MLQA'06
Submission Programme
Accepted papers
Conference web page
http://eacl06.itc.it/
CONTACT INFORMATION
Anselmo Peñas
anselmo@lsi.uned.es
Richard Sutcliffe
rsutcl@essex.ac.uk
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The EACL 2006 Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics which will take place April 3-7, 2006, in Trento, Italy. BACKGROUND
Despite
the great deal of attention that Question Answering (QA) has received in
recent years due to the landmark Q&A Track at the Text REtrieval Conference
(TREC), multilinguality has been outside the mainstream of QA research, which
has focused mainly on the English language. Multilingual QA has emerged only
in the last few years as a complementary research task, representing a promising
direction for at least two reasons. First, it allows users to interact with
machines in their native languages, contributing to easier, faster, and more
equal information access. Second, cross-lingual capabilities enable
QA systems to access information stored only in language-specific text collections.
The success of the QA track in recent evaluation campaigns at CLEF (Cross-Language Evaluation Forum) and NTCIR (Evaluation of Information Access Technologies) has shown increasing interest in both monolingual non-English QA (questions and answers in the same language) and in cross-lingual QA, where the question is posed in a source language and the answer must be found in a target collection of a different language. The workshop intends to address a number of challenging issues for research in multilingual QA, including searching in multilingual document collections, collecting and merging answers found in documents from different languages, using heterogeneous multilingual data collections (such as the Web, XML data or data in relational databases) for answer generation, and interpreting questions in different languages. Additionally papers related to user studies or case studies where multilingual QA has played a major role are most welcome. TOPICS
Relevant topics for the workshop include but are not restricted to:
SUBMISSIONS
Please submit your paper in the form of a PDF file no later than January
6, 2006 by going to the following URL and following the instructions there:
Each
submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the programme committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are allowed; if you submit to the main session, do indicate this when you submit to the workshop. If your paper is accepted for the main session, you should withdraw your paper from the workshop upon notification by the main session. REGISTRATION
Information on registration and registration fees will be provided at the main conference web page: http://eacl06.itc.it/registration.htm
IMPORTANT DATES
January 6, 2006 - Deadline for workshop papers
January 27, 2006 - Notification of acceptance February 10, 2006 - Camera-ready papers due April 4, 2006 - Workshop As the schedule is extremely tight, deadline extensions are NOT possible. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Anselmo Peñas (UNED, Madrid, Spain) co-chair
Richard Sutcliffe (University of Essex¹, England) co-chair Lili Aunimo (University of Helsinki, Finland) Christelle Ayache (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France) Johan Bos (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy) Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Danilo Giampiccolo (CELCT, Trento, Italy) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Donna Harman (NIST, USA) Michael Hess (University of Zürich, Switzerland) Valentin Jijkoun (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Noriko Kando (NII, Tokyo, Japan) Dominique Laurent (Synapse Développement, Toulouse, France) Bernardo Magnini (ITC-irst, Trento, Italy) André Martins (Priberam Informática, Lisbon, Portugal) Diego Mollá (Macquarie University, Australia) Günter Neumann (DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany) Carol Peters (CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy) Diana Santos (Linguateca, Oslo, Norway) Yutaka Sasaki (ATR, Kyoto, Japan) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria) Bill Teahan (University of Wales, Bangor, Wales) José Luis Vicedo (University of Alicante, Spain) (¹) On Sabbatical from University of Limerick This Workshop has the partial support of:
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