19.3913, Calls: Computational Ling/Singapore; General Ling/Norway

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Subject: 19.3913, Calls: Computational Ling/Singapore; General Ling/Norway

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Date: 18-Dec-2008
From: Torsten Zesch < zesch at tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de >
Subject: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources 

2)
Date: 18-Dec-2008
From: Lidun Hareide < lidun.hareide at if.uib.no >
Subject: The Third Scandinavian Ph.D Conference in Linguistics

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:06:04
From: Torsten Zesch [zesch at tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de]
Subject: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources

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Full Title: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources 

Date: 06-Jul-2009 - 07-Jul-2009
Location: Singapore, Singapore 
Contact Person: Torsten Zesch
Web Site: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/acl-ijcnlp-2009-workshop/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2009 

Meeting Description:

The workshop will bring together researchers from both worlds: those using
collaboratively created resources in NLP applications such as information
retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those using NLP
applications for improving the resources or extracting different types of
semantic information from them. Hopefully, this will turn into a feedback loop,
where NLP techniques improved by
collaboratively constructed resources are used to improve the resources in
exchange. 

Call for Papers

ACL/IJCNLP-2009 Workshop "The People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively
Constructed Semantic Resources"

Co-located with Joint conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on
Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing

Singapore
6-7 August 2009
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/acl-ijcnlp-2009-workshop/

Introduction
In recent years, online resources collaboratively constructed by ordinary users
on the Web have considerably influenced the NLP community. In many works, they
have been used as a substitute for conventional semantic resources and as
semantically structured corpora with great success. While conventional resources
such as WordNet are developed by trained linguists [1], online semantic
resources can now be automatically extracted from the content collaboratively
created by the users [2]. Thereby, the knowledge acquisition bottlenecks and
coverage problems pertinent to conventional lexical semantic resources can be
overcome.

The resource that has gained the greatest popularity in this respect so far is
Wikipedia. However, other resources recently discovered in NLP, such as
folksonomies, the multilingual collaboratively constructed dictionary
Wiktionary, or Q&A sites like WikiAnswers or Yahoo! Answers are also very
promising. Moreover, new wiki-based platforms such as Citizendium or Knol have
recently emerged that offer features distinct from Wikipedia and are of high
potential in terms of their use in NLP.

The benefits of using Web-based resources come along with new challenges, such
as the interoperability with existing resources and the quality of the knowledge
represented. As collaboratively created resources lack editorial control, they
are typically incomplete. For the interoperability with conventional resources,
the mappings have to be investigated. The quality of collaboratively constructed
resources is questioned in many cases, and the information extraction remains a
complicated task due to the incompleteness and semi- structuredness of the
content. Therefore, the research community has begun to develop and provide
tools for accessing collaboratively constructed resources [2,5].

The above listed challenges actually present a chance for NLP techniques to
improve the quality of Web-based semantic resources. Researchers have therefore
proposed techniques for link prediction [3] or information extraction [4] that
can be used to guide the "crowds" to construct resources that are better suited
for being used in NLP in return.

[1] Christiane Fellbaum
WordNet An Electronic Lexical Database. MIT press, 1998.
[2] Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller and Iryna Gurevych Extracting Lexical
Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary Proceedings of the Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2008.
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwpl/
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/software/jwktl/
[3] Rada Mihalcea and Andras Csomai Wikify!: Linking Documents to Encyclopedic
Knowledge. Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Conference on Information and
Knowledge Management, CIKM 2007.
[4] Daniel S. Weld et al. Intelligence in Wikipedia. Twenty-Third Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2008.
[5] Kotaro Nakayama et al. Wikipedia Mining - Wikipedia as a Corpus for
Knowledge Extraction. Proceedings of the Annual Wikipedia Conference
(Wikimania), 2008. http://wikipedia-lab.org/en/index.php

Topics
The workshop will bring together researchers from both worlds: those using
collaboratively created resources in NLP applications such as information
retrieval, named entity recognition, or keyword extraction, and those using NLP
applications for improving the resources or extracting different types of
semantic information from them. Hopefully, this will turn into a feedback loop,
where NLP techniques improved by collaboratively constructed resources are used
to improve the resources in exchange.

Specific topics include but are not limited to:
- Different types of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based
platforms, Q&A sites or folksonomies;
- Using collaboratively constructed resources in NLP such as information
retrieval, text categorization, information extraction, etc.;
- Analyzing the properties of collaboratively constructed resources related to
their use in NLP;
- Interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with conventional
semantic resources and between themselves;
- Converting unstructured information into structured lexical semantic
information; tools for mining social and collaborative content;
- Quality issues with respect to collaboratively constructed resources.

We also encourage the submission of short papers describing publicly available
tools for accessing or analyzing collaboratively created resources. During the
breaks, tables can be provided for demonstrations.

Invited Speaker
Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas

Submission Information
Full paper submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL-IJCNLP 2009
proceedings without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus one extra page for
references.  Short paper submissions should also follow the two-column format of
ACL-IJCNLP 2009 proceedings, and should not exceed four (4) pages, including
references.

Submission will be electronic using a submission software that will be available
later at the conference website. All accepted papers will be presented orally
and published in the workshop proceedings.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline (full and short): May 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance of papers:June 1, 2009
Camera-ready copy of papers due: June 7, 2009
ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshops: Aug 6-7, 2009

Organizers
Iryna Gurevych
Torsten Zesch

Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Program Committee
Delphine Bernhard   Technische Universiät Darmstadt
Paul Buitelaar      DFKI Saarbruecken
Razvan Bunescu      University of Texas at Austin
Pablo Castells      Universidad Autónonoma de Madrid
Philipp Cimiano     Karlsruhe University
Irene Cramer        Dortmund University of Technology
Andras Csomai       Google Inc.
Ernesto De Luca     University of Magdeburg
Roxana Girju        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Andreas Hotho       University of Kassel
Graeme Hirst        University of Toronto
Ed Hovy             University of Southern California
Jussi Karlgren      Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Boris Katz          Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adam Kilgarriff     Lexical Computing Ltd
Chin-Yew Lin        Microsoft Research
James Martin        University of Colorado Boulder
Olena Medelyan      University of Waikato
David Milne         University of Waikato
Saif Mohammad       University of Maryland
Dan Moldovan        University of Texas at Dallas
Kotaro Nakayama     University of Tokyo
Ani Nenkova         University of Pennsylvania
Guenter Neumann     DFKI Saarbruecken
Maarten de Rijke    University of Amsterdam
Magnus Sahlgren     Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Manfred Stede       Potsdam University
Benno Stein         Bauhaus University Weimar
Tonio Wandmacher    University of Osnabrueck
Rene Witte          Concordia University Montreal
Hans-Peter Zorn     European Media Lab, Heidelberg

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:06:15
From: Lidun Hareide [lidun.hareide at if.uib.no]
Subject: The Third Scandinavian Ph.D Conference in Linguistics

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Full Title: The Third Scandinavian Ph.D Conference in Linguistics 

Date: 16-Jun-2009 - 18-Jun-2009
Location: Bergen, Norway, Norway 
Contact Person: Snorre Karkkonen Svensson
Meeting Email: doktorandkonferanse at uib.no
Web Site: http://www.hf.uib.no/forskerskole/doktorandkonferanse/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2009 

Meeting Description:

The Third Scandinavian Ph.D. Conference in Linguistics and Philology in Bergen,
June 16-18, 2009. 

Call for Papers

The Third Scandinavian Ph.D. Conference in Linguistics and Philology in Bergen
will be hosted by the Ph.D. Research School in Linguistics and Philology at the
University of Bergen. 

Invited speakers at the conference are:
- Andrew Chesterman, University of Helsinki
- Gjert Kristoffersen, University of Bergen
- Coco Norén, Uppsala University

We welcome one-page abstracts on all aspects of Linguistics, Philology and
related disciplines. The abstracts should be submitted anonymously, preferably
in PDF-format, to the conference official e-mail, doktorandkonferanse at uib.no, no
later than February 1, 2009. Notifications on abstracts will be sent out on
March 1, 2009. All queries should be directed to doktorandkonferanse at uib.no.

English will be the official language of the conference and we encourage all
participants to submit their abstracts in English, although abstracts in any of
the Scandinavian languages will not be rejected. We also welcome abstracts from
Ph.D. candidates and early stage researcher outside of Scandinavia. 

http://www.hf.uib.no/forskerskole/doktorandkonferanse
E-mail: doktorandkonferanse at uib.no

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