Stylistics for Text Retrieval in Practice
SIGIR 2006 Workshop
Seattle, August 10, 2006
http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/style2006
style2006@sics.se
Recent years have seen an increased attention to various aspects
of automatic analysis and extraction of stylistic aspects of
natural language texts.
Style may be roughly defined as the 'manner' in which something is
expressed, as opposed to the 'content' of a message. Modelling,
representing, explaining, and utilizing variation in the manner of
expression is the business of stylistic analysis.
This workshop follows four previous successful exploratory events
on stylistic analysis and will focus on the practical craft of
stylistic analysis in natural language texts.
THIS YEAR: BRING A DEMO!
Potentially useful applications of stylistic analysis abound,
including systems for genre-based information retrieval,
authorship attribution, plagiarism detection, context-sensitive
text or speech generation systems, organizing and retrieving
documents based on their writing style, attitude, or sentiment,
quality or appropriateness filters for messaging systems,
detecting abusive or threatening language, and more. This year,
participants are expected to bring with them a method for applying
stylistic analysis to information access tasks.
Before lunch, methods are discussed in session; after lunch,
demonstrated in practice.
DISCUSSION QUESTION
Participants should address the following key challenge question
in their participation proposals:
* WHAT IS A MEANINGFUL "KILLER APP" FOR STYLISTIC TEXT ANALYSIS? *
and consider the following questions for discussion in session:
1. How does style relate to other forms of non-topical textual variation?
2. What features are best for different style analysis tasks?
3. Is cross-lingual or 'universal' style analysis possible, and if so, how?
4. How might we develop useful shared resources for moving style research forward?
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Send us a statement (in PDF) of up to five pages describing your
research or application with a short description (and screenshots
if possible) of the demonstration you plan to show. At the
workshop we will discuss and decide on an appropriate forum for a
more permanent record of the proceedings. If you would like a
speaking slot in the discussion session, you should indicate this
in your statement of interest.
ORGANIZERS
Shlomo Argamon, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute for Computer Science, Sweden
Ozlem Uzuner, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
http://www.lingcog.iit.edu/style2006
style2006@sics.se
IMPORTANT DATES
Expression of interest to participate now!
Submission of participation proposals June 1
Notification of acceptance June 14
Program published June 20
Workshop August 10
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