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To whom it may concern:

 

We would greatly appreciate it if you could please circulate the following
CFP for the TextGraphs-5 workshop to be held as part of ACL 2010 in Sweden
to your respective mailing lists.

 

Kind regards,

Carmen, Alessandro, Swapna and Fabio

TextGraphs-5 Organizers

 

 

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Second Call for Papers



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TextGraphs-5: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing 

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Workshop at ACL 2010

Association for Computational Linguistics Conference 

 Uppsala, Sweden - July 16th, 2010 

 

http://www.textgraphs.org/ws10/

 

Deadline for paper submission: Monday, April 5th, 2010

 

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TextGraphs is at its fifth edition! This shows that two seemingly distinct
disciplines, graph theoretic models to computational linguistics, are in
fact intimately connected, with a large variety of Natural Language
Processing (NLP) applications adopting efficient and elegant solutions from
graph-theoretical framework.

 

The TextGraphs workshop series addresses a broad spectrum of research areas
and brings together specialists working on graph-based models and algorithms
for natural language processing and computational linguistics, as well as on
the theoretical foundations of related graph-based methods. This workshop
series is aimed at fostering an exchange of ideas by facilitating a
discussion about both the techniques and the theoretical justification of
the empirical results among the NLP community members. Spawning a deeper
understanding of the basic theoretical principles involved, such interaction
is vital to the further progress of graph-based NLP applications.

 

 

Special Theme: Graph Methods for Opinion Analysis

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For the fifth edition of TextGraphs, we propose the special theme: “Graph
Methods for Opinion Analysis”. This choice is motivated by two important
factors: (1) advanced opinion analysis that aims to go beyond polarity
recognition necessitates the integration of syntactic, semantic and logic
structures and (2) previous work in NLP has shown that graph methods are
very well suited to represent and exploit such structures in learning
systems. 

 

The aim is to bring together researchers from graph theory and opinion
analysis in order to enable cross-fertilization of ideas. The proposed theme
will encourage publication of early results and initiate discussions of
issues in this area. We hope that this will help to shape future directions
for ambitious opinion analysis research and provide a new, challenging
problem motivation for research in graph algorithms.

 

Finally, as the field of opinion mining advances towards deeper analysis and
more complex systems, graphical approaches may become even more pertinent.
For instance, graphs may be employed to capture opinion dynamics over time,
or to model interactions between opinion expressions across multiple
modalities and, to realize this, new graph-based algorithms and inference
methods may need to be developed.

 

 

Suggested topics

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We invite submissions on the following (but not limited to) general topics
(including those from the special theme):

* Graph methods for sentiment lexicon induction

* Analysis of blog and web linking structures

* Graph methods for sentiment/opinion propagation

* Graph representation of data for opinion analysis

* Synonym/antonym graphs and their usage to extrapolate semantic orientation

* Social graphs and opinion analysis

* Graph-based representations, acquisition and evaluation of lexicon and
ontology

* Dynamic graph representations for NLP

* Properties of lexical, semantic, syntactic and phonological graphs

* Clustering-based algorithms

* Application of spectral graph theory in NLP

* Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning models based-on graphs

* Dynamic graph representations for NLP

* Comparative analysis of graph-based methods and traditional machine
learning Techniques for NLP applications

* Kernel Methods for Graphs, e.g. random walk, tree and sequence kernels

* Graph methods for NLP tasks, e.g. morpho-syntactic annotation, word sense
disambiguation, syntactic/semantic parsing

* Graph methods for NLP applications, e.g. retrieval, extraction and
summarization of information

* Semantic inference using graphs, e.g. question answering and text
entailment recognition

 

 

Important Dates

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* Deadline for paper submission: Monday, April 5th, 2010

* Notification of acceptance: Thursday, May 6th, 2010

* Submission of camera-ready articles: Friday, June 4th, 2010

* Workshop at ACL 2010: Friday, July 16th, 2010

 

 

Submission Information

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* Formatting instructions

Submissions will consist of regular full papers of max. 8 pages (one
additional page for the Reference section only is allowed - for a maximum of
9 pages) and short papers of max. 4 pages. We are also interested in
position papers describing new scenarios for the use of graphs for text
processing, especially in the field of Opinion Mining. All submissions must
be electronic in PDF and must be formatted using the ACL 2010 style files,
which, together with additional author guidelines, are available at the
following address: http://www.acl2010.org/authors.html

* Multiple-submission policy

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications
must indicate this at submission time. Authors submitting multiple papers to
TextGraphs-5 may not submit papers that overlap significantly (> 50%) with
each other in content or results. Authors of papers accepted for
presentation at Textgraphs-5 must notify the organizers immediately as to
whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented
at the conference in order to appear in the proceedings.

* Blind review policy

In order to facilitate blind reviewing, the authors should omit their names
and affiliations from the paper. Furthermore, self-references that reveal
the author’s identity, e.g., ”We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...” must
be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ”Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ...” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected
without review.

* Submission

Papers should be submitted to the START Conference Manager at
https://www.softconf.com/acl2010/TextGraphs/.

The submission deadline is Monday, April 5th, 2010 23:59 EDT. Late
submissions will not be accepted.

 

 

Organizing Committee

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* Carmen Banea, University of North Texas,

* Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento,

* Swapna Somasundaran, University of Pittsburgh,

* Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

 

 

Program Committee

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* Andras Csomai, Google Inc.

* Andrea Esuli, Italian National Research Council

* Andrea Passerini,         Trento University, Italy

* Andrew Goldberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison

* Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica

* Dragomir R. Radev, University of Michigan

* Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute

* Fabrizio Sebastiani, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell'Informazione

* Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia

* Hiroya Takamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology

* Lillian Lee, Cornell University

* Lise Getoor, University of Maryland

* Lluis Marquez Villodre, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya

* Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institut, Saarbrücken, Germany

* Michael Gamon, Microsoft Research, Redmond

* Michael Strube, EML research

* Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, India

* Richard Johansson, Trento University

* Robero Basili, University of Rome, Italy

* Roi Blanco, Yahoo!, Barcelona

* Smaranda Muresan,   Rutgers University

* Sofus Macskassy, Fetch Technologies El Segundo, CA

* Stefan Siersdorfer, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany

* Theresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh

* Thomas Gartner, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and
Information Systems

* Ulf Brefeld, Yahoo!

* Veselin Stoyanov,        Cornell University

* William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University

* Xiaojin Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

* Yejin Choi, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

 


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