New deadline: May 14, 2015
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1st Workshop on NLP Applications: completing the puzzle (WNACP-2015)
Held in conjunction with NLDB'2015
Passau, Germany
16th June 2015
http://wordpress.let.vupr.nl/nlpapplications
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** DESCRIPTION **
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The Natural Language and Computational Linguistics communities have traditionally faced different problems with specific
approaches and mostly in either an isolated manner or in a pipeline way. Both approaches suffer from problems that affect
the performance and lead to sub-optimal solutions. Another aspect that seems to be not fully considered is the role of the context,
which is too often considered as a simple narrow bag-of-words. This is clearly not enough in some cases where the key information
is to be found considering a broader view of the document or even outside of this document (background information).
We propose to see Natural Language Processing as a big puzzle. The different tasks are small pieces that must fit perfectly in order
to build an overall puzzle that represents the interpretation of a document or a text. Following the puzzle analogy, the pieces can
not be considered in isolation. Moreover, sometimes external information is required to complete the puzzle, as for example
knowing what is depicted in the puzzle to get clues about how to put the pieces together.
Hence, the scope of the work is bringing together approaches that consider in different ways the ideas mentioned before.
For instance, approaches trying to solve several NLP task at the same time and mutually using the information among the specific subtasks
to reach a good overall solution. Other interesting research would be using external knowledge resources (such as DBpedia, Wikipedia or the Web),
in order to extract background and real–world information that could be used to understand texts and solve NLP problems.
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** TOPICS of INTEREST **
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We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Dealing with more than one NLP task
* Using background information, external sources and Linked Data
* Combining different external resources
* Modeling the context considering scopes larger than the sentence
* Processing multiple documents and linking information across them
* Influence of the domain and building domain specific resources to help NLP applications
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** SUBMISSION INFORMATION **
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Authors are invited to submit original work, they should follow the LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html LaTeX2e recommended)
and submit their manuscripts in PDF via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wnacp2015).
The maximum length of the papers is 9 pages, plus one extra page for references. We encourage authors to make their software and experiments
data available, and include links in their contributions to allow the reproducibility of the experiments and reuse of work by the NLP community.
All submitted papers will follow a single-blind review by at least 2 reviewers and the proceedings will be published in the free open-access
publication service CEUR (ISSN 1613-0073)
To contact the WNACP-20155 organization team, please send an e-mail to: ruben.izquierdobevia [at] vu.nl
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** IMPORTANT DATES **
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- Submission: 14 May 2015 (extended)
- Notification: 24 May 2015
- Camera Ready: 1 June 2015
- Workshop: 16 June 205
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** ORGANISING COMMITTEE **
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* Ruben Izquierdo. VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Piek Vossen. VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* German Rigau. University of the Basque Country, Spain
* Marten Postma. VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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** PROGRAM COMMITTEE **
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* Alexandra Balahur. European Commission, Joint Research Center, Italy
* Mark Stevenson. University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
* Oscar Ferrández. Nuance Communications, United States
* Zornitsa Kozareva. Yahoo! Labs, United States
* Thierry Declerck. DFKI GmbH, Germany
* Stelios Piperidis. Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece
* Günter Neumann. DFKI, Germany
* Gemma Boleda. Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
* Francesca Frontini. University Pierre et Marie Curie, France
* Enrique Alfonseca. Google Research, Switzerland
* David Tomás. University of Alicante, Spain
* L. Alfonso Ureña. University of Jaén, Spain
* Els Lefever.Ghent University, Belgium
* Paulo Quaresma. University of Evora, Portugal
* Rodrigo Agerri. University of the Basque Country, Spain
* Aitor Soroa. University of the Basque Country, Spain
* Monica Monachini. CNR/ILC, Italy
* Antonio Toral. Dublin City University, Ireland
* Montse Cuadros. Vicomtech IK4 Research Center, Spain
* Maurizio Tesconi. CNR/IIT, Italy
* Francesco Ronzano. Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
* Filip Ilievski. VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Estela Saquete. University of Alicante, Spain
* Rafael Muñoz. University of Alicante, Spain
* Andrea Marchetti. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
* Lluís Padró. Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
* Muntsa Padró. Nuance Communications, Canada
* Carlo Alipandri. Synthema srl, Italy
* Minh Le. VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands