[LFG] CFP - Text Mining and Applications (TeMA) Track of EPIA’20

[Joaquim Silva]

Call for Papers – Text Mining and Applications (TEMA’20) Track of EPIA’20

TeMA 2020 will be held at the 20th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2020) taking place at Lisboa, Portugal, from 7th to
9th September 2020. This track is organized under the auspices of the
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2020
URL: : https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/

This announcement contains the following information:

[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates;
[4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7]
Program Committee and [8] Contacts.

[1] Track Description
The 10th Track of Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2020) is a forum
for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural
Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural
Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval
(IR), and related areas.
        The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual
documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information
is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in
natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities
for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies.
        Following recent advances in general IA sub-fields such as NLP,
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even
more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories
and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the
power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable
important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both
hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using text mining
methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with
high commercial value.
Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues
identified in section [2]. Revision of the papers will be double-blind
by the members of the Program Committee. All accepted papers will be
published by Springer in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in
Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) corresponding to the proceedings of the
20th EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence, EPIA 2020.

[2] Topics of Interest
TM, NLP, and Social Media Content Analysis
•       Entity Recognition and Disambiguation
•       Relation Extraction
•       Analysis of Opinions, Emotions and Sentiments
•       Text Clustering and Classification
•       Machine Translation
•       Summarization
•       Word Sense Disambiguation
•       Co-Reference Resolution
•       Language Modeling
•       Syntax and Parsing
•       Distributional Models and Semantics
•       Multi-Word Units
•       Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
•       Spatio-Temporal Text Mining
•       Entailment and Paraphrases
•       Natural Language Generation
•       Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage
•       Cross-Lingual Approaches
•       Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
Applications:
•       Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
•       Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
•       Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
•       Web Content Annotation
•       Computational Social Science
•       Computational Journalism
•       Health and Well-being
•       Big Data Analysis

 [3] Important dates
Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2020
Paper acceptance notification: May 31, 2020
Camera-ready deadline: June 15, 2020
        EPIA Conference: September 7-9, 2020(Lisboa, Portugal)

[4] Paper submission
Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original,
and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length
of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting
instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names
from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid
indirectly disclosing their identity. References to own work may be
included in the paper, as long as referred to in the third person. All
papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference
management website at: https://epia2020.inesc-id.pt/
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the
preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include
their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of
each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must
complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author
signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author
marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer,
changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

[5] Track Fees:
 Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2020 conference.

[6] Organizing Committee:
Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica,
Portugal (Contact person).
Pablo Gamallo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do
Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain.
Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2,
7000-645 Évora, Portugal.
Irene Rodrigues., DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2,
7000-645 Évora, Portugal

[7] Program Committee:
Adam Jatowt – Universit of Kioto, Japan
Alberto Diaz – Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Alberto Simões – Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
Alexandre Rademaker – IBM / FGV, Brazil
Altigran Silva – Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil
Antoine Doucet – University of Caen, France
António Branco – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Béatrice Daille – University of Nantes, France
Bruno Martins – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Eric de La Clergerie – INRIA, France
Fernando Batista – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Francisco Couto – Faculdade de Ciências – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Gabriel Pereira Lopes – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia –
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Gaël Dias – University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Hugo Oliveira – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Iñaki Vicente - Language Technology, Elhuyar Foundation
Irene Rodrigues – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Jesús Vilares – University of A Coruña, Spain
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia –
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska – ESIGETEL, France
Luisa Coheur – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Manuel Vilares Ferro – University of Vigo, Spain
Marcos Garcia - Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Mário Silva – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Miguel Alonso – Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Pablo Gamallo – Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain
Patricia Martín-Rodilla – Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Paulo Quaresma – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Pavel Brazdil – University of Porto, Portugal
Renata Vieira – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Sérgio Nunes – Faculdade de Engenharia – Universidade do Porto, Portugal

[8] Contacts
Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre,
2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐
Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt