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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
EACL 2006 Workshop on
Multi-dimensional Markup in Natural Language Processing:
5th Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2006)
http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006/
April 4, 2006, Trento, Italy
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The EACL 2006 Workshop on Multi-dimensional Markup in
Natural Language Processing will be hosted in conjunction
with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics, which will take
place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, italy.
This workshop is also the fifth in the NLPXML series, following
workshops at NLPRS 2001 in Tokyo, COLING 2002 in Taipei,
EACL 2003 in Budapest, and ACL 2004 in Barcelona.
* TOPICS
The widespread adoption of XML within the NLP community as the
main standard for both data and meta-data representation has led
to research in a number of issues relating to XML and NLP. One
particularly interesting challenge arises from the difficulty in
combining annotations resulting from disparate NLP systems in a
single hierarchical structure. For downstream applications that
rely on a range of linguistic annotations, problems such as crossing
boundaries and overlapping elements from different sources make it
difficult to query data with multiple dimensions of annotation.
Our goal for this workshop is to bring together researchers from
several different fields --- natural language processing, corpus
linguistics, markup languages, and information retrieval --- to
discuss theoretical and practical issues related to the integration of
different layers of text annotation. In addition to full paper
presentations, the workshop will also have two sessions devoted to
system demonstrations.
* PROGRAMME
09:00-09:05 Welcome
09:05-09:30 Representing and Querying Multi-dimensional Markup for
Question Answering
Wouter Alink, Valentin Jijkoun, David Ahn, Maarten de
Rijke, Peter Boncz, and Arjen de Vries
09:30-10:00 Annotation and Disambiguation of Semantic Types in
Biomedical Text: A Cascaded Approach to Named Entity
Recognition
Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Harald Kirsch, Sylvain
Gaudan, Miguel Arregui, and Goran Nenadic
10:00-10:30 Tools to Address the Interdependence between Tokenisation
and Standoff Annotation
Claire Grover, Michael Matthews, and Richard Tobin
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Towards an Alternative Implementation of NXT's Query
Language via XQuery
Neil Mayo, Jonathan Kilgour, and Jean Carletta
11:30-11:45 Demo boosters, 1
11:45-12:30 Demo session, 1
12:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:00 Multi-dimensional Annotation and Alignment in an
English-German Translation Corpus
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Stella Neumann, and Mihaela Vela
15:00-15:15 Demo boosters, 2
15:15-16:00 Demo session, 2
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 Querying XML documents with multi-dimensional markup
Peter Siniakov
17:00-18:00 Panel discussion and closing
Accepted demos:
* ANNIS: Complex Multilevel Annotations in a Linguistic Database
Michael Goetze and Stefanie Dipper
* Annotating text using the Linguistic Description Scheme of
MPEG-7: The DIRECT-INFO Scenario
Thierry Declerck, Stephan Busemann, Herwig Rehatschek, and Gert
Kienast
* Layering and Merging Linguistic Annotations: The ANC Project
Keith Suderman and Nancy Ide
* Middleware for Creating and Combining Multi-dimensional NLP Markup
Ulrich Schaefer
* Multidimensional markup and heterogeneous linguistic resources
Maik Stuehrenberg, Andreas Witt, Daniela Goecke, Dieter Metzing,
and Oliver Schonefeld
* The NITE XML Toolkit: Demonstration from five corpora
Jonathan Kilgour and Jean Carletta
* Representing and Accessing Multi-Level Annotations in MMAX2
Christoph Mueller
* Representing and Accessing Multilevel Linguistic Annotation
using the MEANING Format
Emanuele Pianta, Luisa Bentivogli, Christian Girardi, and
Bernardo Magnini
* The SAMMIE Multimodal Dialogue Corpus Meets the Nite XML Toolkit
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Verena Rieser, Ciprian Gerstenberger,
Jan Schehl, and Tilman Becker
* A Standoff Annotation Interface between DELPH-IN Components
Benjamin Waldron and Ann Copestake
* Tools for hierarchical annotation of typed dialogue
Myroslava Dzikovska, Charles Callaway, and Elaine Farrow
* XML-based Phrase Alignment in Parallel Treebanks
Martin Volk, Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Joakim Lundborg, Torsten
Marek, Yvonne Samuelsson, and Frida Tidstrom
* REGISTRATION
Information on registration and registration fees is provided at
the conference web page:
http://eacl06.itc.it/registration.htm
* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
David Ahn (University of Amsterdam), co-chair
Wouter Alink (NFI, The Hague)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Jean Carletta (University of Edinburgh)
Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield)
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana)
Claire Grover (University of Edinburgh)
Nancy Ide (Vassar, New York)
Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh)
Mounia Lalmas (University of London)
Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam)
Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
Laurent Romary (Loria, Nancy)
Valentin Tablan (University of Sheffield)
Henry Thompson (University of Edinburgh)
Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Amsterdam)
Arjen de Vries (CWI, Amsterdam)
Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki), co-chair
* FURTHER INFORMATION
Workshop web page: http://ilps.science.uva.nl/nlpxml2006/
Conference web page: http://eacl06.itc.it/
EACL 2006 Workshops site: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/
* CONTACT INFORMATION
David Ahn
Informatics Institute
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
ahn (at) science.uva.nl
-- David Ahn Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam Kruislaan 403, 1098SJ Amsterdam W:+31 20 525 5357, M:+31 64 181 3795 http://www.science.uva.nl/~ahn
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