Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

Topics

We welcome original research papers that identify key problems related to noisy text analytics and offer solutions. We particularly encourage contributions that look at solving real life problems in the different settings where such data is produced in huge amounts. Potential topics include (but not limited to):

    * NLP techniques for handling noisy unstructured data
    * Characterization of the types of noise in documents
    * Genre recognition based on the type of noise
    * Robust parsing
    * Characterizing, modeling and accounting for historical language change
    * Methods for detecting and correcting spelling and grammatical errors in noisy text
    * Information Extraction and Retrieval from noisy text
    * Automatic classification and clustering of imprecise documents
    * Noise-invariant document summarization techniques
    * Issues in keyword search in presence of noise in unstructured data
    * Machine Translation for noisy text
    * Text analysis techniques for analysis and mining of call-logs, transcribed calls, web logs, chat logs, email exchanges
    * Business Intelligence (BI) applications for contact centers that deal with noisy data
    * Surveys on aspects of text analytics for noisy unstructured data

Important dates

    * Paper Submission: September 25th, 2006
    * Notification of Acceptance: October 23rd, 2006
    * Camera-Ready Paper Due: November 8th, 2006
    * Workshop at IJCAI 2007: January 8th, 2007

Submission

Participants can submit papers in any of the relevant areas mentioned in the CFP. Submissions in PDF format should be sent to L Venkata Subramaniam and Shourya Roy with "Submission : IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data" as the subject. The format to use for papers and abstracts is the same as for IJCAI. Papers should not be more than 8 pages long. Please follow the IJCAI formatting instructions and use the supplied Word templates or Latex sources. Formatting guidelines from IJCAI 2007 website

    * in PDF format
    * as MS-Word template
    * as LaTeX sources

The reviewing process will be blind with each submission getting at least three reviews. Papers will be selected for oral or poster sessions. All accepted papers (oral and poster) will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Papers in which a student is the primary author (first author/presenter) will be eligible for the IAPR Best Student Paper Award. Please clearly mention in your submission email that a student is the primary author. The Recipient will be nominated through the paper reviewing process and the final decision will be made during the workshop.

We are currently in negotiation with one of the leading publishers for the proceedings to be available onsite. We are also arranging a journal special issue for post-workshop publication of selected papers.

Further information

L Venkata Subramaniam
Email: lvsubram@in.ibm.com
Phone: +91-11-41292201
Fax: +91-11-26861555

Shourya Roy
Email: rshourya@in.ibm.com
Phone: +91-11-41292206
Fax: +91-11-26861555 
 
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