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				TEMA-2005
		Workshop on Text Mining and Applications
			     (TEMA Workshop)

		INVITED SPEAKER: GREGORY GREFENSTETTE

In association with the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
				(EPIA 2005)

			      Covilhã, Portugal
			       December 5, 2005
			  http://tema.epia05.di.ubi.pt
                     
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[Please circulate this CFP among colleagues]
 
Workshop Description 

This workshop aims at attracting quality papers on Text Mining and 
Applications. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of 
the issues identified below.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Text Mining:
Pattern extraction methodologies for: multi-word, multi-character and 
multi-pattern
Clustering, Classification and Summarization of documents
Word Sense Disambiguation: Semantic Restrictions extraction, Ontology and 
Thesauri
Language Learning from raw text
Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining

Applications:
Example-Based Machine Translation
Statistical Machine Translation
Corpus-Based Natural Language Processing
Intelligent Information Retrieval
Multilingual access to multilingual information
Question-Answering Systems
E-learning of languages

Invited Speaker: 
Gregory Grefenstette (CEA, France)

Important Dates: 
Full Paper: 27 May 2005
Author Notification: 15 July 2005
Deadline for Final Camera-Ready Copies: 28 July 2005


Authors are invited to submit original research contributions or experience 
reports in English. Scientific or technical articles describing 
state-of-the-art techniques, algorithms, systems, environments, problems 
or applications relevant to the area of Text Mining and Applications may 
be submitted.

The length of submitted full papers must not exceed 8 pages. 

The Springer LNCS format must be used. Authors must prepare their submissions 
according to the instructions given by Springer-Verlag 
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.htm/). You can find more information
on the website of the Conference under the submission menu.
Submissions will be made by electronic means, in PDF format, through the 
submission page available in the EPIA 2005 website.

In order to make blind reviewing possible, submissions must be anonymous. 
This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves 
in their contributions. Authors should identify themselves on a separate 
page, including the title and author affiliation. This information should 
be omitted from the paper. Also, when referring to one's own work, authors 
must use the third person rather than the first person. References should 
include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous 
works of the authors but it should not include unpublished works.

In order to have papers published at least one of the authors should be 
registered in the EPIA Conference. At least two program committee members 
with recognized expertise in described field will review each submission.

Workshop high quality full papers will be selected for publication in the 
main volume of conference proceedings, to be published by Springer, in the 
LNAI series. Good quality papers not selected for publication in the main 
volume conference proceedings and selected extended abstracts will be 
published in local workshop proceedings, in hard-copy, in CD-ROM and in the 
web. 


Organising Committee: 
Gabriel Lopes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Joaquim da Silva (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Vítor Rocio (Open University, Portugal)
Paulo Quaresma (University of Évora, Portugal)	


Program Committee: 
Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, UK)
Andreas Eiselei (Language Technology Lab, Germany) 
António Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) 
António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 
António Ribeiro (Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy) 
António Rocha Costa (Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil) 
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) 
Christel Vrain (University of Orléans, France) 
Eric de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) 
Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France) 
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) 
Gregory Grefenstette (CEA, France) 
Heiki-Jaan Kaalep (University of Tartu, Estonia) 
Irene Rodrigues. University of Évora, Portugal) 
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (New University of Lisbon) 
João Balsa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 
Kunihiko Sadakane (University of Tokyo, Japan) 
Manuel Vilares Ferro (University of Vigo, Spain) 
Marcelo Finger (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 
Marie-Laure Reinberger (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 
Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 
Paulo Quaresma (University of Évora, Portugal) 
Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INALCO & INSERM, France) 
Renata Vieira (University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil) 
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain, and University of Chile, 
  Chile) 
Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) 
Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria) 
Vítor Jorge Rocio (Open University, Portugal) 
Walter Kasper (Language Technology Lab, Germany) 
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)


Contacts: 
In order to contact the Workshop Organisers, please send your message to 
this email: tema.epia05@di.ubi.pt.

Joaquim da Silva,
New University of Lisbon,
Tel. +351 21 294 8536
jfs@di.fct.unl.pt

Gabriel Lopes,
 New University of Lisbon,
Tel. +351 21 294 8536
gpl@di.fct.unl.pt