CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fifth Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2015)
— Shared Task on Transliteration
An ACL 2015 Workshop on 31 July 2015, Beijing, China
Websites:
Workshop and shared task website: http://www.colips.org/workshop/news2015/index.html
Paper submission portal: https://www.softconf.com/acl2015/NEWS/
Workshop:
Named Entities (NE) play a crucial role in many monolingual and multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP)
and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as document search, clustering, information extraction, etc.
The phenomenal growth of the Internet data and the dramatic changes in the user demographics especially
among the non-English speaking parts of the world, has made identification, association and transformation
Named Entities across languages a critical path problem for most NLP and IR Tasks.
The Fifth Workshop on Named Entities (NEWS 2015) together with a Shared Task on Transliteration is a continuous
effort on top of the success of NEWS 2009 (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), NEWS 2010 (ACL 2010), NEWS 2011(IJCNLP 2011) and
NEWS 2012 (ACL 2012). NEWS 2015 will continue the tradition to run a Shared Task on Transliteration, which
aims to provide a common platform for benchmarking the transliteration approaches and systems across many
languages. The details of Shared Task are described in the Shared Task Whitepaper.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in various aspects of NEs in natural
language text. The shared task in this workshop will cover more language pairs and more scopes of evaluation tasks.
Topics of Interest:
This workshop invites original research contributions on all aspects of Named Entities (NEs), including identification,
analysis, extraction, mining, transformation and applications 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- and multi-lingual text corpus
- Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NE
* NE Annotated Data
- Annotated data sets in specific languages & Creation experiences
* Monolingual and Multilingual NE Identification & processing
- Named Entity Recognition (approaches & evaluation)
- Monolingual NE set expansion
- Cross-lingual NE data identification & mapping
- Cross-lingual NE data mining
- Social Network Analysis and Entity Resolution
* Machine Transliteration
- Statistical transliteration approaches & evaluation
* NE for IR
- NE for Monolingual IR
- NE Translation/Transliteration for CLIR
* NE in Social Media
- Fuzzy matching of Named Entities
- Multilingual matching of Named Entities
- De-duplication of entities across social media
Shared Task on Transliteration:
The details of Shared Task are described in the Shared Task Whitepaper. Data license agreements
and registration forms for participating in the Shared Task are available through the Request Datasets
link in this website.
Paper Format:
Paper submissions to NEWS 2015 should follow the ACL 2015 paper submission policy, including paper
format, blind review policy and title and author format convention. Full papers (research paper) are
in two-column format without exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) extra page for references
and short papers (task paper) are also in two-column format without exceeding four (4) pages of content
plus two (2) extra page for references. Submission must conform to the official ACL 2015 style guidelines. For details, please refer to http://acl2015.org/call_for_papers.html.
Submissions:
Papers are to be submitted in pdf format at the ACL2015/NEWS submission page.
For any enquiries about the workhop and the shared task, please contact:
* Rafael E Banchs
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 138632
rembanchs (at) i2r (dot) a-star (dot) edu (dot) sg
* Min Zhang
Soochow University, China 215006
zhangminmt (at) hotmail (dot) com