2^nd Workshop on Text Mining and Applications

Pure symbolic methods for Language Processing alone are unable to address human languages complexity. Text Mining and Machine Learning techniques applied to text, raw or annotated, brought up new insights and completely shifted the approaches to Human Language Technologies. Both approaches, when duly integrated, bridge the gap between language theories and effective use of languages, and enable important applications. Our aim, with this workshop, is to bring together innovative contributions to fill in this gap.

Topics of Interest

Text Mining from raw and/or annotated text:

- Pattern extraction methodologies.
- Document Clustering/Classification.
- Document Summarization.
- Topic segmentation of documents.
- Word and Multi-word Sense Disambiguation.
- Semantic Restrictions extraction.
- Word and multi-word translation extraction.
- Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining.

Applications:

- Natural Language Processing.
- Example-Based/Statistical Machine Translation.
- Intelligent Information Retrieval.
- Multilingual access to multilingual information.
- Question-Answering Systems.
- E-training and E-learning.

Scope

It is our aim to have most recent and important work in the area of Text Mining and Applications presented and discussed at TEMA’07 as has already occurred in TEMA’05, the first edition of this workshop. We will have an invited talk, oral presentations of best papers submitted and at the end we will organize discussion on entrepreneurship in the area, and European Cooperation and IST7. Best papers will be published at Springer, in LNAI series. If there are additional papers whose quality is sufficiently high for deserving to be presented at TEMA’07, those other accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
TeMA'07 is one of the workshops organized in the framework of the 13th Portuguese Conference in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2007).

Organising Committee

Contact person of the Workshop Organizing Committee:
Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: Este endereço de email está protegido contra spam bots, pelo que o Javascript terá de estar activado para poder visualizar o endereço de email

José Gabriel Pereira Lopes, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10722; Fax: +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: Este endereço de email está protegido contra spam bots, pelo que o Javascript terá de estar activado para poder visualizar o endereço de email

Gaël Dias, Departamento de Informática, Universidade da Beira Interior, Rua Marquês d'Ávila e Bolama, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.
Tel.: +351 275 319 700 (ext. 3256); Fax: +351 275 319 700; e-mail: Este endereço de email está protegido contra spam bots, pelo que o Javascript terá de estar activado para poder visualizar o endereço de email

Vitor Jorge Ramos Rocio, Universidade Aberta. Rua da Imprensa Nacional, nº 100, 1250-127 Lisboa.
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Program Committee

Adam Kilgarriff, Lexicography MasterClass Ltd, United Kingdom
Aline Villavicencio, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Antonio Sanfilippo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Alexandre Agustini, PUC - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Christel Vrain, Université d'Orléans, France
Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA, France
Frédérique Segond, Xerox, France
Gael Dias, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
José Lopes, FCT/UNL, Portugal
Gregory Grefenstette , CEA, France
Irene Rodrigues, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Joaquim Silva, FCT/UNL, Portugaal
João Silva, Universidade deLisboa, Portugal
Manuel Ferro, University of Vigo, Spain
Marcelo Finger, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Nunes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Marie-Laure Reinberger, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
Pablo Otero, Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela,, Spain
Paulo Quaresma, Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Pierre Zweigenbaum , AP-HP, INALCO & INSERM, France
Renata Vieira, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil
Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester,, United Kingdom
Spela Vintar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Veska Noncheva, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Victor Rocio, Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium