[Corpora-List] NEWS 2011 CFP, a machine transliteration workshop in IJCNLP 2011

[Zhang Min]

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The Third Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2011) - Shared Task on
Transliteration 

An IJCNLP 2011 Workshop on 12 November 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Workshop Theme:

Named Entities (NE) play a crucial role in many monolingual and multilingual
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such
as document search, clustering, information extraction, etc.  The phenomenal
growth of the Internet data and the dramatic changes in the user
demographics especially among the non-English speaking parts of the world,
has made identification, association and transformation Named Entities
across languages a critical path problem for most NLP and IR Tasks.

The Third Workshop on Named Entities (NEWS 2011) together with a Shared Task
on Transliteration is a continuous effort on top of the success of the first
Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009) in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009 and
the second Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2010) in conjunction with ACL 2010.
NEWS 2011 will continue the tradition to run a Shared Task on
Transliteration, which aims to provide a common platform for benchmarking
the transliteration approaches and systems across many languages. The
details of Shared Task will be described in the Shared Task Whitepaper.

NEWS 2011 seeks to build on the foundations established in NEWS 2009 and
NEWS 2010. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in various aspects of NEs in natural language text.  The shared
task in this workshop will cover more language pairs and more scopes of
evaluation tasks.

Important Dates

Research Paper Submission Deadline       		6-July-2011
Shared Task Registration Opens			1-April-2011
Registration Closes					31-May-2011
Release Training/Development Data			20-April-2011
Release Test Data						13-June-2011
Results Submission Due					20-June-2011
Results Announcement 					30-June-2011
Task (short) Papers Due					6-July-2011
For All Submissions Acceptance Notification 	6-Aug-2011
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline				19-Aug-2011
Workshop Date						12-November-2011

Topics of Interest

This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of
Named Entities (NEs), including identification, analysis, extraction,
mining, transformation and applications to NLP and IR systems.  The topics
of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

* NE Analysis 
	o Distributional characteristics of NEs in mono- and multi-lingual
text corpus
	o Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NE 
* NE Annotated Data
	o Annotated data sets in specific languages & Creation experiences
* Monolingual and Multilingual NE Identification & processing
	o Named Entity Recognition 
* Named Entity Recognition (NER) approaches & evaluation
	o Monolingual NE set expansion
	o Cross-lingual NE data identification & mapping
	o Cross-lingual NE data mining
	o Social Network Analysis and Entity Resolution
* Machine Transliteration
	o Statistical transliteration approaches & evaluation
* NE for IR
	o NE for Monolingual IR
	o NE Translation/Transliteration for CLIR

Shared Task on Transliteration

For details, please refer to our white paper that is to be released very
soon at the workshop website.

Paper Format

Paper submissions to NEWS 2011 should follow the IJCNLP 2011 paper
submission policy, including paper format, blind review policy and title and
author format convention. Full papers (research paper) are in two-column
format without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) extra page
for references and short papers (task paper) are also in two-column format
without exceeding four (4) pages plus two (2) extra page for references.
Submission must conform to the official IJCNLP style guidelines. For
details, please refer to
   http://www.ijcnlp2011.org/
   
Website
* Workshop website: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2011/
* Paper submission portal: https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp2011/NEWS2011/.
	
Contact

Min Zhang
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Email: mzhang at i2r.a-star.edu.sg

A Kumaran
Microsoft Research India
Email: a.kumaran at microsoft.com

Haizhou Li
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Email: hli at i2r.a-star.edu.sg




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