TextGraphs-11 at ACL: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing

Event Notification Type: 
Call for Papers
Abbreviated Title: 
TextGraphs 2017
Location: 
Westin Bayshore Hotel
Thursday, 3 August 2017
State: 
British Columbia
Country: 
Canada
City: 
Vancouver
Contact: 
Martin Riedl
Swapna Somasundaran
Goran Glavaš
Eduard Hovy
Submission Deadline: 
Sunday, 30 April 2017

Final CFP and deadline extension to April 30: TextGraphs-11: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Workshop at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017)

August 3, 2017
Vancouver, Canada
http://www.textgraphs.org/ws17

Update: The deadline has been extended to April 30.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

For the past eleven years, the workshops in the TextGraphs series have published and promoted the synergy between the field of Graph Theory (GT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The eleventh edition of the TextGraphs workshop aims to extend the focus on issues and solutions for large-scale graphs, such as those derived for web- scale knowledge acquisition or social networks. We plan to encourage the description of novel NLP problems or applications that have emerged in recent years, which can be addressed with existing and new graph-based methods. Furthermore, we will also encourage research on applications of graph-based methods in the area of Semantic Web in order to link them to related NLP problems and applications. The target audience comprises researchers working on problems related to either Graph Theory or graph-based algorithms applied to Natural Language Processing, social media, and the Semantic Web.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

TextGraphs invites submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

  • Graph-based methods for providing reasoning and interpretation of deep learning methods
    • Graph-based methods for reasoning and interpreting deep processing by neural networks,
    • Explorations of the capabilities and limits when graph-based methods are applied to neural networks
    • Investigation of which aspects of neural networks are not amenable to graph-based methods.
  • Graph-based methods for Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, and Text Mining
    • Graph-based methods for word sense disambiguation
    • Graph-based representations for ontology learning
    • Graph-based strategies for semantic relations identification
    • Encoding semantic distances in graphs
    • Graph-based techniques for text summarization, simplification and paraphrasing
    • Graph-based techniques for document navigation and visualization
    • Re-ranking with graphs
    • Applications of label propagation algorithms, etc.
  • New graph-based methods for NLP applications, and novel use of existing graph methods for new NLP tasks
    • Random walk methods in graphs
    • Spectral graph clustering
    • Semi-supervised graph-based methods
    • Methods and analyses for statistical networks
    • Small world graphs
    • Dynamic graph representations
    • Topological and pre-topological analysis of graphs
    • Graph kernels
  • Graph-based methods for applications on social networks
    • Rumor proliferation
    • E-reputation
    • Multiple identity detection
    • Language dynamics studies
    • Surveillance systems
  • Graph-based methods for NLP and Semantic Web
    • Representation learning methods for knowledge graphs (e.g., knowledge graph embedding)
    • Using graphs-based methods to populate ontologies using textual data
    • Inducing knowledge of ontologies into NLP applications using graphs
    • Merging ontologies with graph-based methods using NLP techniques

BEST PAPER AWARD

The Program Committee will select a best paper submitted to TextGraphs-11. The authors of the best manuscript will receive the valuable Best Paper Award. Both long and short submissions will be taken in consideration for the Award.

IMPORTANT DATES

All submission deadlines are at 11:59 p.m AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

Paper submission: April 30, 2017
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2017
Camera-ready submission: May 26, 2017
Workshop date: August 3, 2017

SUBMISSION

TextGraphs-11 solicits both long (8 pages) and short paper (4 pages) submissions.
Please see our website for submission details http://www.textgraphs.org/ws17

CONTACT

Please direct all questions and inquiries to our official e-mail address:
textgraphs [at] gmail.com

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