Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:10:29 +0100 (MET)
From: Yves Kodratoff, yk@lri.fr
Subject: CFP: ACAI-99 Workshop on "Text Mining" , Crete, 5-16 July 1999
Web: http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99
Call for Participation:
ACAI-99 Workshop on "Text Mining" (TM)
Organized by
Yves Kodratoff (CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sud) and Udo Hahn (Univ. Freiburg)
within the Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence 1999 (ACAI-99),
Crete, 5-16 July 1999
The topic of TM is very controversial at present. It needs more discussion
among scientists in order to define what it is exactly. In principle, we
would like to promote during the workshop that TM is obtained by a balanced
integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data Mining (DM).
We would like to welcome contributions coming from both the NLP and the DM
communities as soon as they discover some kind of knowledge in the texts.
Note that "knowledge" means here "some kind of information that is directly
usable by an agent, be it human or not" .
Texts contain more often this kind of information, but the burden of
handling very large amounts of texts might make it necessary to introduce
automation, and texts become again nothing but a kind of particularly
hard-to-handle data. Experiences in the handling of these difficulties will
be particularly welcome.
It may also happen that automatic analysis brings to the fore some
knowledge that humans hardly recognize (for instance, unexpected links
between the syntax and the meaning of a text).
Demos of existing systems, whenever possible, would be very useful: submit
your demo the contact organizer (YK).
Send your proposal to Yves Kodratoff, LRI, Bat. 490, Univ. Paris-Sud,
F-91405 Orsay
(yk@lri.fr) who will dispatch it Udo Hahn and to qualified reviewers.
Important dates: DEADLINE FOR PAPERS 15 April 1999
For more information, see ACAI'99 web site:
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99
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