Workshop on 4th Natural Language Processing and Ontology Engineering  (NLPOE 2011)

In conjunction with

The 2011 IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conferences on

WEB INTELLIGENCE and INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY

22 - 27 August 2011, Campus Scientifique de la Doua, Lyon, France

 

THE PROGRAM OF NLPOE

Monday, August 22, 2011
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8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:45: Sessions(1)

9:00-9:25:Angela Locoro, Daniele Grignani, and Viviana Mascardi, "When you Doubt, Abstain: from Misclassification to Epoché in Automatic Text Categorisation"

9:25-9:50:Yanqiu Shao, Likun Qiu, and Chunxia Liang, "Chinese Semantic Dependency Relation System and Treebank Construction"

9:50-10:15:Zhimin Wang, "The syntactic Features and Identification Analysis of “Planting” Verb Metaphors"

10:15-10:40:Carlos Vicient, David Sánchez, and Antonio Moreno, "Ontology-based feature extraction"

10:45-11:15: Coffee break

11:15-13:00: Sessions(2)

11:15-11:40:pengyuan liu and Shui Liu, "Word-level Reordering model for Phrase-based SMT"

11:40-12:05:Xia Yang, Peng Jin, and Wei Xiang, "Exploring Word Similarity to Improve Chinese Personal Name Disambiguation"

12:05-12:30:Likun Qiu, Yunfang Wu, Jing Shi, and Yanqiu Shao, "Induction of Semantic Classes Based on Coordinate Patterns"

12:30-12:55:Jiangnan Qiu, "Research on Co-Occurrence Regularity of Semantic Relations"

13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45: Sessions(3)

14:00-14:25:pengyuan liu and Shiqi Li, "A Corpus-based Method to Improve Feature-based Semantic Role Labeling"

14:25-14:50:Penglong Hu, Mo Yu, Jing Li, Conghui Zhu, and Tiejun Zhao, "Semi-supervised Learning FrameWork for Cross-Lingual Projection"

14:50-15:40 Free talk
15:45-16:15: Coffee break

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Lyon the 22nd of August.

See you soon !

Workshop chairs
Yao Liu and Pengyuan Liu

CALL FOR PAPERS

Natural Language Processing (NLP) addresses the problems of automated understanding and generation of natural human languages. The former identifies the syntactic structure of a sentence, judges the semantic relations among the syntactic constituents, in hopes of reaching at an eventual understanding of the sentence. The latter process constructs the semantic structures and syntactic constituents according to the semantic and syntactic properties of the lexical items selected, and eventually generates grammatically well-formed sentences. The goal of the NLP applications is to facilitate human-machine communication using natural languages. In particular, it is to establish various computer application software systems to process natural language, such as machine translation, computer-assisted teaching, information retrieval, automatic text categorization, automatic summarization, speech recognition and synthesis, information extraction from the text, intelligent search on the Internet. Today, with the wide use of the Internet, the demand for language information puts a high premium on automated processing of massive language information.

Ontology engineering is a subfield of artificial intelligence and computer science, which aims at a structured representation of terms and relationship between the terms within particular domain, with the purpose to facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge reuse. Ontology project involves the development of Ontology building programs, Ontology life-cycle management, the research of Ontology building methods, support tools and ontology languages, and a series of similar activities. Ontologies have found important applications in information sharing, system integration, knowledge-based software development and many other issues in software industry.

However, ontology engineering is a time-consuming and painstaking endeavor, and NLP technology has important contributions to make in quick and automatic development of ontologies. This workshop will focus on the recent advances made in Ontology engineering and NLP, with the aim to promote the interaction between and common growth of the two areas. We are particularly interested in the building of upper-level language ontology in NLP and the application of NLP technology in Ontology engineering.

More importantly, we expect that individuals and research institutions in the areas of both Ontology engineering and NLP could pay attention to this workshop, which may contribute to the integration and growth of these two areas.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

1. Natural language understanding, including syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling etc;
2. Text mining, including named entity recognition, term recognition, term and synonyms and concept extraction, relation extraction etc)
3. Lexical resources and corpora, including dictionaries, thesaurus, ontology, etc;
4. Ontology learning and population from text, Web and other resources;
5. Application issues of ontology based NLP: information extraction, text categorization, text summarization and other applications;

6. Other topics of relevance in ontology learning, ontology evolution, ontology modeling  and ontology application etc.

 

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 4 pages (only one more page is available and extra payment is required for the extra page). The papers must be in English and should be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column format (see the Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/final/wi11.xml). All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. The workshop only accepts on-line submissions. Please use the Submission Form on the WI'11 website to submit your paper.

PUBLICATION

All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the Workshop Proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press that are indexed by EI, and will be available at the workshops.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop paper submission: March 21, 2011
Author notification: June 1, 2011
Conference dates: August 22-27, 2011