EACL 2006 Workshop on

Learning Structured Information in Natural Language Applications

April 3, 2006

http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/eacl2006-ws10


The EACL 2006 Workshop on Learning structured information in
natural language applications 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

Language processing largely deals with multidimensional and
highly structured forms of information. Indeed, from the
morphological up to the deep syntactic and semantic levels,
linguistic information is often described by structured data,
making the learning of the associated linguistic tasks more
complex. Recently, approaches that attempt to alleviate such
modeling complexity by directly encoding structured data have
been developed. Among other, kernel methods and conditional
random fields provide interesting properties. The promising
aspects of such approaches open new research directions:
(a) the study of their impact on the modeling of diverse natural
language structures, (b) their comparative assessment with
traditional attribute-value models and (c) the investigation of
techniques which aim to improve their efficiency.

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from different communities such as machine learning,
computational linguistics, information retrieval and data mining
to promote the discussion and development of new ideas and
methods for the effective exploitation of "structured data" for
natural language learning and applications.

For further details and topics of interest, please refer to the
website of the workshop.


* 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unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop.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
http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm

Please send your PDF file no later than January 6, 2006, to
moschitti [at] info.uniroma2.it

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, do
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

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

* Workshop Chairs

Roberto Basili and Alessandro Moschitti
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Nicola Cancedda (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Nello Cristianini (University of California, Davis , USA)
Aron Culotta (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Netherlands)
Marcello Federico (ITC-Irst, Italy)
Attilio Giordana (University of Turin, Italy)
Marko Grobelink (J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Fred Jelinek (CLSP John Hopkins University, USA)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, USA)
Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Giuseppe Riccardi (University of Trento, Italy)
Alex Smola (National ICT Australia, ANU)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-Irst, Italy)
John Shawe Taylor (University of Southampton, UK)
Ben Taskar (University of California at Berkeley , USA)
Dimitry Zelenko (SRA international inc., USA)


* FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page
http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/eacl2006-ws10

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

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


* CONTACT INFORMATION

Alessandro Moschitti
Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production
University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133
Roma, Italy

Phone : (office) +39-06-72597333. (lab.) +39-06-72597332,
E-mail: moschitti [at] info.uniroma2.it
Fax   : +39-06-72587460