Appel: IES'14 special session on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems for Natural Language Processing

[Thierry Hamon]

Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 04:45:00 -0500 (EST)
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Apologies for cross-posting,

Submissions are invited for a special session on "Intelligent and
Evolutionary Systems for Natural Language Processing" of the 18th Asia
Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (IES'14), to
be held from 10th to 12th November 2014 in Singapore.

RATIONALE
As the Web rapidly evolves, Web users and Web contents are evolving with
it. In an era of social connectedness, people are becoming increasingly
enthusiastic about interacting, sharing, and collaborating through
social networks, online communities, blogs, Wikis, and other online
collaborative media. In recent years, this collective intelligence has
spread to many different areas, with particular focus on fields related
to everyday life such as commerce, tourism, education, and health,
causing the size of the Web to expand exponentially. The distillation of
knowledge from such a large amount of unstructured information, however,
is an extremely difficult task, as the contents of today's Web are
perfectly suitable for human consumption, but remain hardly accessible
to machines.

To this end, biologically and linguistically motivated computational
paradigms that go beyond syntax are needed. Intelligent and evolutionary
systems potentially have a large future possibility to play an important
role in natural language processing (NLP) research for tasks such as
grammatical evolution, knowledge discovery, and rule learning. In this
light, this Special Session focuses on the introduction, presentation,
and discussion of novel NLP systems that are not merely based on
domain-dependent corpora or word co-occurrence counts, but rather
systems that can be considered intelligent and evolutionary.  The main
motivation for the Special Session, in particular, is to go beyond a
mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel concept-level
approaches to natural language processing that allow a more efficient
passage from (unstructured) textual information to (structured)
machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Articles are thus invited in areas such as AI, Semantic Web,
knowledge-based systems, machine learning, and computational
intelligence for NLP research.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for information extraction and
  retrieval
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for text summarization and
  visualization
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for topic modeling
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for sentiment analysis
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for knowledge acquisition
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for social network analysis
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for adaptive and transfer
  learning
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for agents and complex systems
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for evolutionary game theory
- Intelligent and evolutionary systems for bioinformatics

The Special Session also welcomes papers on specific application domains
of natural language procesing, e.g., social data mining, influence
networks, customer experience management, computer mediated human-human
communication, social media marketing, multimedia management,
personalization and persuasion, enterprise feedback management,
human-agent, -computer and -robot interaction, intelligent user
interfaces, patient opinion mining, surveillance, art. The authors will
be required to follow the Author's Guide for manuscript submission to
the 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
(http://ies-2014.org/submission.html).

TIMEFRAME
Submission Deadline: August 1st, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: September 1st, 2014
Final Manuscripts Due: October 1st, 2014
Session dates: November 10-12th, 2014

ORGANIZATION
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University, China