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Dear Colleague
you are invited to submit a paper at the Workshop on:

INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING OF WEB NEWS CONTENT
http://patterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/News-Content-Workshop

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

at the Conferences

WEB INTELLIGENCE (WI'09)
INTELLIGENT AGENT TECHNOLOGY(IAT'09)


The content of news outlets - increasingly available freely online - contains

information of immense scientific and commercial potential, as well as belonging
to a very specific genre of textual data.

The content of news outlets is both a relatively focused domain, largely
looking at the same set of events, and at the same time unstructured and open
ended. The understanding and analysis of news content - be it text or speech,
mono or multi lingual, etc - is a challenging and promising line of research, with
its own specific features and character.

Various projects exist in this direction, aimed either at simple aggregation,
or at translation, or summarisation, or content analysis of news. We will gather
the scientific and technical community working on these applications to discuss
scientific and technological aspects, lessons learnt, and open problems in this
growing field, at the intersection of information extraction, machine learning,
machine translation, pattern discovery, etc.

Technologies in this area span the entire domain of Pattern Analysis: from
indexing to information extraction, from speech recognition to machine translation,
from pattern discovery to text generation and summarisation, to network patterns analysis.
Besides connecting to user modelling and personalisation, the method also is a form of open source
intelligence - see the applications to epidemic detection for example. The key goal of the meeting
is the sharing of experiences, and the comparison of results solutions, and long term goals.

ORGANIZERS:

Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol)
Marco Turchi (University of Bristol)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Marko Grobelnik (J. Stefan Institute)
Antonio Gulli (Ask.com/University of Pisa)
Steven Skiena (State University of New York)
Ralf Steinberger (European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC))
Marco Turchi (University of Bristol)
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol)
Justin Lewis (University of Cardiff)

IMPORTANT DATES:

* Due date for full workshop papers submission: APRIL 30, 2009
* Notification of paper acceptance to authors: JUNE 8, 2009
* Camera-ready of accepted papers: JUNE 30, 2009

SUBMISSION:

The length of accepted papers should NOT exceed 4 pages (IEEE-CS format, extra payment is only
available for one more extra page). For authors, please submit through the WI/IAT-2009 Workshop Paper Submission page.
The link for paper submission will be announced soon, please check this
(http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/IAT09/submission.htm)later.

Accepted workshop papers will be published in the Proceedings of WI-IAT09 Workshops, IEEE-CS Press
http://www.wi-iat09.disco.unimib.it/WI09/wrproposals.htm.

CONTACT:

Please send inquiries to iapwnc@googlemail.com.