AST 2011 - AST 2011 : Analyzing short texts: Soft computing and other approaches

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Category AST 2011

Deadline: February 04, 2011 | Date: August 29, 2011-August 31, 2011

Venue/Country: Trani, Italy

Updated: 2011-01-27 13:09:16 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

== Trani (Italy), August 29-31, 2011

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Modern communication is increasingly centered on the exchange of shorter

and shorter messages. For instance, SMS messages must fit into a

140-characters limit, and so do Twitter's tweets. Results from web

search engines are summarized by short snippets, which often carry all

the requested information, avoiding a visit to the actual, referred

page. But even when no external constraint is imposed, texts tend to

become shorter and more up to the point, simply to avoid wasting time

and effort.

As these examples clearly indicate, the field of natural language

processing and interpretation is in need of efficient techniques to

tackle this kind of problems. Traditionally, analysis of natural

language texts assumes that several properties can be inferred by

statistical considerations. Such is the case, for instance, for tf-idf

weighting, where frequencies are lightheartedly assumed to stand for

probabilities proper, due to the abundance of terms in the documents of

a given collection. Another instance is provided by language detection,

which is obviously easier for longer texts allowing, e.g., grammatical

or structural analysis. When removing some of these assumptions,

uncertainty grows, and so does the need for methods that take it into

account explicitly.

This session is therefore devoted to advances in methods that do not

make large-sample assumptions, and instead take the challenge to tackle

the uncertainty that arises in the analysis of short text segments.

Submissions describing soft-computing approaches to the above problems,

as well as works blurring the border between different approaches, are

especially welcome. We are interested, for instance (but not

exclusively), in works dealing with the following topics:

- Extracting knowledge from short communications (SMS, Twitter, etc.)

- Identification of changes in language, topic and context within text paragraphs

- Language identification in multilingual text fragments

- Categorization of text snippets

- Word sense disambiguation in short texts

Submit your paper directly at

http://wilf2011.di.uniba.it/index.php/submission. Please select “Special

Session on Analyzing short texts”. Papers will go through the same peer

reviewing process as the rest of contributed papers.

All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings

(Springer-Verlag LNCS/LNAI)

submission: extended deadline February 4, 2011

review results February 21, 2011

final version and registration March 15, 2011

workshop August 29-31, 2011

GIRPR Prize: The Italian Group of Italian Researchers in Pattern

Recognition (GIRPR) will award a young researcher for the best paper

presented at WILF 2011. The award will consist of a ?500 grant and a

two-years subscription to GIRPR. The selection of the winner will be

made by the general chairs of WILF 2011.

keynote speaker

Roberto Navigli, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

(tentative, to be confirmed)

organizers

Stefano Rovetta, University of Genova, Italy - stedisi.unige.it

Paolo Rosso, Universidad Politécnica Valencia, Spain - prossodsic.upv.es

special session experts

Mikhail Alexandrov, Univ. Autónoma Barcelona, Spain

Pierpaolo Basile, Univ. degli Studi di Bari, Italy

Roberto Basili, Univ. di Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy

Dasha Bogdanova, Saint Petersburg University, Russia

Davide Buscaldi, Univ. d'Orléans, France

Leticia Cagnina, Univ. Nacional San Luis, Argentina

Roxana Danger, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Mirko Degli Esposti, Univ. di Bologna, Italy

Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Univ. di Padova, Italy

Marcelo Errecalde, Univ. Nacional San Luis, Argentina

Pamela Forner, CELCT, Italy

Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, IBM Watson, USA

Lidia Moreno, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Alessandro Moschitti, Univ. di Trento, Italy

Marco Pennacchiotti, Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara, USA

Emanuele Pianta, CELCT, Italy

David Pinto, Ben. Univ. Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico

Antonio Reyes, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico

Marco Turchi, EU Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy

Luís Villaseñor, INAOE-Puebla, Mexico

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Univ. di Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy