22.4769, FYI: Springer NLP Book Series

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Date: 29-Nov-2011
From: Jungi Kim [kim at tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de]
Subject: Springer NLP Book Series

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Call for Contributions

Edited Volume ''The People's Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively 
Constructed Language Resources''

http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/edited-
book-the-peoples-web-meets-nlp

Springer book series: ''Theory and Applications of Natural 
Language Processing'', E. Hovy, M. Johnson and G. Hirst 
(eds.) 

Editors:

Iryna Gurevych and Jungi Kim

Description:

The application of collective intelligence in the domain of language 
yielded collaboratively constructed language resources (CCLR) that 
can be used in a variety of ways. For example, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, 
and other language resources constructed through crowdsourcing 
such as Games with a Purpose and Mechanical Turk have been used 
in many ways in NLP. Researchers started using such resources to 
substitute for or supplement conventional lexical semantic resources 
such as WordNet or linguistically annotated corpora in different NLP 
tasks. Another research direction is to utilize NLP techniques to 
enhance the collaboration process and its outcome. Overall the 
emergence of CCLRs has generated new challenges to the research 
field that are to be addressed in the present book. As the research field 
of CCLRs matures, it has become necessary to summarize a set of 
results to advance and focus the further research effort. 

The aim of this book is to capture the state-of-the-art in the emerging 
area of research on ''Collaboratively constructed language resources.'' 
Thus, a point of reference on the topics of construction, mining, using 
and interconnecting collaboratively constructed language resources for 
natural language processing, knowledge discovery and other intelligent 
applications will be created.

Specific topics include but are not limited to:
* Using CCLRs and the information mined from them for NLP tasks, 
such as word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information 
retrieval, text categorization, information extraction, question 
answering, etc.; 
* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured 
lexical semantic resources, annotated corpora and the corresponding 
tools; 
* Analyzing the structure of CCLRs related to their use in NLP; 
* Computational linguistics studies of CCLRS, such as wiki-based 
platforms or folksonomies; 
* Structural and semantic interoperability of CCLRs with conventional 
semantic resources and between themselves; 
* Mining multilingual information from CCLRs;
* Using special features of CCLRs to create novel resource types, for 
example revision-based corpora, simplified versions of resources, etc.; 
* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed lexical semantic 
resources and annotated corpora. 

Further interactions can be spanned across the disciplinary 
boundaries, for example constructing language resources from user-
generated contents through the collaborations with the research of 
discourse and social network analysis. 

Given the appropriateness of the topics, preliminary versions of 
contributions may be submitted in parallel to the 3rd workshop of ''The 
People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic 
Resources and their Applications to NLP.'' Please refer to the 
workshop homepage shown below: 

http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-
workshop 

Please note: if accepted to the workshop, the papers will have to be 
substantially extended for the publication with Springer.

Preliminary Book Structure:

Part 1: Approaches to Collaboratively Constructed Language 
Resources (CCLRs) 
Part 2: Mining Knowledge from CCLRs
Part 3: Application of CCLRs in NLP tasks
Part 4: Interconnecting and managing CCLRs

Publication Schedule:

* December 1st, 2011 - call for contributions published
* January 8th, 2012 - deadline for abstract submission
* January 13th, 2012 - notification of abstract acceptance
* April 15th, 2012 - submission of book chapters
* May 31st, 2012 - first reviewing round
* June 8th, 2012 - notification of chapter acceptance
* June 30th, 2012 - submission of revised  book chapters
* July 31st, 2012 - second reviewing round
* August 31st, 2012 - final submission of book chapters
* November - December 2012 - publication by Springer

Submission Format:

The abstract is limited to 1000 words and has to be submitted by 
January 8th, 2012 using the Springer submission system:

http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/ocs/home/PWMNLP2012

Contributions must use a Latex template from Springer; refer 
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/edited-to book-
the-peoples-web-meets-nlp for detailed instructions. Images will be 
black-and-white. 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

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