The second KYOTO workshop
Advanced information systems
for
sharing information and knowledge about the environment
Call for abstracts
Deadline for test data release is approaching
Registration for workshop is open
Date: 25th - 28th of January 2010
Venue: Nagaragawa Convention Center (http://www.g-ncc.jp/e-framepage.htm), Gifu, Japan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifu,_Gifu).
The goal of the workshop is to demonstrate the possibilities of advanced information systems for sharing information and knowledge about the environment on a global scale. The environment is a global concern crossing boundaries, cultures and languages. Whereas each regional setting is unique, there are many benefits from sharing knowledge and experiences across these regions. This workshop offers a showcase for emerging systems that can enable environmentalist to access this knowledge and information in novel ways. It hopes to bring together technology providers and environmental specialists to discuss the opportunities in the field.
We have invited speakers from Yahoo, Google, from the news portal of the European Commision Joint Research Centre and environmental specialists:
Confirmed invited speakers:
Michael Mathews and Jordi Atserias Yahoo Inc, Barcelona
Marius Pasca, Google Inc, US
Ralf Steinberger
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Bernard Fleming Environmentalist and Senior Specialist Natural England Yorkshire & the Humber Region
More details on the workshop can be found at:
http://xmlgroup.iit.cnr.it/kyoto/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapp...
Event extraction task, release of test data: November 23rd.
Participants will be asked to extract events from a selection of textual sources. Events should be represented in the form of simple triplets, which consists of:
a relation
a list of word token identifiers that express the event
a list of word token identifiers that express a participant
Word tokens identifiers are taken from the representation of the text documents in the KYOTO annotation format (see www.kyoto-project.eu and the documentation below for more details). Typically, a single event has multiple participants. Each participant relation is converted to a separate triplet. An example file with annotations and triplets is provided in the task-data:
http://kyoto.let.vu.nl/~kyoto/files/kyoto-text-mining-task/Kyoto-text-mi...
(63.9 MB download)
Participants of the workshop can participate in this task by processing the test documents (represented in the KyotoAnnotationFormat) and converting the output into the triplet format. The results should be mailed to: p.vossen [at] let.vu.nl by December 8th.
Call for abstracts, deadline December 15th.
We invite abstract submissions on the following topics:
Text mining of events and facts in the domain of the environment.
Concept acquisition and knowledge integration in the domain of the environment.
User interfaces for complex knowledge bases with factual information on the environment related to time and place.
Semantic search or question answering systems that allow users to find answers in databases with environmental data
Community building or collaboration environments for building knowledge bases in the domain of the environment.
Abstracts should be 800-1000 words and in PDF format only. Abstracts can be mailed to: p.vossen [at] let.vu.nl. Evaluation is based on relevance to the topics and the estuary-case and on scientific quality. We will invite a selection of participants to contribute a paper based on their presentation for publication in a book or as a special issue in a journal.
Registration for the workshop is obligatory but workshop attendance is free of charge. Online registration can be done now by following the next link:
http://xmlgroup.iit.cnr.it/second_Kyoto_workshop/registration.php
Registration opening date: November, 18th, 2010
Registration closing date: January, 7th, 2011
From January, 8th, 2011 registration will be possible only on-site.
Time schedule
The schedule for the task and abstract submission is as follows:
1. October 1st: release of documents and the example data
2. November 23rd: release of the test files
3. December 8th: deadline for submitting results
4. December 15th: deadline for submission of abstracts
5. December 22nd: results are made public
6. December 22nd: notification of acceptance of abstracts
Program Committee
Piek Vossen, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Histoshi Isahara, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnica University, China
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton/Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Science
Eneko Agirre, EHU, Spain
German Rigau, EHU, Spain
Monica Monachini, CNR-ILC, Italy
Andrea Marchetti CNR-IIT, Italy
Carlo Aliprandi, Synthema, Italy
Lawrence Jones-Walters, ECNC, Netherlands
Travel: Gifu is about one hour from Chubu Central Airport, which has direct flight connections to major cities incl. Frankfurt.
Hosted and sponsored by Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT),
Japan(http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/) and the Asian-European project KYOTO
(http://www.kyoto-project.eu/).
This workshop is subsidized by The National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT), Japan (http://www.nict.go.jp/index.html).