16.1660, Calls: Comp Ling/Bulgaria; Comp Ling/Korea

Tue May 24 17:16:31 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-1660. Tue May 24 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.1660, Calls: Comp Ling/Bulgaria; Comp Ling/Korea

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1)
Date: 21-May-2005
From: Horacio Saggion < saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk >
Subject: Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research 

2)
Date: 22-May-2005
From: Francis Bond < bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp >
Subject: 6th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:06:54
From: Horacio Saggion < saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk >
Subject: Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research 

Full Title: Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research 

Date: 24-Sep-2005 - 24-Sep-2005
Location: Borovets, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Horacio Saggion
Meeting Email: saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~saggion/ranlp2005-summarization.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Jun-2005 

Meeting Description:

Summarization Workshop (with RANLP 2005) 

Crossing Barriers in Text Summarization Research

Workshop to be help in conjunction with

RANLP 2005

Borovets - Bulgaria

http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005

24th of September 2005

Third and Last Call for Papers

Submission: 3 June 2005

An abstract or  summary is a text of a recognisable  genre with a very specific
purpose: to give the reader an exact and concise knowledge of the  contents of 
a  source  document. In  most  cases, summaries  are written  by  humans,  but 
 nowadays,  the  overwhelming  quantity  of information and the need to  access
the essential content of documents accurately  to  satisfy users'  demands  has
 made  of Automatic  Text Summarization a major research field.

Most   summarization  solutions   developed  today   perform  sentence
extraction, a useful, yet sometimes inadequate technique.  In order to move 
from the  sentence extraction  paradigm to  a  more challenging, semantically 
and  linguistically  motivated  'abstracting'  paradigm, significant linguistic
 (i.e., lexicons,  grammars, etc.)  as  well as non-linguistic  knowledge (i.e.,
ontologies,  scripts, etc.)   will be required. Some 'abstracting' problems like
'headline generation', have been  recently addressed  using language  models
that  rely  on little semantic  information, what are  the limits  of these 
approaches when trying to generate multi-sentence discourses?  What tools are
there to support 'text  abstraction'? What type of  natural language generation
techniques  are  appropriate in  this  context?   Are general  purpose natural
language generation systems appropriate in this task?

Professional  abstractors  play  a  mayor  role  in  dissemination  of
information through  abstract writing, and  their work has  many times inspired
research on automatic  text summarization, they are certainly one   of  the 
keys   in  the   understanding  of   the  summarization process. Therefore, what
tools  are there to support Computer-Assisted Summarization and  more
specifically  how these tools  can be  used to capture 'professional
summarization' knowledge?

In  a  multi-lingual  context,  summaries are  useful  instruments  in
overcoming  the language barrier:  cross-lingual summaries  help users assess
the relevance  of the source, before deciding  to obtain a good human
translation of the  source. This topic is particularly important in a context
where the  relevant information only exists in a language different from that 
of the user. What techniques  are there to attack this new and challenging
issue?  What corpora would be appropriate for the study of this task?

The ''news'' has been a traditional concern of summarization research,  but we
have  seen, in the past few years,  an increasing interest for  summarization
applications on technical and scientific texts, patient  records, sport events,
legal  texts, educative material, e-mails, web  pages,  etc.  The  question 
then,  is  how  to  adapt  summarization  algorithms to  new domains  and
genres.  Machine  learning algorithms  over superficial features have been used
in the past to decide upon a  number of indicators of content relevance, but
when the feature space  is  huge  or  when  more ''linguistically''  motivated 
features  are  required, and  as a consequence the data  sparseness problem
appears,  what   learning  tools   are  more   appropriate  for   training  our
 summarization  algorithms? What  types  of models  should be  learned  (e.g.,
macrostructures, scripts, thematic structures, etc.)?

Text  summarization,  information  retrieval, and  question  answering support
humans in gathering  vital information in everyday activities. How  these  
tools  can   be  effectively  integrated   in  practical applications?   and 
how  such  applications  can be  evaluated  in  a practical context?

We call for contributions on  any aspect of the summarization problem, but  we
would  like the  workshop to  give the  research  community the opportunity for
discussion of the following research problems:

* Crossing the language  barrier: cross-lingual summarization; corpora to
support this summarization enterprise;

* Crossing the extractive barrier: non-extractive summarization (i.e., text
abstraction); resources for  capturing abstraction  knowledge or expertise;

* Crossing genres, domains, and  media: adaptation of summarization to new
genres, domains, media, and tasks.

* Crossing technological  barriers: integration of  summarization with other NLP
 technologies such  as Question Answering  and Information Retrieval.

The workshop will be organized around paper presentations, panel discussions,
and one invited talk.

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission: * 3 June 2005 * 
Notification of acceptance: 29 July 2005 
Camera-ready copy due: 19 August 2005
Workshop: 24 September 2005

Important Announcements:

* Invited Speaker *

Dragomir R. Radev
School  of Information  and Department  of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA 
Title: * Graphs everywhere: novel methods for summarization and natural
language processing *

If the  workshop is successful,  we will issue  an special call  for a
thematically  focused volume on  text summarization.  Workshop authors
will be invited  to submit extended versions of  their papers for this
purpose. 

Submission guidelines:

Submissions  should be  A4, two-column  format and  should  not exceed seven 
pages, including  cover page,  figures, tables  and references. Times New Roman
12 font is  preferred. The first page should state the title  of the paper,  the
author's  name(s), affiliation,  surface and email address(es),  followed by
keywords and an  abstract and continue with  the first  section of  your  paper.
Papers  should be  submitted electronically in **PDF** format to
saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk.  For up to three free conversions to PDF see
http://192.150.14.203/index.pl?BP=NS.  Guidelines  for  producing camera-ready 
versions  can  be  found  at the  conference  web  site:
http://www.lml.bas.bg/ranlp2005.

Each paper  will be  reviewed by  up to three  members of  the program
committee.  Authors   of  accepted  papers   will  receive  guidelines regarding
 how to produce  camera-ready versions  of their  papers for inclusion in the
proceedings.

Parallel  submissions to  the  main conference  and  the workshop  are allowed 
but the review  process will  be coordinated.  Please declare this in the
notification form.

Organization

*Horacio Saggion 
NLP Group 
Department of Computer Science 
University of Sheffield 
Sheffield - UK

*Jean-Luc Minel 
LaLLIC 
Universite de Paris IV-Sorbonne 
Paris - France

Program Committee:

Gustavo Crispino, LaLLIC, Universite de Paris IV, France 

Hercules Dalianis, Stockholm University, Sweden 

Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany 

Donna Harman, National Institute of Standards and Techology, USA 

Hongyan Jing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Min-Yen Kan, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore 

Choy-Kim Chuah, Universiti Sains, Malaysia 

Guy Lapalme, Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle,
Universite de Montreal, Canada 

Lehmam, Abderrafih,  Pertinence Mining, Paris, France

Chin-Yew Lin, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California,
USA 

Inderjeet Mani, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, USA 

Jean-Luc Minel (Co-organizer), LaLLIC, Universite de Paris IV, France 

Marie-France  Moens, Interdisciplinary  Centre for Law & Information Technology,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 

Constantin Orasan, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies,
University of Wolverhampton, UK 

Dragomir Radev, School of Information and Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, University of Michigan, USA 

Horacio Rodriguez, Department de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Horacio Saggion (Organizer), Department of Computer Science, University of
Sheffield, UK 

Stan Szpakowicz, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of
Ottawa, Canada 

Simone Teufel, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK 

Dina Wonsever, INCO, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

* Please send your submission to:

Horacio Saggion Email: h.saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk

Please use the subject line: ''Summarization Workshop/RANLP2005'' and include in
your message the following information:

- NAME:  Name of author for correspondence
- TITLE: Title of the paper
- KEYS : Keywords
- EMAIL: Email of author for correspondence
- PAGES: Number of pages (including bibliographical references)
- FILE : Name of PDF file
- ABSTR:
- Abstract of the paper
-  ...
- OTHER: Under consideration for other conferences? (please specify)
- NOTE : Anything you would like to add

* For any further information please contact 
Horacio Saggion at h.saggion at dcs.shef.ac.uk

-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 13:06:59
From: Francis Bond < bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp >
Subject: 6th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora 

Full Title: 6th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora 
Short Title: LINC-2005 

Date: 15-Oct-2005 - 15-Oct-2005
Location: Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of 
Contact Person: Francis Bond
Meeting Email: bond at ieee.org
Web Site: http://www.delph-in.net/events/05/linc/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Jun-2005 

Meeting Description:

This is a conference for compilers and users of linguistically annotated
corpora.  The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results
with respect to the annotation, conversion and exploitation of corpora taking
into account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field
of language technology and research. 

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Workshop on
Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-2005)

http://www.delph-in.net/events/05/linc/

A workshop to be held at IJCNLP05

http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/

Jeju Island, Korea, 15 October 2005

Submission Deadline: June 7, 2005

ORGANIZED BY:

Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo & CSLI, Stanford University)
Kyonghee Paik (ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories)
Francis Bond (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)

TOPIC AND MOTIVATION:

Large linguistically interpreted corpora play an increasingly important role for
machine learning, evaluation, psycholinguistics as well as theoretical
linguistics. Many research groups are engaged in the creation of corpus
resources annotated with morphological, syntactic, semantic and discourse
information for a variety of languages. We aim to bring together these
activities in order to identify and disseminate best practice in the development
and utilization of linguistically interpreted corpora.

The aim of the workshop is to exchange and propagate research results with
respect to the annotation, conversion and exploitation of corpora taking into
account different applications and theoretical investigations in the field of
language technology and research. We invite submissions of papers constituting
substantial, original, and unpublished work on all aspects of linguistically
interpreted corpora, including, but not limited to:
 - creation of practical annotation schemes
 - efficient annotation techniques 
 - automation of corpus annotation
 - tools supporting corpus conversions
 - validation including consistency checking of corpora
 - browsing corpora and searching for instances of linguistic phenomena
 - interpretation of quantitative results
 - automatic induction of linguistic competence through machine learning
techniques.  

As this is the first time the workshop will be held outside Europe, we
particularly welcome work on non-European languages and the problems associated
with them --- segmentation, spelling variation, different encodings and so forth.

Review and Production Schedule:  

Paper submission deadline:  June 7, 2005
Notification of acceptance:  July 18, 2005
Camera ready manuscripts due:  August 5, 2005
Workshop date:  October 14, 2005

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Co-chairs:          
        Stephan Oepen (co-chair), Oslo and Stanford < oe at csli.Stanford.EDU >
        Kyonghee Paik (co-chair), Keihanna < kyonghee.paik at atr.jp >
        Francis Bond  (co-chair), Keihanna  < bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp >

Committee members: 
       Anne Abeille, Paris 
       Olga Babko-Malaya, Pittsburgh 
       Colin Baker, Berkely
       John Carroll, Sussex
       Pierrette Bouillon, Geneva 
       Thorsten Brants, Palo Alto
       John Carroll, Sussex
       Montserrat Civit Torruella, Barcelona
       Tomaz Erjavec, Ljubljana 
       Jan Hajic, Prague 
       Chung-hye Han, British Columbia
       Silvia Hansen, Saarland
       Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen
       Huang Chu-Ren, Taipei 
       Beom-mo Kang, Korea 
       Frank Keller, Edinburgh 
       Brigitte Krenn, Vienna
       Sadao Kurohashi, Tokyo 
       Joakim Nivre, Vaxjö 
       Laurent Romary, Nancy 
       Kiril Simov, Sofia 
       Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Keihanna
       Hans Uszkoreit, Saarbrücken  
       Atro Voutilainen, Helsinki 
       Nianwen Xue, Pittsburgh

REGISTRATION:

Please refer to the main conference web page (http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/)
for registration details.

SUBMISSIONS:

Paper submissions must be anonymous and are limited to at most 8 pages including
references, figures etc. Authors are required to follow the guidelines of
IJCNLP-05 conference workshop style, by using either the LaTeX style file or the
MS Word document template shown in the IJCNLP-05 style file page <
http://www.afnlp.org/IJCNLP05/archives4.html >.  Only electronic submissions
will be accepted. Please email your submission in PDF (preferred), PostScript,
or MS Word (dis-preferred) to the following address:  < linc at delph-in.net >

Each submission should also specify the author's name, affiliation, postal
address, email address and title in the body of the email message. For more
information, please make contact with the workshop co-chairs by using the same
e-mail address above.

We are currently investigating subsequent publication as a journal special issue.

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