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** SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***EXTENDED DEADLINES FOR EARLY REGISTRATION FEES*** -------------------------------------------------------------------- SCIE02 - INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON INFORMATION EXTRACTION A perspective to intelligent access, acquisition and delivery of knowledge from Web sources Frascati(ROMA),Italy, July 15-19, 2002 http://scie02.info.uniroma2.it The AI Research Group of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy) is pleased to announce next SCIE02 that will be held in Frascati (Roma) july 15-19, 2002 supported by: University of Roma Tor Vergata, European Space Agency, AI*IA, ENEA, NOUS Informatica, among others. Following the tradition established by previous editions (SCIE97 Multidisciplinary contributions to an emerging Information Technology , SCIE99 Towards scalable, adaptable systems), SCIE02 will deal with new specific aspects of IE: it will cover the new problems related to the access, acquisition and delivery of knowledge from Web sources. Main covered topics will be: Question/Answering, Dialogue Analysis, Text summarization, Acquisition of domain models, Terminology extraction, Multimodal information access, Interactions among linguistic agents. SCIE02 will be really an environment in which each participant will be stimulated to get actively involved, supported by lecturers and infrastructures provided by the whole programme. This initiative is aimed primarily at interested people working in research institutions, universities, companies, information and documentation centers. The Convention will provide an interesting environment to each participant by offering several, different opportunities. SCIE02 program foresees: - - lectures on specific themes held by international experts ; - - a scientific workshop ; - - an on-site Open-Lab in which participants can be involved in developing/testing activities on a personal base or under working group responsibility; - - technical meetings. Grants are available: to apply for a grant, please contact the organizers by e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The deadline for applying for a grant is June 15th, 2002. Each SCIE02 participant will receive a copy of the book with all scientific presentations collected and published by Springer-Verlag into LNAI series. The overall convention program, events descriptions and registration details are available at: http://scie02.info.uniroma2.it Hope to meet you at SCIE02 Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (SCIE02 Chair) -------------------------------------------------- prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza AI Research Group, Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production University of Roma, Tor Vergata Via del Politecnico 00133 ROMA (ITALY) tel: +39 06 72597378 (office); +39 06 7259 7332 (lab) fax +39 06 72597460; e_mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------
