20.1407, Calls: Computational Ling,Lexicography,Text/Corpus Ling/Bulgaria

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Subject: 20.1407, Calls: Computational Ling,Lexicography,Text/Corpus Ling/Bulgaria

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Date: 13-Apr-2009
From: Gerardo Sierra < gsierram at iingen.unam.mx >
Subject: 1st. Workshop on Definition Extraction

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:58:55
From: Gerardo Sierra [gsierram at iingen.unam.mx]
Subject: 1st. Workshop on Definition Extraction

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Full Title: 1st. Workshop on Definition Extraction 
Short Title: wDE 

Date: 18-Sep-2009 - 18-Sep-2009
Location: Borovets, Bulgaria 
Contact Person: Gerardo Sierra
Meeting Email: wde at ii.unam.mx
Web Site: http://www.iling.unam.mx/wde 

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

Call Deadline: 05-Jun-2009 

Meeting Description:

We propose this 1st Workshop on Definition Extraction as such an exchange forum,
with the hope that this workshop could become an academic space to share and
assess new methodologies, tools and techniques, in the spirit of promoting the
DE as a consolidated research area. This workshop will provide an opportunity to
discuss, both theoretical and practical views in DE. 

Call for Papers 

1st. Workshop on Definition Extraction
September 18, 2009
Borovets, Bulgaria
http://www.iling.unam.mx/wde

Motivation:
Nowadays, the automatic extraction of definitions from textual data is a common
task in different domains of Natural Language Processing. Briefly, we can sketch
two main research directions:

-The use of Definition Extraction (DE) as a methodological resource in areas
such as Computational Semantic, Information Extraction, Text Mining, Ontologies,
WEB Semantics or E-Learning.
-The conception of DE as a self-challenging task, particularity in Computational
Lexicography and Terminology, toward the design and implementation of electronic
resources such as lexical knowledge bases, machine- readable dictionaries,
terminological databases, thesauri.  Such resources can be monolingual or
multilingual.

However, in contrast to the generalised use of DE in multiple domains, there is
no specific forum for sharing information about methodologies, tools, evaluation
techniques or applications related directly with DE.

We propose this 1st Workshop on Definition Extraction as such an exchange forum,
with the hope that this workshop could become an academic space to share and
assess new methodologies, tools and techniques, in the spirit of promoting the
DE as a consolidated research area.

Topics:
This workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss, both theoretical and
practical views in DE. The following are examples of topics that are relevant,
but not exclusive, for the workshop:
- Discussions, analysis, positions around the state of art on DE.
- Concrete uses of resources obtained from DE in scientific or technical areas.
- Original methodologies considering the use of symbolic and/or statistical
methods for the recognition and extraction of possible candidates of textual
definitions.
- Comparisons between DE from structured (such as Wikipedia) and unstructured
textual data.
- Development of computational tools for extracting definitions from large corpora.
- Concrete applications of DE within larger projects in Language Learning,
Automated Reasoning, Text Mining, etc.
- DE in multilingual environment.

Target Audience:
Lexicographers, terminographers, linguists, computational linguists, NLP 
community and those people interested in DE field.

Tentative Program (1 Full Day):
1 Invited speaker (to be determined)
8-10 papers
4-5 software demonstrations

Official Language
The official language of the conference is English.

Paper Submission Process:
-Submission process will be independent for RANLP-2009: papers should be
submitted to the e-mail address wde at iingen.unam.mx.
- However, all submissions should follow RANLP-2009 papers format (no longer
than 7 pages, including cover page, figures, tables and references).
- We also encourage the submission of demos, which should be no longer than 5 pages.
- RANLP-2009 templates could be found in the following link.
- Papers will be reviewed using a blind peer review process by at least two
members of the program committee.
- At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop, and
all workshop participants must pay the RANLP-2009 workshop registration fee.

Program Committee:
Teresa Cabré (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Thierry Fontenelle (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Adam Kilgarriff (University of Sussex, United Kingdom)
John McNaught (National Center for Text Mining, United Kingdom)
Veronique Malaisé (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands)
Alfonso Medina (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Paola Monachesi (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
María Pozzi (El Colegio de México, Mexico)
Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Juan Manuel Torres (Université d'Avignon, France) 

Important Dates:
- Paper submission deadline: 5 June 2009.
- Acceptance or rejection notification: 20 July 2009.
- Camera ready: 24 August 2009.
- Workshop: September 18, 2009.

Organising Committee:
César Aguilar (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico)
Rodrigo Alarcón (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Carme Bach (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Héctor Jiménez (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Co-Chairs:
Gerardo Sierra (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Caroline Barrière (Institute for Information Technology, National Research
Council of Canada)

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