[Corpora-List] RANLP MMIES Workshop (Multi-source Information Extraction and Summarization): 2nd call for participation

[Thierry Poibeau]

Second Call for Participation 



Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization 



  http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~poibeau/mmies.html 



    Workshop to be held in conjunction with  



          *** RANLP 2007 *** 

       http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2007/ 



           Borovets - Bulgaria 

      *** 26th of September 2007 *** 









OVERVIEW 



Information extraction (IE) and text summarization (TS) are key technologies 

aiming at extracting relevant information from texts 

and other sources and  presenting the information to the user in condensed 

forms. Recent years have 

witnessed an explosion of information, making IE and TS particularly important 

for the information society. These technologies, however, face new challenges 

with the adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm (e.g. blogs, wikis) because of their 

inherent multi-source nature. These technologies have to deal no longer with 

isolated texts or single narratives but with large scale repositories, or 

sources -- in one or many languages -- containing a multiplicity of views, 

opinions, or commentaries on particular topics, entities or events. There is 

thus a need to adapt and/or develop new techniques to deal with these new 

phenomena. The ``Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and 

Summarization'' workshop  will cover  the following questions: 



 



    * What methods are appropriate to detect similar/complementary/contradictory 

information? Are hand-crafted rules and knowledge-rich approaches convenient? 



    * What methods are there to tackle cross-document and cross-lingual entity 

and event coreference? 



    * What machine learning approaches are most appropriate for this task: supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised? What type of corpora is required for 

training and testing? 



    * What techniques are appropriate to produce condensed synthesis of the 

extracted information? What generation techniques are useful here? What kind 

of techniques can be used to cross domains and languages? 



    * What tools are there to support multi-lingual/multi-source access to 

information? What solutions are there beyond full document translation to 

produce cross-lingual summaries?  





INVITED  SPEAKER 



Invited speaker: Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST). 





PROGRAMME   

10:00 - 10:10 — Welcome


 10:10 - 11:30 — Invited Talk: Bernardo Magnini - ITC-IRST - Italy     


11:30 - 12:00 — Coffee Break    


12:00 - 13:00 — Papers  
   12:00 - 12:30 — Disambiguation of Standardized Personal    Name Variants. —  Patricia Driscoll and David Yarowsky. 
   12:30 - 13:00 — Using Information Extraction to Improve Cross-lingual Document    Retrieval. — Dilek Hakkani-T�r, Heng Ji, and Ralph Grishman   


13:00 - 14:30 — Lunch    


14:30 - 15:30 — Papers  
   14:30 - 15:00 —   Ontological Integration of Information Extracted from Multiple    Sources. — Adam Funk, Diana Maynard, Horacio Saggion, and Kalina    Bontcheva. 
   14:30 - 15:00 — Combining Information about Epidemic    Threats from Multiple Sources. — Roman Yargarber, Clive Best, Peter von Etter, Flavio Fuart, David Horby, and Ralf Steinberger. 


15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee Break 


15:30 - 16:00 — Papers  
   15:30 - 16:00 —  Unsupervised Learning of Social Networks from a Multiple-Source    News Corpus. — Hristo Tanev.  
   16:00 - 16:30 — Multilingual Multi-document    Continuously-updated Social Networks. — Bruno Pouliquen, Ralf Steinberger, and Jenya Belyaeva.  


16:30 - 17:00 — Open Discussion 

  17:00 - 17:10 — Farewell 


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS 



    * Thierry Poibeau  

      LIPN-CNRS, U. Paris 13 

      France 



    * Horacio Saggion 

      NLP Group, U. Sheffield 

      United Kingdom 





PROGRAM COMMITTEE 



    * Sophia Ananiadou (U. Manchester, UK) 

    * Roberto Basili (U. Roma Tor Vergata, Italy) 

    * Kalina Bontcheva (U. Sheffield, UK) 

    * Nathalie Colineau (CSIRO,  Australia) 

    * Nigel Collier (NII, Japan) 

    * Hercules Dalianis (KTH/Stockholm University, Sweden) 

    * Thierry Declerk (DFKI, Germany) 

    * Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, France) 

    * Kentaro Inui (NAIST, Japan) 

    * Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 

    * Guy Lapalme (U. Montreal, Canada) 

    * Diana Maynard (U. Sheffield, UK) 

    * Jean-Luc Minel (CNRS-Modyco, France) 

    * Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 

    * Cecile Paris (CSIRO, Australia) 

    * Agnes Sandor (Xerox XRCE, France) 

    * Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy) 

    * Stan Szpakowicz (University of Ottawa, Canada) 

    * Lucy Vanderwende (Microsoft  Research, USA) 

    * Jose Luis Vicedo (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) 

    * Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki, Finland) 

    * Liang Zhou (ISI, USA) 

    * Michael Zock (LIF, France) 



CONTACT US 



e-mail: thierry.poibeau _at_ lipn.univ-paris13.fr (replace _at_ with @) 





 











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