CompuTerm 2004
3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology

A Workshop

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Computational Terminology becomes an increasingly important aspect in areas such as text mining, information retrieval, information extraction, summarisation, document management systems, question-answering systems, ontology building, etc. In text mining, the acquisition of new knowledge is best captured in terms as they denote new concepts. Terminological information is paramount to knowledge mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive intelligence. Currently, scientific needs in emerging scientific domains, such as biomedicine, coupled with the overwhelming amount of textual data published daily, raised an additional interest to the usefulness of terminology acquired and managed systematically and automatically.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together NLP researchers in Terminology and to discuss recent advances in computational terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. Issues like standardisation of terminological resources, constructing and updating domain specific dictionaries and thesauri, systematic terminology management will be addressed as they are a necessary component of any NLP system dealing with domain-specific literature.

Areas of interest

The 3rd workshop on Computational Terminology invites a range of papers on substantial, original and unpublished research on areas of computational terminology such as:

Mining terminology (NLP techniques for the acquisition and alignment of mono-lingual and multi-lingual terminology)
Structuring and managing terminology (term variation, term association discovery, term clustering and classification)
Terminological integration and update of resources (linking of terminological databases, thesauri, ontologies, (semi)-automatic update of terminological resources)
Applications of terminological information (term oriented IE, IR, QA, summarisation etc)
Evaluation of terminology

Submission format

Papers for workshop contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including references, figures, etc.). Authors should follow the main conference Coling style format. An additional title page should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal address, telephone, url (as a separate file as main submissions are anonymous).

Submissions should be sent via email, using ps or pdf format to: S.Ananiadou@salford.ac.uk

Invited speaker

Marie-Claude L'Homme (Université de Montréal): A Lexico-semantic Approach to the Structuring of Terminology

Important dates

Deadline for submission of papers: extended to April 5, 2004
Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2004
Final camera-ready copy due: June 7, 2004
COMPUTERM'04 workshop: August 29, 2004

Workshop Organisers

Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/DSI/AP-HP, France)

Programme committee

Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, US)
Didier Bourigault (ERSS, France)
Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Key-Sun Choi (KORTERM, KAIST, Korea)
Beatrice Daille (IRIN, France)
Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Éric Gaussier (Xerox, France)
Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp)
Marie-Claude L'Homme (University of Montréal, Canada)
Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Philippe Langlais (RALI, Canada)
John McNaught (UMIST, UK)
Goran Nenadic (UMIST, UK)
Koichi Takeuchi (Okayama University, Japan)