Corpora: Second School on Information Extraction - Call for
SCIE99 (scie99@info.uniroma2.it)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 20:06:49 +0100
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Call for Participation
Second School on Information Extraction SCIE99
Frascati(Rome), June 28, July 3, 1999
http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
The Artificial Intelligence group of
the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the
University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in cooperation with the Italian
Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA), is pleased to announce the
second Second School on Information Extraction (SCIE99), to be held in
Frascati (Roma), Italy, from June 28 to July 3, 1999 .
OBJECTIVES
Information Extraction (IE) is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary area
drawing upon concepts and techniques from artificial intelligence,
information retrieval, data bases, machine learning, statistics. As a
matter of fact natural language processing and computational linguistics
are playing an important role in supporting systems for information
extraction from documents. Information extraction aims to derive
structures and various levels of linguistic generalization from the large
volumes of textual data that users and machines can now access and
manipulate through networks.
If at the first edition of the school the international scenario was
including mainly sacademic/research oriented systems for IE, the current
situation shows an increasung maturity. This can be considered as a side
effect of sa deeper technological insite as welll as a stronger
industrial awareness. sThis also emerges from the successful results sof
different european community language engineering projects ( FACILE,
SPARKLE, ECRAN among others)
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The school provides a forum for researchers and practitioners with
different background and expertise, to discuss ideas and describe
experiences in defining and implementing IE systems.
To maximize interaction among SCIE-99 participants, the attendance will
be limited to 80 persons.
CONTENTS
The school is organized as a set of lectures held by internationally
renown expers from the different disciplines concerning IE themes. These
lectures are axplicitly meant to address interdisciplinary issues and
will introduce common goals, needs and problems of the different
approaches. Demo sessions on current IE technologies and systems will be
also held at the school. Specific workshops are planned to favor the
cooperative discussion among specialists and fellows.
A preliminary list of invited speakers and covered topics follows:
Jean Pierre CHANOD (XEROX Research Centre Europe, FR)
"Finite-state linguistic components: the case of digital
libreries"
Veronica DAHL (Simon Fraser Univ. CA)
"From Assumptions to Speech"
Maria Teresa PAZIENZA (Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, IT)
"Software architectures for engineering IE systems"
Harold SOMERS (UMIST, UK)
"Statistical methods for knowledge extraction from
corpora"
John SOWA (Westchester Polytechnic Univ. USA)
"Conceptual modeling and linguistic knowledge"
Marc VILAIN (The MITRE Corporation, MA, USA)
"Multilingual IE systems"
Ellen VOORHEES (NIST, MD, USA)
"Contribution of NLP to improve retrieval in very large documents
collection"
Yorick WILKS (Univ. of Sheffield, UK)
"Hybrid statistical-semantic models of IE"
The speakers contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.
GRANTS
Thanks to the support of the AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial
Intelligence) and some of the sponsors, grants will be available for
advanced students and young researchers. Details are in the SCIE99 web
site.
SCHOOL VENUE
The School will be held in the pleasant atmosphere of the historic city
of Frascati (near Rome, Italy)
Frascati is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine, cordial
hospitality, many villas and parks distributed throughout its territory,
and for its pleasant summer weather.
The school will be hosted by the European Space Agency at ESRIN
establishment. Thanks to this hospitality, we hope to reach a friendly
atmosphere as in the past edition of the school, which enabled fruitful
exchanges of ideas among participants.
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All information for SCIE-99 participation (registration fees,
accommodation, lectures, timeschedule, social events, ...) may be found
in the school web page
http://scie99.info.uniroma2.it
SCIE-99 Program Commettee:
* Luigia Carlucci Aiello (Univ. of Roma La Sapienza)
* Elisa Bertino (Univ. of Milano)
* Maria Teresa Pazienza (Univ. of Roma, Tor Vergata) (chair)
* Domenico Sacca' (Univ. of Calabria)
* Lorenza Saitta (Univ. of Torino)
SCIE-99 Organizing Committee:
- R. Basili (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata) (chair)
- C. Cardani (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- M. Di Nanni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- M. Vindigni (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
- F. Zanzotto (Univ. Roma Tor Vergata)
School e-mail: scie99@info.uniroma2.it
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For more information contact:
prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Production
University of Roma, Tor Vergata
Via di Tor Vergata
00133 ROMA (ITALY)
tel: +39 06 72597378 (office); fax +39 06 72597460;
e_mail: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it
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