MEANING-2005
		2nd Workshop organized by the MEANING Project
			February 3-4, 2005, Trento, Italy
	       Web site: http://tcc.itc.it/events/meaning2005/


	           FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS


Following the first Workshop held in Donostia-San Sebastian last year,
the MEANING  project   (Developing  Multilingual   Web-Scale  Language
Resources -  http://www.lsi.upc.es/~nlp/meaning/meaning.html)   is now
organizing a second workshop for the 3 and 4 February 2005, to be held
at ITC-irst in Trento, Italy.

The  workshop will provide an  excellent opportunity to bring together
major experts in the fields of Natural  Language Processing to discuss
the role of Word Sense Disambiguation, Multilingual Language Resources
and large-scale Knowledge Acquisition  in view of concrete application
perspectives.  Papers are invited  that  are concerned with topics  in
these areas, including, but not limited to, the following:

* Knowledge Representation and Integration 
   - Integration of ontologies and linguistic resources
   - Representing and integrating multilingual linguistic information

* Knowledge Acquisition
   - Large-scale acquisition of linguistic information 
   - Web-based techniques for knowledge acquisition

* Word Sense Disambiguation
  - New approaches to WSD, including the use of new resources and 
    bootstrapping techniques 
  - Use of parallel corpora for word sense disambiguation

* Application perspectives
  - applications of  word sense disambiguation  techniques (e.g. cross
    language information    retrieval,  question  answering,   machine
    translation, summarization)
  - applications in the Semantic Web field
 
  

	      INVITED SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
                  (others to be confirmed) 

	 Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrücken)
	 Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University)	 
	 Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
	 Eduard Hovy (USC - Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey)
	 Oliviero Stock (ITC-irst, Trento)
	 Paola Velardi (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
	 Shuly Wintner (University of Haifa) 
		 

Organizing Committee 
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Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian)
John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton)
David Farwell (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Luis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Diana McCarthy (University of Sussex, Brighton)
Bernardo Magnini (ITC-irst, Trento)
Lluis Padro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-irst,  Trento)
German Rigau (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-irst, Trento)         
Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft)
             

Local organization
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Bernardo Magnini (contact person: magnini@itc.it)
Luisa Bentivogli
Alessandro Tuccio


Submission formats  
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Submissions are invited for a limited number of oral presentations and
for posters.   Paper submission templates for both  Latex and Word are
available  at the workshop  website.   Submissions should not exceed 6
pages in length   and should be  sent,  pdf file,  to Bernardo Magnini
(magnini@itc.it) by October  25th.  Besides the  workshop Proceedings,
we also aim at publishing a selection of accepted  papers in book form
after the workshop.


Venue   
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The workshop   will be held    in Trento, at  Fondazione Caritro,  Via
Calepina 1, in the historical center of the town.


Important dates
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  25 October    2004 Paper submission 
  12 November   2004 Notification of acceptance
  10 December   2004 Final papers due
  20 December   2004 Deadline for early registration  
  3-4 February  2005 Workshop