*********** CALL FOR PAPERS *********** TeMA-2007 Workshop on Text Mining and Applications TeMA-2007 will be held at the 13^th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007), in Guimarães, Portugal, 3-7 December 2007. This workshop is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). EPIA 2007 URL: http://epia2007.appia.pt/ This announcement contains: [1] Workshop description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Workshop fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts. [1] Workshop Description: Pure symbolic methods for Language Processing alone are unable to address human languages complexity. Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques applied to text, raw or annotated, brought up new insights and completely shifted the approaches to Human Language Technologies. Both approaches, when duly integrated, bridge the gap between language theories and effective use of languages, and enable important applications. Our aim, with this workshop, is to bring together innovative contributions to fill in this gap. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified below. Papers will be blindly reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Best papers will be published at Springer, in LNAI series. If there are additional papers whose quality is sufficiently high for deserving to be presented at TEMA~07, those other accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. [2] Topics of Interest Text Mining from raw and/or annotated text: - Pattern extraction methodologies. - Document Clustering/Classification. - Document Summarization. - Topic segmentation of documents. - Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation. - Semantic Restrictions extraction. - Word and multi-word translation extraction. - Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining. Applications: - Natural Language Processing. - Example-Based/Statistical Machine Translation. - Intelligent Information Retrieval. - Multilingual access to multilingual information. - Question-Answering Systems. - E-training and E-learning. [3] Important dates 30-June-07: Paper submission deadline 28-July-07: Author notification 01-Sept-07: Deadline for final camera-ready papers [4] Paper submission * Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. * Submissions must follow the guidelines specified in the conference site. Authors must remove their names from the submitted papers, and should take reasonable care not to indirectly disclose their identity. The Springer LNCS format must be used (instructions in _www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html _). 12 pages is the maximum length of the papers accepted for this Workshop. Extra pages will be charged by the Conference Organization. * Paper submissions will be made in PDF format, through the submission page available in EPIA 2007 website http://epia2007.appia.pt/. [5] Workshop Fees: Workshop participants must register at the main EPIA 2007 conference. No extra fee shall be paid for attending this workshop. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Gaël Dias, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal. Vitor Jorge Ramos Rocio, Universidade Aberta. Portugal. [7] Program Committee: Adam Kilgarriff (Lexicography MasterClass Ltd, United Kingdom) Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom). Antonio Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA). António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal) António Ribeiro (Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy) Alexandre Agustini (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Christel Vrain (Université d'Orléans, France). Eric de la Clergerie (INRIA, France). Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France). Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal). Gregory Grefenstette (CEA, France). Irene Rodrigues. Universidade de Évora, Portugal). Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). João Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal). Manuel Vilares Ferro (University of Vigo, Spain). Marcelo Finger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil). Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil). Pablo Gamallo (Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain). Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal). Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INALCO & INSERM, France). Renata Vieira (Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil). Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, United Kingdom) Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia). Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria). Vitor Jorge Rocio (Universidade Aberta, Portugal). Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium). [8] Contacts Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal, Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs _[at] di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt_ José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10722 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: gpl [at] _di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt_