[BOAI] Call For Papers: Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarding from the DigLib list.  Note that the conference organizers 
invite papers on OA.  --Peter Suber.]


* Apologies for multiple postings *

Call for Papers

First NLP4DL Workshop
Viareggio, Italy
15 June 2009

Digital libraries represent a crucial contact point among traditional 
libraries, recent advances in Information Technology, and Natural Language 
Processing technologies. In a sense, digital libraries represent a 
*perfect* crossroads: they are mainly  built out of text, they are 
consulted by humans via natural language, and one of the major tools  for 
accessing the information they hold, metadata, is a mix of structured and 
unstructured information. The First Natural Language Processing for Digital 
Libraries (NLP4DL) workshop, organised under the auspices of the CACAO 
project (eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, ECP 2006 DILI 
510035 CACAO), aims to collect all fundamental and innovative research 
which is done in connection with Natural Language Technologies applied to 
the digital libraries universe. The workshop will host invited speakers 
together with talks/papers concerning:

-free text access to full-text digital libraries;
-access to digital resources via metadata;
-NLP techniques for harmonizing metadata in digital library (DL) federations;
-cross-language access to DLs;
-cross-language harmonization of metadata;
-discovery in DLs: hyperlinking, clustering, user-oriented categorization;
-management of digital collections via NLP-based algorithms;
-adaptation of linguistic resources to thematic DLs;
-fundamental issues: named entity extraction, word sense disambiguation, 
translation disambiguation.

All abstracts papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted contributions will 
be distributed on a CD at the workshop.  A volume from the conference will 
be published in Fall 2009. Depending on the number of high quality 
submissions, a poster/demo session may also be held.

Practical Information
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The conference will be held in Viareggio, Italy on 15 June  2009. More 
details will be available soon at the conference website at 
<http://www.cacaoproject.eu/NLP4DL09>.

Important Dates
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Deadline for submission (Abstract, maximum five pages): 20  April 2009; 
submission should be sent as a PDF file to <nlp4dl at research.celi.it> .
Notification of acceptance: 4 May 2009
Conference version of the paper due (Instructions will be provided to 
authors): 1 June 2009
Conference date: 15  June 2009
Press version of the paper due: 4 September 2009


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