1st CfP: LREC 2010 workshop on Resources and Evaluation for Entity Resolution and Entity Management

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*LREC 2010 workshop: Resources and Evaluation for Entity Resolution and 
Entity Management*

This workshop, open to all LREC participants, builds on the success of 
the workshop held at LREC08 on Resources and Evaluation for Identity 
Matching, Entity Resolution and Entity Management.  We hope to leverage 
results achieved since that workshop and advance the state of the art.

 

There is currently great interest in the extraction and management of 
structured information from unstructured text -- a need that continues 
to grow with ever increasing production of unstructured information.  
Much of the information extracted focuses on people, and this 
information must be managed -- and searchable -- when stored in a 
structured repository.  This workshop will address the intersection of 
the name/record matching, entity resolution, and entity management 
problems, with a focus on evaluation methodologies suited to such 
systems and the language resources necessary both to perform these tasks 
and to evaluate them.

 

Whereas entity extraction systems  are usually evaluated using MUC 
methodology, for example, the case is less clear for these "follow-on" 
technologies.  Even a seemingly simple task such as matching person 
names in a database context is problematic, and although *name* or 
*record* matching systems can be evaluated using IR evaluation 
methodologies (à la CLEF or TREC), there are still interesting 
methodological issues to resolve before we can refer to a "standard" 
evaluation methodology for name/record matching.  Moreover, it is much 
less clear how to effectively evaluate *identity* matching, resolution, 
and management systems, or even what it means to perform an effective 
identity match.

 

We solicit papers discussing state-of-the-art approaches to name and 
record matching, identity resolution, and identity management, as well 
as novel proposals for methodologies to evaluate these technologies.  
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

 

·        Research in name / record matching

·        Research in entity disambiguation / resolution / deconfliction

·        Descriptions of systems or best practices for entity management

·        Descriptons of systems that incorporate entity resolution as an 
essential component

·        Evaluation of record matching, entity disambiguation, or entity 
management in context

·        Resources for identity matching, identity resolution, or 
identity management

·        Resources for evaluation of these technologies

 

Position papers on the evaluation and integration of identity resolution 
technologies will also be considered for acceptance.

 

Although we are distributing a call for papers and there will be papers 
accepted for presentation at the workshop, this workshop will not be a 
"mini-conference".  Rather, this workshop will be an interactive and 
dynamic event.  Presentations will serve to introduce topics for 
discussion and to shape the day.  A significant portion of time will be 
devoted to interactive exercises, brainstorming, and other "work."  The 
workshop will be organized such that all attendees (including the 
organizers) leave the workshop more informed---having made progress 
toward a contextualized and principled evaluation of identity matching, 
resolution, and management systems---as well as more connected, having 
begun interactive discussions that will continue after the conference.

 

_Organizing Committee:_

 

Keith J. Miller (The MITRE Corporation)

Mark Arehart (The MITRE Corporation)

Sherri Condon (The MITRE Corporation)

Jason Duncan (M.I.T. Lincoln Labs)

Louise Guthrie (University of Sheffield)

Christopher Dozier (Thomson Reuters)

Elizabeth Schroeder (The MITRE Corporation)

Massimo Poesio (Universita' di Trento)

Emanuele Pianta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

 

_Important Dates:_

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Deadline for Paper Submission:  Friday, 12 February 2010

Notification to Authors: Friday, 26 February 2010

Submission of Final Version: Friday, 12 March 2010

 

*Workshop at LREC: Saturday, 22 May 2010*

 

_Submission Information:_

 

Papers should be submitted to the START Conference Manager at 
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/Entity2010/. When submitting a paper 
from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential 
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, 
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work 
described in the paper or are a new result of your research. For further 
information on this new initiative, please refer to 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources_. _

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