robus 2011 - Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition

Workshop on Information Extraction and Knowledge Acquisition
Collocated with RANLP'2011
September 15-16, 2011
Hissar, Bulgaria

Schedule:
Submission deadline: 17 June 2011
Notification: 25 July 2011
Camera-ready version due: 22 August 2011
Workshop: 15-16 September 2011

Workshop Organizers:

Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore
Zornitsa Kozareva, University of Southern California
Kuzman Ganchev, Google Inc.
Jerry Hobbs, University of Southern California

Topics of Interest:

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Knowledge discovery and mining on the Web
- Social networks and folksonomy analysis
- Ontology population and induction
- Cross-lingual and multi-lingual approaches to IE and KA
- Using crowd-sourcing tools, such as Mechanical Turk, for IE and KA
- IE and KA and the Semantic Web
- Multi-lingual named entity recognition and disambiguation
- Event extraction
- Paraphrase extraction
- Temporal data mining
- Using resources such as Wikipedia, DBpedia, Freebase
- IE and KA from informal text: chats, instant messages, blogs, Twitter