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2ND CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd Workshop of the People's Web meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources and their Applications to NLP

Jeju, Republic of Korea July 12-13, 2012 http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop

===Schedule===

March 18, 2012 Paper submission deadline (full and short) April 16, 2012 Notification of acceptance April 30, 2012 Camera-ready version due July 12-13, 2012 ACL 2012 Workshops

===Introduction===

Recent recognition of Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (CSRs) has substantially contributed to the research in natural language processing (NLP). The 3rd workshop "The People's Web meets NLP" invites both long and short papers on various CSRs-related topics. Preference will be given to submissions on CSRs' application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest of this workshop edition. We also welcome tutorial-like submissions on using the software for CSRs to facilitate their wide adoption by the NLP community.

Specific topics include but are not limited to: * Using collaboratively constructed resources and the information mined from them for NLP tasks (cf. Section "References"), such as word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, information retrieval, text categorization, information extraction, question answering, etc.; * Mining social and collaborative content for constructing structured lexical semantic resources, annotated corpora and the corresponding tools; * Analyzing the structure of collaboratively constructed resources related to their use in NLP; * Computational linguistics studies of collaboratively constructed resources, such as wiki-based platforms or folksonomies; * Structural and semantic interoperability of collaboratively constructed resources with conventional semantic resources and between themselves; * Mining multilingual information from collaboratively constructed resources; * Using special features of collaboratively constructed resources to create novel resource types, for example revision-based corpora, simplified versions of resources, etc.; * Quality and reliability of collaboratively constructed lexical semantic resources and annotated corpora; * Hands-on practical knowledge on utilization of CSR APIs and tools or designing crowdsourcing procedures for high quality outcomes.

Though the workshop welcomes any CSRs-related topics, preference will be given to submissions on CSRs' application to NLP tasks, which is the special interest of this workshop edition. Thereby, we encourage the participation of researchers with various backgrounds: from computational linguistics (e.g. parsing and discourse analysis) to NLP applications and other areas that might benefit from collaboratively constructed semantic resources. Given that we receive a sufficient number of tutorial-like submissions, a dedicated presentation session for those will be scheduled.

For details, please refer to the workshop website: http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/scientific-community/acl-2012-workshop

===Organizers===

Iryna Gurevych Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt Nicoletta Calzolari Zamorani Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Jungi Kim Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab, TU Darmstadt

===Program Committee===

Andras Csomai Google Inc. Andreas Hotho Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Anette Frank Heidelberg University Benno Stein Bauhaus University Weimar Christian Meyer Technische Universität Darmstadt David Milne University of Waikato Delphine Bernhard University of Strasbourg Diana McCarthy Lexical Computing Ltd, UK Donald Metzler Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California Emily Pitler University of Pennsylvania Ernesto William De Luca Technische Universität Berlin Florian Laws University of Stuttgart Gerard de Melo UC Berkeley German Rigau University of the Basque Country Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Günter Neumann DFKI Saarbrücken Ido Dagan Bar Ilan University John McCrae University of Bielefeld Jong-Hyeok Lee Pohang University of Science and Technology Judith Eckle-Kohler Technische Universität Darmstadt Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Magnus Sahlgren Swedish Institute of Computer Science Manfred Stede Universität Potsdam Massimo Poesio University of Essex Omar Alonso Microsoft Bing Paul Buitelaar DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway Rene Witte Concordia University Montréal Roxana Girju University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Saif Mohammad National Research Council Canada Shuming Shi Microsoft Research Sören Auer Leipzig University Tat-Seng Chua National University of Singapore Tonio Wandmacher SYSTRAN, Paris, France Zornitsa Kozareva Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California