[ln] Appel: Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop EUROLAN 2005 (second CFP)

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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:59:30 +0200
From: Carlo Strapparava <strappa at itc.it>
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                        SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

             Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop

International Workshop held as part of the Eurolan 2005 Summer School
                      25 July - 6 August, 2005,
           "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Workshop website:
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/
Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm

Knowledge of words and text behavior in other languages has recently
been used to help solving tasks in a first language. An example of
such a task is word sense disambiguation by using translations in a
second language. Another example is verb classification by studying
properties of verbs in several languages.

A second modality of knowledge transfer across languages is to take
advantage of resources already built for English and for a few other
resource-rich languages. These resources have been used to induce
knowledge in languages for which few linguistic resources are
available.  This was made possible by the wider availability of
parallel corpora (better alignment methods at paragraph, sentence, and
word level).  Examples of knowledge induction tasks are: learning
morphology, part-of-speech tags, and grammatical gender. The
development of wordnets for many languages used as a starting point
knowledge transfer from the Princeton WordNet.

This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading
names in the field and researchers involved in cross-language
applications. We would like to invite researchers, master and
Ph.D. students, to submit their original and unpublished work to the
workshop.

Special consideration will be given to papers for which one of the
languages involved in the knowledge transfer is an East-European
language. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* applications that exploit parallel corpora (aligned at paragraph,
sentence, or word level).
* induction of knowledge from a language for which resources are
abundant to another language for which fewer resources are available.

* using other languages to solve a task in a first language:
  - word-sense disambiguation by using translations in other
    languages.
  - verb classification by studying verb properties in several
    languages.
  - other tasks of this kind
* identifying and using cognate words between languages.
* building wordnets by knowledge transfer.
* exploiting multi-language wordnets for NLP applications.

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Submission Requirements

Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages extended abstract in
electronic form (pdf only) by 5th of May 2005. Authors of accepted
papers should submit the final version in electronic format not later
than 20th of June. The final version must be in pdf format. If you
have problems delivering your paper in pdf format, please contact the
organizing committee. We can assist you with converting from Word
format into pdf format. If your paper is a ps file, please convert
into pdf and make sure all the fonts are included. The maximum length
of the paper should be 8 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines
as ACL-2005.  The instructions can be found at
http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/index.php?stylefiles. Please do not
insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem
following the style please contact the organizing committee as soon as
possible.  All the papers should be sent to diana at site.uottawa.ca

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Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 5th May 2005

Notification of Acceptance: 5th June 2005

Camera-ready Papers: 20th June 2005

Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged.

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Registration

People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered at the
Eurolan 2005 School
(http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005). Participation to the workshop
is open to all Eurolan 2005 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings
will be made available.  Authors of the papers accepted for
presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no
matter the date they register.

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Programme Committee

Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian,
Spain)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, US)
Mona Diab (Columbia University, US)
Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Joel Martin (National Research Council of Canada)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US)
Viviana Nastase (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland, US)
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France)
Michel Simard (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Doina Tatar (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Amalia Todirascu (Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
Nikolai Vazov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)

Organizing committee

Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)

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