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Taxonomy Extraction with Applications in Semantics (TEXAS)
http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/TEXAS/call.html
At EMNLP 2014, 29 October 2014, Doha, Qatar
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** Submission deadline: July 26, 2014 **
Taxonomies form the backbone of knowledge-based systems by organizing
knowledge in a machine interpretable manner and facilitating information
integration. Hierarchical structures provide valuable input in
knowledge-intensive applications such as question answering and textual
entailment and are useful tools for browsing and navigation of document
collections, especially when applied for exploration and discovery.
The TEXAS workshop aims to provide a venue for presenting and discussing
approaches that evaluate taxonomy extraction [7], and its subtasks
(term/concept extraction, term/concept relation discovery, taxonomy
construction and cleaning) in the context of semantic applications such
as: entity search, entity disambiguation and linking, information
integration and summarization, knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing,
inference in NLP tasks (question answering, textual entailment), etc. In
this way, progress towards automatically constructed hierarchies can be
measured relative to other tasks and real-world applications.
Expected research topics of relevance to the workshop:
* application-based evaluation of taxonomies in question answering,
document browsing,document clustering, expert finding or other
applications;
* using automatically constructed taxonomies for searching, browsing
and organizing information
* constructing taxonomies for/from social media
* probabilistic models for topic hierarchies (hierarchical topic
modelling)
* constructing taxonomies using hierarchical clustering
* using distributional models for taxonomy construction
* acquisition and modelling of categorical structure and modelling
human category acquisition
* constructing topic categorization systems and subject hierarchies
* constructing hierarchical faceted metadata structures
* methods for transforming semi-structured knowledge resources into
taxonomies
* merging and aligning existing resources for taxonomy construction
* comparing, aligning and evaluating existing hierarchical structures
* domain glossary acquisition and extracting taxonomies from definitions
* constructing application/domain specific taxonomies from existing
resources (lexical resources,Linked Open Data, Wikipedia category
structure, semantic networks)
* using different hierarchical structures (e.g., tree, DAG) and
relation types (e.g., hyponymy, meronymy) for taxonomy construction
* attaching Named Entities to hierarchical structures and using Named
Entities to drive taxonomy construction by extensional analysis
* multilinguality and taxonomies: constructing and using multilingual
taxonomies
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Paper Submissions
Submissions should be made electronically, using the Softconf at
https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/texas2014/.
Submissions should follow the two-column format of ACL 2014 proceedings
and should not exceed 8 pages of content and one additional references page.
The LaTeX style files and the Microsoft Word style files tailored for
this year's conference are available at: http://emnlp2014.org/call.html.
The reviewing of papers will be double-blind, so please make sure your
paper shows the title, but no author information. You should likewise
not have any self identifying references anywhere in the paper submitted
for review. For example, rather than this: "We showed previously (Smith,
2001), ...", use citations such as: "Smith (2001) previously showed
...". References to your own work in thesis proposals should also be
anonymized. You may for example write it as "in X (2000) we showed",
etc. and do not add your papers in the reference list.
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Important Dates
Paper submission: July 26, 2014
Paper notification: August 26, 2014
Camera ready: September 15
Workshop: October 29, 2014
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Further information
Further information is available on the workshop website at
http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/TEXAS/call.html or by emailing the
workshop organisers.
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Workshop Organisers
Dr. Paul Buitelaar - Unit for Natural Language Processing Insight,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Dr. Georgeta Bordea - Unit for Natural Language Processing Insight,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Prof. Roberto Navigli - Linguistic Computing Laboratory Dept. of
Computer Science Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Stefano Faralli - Linguistic Computing Laboratory Dept. of Computer
Science Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
