Appel: Workshop on Acquiring and representing multilingual, specialized lexicons at LREC 2006

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:14:15 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>
Message-Id: <200601130114.15159.pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>
X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=6
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      Call for Papers
      International Workshop
      Acquiring and representing multilingual, specialized lexicons:
      the case of biomedicine
      May 23, 2006, Genoa, Italy
      http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=6

      (LREC 2006 preconference workshop)

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Deadline for Abstract Submissions: February 20th 2006
Submission by email to: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>

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Background

The development of general, multilingual lexicons and dictionaries has
received much interest (see, e.g., projects EuroWordNet or Papillon).
In contrast, less attention has been given to multilingual lexicons
and dictionaries in specialized domains, where the focus has been put
instead on terminological products such as thesauri and
classifications.  The need nevertheless exists for large, shared,
multilingual lexicons and dictionaries which support natural language
processing in specialized domains.  Medicine, with terminologies
ranging above a million terms, is a case in point: only few
specialized lexicons exist for this domain, English being as usual the
best served.  This workshop will examine how specialized lexicons, in
particular in biomedicine and beyond English, can be acquired,
represented, and linked across languages.

It is endorsed by the European Network of Excellence "Semantic
Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine" (NoE 507505),
Workpackage 20, "Multilingual Medical Lexicon".


Topics for submission will include the following, non-exhaustive list:

 - building specialized lexicons
 - standards for sharing multilingual lexicons
 - methods for acquiring and cross-linking specialized lexicons of
   different languages
 - specific issues in representing specialized, technical lexicons
   (e.g., neoclassical compounds, Latin words, etc.)

While medicine is expected to be the main focus of the workshop, work
on other specialized domains is welcome too.

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Papers

  We expect short papers of max 3000 words describing research
  addressing one of the above topics, to be submitted as .doc or PDF
  documents by email to the following address: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr.
  The final papers should not have more than 6 pages.

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Important Dates

Deadline for submission: 15/2/2006
Notification: 15/3/2006
Final version: 7/4/2006

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Location

Magazzini del Cotone Conference Center, Genoa, Italy.
Co-located with  LREC 2006 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006

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Organizers

Pierre Zweigenbaum, AP-HP; Inserm; Inalco, Paris, France
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland

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Program committee

Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, Manchester, UK
Lars Borin, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
Stefan Darmoni, University Hospital of Rouen, France
Gil Francopoulo, Tagmatica ; Inria, Paris, France
Vangelis Karkaletsis, IIT, Athens, Greece
Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Christian Lovis, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Mathieu Mangeot, University of Savoie, Annecy, France
Magnus Merkel, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
Alessandro Oltramari, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Patrick Ruch, University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
Stefan Schulz, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
Pierre Zweigenbaum, AP-HP; Inserm; Inalco, Paris, France

Contact person

Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>

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