Named Entities: Recognition, Classification and Use
 
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Special Issue of Lingvisticae Investigationes
Call for Papers
Deadline for submission: 29 December 2006

This special topic issue of the journal Lingvisticae Investigationes
is scheduled to come out in early 2008 on the broad topic of Named
Entities.

The aim is to bring out innovative papers on the issues and advances
in Named Entity recognition, classification and use, and how Named
Entities could be handled more effectively in a variety of NLP
applications.

Guest Editors

The guest editors for this special issue will be (in alphabetical order)

Elisabete Ranchhod (University of Lisbon)
Diana Santos (SINTEF ICT)
Satoshi Sekine (New York University)
(Preliminary) Scientific Committee
Roberto Basili
Eckhard Bick
Robert Gaizauskas
Ralph Grishman
Dimitrios Kokkinakis
Nicolas Nicolov
Thierry Poibeau
Elisabete Ranchhod
Dan Roth
Diana Santos
Satoshi Sekine
Christa Womser-Hacker

First Call for Papers

Since the MUC conferences about Information Extraction, Named Entity
Recognition and Classification (NERC) is a well-established task in
the NLP community and is regarded as a crucial technology for many NLP
applications.

The definition of what is a Named Entity (NE), however, still remains
an overt question. NEs include classical classes of proper names
(persons, organizations, geographic locations, geo-political entities)
and numeric expressions (time, currencies, percentages).

However, the correct identification and classification of single and
multiword domain specific expressions (e.g., disease names, biological
agents causing health problems, drugs used in disease treatment)
should be an important issue for a number of NLP applications (IE, MT,
QA, etc.) and dealing with these questions has become part and parcel
of the problems dealt by the NE camp.

Likewise, reference to definite events or entities no longer
referenced as proper names in text, as encompassed by the ACE program,
has long been accepted as part of the NER discipline.

The guest editors seek papers on original and unpublished research on
all aspects of NE recognition, classification, and use.

Topics

Special topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Real applications that employ NERC technology
    * Linguistic properties of proper names
    * Resources (lexicons, grammars, gazetteers, ontologies) for NERC
    * The relevance of NERC as a subtask in NLP applications (e.g. question-answering (QA), information retrieval (IR), summarization, machine translation (MT))
    * Evaluation of NERC systems and of the import of NERC in larger applications
    * Cross-language issues in named entity research
    * Philosophical and methodological concerns in NERC
    * NEs in speech and transcribed speech and other media
    * Tools for rapid development of NERC resources
    * Learning of NERC rules
    * Domain adaptability of NERC systems

The Journal

LI (Lingvisticae Investigationes) is a thirty year old international
journal, founded by Maurice Gross. It is published and distributed by
John Benjamins Publishing Company. See
http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=LI or
http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/LI/LINGVISTICAEINVESTIGATIONES.html.

Format

The format for submissions can be found at http://infolingu.univ-mlv.fr/LI/LINGVISTICAEINVESTIGATIONES.html, more specifically at conventions.

Language

Manuscripts must be submitted in English.

Paper Submission

Contributions (20 pages maximum) have to be sent by e-mail, in PDF format, to the three addresses below:
Elisabete Ranchhod, elisabete.ranchhod@mail.telepac.pt
Diana Santos, Diana.Santos@sintef.no
Satoshi Sekine, sekine@cs.nyu.edu

Important Dates

    * Deadline for submission: 29/12/2006
    * Notification to authors: 16/02/2007
    * Final version of the papers due: 30/03/2007 

 
Páginas Web:

    * http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_seriesview.cgi?series=LI#titles