17.816, Confs: Computational Ling/Text/Corpus Ling/Trento, Italy

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Subject: 17.816, Confs: Computational Ling/Text/Corpus Ling/Trento, Italy

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Date: 14-Mar-2006
From: David Ahn < ahn at science.uva.nl >
Subject: 5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing 

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 15:47:09
From: David Ahn < ahn at science.uva.nl >
Subject: 5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing 

5th Workshop on NLP and XML/EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in
Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: NLPXML-2006 

Date: 04-Apr-2006 - 04-Apr-2006 
Location: Trento, Italy 
Contact: David Ahn 
Contact Email: ahn at science.uva.nl 
Meeting URL: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EACL 2006 Workshop on
Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing:
5th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2006)

http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006/

April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy

The EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language
Processing will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, which will
take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy.

This workshop is also the fifth in the NLPXML series, following workshops at
NLPRS 2001 in Tokyo, COLING 2002 in Taipei, EACL 2003 in Budapest, and ACL 2004
in Barcelona. 

 TOPICS

The widespread adoption of XML within the NLP community as the main standard for
both data and meta-data representation has led to research in a number of issues
relating to XML and NLP.  One particularly interesting challenge arises from the
difficulty in combining annotations resulting from disparate NLP systems in a
single hierarchical structure.  For downstream applications that rely on a range
of linguistic annotations, problems such as crossing boundaries and overlapping
elements from different sources make it difficult to query data with multiple
dimensions of annotation.

Our goal for this workshop is to bring together researchers from several
different fields --- natural language processing, corpus linguistics, markup
languages, and information retrieval --- to discuss theoretical and practical
issues related to the integration of different layers of text annotation.  In
addition to full paper presentations, the workshop will also have two sessions
devoted to system demonstrations.

PROGRAMME

09:00-09:05    Welcome

09:05-09:30    Representing and Querying Multi-dimensional Markup for
               Question Answering
	       Wouter Alink, Valentin Jijkoun, David Ahn, Maarten de
	       Rijke, Peter Boncz, and Arjen de Vries

09:30-10:00    Annotation and Disambiguation of Semantic Types in
               Biomedical Text: A Cascaded Approach to Named Entity
               Recognition
 	       Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Harald Kirsch, Sylvain
 	       Gaudan, Miguel Arregui, and Goran Nenadic

10:00-10:30    Tools to Address the Interdependence between Tokenisation
               and Standoff Annotation
	       Claire Grover, Michael Matthews, and Richard Tobin

10:30-11:00    Break

11:00-11:30    Towards an Alternative Implementation of NXT's Query
               Language via XQuery
	       Neil Mayo, Jonathan Kilgour, and Jean Carletta

11:30-11:45    Demo boosters, 1

11:45-12:30    Demo session, 1

12:30-14:30    Lunch

14:30-15:00    Multi-dimensional Annotation and Alignment in an
	       English-German Translation Corpus
	       Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Stella Neumann, and Mihaela Vela

15:00-15:15    Demo boosters, 2

15:15-16:00    Demo session, 2

16:00-16:30    Break

16:30-17:00    Querying XML documents with multi-dimensional markup
	       Peter Siniakov

17:00-18:00    Panel discussion and closing

Accepted demos:

    * ANNIS: Complex Multilevel Annotations in a Linguistic Database
      Michael Goetze and Stefanie Dipper

    * Annotating text using the Linguistic Description Scheme of
      MPEG-7: The DIRECT-INFO Scenario
      Thierry Declerck, Stephan Busemann, Herwig Rehatschek, and Gert Kienast

    * Layering and Merging Linguistic Annotations: The ANC Project
      Keith Suderman and Nancy Ide

    * Middleware for Creating and Combining Multi-dimensional NLP Markup
      Ulrich Schaefer

    * Multidimensional markup and heterogeneous linguistic resources
      Maik Stuehrenberg, Andreas Witt, Daniela Goecke, Dieter Metzing,
      and Oliver Schonefeld

    * The NITE XML Toolkit: Demonstration from five corpora
      Jonathan Kilgour and Jean Carletta

    * Representing and Accessing Multi-Level Annotations in MMAX2
      Christoph Mueller

    * Representing and Accessing Multilevel Linguistic Annotation
      using the MEANING Format
      Emanuele Pianta, Luisa Bentivogli, Christian Girardi, and
      Bernardo Magnini

    * The SAMMIE Multimodal Dialogue Corpus Meets the Nite XML Toolkit
      Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Verena Rieser, Ciprian Gerstenberger,
      Jan Schehl, and Tilman Becker

    * A Standoff Annotation Interface between DELPH-IN Components
      Benjamin Waldron and Ann Copestake

    * Tools for hierarchical annotation of typed dialogue
      Myroslava Dzikovska, Charles Callaway, and Elaine Farrow

    * XML-based Phrase Alignment in Parallel Treebanks
      Martin Volk, Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Joakim Lundborg, Torsten
      Marek, Yvonne Samuelsson, and Frida Tidstrom

REGISTRATION

Information on registration and registration fees is provided at the conference
web page:

http://eacl06.itc.it/registration.htm

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

David Ahn (University of Amsterdam), co-chair
Wouter Alink (NFI, The Hague)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh)
Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield)
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh)
Nancy Ide (Vassar, New York)
Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh)
Mounia Lalmas (University of London)
Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam)
Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Laurent Romary (Loria, Nancy)
Valentin Tablan (University of Sheffield)
Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Amsterdam)
Arjen de Vries (CWI, Amsterdam)
Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki), co-chair

FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page:        http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006/

Conference web page:      http://eacl06.itc.it/

EACL 2006 Workshops site: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/

CONTACT INFORMATION

David Ahn
Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
ahn (at) science.uva.nl

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