Corpora: CFP: COLING 2000 Workshop on Semantic Annotation and Intelligent Content

From: Paul Buitelaar (paulb@dfki.de)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 19:00:42 MET

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    COLING 2000 Workshop on Semantic Annotation and Intelligent Content

    Centre Universitaire, Luxembourg, 5/6 August, 2000

    Topic and Motivation

    SEMANTIC ANNOTATION is augmentation of data to facilitate automatic
    recognition of the underlying semantic structure. A common practice in
    this respect is labeling of documents with thesaurus classes for the
    sake of document classification and management. In the medical domain,
    for instance, there is a long-standing tradition in terminology
    maintenance and annotation/classification of documents using standard
    coding systems such as ICD, MeSH and the MLS metathesaurus. Semantic
    annotation in a broader sense also addresses document structure (title,
    section, paragraph, etc.), linguistic structure (dependency,
    coordination, thematic role, coreference, etc.), and so forth. In NLP,
    semantic annotation has been used in connection with machine-learning
    software trainable on annotated corpora for parsing, word-sense
    disambiguation, coreference resolution, summarization, information
    extraction, and other tasks. A still unexplored but important potential
    of semantic annotation is that it can provide a common I/O format
    through which to integrate various component technologies in NLP and AI
    such as speech recognition, parsing, generation, inference, and so on.

    INTELLIGENT CONTENT is semantically structured data that is used for a
    wide range of content-oriented applications such as classification,
    retrieval, extraction, translation, presentation, and
    question-answering, as the organization of such data provides machines
    with accurate semantic input to those technologies. Semantically
    annotated resources as described above are typical examples of
    intelligent content, whereas another major class includes electronic
    dictionaries and interlingual or knowledge-representation data. Some
    ongoing projects along these lines are GDA (Global Document Annotation),
    UNL (Universal Networking Language) and SHOE (Simple HTML Ontology
    Extension), all of which aim at motivating people to semantically
    organize electronic documents in machine-understandable formats, and at
    developing and spreading content-oriented application technologies aware
    of such formats. Along similar lines, MPEG-7 is a framework for
    semantically annotating audiovisual data for the sake of content-based
    retrieval and browsing, among others. Incorporation of linguistic
    annotation into MPEG-7 is in the agenda, because linguistic descriptions
    already constitute a main part of existing metadata.

    In short, semantic annotation is a central, basic technology for
    intelligent content, which in turn is a key notion in systematically
    coordinating various applications of semantic annotation. In the hope of
    fueling some of the developments mentioned above and thus promoting the
    linkage between basic researches and practical applications, the
    workshop invites researchers and practitioners from such fields as
    computational linguistics, document processing, terminology, information
    science, and multimedia content, among others, to discuss various
    aspects of semantic annotation and intelligent content in an
    interdisciplinary way. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

                authoring/annotation tools
                integrated software architecture based on semantic
    annotation
                language-based multimedia annotation
                standardization and interoperability

                semantic annotation, intelligent content and:

                      document classification
                      information extraction
                      information retrieval (interactive, pinpoint,
    content-based, etc.)
                      intelligent/interactive manual
                      knowledge circulation and management
                      knowledge mining
                      machine translation
                      presentation (interactive, multimodal/multimedia,
    etc.)
                      question answering
                      summarization (multimedia, multidocument, itemized,
    graphical, etc.)

    Please note: Submissions on syntactic annotation (tools, methods,
    standards, etc.) should not be submitted to this workshop, but rather to
    the COLING Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora.

    Program Committee

           Amit Bagga (GE Corporate R&D, USA)
           Paul Buitelaar (DFKI-LT, Germany -- Co-Chair)
           Gregor Erbach (FTW, Austria)
           Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
           Wolfgang Giere (ZINFO, University of Frankfurt, Germany)
           Nicola Guarino (Ladseb-CNR Padova, Italy)
           Koiti Hasida (ETL, Japan -- Co-Chair)
           Boris Katz (AI Laboratory, MIT, USA)
           Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton, UK)
           Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University, USA)
           Katashi Nagao (IBM TRL, Japan)
           Hiroshi Nakagawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
           Hwee Tou Ng (DSO, Singapore)
           Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
           Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
           Steffen Staab (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
           Henry Thompson (Edinburgh University, UK)
           Hiroshi Uchida (United Nations University, Japan)
           Remi Zajac (CRL, New Mexico State University, USA)

    Schedule

    Two day workshop with an equal amount of invited and refereed
    presentations on day one, plus a number of smaller working groups with
    group presentations on day two.

           Paper submission deadline April 30
           Notification of acceptance/rejection May 30
           Publication of workshop program June 15
           Workshop August 5/6

    Submission

    Submissions, in English, of at most 5000 words (in PS or PDF format)
    should be sent (preferably by email) to the following two organizers:

           Paul Buitelaar ( paulb@dfki.de )
           DFKI
           Language Technology
           Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
           D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany

           Koiti Hasida ( hasida@etl.go.jp )
           Information Science Division
           Electrotechnical Laboratory
           1-1-4, Umezono, Tukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan

    Workshop webpage: http://www.dfki.de/~paulb/workshop/cfp.html



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