Appel: EPIA09 track on Text Mining and Applications - Extended deadline: 29 April 2009

Tue Apr 14 14:46:03 UTC 2009

Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:12:51 +0100 (WEST)
From: gpl at di.fct.unl.pt
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*********** CALL FOR PAPERS ***********

Text Mining and Applications (TeMA’09) Track of EPIA09

TeMA-2009 will be held at the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2009), in University of Aveiro, Portugal, 12-15
October 2009. This track is organized under the auspices of the
Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
EPIA 2009 URL: http://epia2009.appia.pt/

This announcement contains:
[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates;
[4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7]
Program Committee and [8] Contacts.

[1] Track Description:
Pure symbolic methods for Language Processing alone are unable to
address human languages complexity. Text Mining and Machine Learning
techniques applied to text, raw or annotated, brought up new insights
and completely shifted the approaches to Human Language
Technologies. Both approaches, symbolic and statistical based, when
duly integrated, bridge the gap between language theories and
effective use of languages, and enable important applications. Our
aim, with this track, is to bring together innovative contributions to
fill in this gap.
The track of Text Mining and Applications is a forum for researchers
working in natural language processing (NLP), computational
linguistics (CL), Machine Learning (ML) and related areas.
Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues
identified below. Papers will be blindly reviewed by three members of
the Programme Committee. Best papers will be published at Springer, in
LNAI series. If there are additional papers whose quality is
sufficiently high for deserving to be presented at TeMA’09, those
other accepted papers will be published in a conference proceedings
book.

[2] Topics of Interest

Text Mining:
- Language Models.
- Multi-word Units.
- Lexical Knowledge Acquisition.
- Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation.
- Semantic Restrictions Extraction.
- Acquisition and Usage of Ontologies in Text Mining.
- Pattern Extraction methodologies.
- Topic Segmentation.
- Word and Multi-word Translation Extraction.
- Sentiment Analysis.
- Text Entailment.
- Document Clustering and Classification.
- Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining.
- Information Extraction.

Applications:
- Natural Language Processing.
- Example-Based/Statistical Machine Translation.
- Automatic Summarization.
- Intelligent Information Retrieval.
- Multilingual access to multilingual information.
- Question-Answering Systems.
- E-training and E-learning.

[3] Important dates
29-April-09: Paper submission extended deadline
31-May-09: Notification of paper acceptance
15-July-09: Deadline for final versions
12-15 October-2009: Conference dates

[4] Paper submission

Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original,
and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length
of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting
instructions of Springer LNAI series. Authors should omit their names
from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care to avoid
indirectly disclosing their identity.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference
management website at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/EPIA2009.

[5] Track Fees:
Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2009 conference. No
extra fee shall be paid for attending this track.

[6] Organizing Committee:
Joaquim F. Ferreira da Silva. Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Portugal. José
G. Pereira Lopes. Universidade Nova de Lisboa,  Portugal.
Gaël Dias. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal.
Vitor R. Rocio. Universidade Aberta, Portugal.

[7] Program Committee:
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd, United Kingdom)
Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil).
Antoine Doucet (University of Caen, France).
António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Antonio Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA).
Belinda Maia (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Christel Vrain (Université d'Orléans, France).
Eric de La Clergerie (INRIA, France)
Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France).
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).
Gaël Dias (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Guillaume Cleuziou (University of Orléans, France).
Irene Rodrigues. Universidade de Évora, Portugal).
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).
Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska (ESIGETEL, France).
Luisa Coheur (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal).
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain).
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil).
Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom).
Nuno Mamede (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal).
Nuno Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal).
Pablo Gamallo (Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain).
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain).
Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal).
Pavel Brazdil (University of Porto, Portugal).
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, France).
Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia).
Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria).
Vitor Jorge Rocio (Universidade Aberta, Portugal).
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

[8] Contacts

Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre,
2829-516 Caparica, Portugal, Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax;
+351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516
Caparica, PortugalTel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10722 Fax; +351 21 294
8541; e-mail: gpl [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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