[Corpora-List] ACL-2003 Workshop CFP: Multilingual & Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition: Combining Statistical and Symbolic Models

From: Priscilla Rasmussen (rasmusse@cs.rutgers.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 23:09:17 MET

  • Next message: Priscilla Rasmussen: "[Corpora-List] HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop CFP: Workshop on Text Meaning"

    Multilingual and Mixed-language Named Entity Recognition:
    Combining Statistical and Symbolic Models
    (http://research.microsoft.com/conferences/mulner-acl03/)

    ACL 2003 Workshop - Sapporo, Japan - 12 July 2003
    INVITED SPEAKER: David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University)

    CALL FOR PAPERS
    Named Entity (NE) Recognition systems vary widely, from high-speed bulk
    methods optimized for indexing, to deep semantic parsers tuned for
    specific domains. Optimal ways to combine statistical and symbolic
    models also vary, depending on applications and tasks. Is it possible
    to:

            *maximize use of knowledge-rich resources (e.g. lexicons, NE
    grammars, parsing) while permitting corpus-based training for domain or
    language?
            *acquire and share resources (including lexicons and grammars)
    across languages?
            *balance performance speed with reasonable accuracy?
            *use specific language patterns while permitting rapid transfer
    to another language?
            *minimize variability in results across language types?

    We welcome research on combined models, in which these tradeoffs are
    calculated in particular ways. We hope that the workshop will bring
    together work on robust and deep multilingual and mixed language NE
    recognition from different perspectives. Possible topics include:

            *the role of the lexicon vs. dynamic processing information
            *grammars and lexicons shared (or ported) across languages
            *acquisition of multilingual resources (e.g. from corpora)
            *translating NEs across multiple languages
            *domain tuning

    Papers may cover one or more of these (or related) areas.
    Demonstrations of implemented NE systems are also welcome.

    PAPER SUBMISSION
    Authors should use the main ACL conference format (anonymous papers,
    maximum 8 pages including references):
    http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/callforpapers.html

    Papers should be submitted electronically in Word, PDF or PostScript
    format. Assign a filename based on the paper's title, transfer to
    ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/incoming/josephp then email an
    identification page with title, author(s), contact details, and filename
    to molsen@microsoft.com

    IMPORTANT DATES
    *Submission deadline: 4 April 2003
    *Notification of acceptance: 14 May 2003
    *Deadline for final papers: 28 May 2003
    *Workshop date: 12 July 2003

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE
    Roberto Basili (University of Roma Tor Vergata)
    Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield)
    Ralph Grishman (New York University)
    Lauri Karttunen (Parc, Inc.)
    Kevin Knight (USC ISI)
    Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
    Dekang Lin (University of Alberta)
    Boyan Onyshkevich (Department of Defense)
    John Prager (IBM Corp.)
    Jeff Reynar (Microsoft Corp.)
    Mila Ramos-Santacruz (SRA International, Inc.)
    Ellen Riloff (University of Utah)
    Beth Sundheim (NCCOSC, San Diego)
    Janine Toole (Gavagai Technology)
    Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)
    Marc Vilain (MITRE Corp.)
    Sornlertlamvanich Virach (Thailand National Electronics and Computer
    Technology)



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Feb 12 2003 - 21:01:46 MET