Call for papers

Innovative hybrid approaches to the processing of textual data
April 22, 2012, Avignon, France

Website:
http://www-limbio.smbh.univ-paris13.fr/membres/hamon/hybrid/

Submission Deadline: Jan 27, 2012



The hybrid approach term covers a large set of situations in which different
approaches are combined in order to better process textual data and to
attempt a better achievement of the dedicated task.

Among the hybridizations the possible combinations are unlimited. The most
frequent combination, as stressed during The Balancing Act in 1994,
addressed machine learning and rule-based systems. Beyond this, the
hybridization can be augmented with distributionnal approaches, syntactic
and morphological analyses, semantic distances and similarities, graph
theory models, cooccurrences of linguistic units (e.g., word and their
dependencies, word senses and pos-tag, NEs and semantic roles,...),
knowledge-based approaches (terminologies and ontologies), etc.

As a matter of fact, the hybridization implies to define a strategy to
efficiently combine several approaches: cooperation between approaches,
filtering, voting or ranking of the multiple system outputs, etc.

Indeed, the combination of these different methods and approaches appears to
provide more complete and performant results. The reason is that each method
is sensitive and efficient with given data and within given contexts. Hence,
their combination may improve both precision and recall. The coverage is
indeed improved, while the exploitation of different methods may also lead
to the improvement of the precision since their use within filtering, voting
etc. modes becomes possible.

In this workshop, we favour the extended meaning of the hybridization of
methods, applied to various application areas, such as (but do not feel
constrained by these):
- automatic creation of linguistic resources
- POS tagging
- building and structuring of terminologies
- information retrieval and filtering
- information extraction
- linguistic annotation
- semantic labeling
- sign language recognition and transcription
- oral data transcription
- filtering and validation of lexical resources
- text summarization
- question/answering system
- natural language generation
- etc.

We invite authors to submit novel methods and novel conceptions of the
hybridization performed in various areas related to the textual data
processing.


Important dates
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Nov 25, 2011: 1st workshop CFP
Jan 04, 2012: Abstract deadline
Jan 27, 2012: Paper due date
Feb 24, 2012: Notification of acceptance
Mar 09, 2012: Camera-ready deadline
Apr 22, 2012: Workshop


Submission instructions
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Authors are invited to submit full papers on original, unpublished work in
the topic area of this workshop. Submissions should be formatted using the
EACL 2012 stylefiles for latex or MS Word, with blind review and not
exceeding 8 pages plus an extra page for references. The PDF files will be
submitted electronically at https://www.softconf.com/eacl2012/Hybrid2012/


Program Committee
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Philipp Cimiano, CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Vincent Claveau, IRISA, CNRS, France
Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, USA
Marie-Claude l'Homme, OLST, Université de Montreal, Canada
Béatrice Daille, LINA, Université de Nantes, France
Sampo Pyysalo, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Mathieu Roche, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier 2, France
Patrick Ruch, Haute école de gestion de Genève, Switzerland
Paul Thompson, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Özlem Uzuner, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA


Organization Committee
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Natalia Grabar, CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Université Lille 1&3, France
Marie Dupuch, MOSTRARE/LIFL& CNRS UMR 8163 STL, Université Lille 1&3, France
Amandine Périnet, LIM&BIO, Université Paris 13, France
Thierry Hamon, LIM&BIO, Université Paris 13, France