CBA 2008

CBA-2008: Call for Papers CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES TO COREFERENCE RESOLUTION IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES

Deadline for abstract submission: Thursday September 25, 2008 Workshop location: Universitat de Barcelona. Workshop Email : cba2008@ub.edu

DESCRIPTION -- Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya begin a series of workshops devoted to Corpus-based Approaches to Discourse Analysis CBA Workshops. We are particularly interested in innovative perspectives on the use and exploitation of corpora in going one step beyond the state of the art. The first workshop in this series, CBA-2008, will focus on Coreference Resolution in Romance Languages. This workshop aims to exploit annotated data in order to make the most of machine learning techniques for coreference resolution. For coreference we understand identifying the full chain of mentions for each entity in the discourse, rather than pairs of antecedent-anaphor. We believe there is a need to bring together linguists and computer scientists, and we invite unpublished contributions which relate to issues of this field with a special emphasis on though not limited to Romance languages.

Topics of interest: - Exploring techniques/strategies for collecting better data in this area - Studies of relevant features for coreference resolution - Studies of knowledge sources for coreference resolution and strategies for inferring useful linguistic cues - ML algorithms of coreference resolution - Learning features from annotated/raw corpora - Portability of English coreference resolution systems to Romance languages

Further information is available on the web http://stel.ub.edu/cba2008 Registration is free!

INVITED SPEAKERS

Véronique Hoste (University of Antwerp) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas) Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, Università di Trento)

IMPORTANT DATES --- Abstract submission deadline: 25 September 2008 Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2008 Final version of abstracts: 1 November 2008 Workshop: 13-15 November 2008 Early version of full papers: 15 January 2009 Camera ready full papers: 5 March 2009

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length, including references, using a 12 pt. font with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Abstracts should be in form of a PDF file and should be submitted electronically using the abstract submission software available at http://stel.ub.edu/cba2008/submission.php

PROCEEDINGS

After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a monographic issue of the SEPLN journal: Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 42 (April 2009).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Antonio Balvet (Université Lille 3, France) Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton, UK) M. Antònia Martí (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Patricio Martínez-Barco (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Roser Morante (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Rafael Muñoz (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Costanza Navarretta (CST ^�? Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark) Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Lluís Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK / Università di Trento, Italy) Marta Recasens (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Horacio Rodríguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Mihai Surdeanu (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain) Mariona Taulé (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Jordi Turmo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Alfonso Ureña (Universidad de Jaén, Spain) Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Holland)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - M. Antònia Martí Lluís Padró Marta Recasens Emili Sapena Mariona Taulé Jordi Turmo This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP