Corpora: SCIE02 - Summer Convention on Information Extraction

From: Maria Teresa Pazienza (pazienza@info.uniroma2.it)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 18:18:43 MET DST

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    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, 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: scie02@info.uniroma2.it
    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)

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    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: pazienza@info.uniroma2.it
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