs is at its fifth edition! This shows that two seemingly
distinct disciplines, graph theoretic models and computational
linguistics, are in fact intimately connected with a large variety of
Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications adopting efficient and
elegant solutions from graph-theoretical framework.

The TextGraphs workshop series addresses a broad spectrum of research
areas by bringing together specialists working on theoretical
foundations of graph-based methods with researchers studying
graph-based models and algorithms for natural language processing and
computational linguistics. This workshop series is aimed at fostering
an exchange of ideas by facilitating a discussion about both
techniques and theoretical justification of empirical results among
the NLP community members. This interaction is vital to the further
progress of graph-based NLP applications and possibly will result in a
deeper understanding of the involved theoretical principles.


Invited Talk

Textgraphs-5 is pleased to have an invited talk by Edwin R. Hancock,
Professor of Computer Vision at the Department of Computer Science at
the University of York.  In his talk, "Spectral approaches to learning
in the graph domain", Prof. Hancock will motivate and discuss
graph-spectral algorithms that can be applied to solve the many
different problems inherent to graphs, drawing examples from computer
vision research.


Special Theme

We have a session dedicated to the special theme in TextGraphs-5,
"Graph Methods for Opinion Analysis". The aim is to bring together
researchers from graph theory and opinion analysis in order to enable
cross-fertilization of ideas. We hope that this will help to shape
future directions for ambitious opinion analysis research and provide
new challenges and motivation for research in graph algorithms.


Accepted Papers

In addition to papers on our special theme, presentations will include
papers on spectral approaches, graph methods for lexical similarity,
algorithms for lexical clustering and disambiguation, and graphical
approaches for clustering languages and dialects. More details on the
accepted papers can be obtained on TextGraphs-5 website
(http://www.textgraphs.org/ws10/). The program is available on
http://acl2010.org/workshops.html#ws08.


Organizing Committee
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Carmen Banea, University of North Texas, US
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Swapna Somasundaran, University of Pittsburgh, US
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome, Italy

Program Committee
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Andras Csomai, Google Inc.
Andrea Esuli, Italian National Research Council
Andrea Passerini, Trento University, Italy
Andrew Goldberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Animesh Mukherjee, ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy
Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan
Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute
Fabrizio Sebastiani, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione
Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia
Hiroya Takamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Lillian Lee, Cornell University
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland
Lluis Marquez Villodre, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya
Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research, Redmond
Michael Strube, EML research
Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, India
Richard Johansson, Trento University
Robero Basili, University of Rome, Italy
Roi Blanco, Yahoo!, Barcelona
Smaranda Muresan, Rutgers University
Sofus Macskassy, Fetch Technologies El Segundo, CA
Stefan Siersdorfer, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
Theresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh
Thomas Gartner, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems
Ulf Brefeld, Yahoo!
Veselin Stoyanov, Cornell University
William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University
Xiaojin Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yejin Choi, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

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