Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop
International Workshop
held as part of the Eurolan 2005 Summer School
25 July - 6 August,
2005,
Babes-Bolyai University,
Call for Papers
NEW!!! List of accepted papers
The dates of the workshop are August 2, 3, 4. See updated schedule.
Knowledge of words and text behavior in other
languages has recently been used to help solving tasks in a first language. An
example of such a task is word-sense disambiguation by using translations in a
second language. Another example is verb classification by studying properties
of verbs in several languages.
A second modality of knowledge transfer across
languages is to take advantage of resources already built for English and for a
few other resource-rich languages. These
resources have been used to induce knowledge in languages for which few
linguistic resources are available. This was made possible by the wider
availability of parallel corpora (better alignment methods at paragraph,
sentence, and word level). Examples of knowledge induction tasks are: learning
morphology, part-of-speech tags, and grammatical gender. The
development of wordnets for many languages used as a
starting point knowledge transfer from the Princeton WordNet.
This workshop will provide a forum for
discussion between leading names in the field and researchers involved in
cross-language applications. We would like to invite researchers, master and
Ph.D. students, to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop.
Special
consideration will be given to papers for which one of the languages involved
in the knowledge transfer is an East-European language. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
·
applications that exploit parallel corpora (aligned at paragraph,
sentence, or word level).
·
induction of knowledge from a language for which resources are
abundant to another language for which fewer resources are available.
·
using other languages to
solve a task in a first language:
o
word-sense disambiguation by using translations in other languages.
o
verb classification by studying verb properties in several
languages.
o
other tasks of this kind
·
identifying and using cognate words between languages.
·
building wordnets by knowledge transfer.
·
exploiting
multi-language wordnets for NLP applications.
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Submission Requirements
Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages
extended abstract in electronic form (pdf only) by
5th of May 2005. The review process is not blind
(same as for similar workshops over the past years).
Authors
of accepted papers should submit the final version in
electronic format not later than 20th of June. The final version must be in pdf format. If you have problems delivering your paper in pdf format, please contact the organizing committee. We can
assist you with converting from Word format into pdf
format. If your paper is a ps file, please convert
into pdf and make sure all the fonts are included.
The maximum length of the paper should be 8 pages. This workshop uses the same
guidelines as ACL-2005. The instructions can be found here. Please do
not insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem following
the style please contact the organizing committee as soon as possible. All the papers should be sent to
diana@site.uottawa.ca
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Important Dates
Submission Deadline:
5th
May 2005
Notification of Acceptance: 5th June 2005
Camera-ready Papers: 20th June 2005
Demos of working or under development systems
are encouraged.
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Registration
People wanting to attend the workshop must be
registered at the Eurolan 2005 School. Participation
to the workshop is open to all Eurolan 2005
attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of
the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early
registration fee no matter the date they register.
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Programme Committee
Eneko Agirre
(
Paul
Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Silviu Cucerzan
(Microsoft
Mona Diab (
Lluís Màrquez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Joel Martin (National Research Council of
Rada Mihalcea
(
Viviana Nastase
(
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth,
US)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Philip Resnik (
Laurent Romary (LORIA,
Michel Simard (Xerox Research Centre Europe,
Suzanne Stevenson (
Doina Tatar (
Amalia Todirascu
(
Dan Tufis (
Nikolai Vazov (
Organizing committee
Diana Inkpen (
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)