[Apologies to those of you who receive multiple copies of this
announcement]
MEANING-2005
2nd Workshop organized by the MEANING Project
February 3-4, 2005, Trento, Italy
Web site:
http://tcc.itc.it/events/meaning2005/
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Following the first Workshop held in Donostia-San Sebastian last year,
the MEANING project (Developing Multilingual Web-Scale Language
Resources - http://www.lsi.upc.es/~nlp/meaning/meaning.html) is now
organizing a second workshop for the 3 and 4 February 2005, to be held
at ITC-irst in Trento, Italy.
The workshop will provide an excellent opportunity to bring together
major experts in the fields of Natural Language Processing to discuss
the role of Word Sense Disambiguation, Multilingual Language Resources
and large-scale Knowledge Acquisition in view of concrete application
perspectives. Papers are invited that are concerned with topics in
these areas, including, but not limited to, the following:
* Knowledge Representation and Integration
- Integration of ontologies and linguistic resources
- Representing and integrating multilingual linguistic information
* Knowledge Acquisition
- Large-scale acquisition of linguistic information
- Web-based techniques for knowledge acquisition
* Word Sense Disambiguation
- New approaches to WSD, including the use of new resources and
bootstrapping techniques
- Use of parallel corpora for word sense disambiguation
* Application perspectives
- applications of word sense disambiguation techniques (e.g.
cross-language information retrieval, question answering,
machine translation, summarization)
- applications in the Semantic Web field
INVITED SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
(others to be confirmed)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken)
Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
Eduard Hovy (USC - Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey)
Oliviero Stock (ITC-irst, Trento)
Paola Velardi (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa)
Organizing Committee
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Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton)
David Farwell (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Luis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Bernardo Magnini (ITC-irst, Trento)
Lluis Padro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-irst, Trento)
German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-irst, Trento)
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft)
Local organization
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Bernardo Magnini (contact person: magnini@itc.it)
Luisa Bentivogli
Alessandro Tuccio
Submission formats
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Submissions are invited for a limited number of oral presentations and
for posters. Paper submission templates for both Latex and Word are
available at the workshop website. Submissions should not exceed 6
pages in length and should be sent, pdf file, to Bernardo Magnini
(magnini@itc.it) by October 25th. Besides the workshop Proceedings,
we also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book form
after the workshop.
Venue
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The workshop will be held in Trento, at Fondazione Caritro, Via
Calepina 1, in the historical center of the town.
Important dates
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25 October 2004 Paper submission
12 November 2004 Notification of acceptance
10 December 2004 Final papers due
20 December 2004 Deadline for early registration
3-4 February 2005 Workshop
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