CBA-2008:
Call for Papers
CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES TO COREFERENCE RESOLUTION IN ROMANCE
LANGUAGES

Deadline for abstract submission: Thursday September 25, 2008
Workshop location: Universitat de Barcelona.
Workshop Email : cba2008@ub.edu

DESCRIPTION
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Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya begin a
series of workshops devoted to Corpus-based Approaches to Discourse Analysis
CBA Workshops. We are particularly interested in innovative perspectives
on the use and exploitation of corpora in going one step beyond the state of
the art. The first workshop in this series, CBA-2008, will focus on
Coreference Resolution in Romance Languages. This workshop aims to
exploit annotated data in order to make the most of machine learning
techniques for coreference resolution. For coreference we understand
identifying the full chain of mentions for each entity in the discourse,
rather than pairs of antecedent-anaphor. We believe there is a need to
bring together linguists and computer scientists, and we invite unpublished
contributions which relate to issues of this field with a special emphasis
on though not limited to Romance languages.

Topics of interest:
- Exploring techniques/strategies for collecting better data in this area
- Studies of relevant features for coreference resolution
- Studies of knowledge sources for coreference resolution and strategies for
inferring useful linguistic cues
- ML algorithms of coreference resolution
- Learning features from annotated/raw corpora
- Portability of English coreference resolution systems to Romance languages

Further information is available on the web http://stel.ub.edu/cba2008
Registration is free!

INVITED SPEAKERS
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Véronique Hoste (University of Antwerp)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, Università di Trento)

IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission deadline: 25 September 2008
Notification of acceptance: 15 October 2008
Final version of abstracts: 1 November 2008
Workshop: 13-15 November 2008
Early version of full papers: 15 January 2009
Camera ready full papers: 5 March 2009

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Abstracts should be at most 2 pages in length, including references, using a
12 pt. font with 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Abstracts should be in form of
a PDF file and should be submitted electronically using the abstract
submission software available at http://stel.ub.edu/cba2008/submission.php

PROCEEDINGS
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After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a monographic issue
of the SEPLN journal: Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 42 (April 2009).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Antonio Balvet (Université Lille 3, France)
Richard Evans (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
M. Antònia Martí (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Patricio Martínez-Barco (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Roser Morante (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Rafael Muñoz (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
Costanza Navarretta (CST ^Ã? Center for Sprogteknologi, Denmark)
Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Lluís Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Massimo Poesio (University of Essex, UK / Università di Trento, Italy)
Marta Recasens (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Horacio Rodríguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Mihai Surdeanu (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Mariona Taulé (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Jordi Turmo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Alfonso Ureña (Universidad de Jaén, Spain)
Antal van den Bosch (Tilburg University, Holland)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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M. Antònia Martí
Lluís Padró
Marta Recasens
Emili Sapena
Mariona Taulé
Jordi Turmo