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| |Acronym=NEWS 2009 | | |Acronym=NEWS 2009 |
| |Title=Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration | | |Title=Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration |
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− | |Official Website=http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/workshops/NEWS2009 | + | |Start Date=2009/08/06 |
| + | |End Date=2009/08/07 |
| + | |Event Status=as scheduled |
| + | |Event Mode=on site |
| |City=Singapore | | |City=Singapore |
| |Country=Country:SG | | |Country=Country:SG |
| + | |Academic Field=Natural Language Processing |
| + | |Official Website=http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/workshops/NEWS2009 |
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− | |Start Date=Aug 6, 2009
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− | |End Date=Aug 7, 2009
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− | |Camera-Ready Deadline=Jun 7, 2009 | + | |Camera-Ready Deadline=2009/06/07 |
− | |Submission Deadline=May 1, 2009 | + | |Submission Deadline=2009/05/01 |
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− | Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration (NEWS 2009 : An
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− | ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop)
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− | * Workshop Focus
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− | Named Entities (NEs) play a critical role in Natural Language Processing
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− | (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as search, machine
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− | translation, document clustering, summarization, information extraction,
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− | etc. While identifying and analyzing NEs in a given natural language is a
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− | challenging research problem by itself, the phenomenal growth in the
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− | Internet user population, especially among the non-English speaking parts of
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− | the world, has extended this problem to the cross-language arena, making the
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− | handling of NEs in multiple languages critically important.
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− |
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− | The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
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− | various aspects of NEs in natural language text. In addition, the NEWS
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− | workshop will feature a shared task on Machine Transliteration of NEs.
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− |
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− |
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− | * Topics of Interest
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− |
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− | This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of NEs,
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− | including identification, analysis, extraction, mining, transformation and
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− | applications of NE to NLP and IR systems. The topics of interest include,
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− | but are not limited to the following:
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− |
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− | NE Analysis
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− | - Distributional characteristics of NEs in mono- & multi-lingual corpora
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− | - Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NEs
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− | - NE origin/genre recognition
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− | - Social network analysis and entity resolution NE extraction
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− | - Language-independent monolingual NE extraction
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− | - Cross-language NE extraction
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− | - General Techniques
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− | - Specific datasets (Wikipedia, news, etc.)
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− | - Unsupervised and semi-supervised methods for NE extraction
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− | - Complex NEs, domain-specific term extraction
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− | - NE set expansion
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− | - Creation of annotated data
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− | Machine Transliteration
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− | - Computational phonology, incl. modeling of phonological rules,
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− | structure,
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− | behavior, etc.
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− | - Transliteration modeling
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− | - Phonetic, grapheme)phoneme and phoneme)grapheme conversions
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− | - Statistical & machine learning based approaches, transliteration unit
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− | alignments
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− | - Forward and backward transliterations
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− | - Learning transliteration from comparable corpora
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− | - Transliteration lexicon construction
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− | - Romanization of Asian languages
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− | - Transliteration evaluation metrics
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− | Applications
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− | - Monolingual and Cross-Language IR, Information Extraction and
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− | Management
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− | - Machine Translation
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− | - Question Answering
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− | - Computational Journalism
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− |
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− |
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− | * Important Dates
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− |
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− | *** Task Details to be announced soon ***
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− | Research Paper Submission Deadline 1-May-2009
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− | Acceptance Notification 1-Jun-2009
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− | Camera-Ready Copy Deadline 7-Jun-2009
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− | Workshop Date 7 Aug 2009
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− |
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− |
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− | * Shared Task on Transliteration
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− |
| |
− | Transliteration of NEs is necessary in many applications, such as machine
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− | translation, corpus alignment, cross-language IR, information extraction and
| |
− | automatic lexicon acquisition. This calls for high-performance
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− | transliteration systems, which is the focus of the shared task in this
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− | workshop. Details of the task will be made available soon in the workshop
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− | homepage,
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− |
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− |
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− | * Organizing Committee
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− | + Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research + A Kumaran Microsoft
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− | Research India + Sanjeev Khudanpur Johns Hopkins University + Raghavendra
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− | Udupa Microsoft Research India + Min Zhang Institute for Infocomm
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− | Research + Monojit Choudhury Microsoft Research India
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− |
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− | * Program Committee
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− | + Kalika Bali Microsoft Research India
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− | + Rafael Banchs UPC, Spain
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− | + Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Univ of Jadavpur, India
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− | + Pushpak Bhattacharyya IIT-Bombay, India
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− | + Monojit Choudhury Microsoft Research India
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− | + Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà UPC, Spain
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− | + Jianfeng Gao Microsoft Research, USA
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− | + Gregory Grefenstette Exalead, France
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− | + Sanjeev Khudanpur John Hopkins University, USA
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− | + Kevin Knight ISI, USA
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− | + Greg Kondrak Univ of Alberta, Canada
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− | + Olivia Kwong City Univ, Hong Kong
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− | + Gina-Anne Levow Univ of Chicago, USA
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− | + Arul Menezes Microsoft Research, USA
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− | + Jong-Hoon Oh NICT, Japan
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− | + Yan Qu Advertising.com, USA
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− | + Dan Roth Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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− | + Sunita Sarawagi IIT-Bombay, India
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− | + Sudeshna Sarkar IIT-Kharagpur, India
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− | + Richard Sproat Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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− | + Keh-Yih Su Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
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− | + Raghavendra Udupa Microsoft Research India
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− | + Vasudeva Varma IIIT-Hyderabad, India
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− | + Min Zhang Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
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− |
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− | * Workshop & Contact Information
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− |
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− | For current information about the workshop, please refer to the workshop
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− | homepage, http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/workshops/NEWS2009/. For any
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− | specific information please contact: news09o@microsoft.com.
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− |
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− |
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− | =======================================================
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− |
| |
− | Named Entities Workshop: Shared Task on Transliteration
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− |
| |
− | (NEWS 2009 : An ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Workshop
| |
− | )
| |
− |
| |
− | -------------------------------------------------------
| |
− |
| |
− | * Workshop Focus
| |
− |
| |
− | Named Entities (NEs) play a critical role in Natural Language Processing (NLP)
| |
− | and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as search, machine translation,
| |
− | document clustering, summarization, information extraction, etc. While
| |
− | identifying and analyzing NEs in a given natural language is a challenging
| |
− | research problem by itself, the phenomenal growth in the Internet user
| |
− | population, especially among the non-English speaking parts of the world,
| |
− | has extended this problem to the cross-language arena, making the handling
| |
− | of NEs in multiple languages critically important.
| |
− |
| |
− | The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in
| |
− | various aspects of NEs in natural language text. In addition, the NEWS workshop
| |
− | will feature a shared task on Machine Transliteration of NEs.
| |
− |
| |
− |
| |
− | * Topics of Interest
| |
− |
| |
− | This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of NEs,
| |
− | including identification, analysis, extraction, mining, transformation and
| |
− | applications of NE to NLP and IR systems. The topics of interest include,
| |
− | but are not limited to the following:
| |
− |
| |
− | NE Analysis
| |
− | - Distributional characteristics of NEs in mono- & multi-lingual corpora
| |
− | - Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NEs
| |
− |
| |
− | - NE origin/genre recognition
| |
− |
| |
− | - Social network analysis and entity resolution
| |
− | NE extraction
| |
− |
| |
− | - Language-independent monolingual NE extraction
| |
− |
| |
− | - Cross-language NE extraction
| |
− | - General Techniques
| |
− | - Specific datasets (Wikipedia, news, etc.)
| |
− |
| |
− | - Unsupervised and semi-supervised methods for NE extraction
| |
− |
| |
− | - Complex NEs, domain-specific term extraction
| |
− |
| |
− | - NE set expansion
| |
− |
| |
− | - Creation of annotated data
| |
− | Machine Transliteration
| |
− | - Computational phonology, incl. modeling of phonological rules, structure,
| |
− | behavior, etc.
| |
− | - Transliteration modeling
| |
− | - Phonetic, grapheme)phoneme and phoneme)grapheme conversions
| |
− | - Statistical & machine learning based approaches, transliteration unit
| |
− | alignments
| |
− | - Forward and backward transliterations
| |
− | - Learning transliteration from comparable corpora
| |
− | - Transliteration lexicon construction
| |
− | - Romanization of Asian languages
| |
− | - Transliteration evaluation metrics
| |
− | Applications
| |
− | - Monolingual and Cross-Language IR, Information Extraction and Management
| |
− | - Machine Translation
| |
− | - Question Answering
| |
− | - Computational Journalism
| |
− |
| |
− |
| |
− | * Important Dates
| |
− |
| |
− | *** Task Details to be announced soon ***
| |
− | Research Paper Submission Deadline 1-May-2009
| |
− | Acceptance Notification 1-Jun-2009
| |
− | Camera-Ready Copy Deadline 7-Jun-2009
| |
− | Workshop Date 7 Aug 2009
| |
− |
| |
− |
| |
− | * Shared Task on Transliteration
| |
− |
| |
− | Transliteration of NEs is necessary in many applications, such as machine
| |
− | translation, corpus alignment, cross-language IR, information extraction and
| |
− | automatic lexicon acquisition. This calls for high-performance transliteration
| |
− | systems, which is the focus of the shared task in this workshop. Details of
| |
− | the task will be made available soon in the workshop homepage,
| |
− |
| |
− |
| |
− | * Organizing Committee
| |
− | + Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research
| |
− | + A Kumaran Microsoft Research India
| |
− | + Sanjeev Khudanpur Johns Hopkins University
| |
− | + Raghavendra Udupa Microsoft Research India
| |
− | + Min Zhang Institute for Infocomm Research
| |
− | + Monojit Choudhury Microsoft Research India
| |
− |
| |
− | * Program Committee
| |
− |
| |
− | + Kalika Bali Microsoft Research India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Rafael Banchs UPC, Spain
| |
− |
| |
− | + Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Univ of Jadavpur, India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Pushpak Bhattacharyya IIT-Bombay, India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Monojit Choudhury Microsoft Research India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Marta Ruiz Costa-jussà UPC, Spain
| |
− |
| |
− | + Jianfeng Gao Microsoft Research, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Gregory Grefenstette Exalead, France
| |
− |
| |
− | + Sanjeev Khudanpur John Hopkins University, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Kevin Knight ISI, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Greg Kondrak Univ of Alberta, Canada
| |
− |
| |
− | + Olivia Kwong City Univ, Hong Kong
| |
− |
| |
− | + Gina-Anne Levow Univ of Chicago, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Arul Menezes Microsoft Research, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Jong-Hoon Oh NICT, Japan
| |
− |
| |
− | + Yan Qu Advertising.com, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Dan Roth Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
| |
− |
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− | + Sunita Sarawagi IIT-Bombay, India
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− |
| |
− | + Sudeshna Sarkar IIT-Kharagpur, India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Richard Sproat Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
| |
− |
| |
− | + Keh-Yih Su Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan
| |
− |
| |
− | + Raghavendra Udupa Microsoft Research India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Vasudeva Varma IIIT-Hyderabad, India
| |
− |
| |
− | + Min Zhang Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
| |
− |
| |
− | * Workshop & Contact Information
| |
− |
| |
− | For current information about the workshop, please refer to the workshop
| |
− | homepage, http://www.acl-ijcnlp-2009.org/workshops/NEWS2009/. For any
| |
− | specific information please contact: news09o@microsoft.com.
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