NEW: List of accepted
papers!!!! Workshop
Program!!!
Knowledge of the behavior of words and text 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 and better alignment methods
at paragraph, sentence, and word level. Examples of such knowledge induction
tasks are learning morphology, part-of-speech tags and grammatical gender.
Cross-language knowledge transfer has also been possible thanks to the development
of wordnets aligned to the original Princeton WordNet.
This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names
and researchers involved in cross-language applications. We would like to
invite researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the
workshop. Special consideration will be given to papers that deal with "less
electronically-visible" languages (i.e. languages with scarce electronic
resources). Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged.
Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
- applications that exploit parallel corpora:
- learning morphological segmentation
- learning part-of-speech
- learning grammatical gender
- other applications
- 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:
- word-sense disambiguation by using translations in other
languages.
- verb classification by studying verb properties in several
languages.
- other tasks of this kind
- identifying and using cognate words between languages.
- building wordnets by knowledge transfer.
- exploiting multi-language wordnets for NLP applications.
IMPORTANT DATES
January 15, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers
January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance
February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due
April 3, 2006 - Workshop date
Invited speakers:
Mona Diab (Columbia University, US)
Talk: Building automated resources using cross-language knowledge
induction methods
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
Talk: Cross-lingual and cross-corpora knowledge induction: RACAI
experience
Submission
instructions:
Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work
in the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should be formatted
using the EACL 2006 stylefiles with overt author and affiliation information
and not exceeding 8 pages. The EACL 2006 stylefiles are available at http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm
Please submit your PDF file no later than January 6, 2006, by going to
the following URL (see the instructions there): http://www.softconf.com/start/EACL06_WS04/
Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the programme
committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are allowed;
if you submit to the main session, indicate this when you submit to the
workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main session, you should
withdraw your paper from the workshop upon notification by the main session.
Organizing committee
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain)
Programme Committee
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, US)
Mona Diab (Columbia University, US)
Greg Kondrak (University of Alberta, Canada)
Lluís Màrquez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Barcelona, Spain)
Joel Martin (National Research Council of Canada)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US)
Viviana Nastase (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland, US)
German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain)
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France)
Michel Simard (National Research Council of Canada)
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Doina Tatar (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Amalia Todirascu (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
Nikolai Vazov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
CONTACT INFORMATION
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain)
649 Posta kutxa, E-20080 Donostia, Spain,
tel: +34 943 015 019, fax: +34 943 015 590,
email: e.agirre@ehu.es