[Corpora-List] CFP: An ACL 2012 Workshop: NEWS 2012

[Zhang Min]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourth Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2012)
	- Shared Task on Transliteration 

An ACL 2012 Workshop on 12-14 July 2012, Jeju, Korea

Websites:
	Workshop website: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2012/
	Paper submission portal: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/news2012/
	Shared task white paper:
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2012/whitepapers/

Workshop:

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 Fourth Workshop on Named Entities (NEWS 2012) 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, the

second Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2010) in conjunction with ACL 2010 and 
the third Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2011) in conjunction with IJCNLP
2011. 
NEWS 2012 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 2012 seeks to build on the foundations established in NEWS 2009, 2010
and 2011. 
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 Submissions
Research Paper Submission Deadline	25-March-2012

Shared Task: 
Registration Opens			18-Jan-2012
Registration Closes			11-March-2012
Release Training/Development Data	20-Jan-2012
Release Test Data				12-March-2012
Results Submission Due			16-March-2012 
Results Announcement 			20-March-2012
Task (short) Papers Due			25-March-2012

For All Submissions 
Acceptance Notification			20-April-2012
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline		30-April-2012
Workshop Date				12/13/14-July-2012

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:

1.	NE Analysis 
	Distributional characteristics of NEs in mono- and multi-lingual
text corpus
	Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NE 

2,	NE Annotated Data
	Annotated data sets in specific languages & Creation experiences

3.	Monolingual and Multilingual NE Identification & processing
	Named Entity Recognition 
4.	Named Entity Recognition (NER) approaches & evaluation
	Monolingual NE set expansion
	Cross-lingual NE data identification & mapping
	Cross-lingual NE data mining
	Social Network Analysis and Entity Resolution

5.	Machine Transliteration
	Statistical transliteration approaches & evaluation

6.	NE for IR
	NE for Monolingual IR
	NE Translation/Transliteration for CLIR

7.	NE in Social Media
	Fuzzy matching of Named Entities
	Multilingual matching of Named Entities
	De-duplication of entities across social media


Shared Task on Transliteration: 
For details, please refer to our white paper at the workshop website:
http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2012/whitepapers/

Paper Format:
Paper submissions to NEWS 2012 should follow the IJCNLP 2012 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 of content
plus two (2)
extra page for references. Submission must conform to the official ACL-2012
style guidelines. 
For details, please refer to http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp.


Contact

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

Ming Liu
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Email: mliu at i2r.a-star.edu.sg

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