Due to a large number of requests, the new deadline for paper submission
to TEMA@EPIA 2011 was extended until May 17, 2011.

To allow for a faster reviewing process, please submit abstracts until the
10th of May. The final version of the papers can be submitted until May
17.

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Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2011) Thematic Track of EPIA 2011

TeMA 2011 will be held at the 15th Portuguese Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (EPIA 2011), in Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 October 2011. This
Track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for
Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).
EPIA 2011 URL: (epia2011.appia.pt)

This announcement contains:
[1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4]
Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program
Committee and [8] Contacts.

[1] Track Description
Human languages are complex by nature and efforts in pure symbolic
approaches alone have been unable to provide fully satisfying results.
Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques applied to texts, raw or
annotated, brought up new insights and completely shifted the approaches
to Human Language Technologies. Both approaches, symbolic and
statistically based, when duly integrated, have shown capabilities to
bridge the gap between language theories and effective use of languages,
and can enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous
environment such as the Web.
The 4th Track on Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2011) is a forum for
researchers working in Human Language Technologies i.e. Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language
Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM) and related areas.

Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified
below. Papers will be blindly reviewed by three members of the Programme
Committee. Best papers will be published at Springer, in LNCS series. If
there are additional papers whose quality is sufficiently high for
deserving to be presented at TeMA 2011, those other accepted papers will
be published in a conference proceedings book. Papers should not exceed
fifteen (15) pages in length and must be formatted according to the
information for LNCS authors.

[2] Topics of Interest
Topics include but are not limited to:

Text Mining
- Language Models
- Multi-word Units
- Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
- Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation.
- Semantic Restrictions Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling
- Sentiment Analysis
- Acquisition and Usage of Ontologies
- Pattern Extraction Methodologies
- Topic Segmentation
- Extraction of Translation Equivalents
- Word and Multi-word Translation Extraction
- Text Entailment
- Document Clustering and Classification
- Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining
- Information Extraction


Applications:
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Translation
- Automatic Summarization
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Multilingual access to multilingual information
- Question-Answering Systems
- E-training and E-learning
- Semantic Search
- Web Mining



[3] Important dates
May 17, 2011: Paper submission deadline (updated)
June 10, 2011: Notification of paper acceptance
July 1, 2011: Deadline for final versions
October 10-13, 2011: Conference dates

[4] Paper submission
Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and
previously unpublished research. Papers must be submitted in PDF (Adobe's
Portable Document Format) format and will not be accepted in any other
format. Papers that exceed 15 pages or do not follow the LNCS guidelines
risk being rejected automatically without a review. At least one author of
each accepted paper must register for the conference. More information
about the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) are
available on the Springer LNCS Web site:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Authors should omit their names from the submitted papers, and should take
reasonable care to avoid indirectly disclosing their identity.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format. Instructions available in
website conference (epia2011.appia.pt).

[5] Track Fees:
Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2011 conference. No
extra fee shall be paid for attending this Track.

[6] Organizing Committee:
Joaquim F. Ferreira da Silva. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
Vitor R. Rocio. Universidade Aberta, Portugal.
Gaël Dias. Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal.
José G. Pereira Lopes. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

[7] Program Committee:
Adeline Nazarenko (University of Paris 13, France)
Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Antoine Doucet (University of Caen, France)
António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Antonio Sanfilippo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Belinda Maia (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, France)
Bruno Cremilleux (University of Caen, France)
Christel Vrain (Université d'Orléans, France)
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Eric de La Clergerie (INRIA, France)
Frédérique Segond (Xerox, France)
Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Gaël Dias (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Gregory Grefenstette (CEA, France)
Helena Ahonen-Myka (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Irene Rodrigues. Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Isabelle Tellier (University of Orléans, France)
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
João Balsa (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
João Graça (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Luisa Coheur (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Manuel Vilares Ferro (University of Vigo, Spain)
Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Marcelo Finger (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Mark Lee (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Nuno Mamede (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal)
Nuno Marques (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
Nadine Lucas (University of Caen, France)
Pablo Gamallo (Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Paulo Quaresma (Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
Pavel Brazdil (University of Porto, Portugal)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (CNRS-LIMSI, France)
Renata Vieira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Veska Noncheva (University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Vitor Jorge Rocio (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)


[8] Contacts

Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre,
2829-516, Caparica, Portugal.
Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs [at]
_di [dot] fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

Vitor Jorge Ramos Rocio, Universidade Aberta. Palácio Ceia, Rua da Escola
Politécnica, nº141-147
,1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal. Tel.: +351 213
916 300; Fax: +351 213 916 517; e-mail: vjr [at] univ-ab [dot] pt