EACL 2006 Workshop on

CROSS-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE INDUCTION

April 3, Trento, Italy

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2006-clki-workshop.html


The EACL 2006 Workshop on CROSS-LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
INDUCTION will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of
the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
that will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, Italy.


* TOPICS

Knowledge of the behavior of words and text in other languages has
recently been used to help solving tasks in a first language.
Knowledge transfer across languages has also taken advantage of
resources already built for resource-rich languages like English.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: applications that
exploit parallel corpora, the induction of knowledge for resource-poor
languages based on resource-rich languages, the use of other languages
to solve taks in a first language, the use of MT techniques for
knowledge induction, identifying and using cognate words between
languages, building and enriching wordnets by knowledge transfer,
exploiting multi-language wordnets for NLP applications, etc.
Demos of systems are encouraged.

Please, refer to the following url for further details on the topics
of the workshop:
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2006-clki-workshop.html


* SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished
work in the topic area of this workshop.  Submissions should be
formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles with overt author and
affiliation information and not exceeding 8 pages. The EACL 2006
stylefiles are available at the following url:
http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm

Please send your PDF file no later than January 6, 2006, to
e.agirre@ehu.es

Each submission will be reviewed at least by two members of the
programme committee.  Accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings.

Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop
are allowed; if you submit to the main session, indicate this when you
submit to the workshop.  If your paper is accepted for the main
session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon
notification by the main session.


* REGISTRATION

Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at
the conference web page.


* IMPORTANT DATES

January 6, 2006  - Deadline for workshop papers
January 27, 2006  - Notification of acceptance
February 10, 2006  - Camera-ready papers due
April 3, 2006  - Workshop date

As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT
possible.


* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Co-chairs and organizers:
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain)

Committee members:
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, US)
Mona Diab (Columbia University, US)
Greg Kondrak (University of Alberta, Canada)
Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Joel Martin (National Research Council of Canada)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US)
Viviana Nastase (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland, US)
German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain)
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France)
Michel Simard (National Research Council of Canada)
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Doina Tatar (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Amalia Todirascu (Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
Nikolai Vazov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)


* FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page:
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/eacl2006-clki-workshop.html

Conference web page:  http://eacl06.itc.it/

EACL 2006 Workshops site
http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/


* CONTACT INFORMATION

Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain)
   649 Posta kutxa, E-20080 Donostia, Spain,
   tel: +34 943 015 019, fax: +34 943 015 590,
   email: e.agirre@ehu.es