[Apologies for multiple postings]
*Workshop on Adaptive Natural Language Processing at IJCAI 2015*
***https://sites.google.com/site/adaptivenlp2015/
<https://sites.google.com/site/adaptivenlp2015/>*
Workshop in conjunction with IJCAI 2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 25-27 2015
*Motivation and Aims*
Natural Language Processing is becoming more and more ubiquitous as
technologies become omnipresent in our daily life. This involves a huge
effort to develop language-based interfaces, text analytics, search
engines, writing assitants among other systems and their related tools
and resources. Adaptation has been key to facilitate rapid development
of language-based systems, with reuse of existing resources as
alternatives to creating tools and resources from scratch. These
approaches have benefited from the recent surge of complex Machine
Learning approaches as applied to NLP tasks. This is the case for
Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Active Learning, Domain
Adaptation, and even Representation Learning and Deep Learning, which
have had a very positive impact on NLP tasks and applications.
This workshop aims to provide a meeting point for researchers working on
the portability of language resources and methodologies across languages
and domains, with a special focus on exploiting available knowledge as a
base to facilitate and enhance new developments. We understand that
there is a common factor between tasks like porting a parser between
related languages, adapting a dialogue system for a different domain,
using rules inferred from an annotated corpus together with an
unannotated corpus to port an information extraction system to another
domain, or simplifying texts for different kinds of readers, among
others. We believe that sharing insights on such approaches will be
enriching and will contribute to a better understanding of the problems
and solutions.
We expect that themes like Representation Learning, Deep Learning and
Active Learning, and their successful applications to various areas of
NLP, will raise interesting, intellectually challenging discussions.
*Workshop Topics*
Contributions may present results from completed as well as ongoing
research, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and
perspectives.
The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Semi-supervised learning, Deep Learning, Active learning and
Representation learning for domain adaptation, language portability and
task portability
Adaptation and reuse of tools and resources for closely related languages
Adaptation of highly valuable resources, like treebanks, to languages
not closely related
Linguistic issues in language portability: false friends, asymmetric
discretization of semantic continuum
Learning from multiple domains
Development of multi-domain datasets
Evaluation paradigms for complex learning
Domain adaptation for specific applications: parsing, machine
translation, information extraction, document classification, sentiment
analysis and author attribution and profiling
*Format of submissions*
Submissions are invited for papers presenting high quality, previously
unpublished research. Selection criteria include originality of ideas,
correctness, clarity and significance of results and quality of
presentation.
We welcome two types of contributions:
Long papers (10 pages), presenting substantial, original and completed
research work. Accepted long papers will be presented orally.
Short papers (6 pages), with a small, focused contribution, work in
progress, a negative result or an opinion piece. Accepted short papers
will be presented either orally or as a poster.
Short papers can be combined with a system demonstration.
The only accepted format for submitting papers is Adobe PDF. Papers
should follow IJCAI-15 formatting Guidelines.
As the review process will be double-blind, your submission must not
include the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s). Furthermore,
self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously
showed (Pérez, 2003) ...", must be avoided. Instead, citations such as
"Pérez (2003) previously showed ...", must be used.
Submissions will be electronic, the submission site will be made
available soon.
*Important Dates*
Submission deadline: April 27 2015
Acceptance/rejection notification: May 20 2015
Camera-ready deadline: May 30, 2015
Workshop: July 25-27 2015 at IJCAI 2015
*Programme Committee*
Luciana Benotti (UNC, Argentina)
Xavier Carreras (XEROX-XRCE, France)
Helena Caseli (UFSCar, Brazil)
José Castaño (UBA, Argentina)
Carlos Iván Chesñevar (UNS, Argentina)
Martín Domínguez (UNC, Argentina)
Pablo Duboue (Les Laboratoires Foulab, Canada)
Marcelo Errecalde (UNSL, Argentina)
Hugo Jair Escalante (INAOE, Mexico)
Paula Estrella (UNC, Argentina)
Mikel Forcada (UA, Spain)
Maria Fuentes Fort (UPC, Spain)
Xavier Gómez Guinovart (UVigo, Spain)
Agustín Gravano (UBA, Argentina)
Franco Luque (UNC, Argentina)
Rada Mihalcea (UNT, USA)
Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes (USP, Brazil)
Lluís Padró (UPC, Spain)
Muntsa Padró (Nuance, Canada)
Martí Quixal (UTübingen, Germany)
Thiago Pardo (USP, Brazil)
Ted Pedersen (UMN, USA)
German Rigau (UPV, Spain)
Aiala Rosá (UdelaR, Uruguay)
Paolo Rosso (UV, Spain)
Horacio Saggion (UPF, Spain)
Thamar Solorio (UH, USA)
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno (LIA/UAPV, France)
Cristina Vertan (UH, Germany)
Dina Wonsever (UdelaR, Uruguay)
*Organizing Committee*
Laura Alonso i Alemany (UNC, Argentina)
Núria Bel (UPF, Spain)
Irene Castellón (UB, Spain)
Manuel Montes y Gómez (INAOE, Mexico)
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*Núria Bel*
/Professora Agregada/
Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada
Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge
Roc Boronat, 138 | 08018 Barcelona
[Tel.] +34 935422250 -| +34 935422322
[email protected]
http://www.upf.edu/pdi/iula/nuria.bel
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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