NLP 2012 - 3rd Workshop of the People's Web meets NLP

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Deadline: March 18, 2012 | Date: July 12, 2012-July 13, 2012

Venue/Country: Jeju, South Korea

Updated: 2012-01-23 13:30:35 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP

Jeju, Republic of Korea

July 12-13, 2012

http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop

===Schedule===

March 18, 2012 Paper submission deadline (full and short)

April 16, 2012 Notification of acceptance

April 30, 2012 Camera-ready version due

July 12-13, 2012 ACL 2012 Workshops

===Introduction===

Recent recognition of Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (CSRs) has

substantially contributed to the research in natural language processing (NLP).

The 3rd workshop "The People's Web meets NLP" invites both long and short papers

on various CSRs-related topics. Preference will be given to submissions on CSRs'

application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest of this workshop

edition. We also welcome tutorial-like submissions on using the software for

CSRs to facilitate their wide adoption by the NLP community.

Specific topics include but are not limited to:

* Using collaboratively constructed resources and the information mined from

them for NLP tasks (cf. Section "References"), such as word sense

disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information retrieval, text

categorization, information extraction, question answering, etc.;

* Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured lexical

semantic resources, annotated corpora and the corresponding tools;

* Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources related to

their use in NLP;

* Computational linguistics studies of collaboratively constructed resources,

such as wiki-based platforms or folksonomies;

* Structural and semantic interoperability of collaboratively constructed

resources with conventional semantic resources and between themselves;

* Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed resources;

* Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to create

novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, simplified versions

of resources, etc.;

* Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed lexical semantic

resources and annotated corpora;

* Hands-on practical knowledge on utilization of CSR APIs and tools or

designing

crowdsourcing procedures for high quality outcomes.

Though the workshop welcomes any CSRs-related topics, preference will be given

to submissions on CSRs' application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest

of this workshop edition. Thereby, we encourage the participation of

researchers

with various backgrounds: from computational linguistics (e.g. parsing and

discourse analysis) to NLP applications and other areas that might benefit from

collaboratively constructed semantic resources. Given that we receive a

sufficient number of tutorial-like submissions, a dedicated

presentation session

for those will be scheduled.

For details, please refer to the workshop website:

http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop

===Organizers===

Iryna Gurevych Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt

Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR

Jungi Kim Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt

===Program Committee===

Andras Csomai Google Inc.

Andreas Hotho Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Anette Frank Heidelberg University

Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar

Christian Meyer Technische Universität Darmstadt

David Milne University of Waikato

Delphine Bernhard University of Strasbourg

Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd, UK

Donald Metzler Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern

California

Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania

Ernesto William De Luca Technische Universität Berlin

Florian Laws University of Stuttgart

Gerard de Melo UC Berkeley

German Rigau University of the Basque Country

Graeme Hirst University of Toronto

Günter Neumann DFKI Saarbrücken

Ido Dagan Bar Ilan University

John McCrae University of Bielefeld

Jong-Hyeok Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology

Judith Eckle-Kohler Technische Universität Darmstadt

Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Manfred Stede Universität Potsdam

Massimo Poesio University of Essex

Omar Alonso Microsoft Bing

Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal

Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada

Shuming Shi Microsoft Research

Sören Auer Leipzig University

Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore

Tonio Wandmacher SYSTRAN, Paris, France

Zornitsa Kozareva Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern

California