EACL 2006 Workshop on NEW TEXT - Wikis and blogs and other dynamic text sources April 3, 2006, Trento, Italy http://www.sics.se/jussi/newtext/ The EACL 2006 Workshop on New Text 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 Today we encounter new types of text sources, multi-lingual, with numerous cooperating or even adversarial authors and little or no editorial control. New text being produced and published today includes blogs, wikis and many other genres. These types of text differ from traditional genres and pose challenges for philologists, language technologists, search system builders, and readers alike. This workshop is intended to discuss the analysis, understanding, description, and application of new text, formulate research measures that are crying out to be taken, discuss which methodological steps are obsoleted, and which babies can be saved from the bath water. * SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop.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 newtext@sics.se 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 - New Text workshop As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT possible. * PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Jussi Karlgren, SICS (chair) Shlomo Argamon, IIT Bjorn Gamback, SICS Michael Gamon, Microsoft Gilad Mishne, University of Amsterdam Martin Svensson, SICS Ozlem Uzuner, MIT * FURTHER INFORMATION Workshop web page http://www.sics.se/jussi/newtext/ Conference web page http://eacl06.itc.it/ EACL 2006 Workshops site http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/ * CONTACT INFORMATION Jussi Karlgren, SICS paper: Box 1263, 164 29 Kista, Sweden vox: +468 633 15 00 smtp: jussi@sics.se fax: +468 751 72 30