Appel: BULAG 2010, NLP and the new issues of knowledge expression on the Web

[Thierry Hamon]

Centre Lucien Tesnière
Faculté des Lettres
Besançon 

 
                              BULAG 2010
                           Call for papers


Knowledge processing has always been an important part of NLP and
HLT. This area (knowledge engineering) is directly related to
artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences, but also concerns
expertise processing, formatting know-how, interpersonal skills,
marketing, commercial and industrial technologies,and knowledge
industry issues in all its forms.

Compared to raw text or text databases, knowledge is generally defined
as extracted, selected, compared, evaluated, structured, organized,
usable, transferable and possibly marketable information in a given
field.  Many proposals of concepts and tools have been made for
extracting, structuring knowledge, such as ontology building for
instance.
 
The 2010 Bulag subject is in keeping with this theme :

      NLP and the new issues of knowledge expression on the Web.

Focusing on the development of knowledge with the Internet: blogs,
chats, e-mails, online encyclopaedias, wikis, e-marketing, e-learning,
e-politics, what new forms of knowledge are found? 

How can we extract information from texts, images, animations and
process the data? With what tools? For what purpose? That is to say,
what new industrial applications can we expect? 


Some suggestions have been proposed: 

- use of lexical resources, technical terminology databases. 

- use of structured knowledge systems: frames, scripts, semantic
  networks, conceptual networks to understand technical texts or
  newspapers for question answering. 

- use of knowledge architectures relying upon natural language
  processing, as well as resources and NLP tools available in robotics
  or industrial ontologies.

The systems must integrate web communication and common sense
processing ...

It remains to be seen what areas, what NLP tools, what types of
treatments are concerned, what tools should be modified or created.


People in charge: 
Bilal Shafei PhD                   Henry Madec 
TC / Columbia University           Center Tesnière 
ITS -- BBE department              Faculté des Lettres de Franche Comté 
525 West 120th Street. 3           30 rue Mégevand Besançon 25030 
New York, NY10027-6696             E-mail: henri.madec @ univ-fcomte.fr 
Tel: (212) 678-8237 
Fax (212) 678 8237 
Email: bs2517 at columbia.edu 


Important dates: 
Deadline: September 15, 2010 
Acceptance of paper: September 30, 2010. 
Final version: October 15, 2010. 

Items must be written in English in about 5000 words, following these
constraints:

Title 
Author 
Name of research center 
University 
City 
Country 
Abstract 
Keywords 
Full Article 
Bibliography 

You can dowload a model on the website: 
http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr/ressources/blgmoden.doc 

Items should be sent as an attachment to: henri.madec @ univ-fcomte.fr

If unable to send mail, it is possible to send the text on CD and mail
to:

M. Henri Madec 
Centre Tesnière 
Faculté des Lettres 
Université of Franche-Comte 
30 Rue Mégevand 
25030 Besançon Cedex 
France 

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