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LLL 05 (Learning Language in Logic), Bonn (August 2005)

Learning Language in Logic (LLL05)

Challenge task: Extracting Relations from Bio-medical Texts

ICML05 workshop, 7 August 2005, Bonn, Germany
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/aig/lll/lll05/


Call for papers

This workshop is the fourth Learning Language in Logic (LLL) workshop,
following previous LLL workshops in Bled (99), Lisbon (00) and Strasbourg
(01). The purpose of the workshop is to provide a focus for work which
applies machine learning using logical representations to natural
language. Much existing work in this area uses techniques from inductive
logic programming (ILP), and increasingly statistical relational learning.  
More details on the LLL state-of-the-art are available from the LLL home
page, which includes links to many LLL papers, including introductory
ones. We encourage submission of papers on any aspect of logic-based
machine learning for natural language learning.

One of the principal motivations for proposing such a workshop now is the
increasing interest in applying logic-based machine learning to the
problem of Information Extraction from bio-medical texts. For this reason
the workshop has an associated challenge task where the aim is to learn IE
rules which can be used to extract information on gene/protein
interactions. Although, bio-medical IE is a special theme of the workshop,
we very much encourage good quality articles on any aspect of logic-based
machine learning for natural language learning. Here is a non-exhaustive
list of possible topics:

    * Explanation-based learning
    * Extracting predicate-argument structure
    * Grammar learning
    * Higher-order logic for LLL
    * Handling very complex terms in ILP
    * Information extraction
    * Instance-based approaches in ILP
    * Logical approaches to statistical NLP
    * Learning subcategorisation frames
    * Morphological analysis
    * Morphosyntactic tagging
    * Multi-predicate learning
    * Part-of-speech tagging
    * Shallow parsing
    * Theory revision
    * Using ILP with large data sets

Submission format

    * Normal paper format: 8 pages
    * Challenge task paper format: 4 pages

The actual mechanics of submitting your paper are still being sorted. Once 
decided this information will be available here.

1 April 2005 	Normal paper submission deadline
22 April 2005 	Normal paper notification
27 April 2005 	Challenge task paper submission deadline
11 May 2005 	Challenge task paper notification
13 May 2005 	Normal paper (final version) deadline
30 May 2005 	Workshop notes available on-line

Organisers

James Cussens, University of York, UK. (workshop)

Claire Nedellec, INRA, France. (challenge task)

Programme Committee

    * Zoltan Alexin, University of Szeged, Hungary
    * Erick Alphonse, INRA, France
    * Mary Elaine Califf, Illinois State University, USA
    * Vincent Claveau, Universit de Montral, Canada
    * James Cussens, University of York, UK
    * Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    * Sao Deroski, Joef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    * Toma Erjavec, Joef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
    * Dimitar Kazakov, University of York, UK
    * Suresh Manandhar, University of York, UK
    * Claire Nedellec, INRA, France
    * Lubos Popelinsky, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
    * Stephen Pulman, University of Oxford, UK
    * Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
    * Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, France
    * Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA