WORKSHOP
on
“Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European Languages”
Supported by the European Commission under contract ICA1-2000-70016 "BIS-21 Centre of Excellence"

Workshop Goals

The workshop will focus on Information Extraction (IE) for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European languages. Information Extraction is the process of deriving quantifiable, unambiguous data from natural language text or speech. Various types of data may be extracted, from simple entity identification, through entity reference resolution and descriptive modifier attachment, to the identification of complex events and relations.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

- unique challenges for IE in these languages

- architectures and development environments for IE in these languages

- portability of existing IE tools for other languages

- named entity recognition

- relation extraction

- template filling and scenario templates

- corpus studies and statistical techniques for IE in these languages

- linguistic aspects of IE for these languages

- evaluation of IE for these languages

Intended Audience

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers working on Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European languages. There is now a growing body of research in this area and this workshop aims to provide a forum for these researchers to exchange insight and discuss problems. This will also give an opportunity to push further the discussion on portability of information extraction tools across languages.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Chair: Elena Paskaleva (LMD, CLPP)

Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield)

Galia Angelova (LMD, CLPP)

Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield)

IMPROTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 May

Notification of acceptance: 10 July

Camera-ready copy deadline: 5 August

Workshop Borovetz, Bulgaria: 8-9 September