CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fourth Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2012) & Shared Task on Transliteration
An ACL 2012 Workshop on 12 July 2012, Jeju, Korea
Websites:
Workshop website: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2012/
Paper submission portal: https://www.softconf.com/acl2012/news2012/
Shared task white paper: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2012/whitepapers/
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 Fourth Workshop on Named Entities (NEWS 2012) together with a Shared Task
on Transliteration is a continuous effort on top of the success of the first
Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2009) in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009, the
second Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2010) in conjunction with ACL 2010 and
the third Named Entities Workshop (NEWS 2011) in conjunction with IJCNLP 2011.
NEWS 2012 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 will
be described in the Shared Task Whitepaper.
NEWS 2012 seeks to build on the foundations established in NEWS 2009, 2010 and 2011.
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.
Important Dates:
Research Paper Submissions
Research Paper Submission Deadline 25-March-2012
Shared Task:
Registration Opens 18-Jan-2012
Registration Closes 11-March-2012
Release Training/Development Data 20-Jan-2012
Release Test Data 12-March-2012
Results Submission Due 16-March-2012
Results Announcement 20-March-2012
Task (short) Papers Due 25-March-2012
For All Submissions
Acceptance Notification 20-April-2012
Camera-Ready Copy Deadline 30-April-2012
Workshop Date 12/13/14-July-2012
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:
1. NE Analysis
Distributional characteristics of NEs in mono- and multi-lingual text corpus
Orthographic/phonetic characteristics of NE
2, NE Annotated Data
Annotated data sets in specific languages & Creation experiences
3. Monolingual and Multilingual NE Identification & processing
Named Entity Recognition
4. Named Entity Recognition (NER) approaches & evaluation
Monolingual NE set expansion
Cross-lingual NE data identification & mapping
Cross-lingual NE data mining
Social Network Analysis and Entity Resolution
5. Machine Transliteration
Statistical transliteration approaches & evaluation
6. NE for IR
NE for Monolingual IR
NE Translation/Transliteration for CLIR
7. 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:
For details, please refer to our white paper at the workshop website: http://translit.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/news2012/whitepapers/
Paper Format:
Paper submissions to NEWS 2012 should follow the IJCNLP 2012 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-2012 style guidelines.
For details, please refer to http://www.acl2012.org/call/sub01.asp.
Contact
Min Zhang
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Email: mzhang [at] i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Ming Liu
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Email: mliu [at] i2r.a-star.edu.sg