Cfp: Workshop on Mining Unstructured Big Data using Natural Language Processing (MNLP) at CIKM 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Mining Unstructured Big Data using Natural Language Processing (MNLP 2013)
Workshop
in conjunction with CIKM2013 (http://www.cikm2013.org/)
Oct 28, 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Information page: http://scholarwiki.indiana.edu/workshop/NLP/
Submission Page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mnlp2013
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Objectives

The "Mining unstructured big data using Natural Language Processing" (MNLP)
2013 Workshop will be held at ACM International Conference on Information
and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013. In this workshop, we will aggregate
different but highly related research communities, i.e., “NLP”, “Text
Mining” and “Information Retrieval” researchers, to investigate the
possible opportunities and challenges in semantic mining problem in the
context of Big Data… (more detailed information can be found at:
http://scholarwiki.indiana.edu/workshop/NLP/)

Keynote Speakers (confirmed):
- Beth A. Plale (Indiana University)
  Professor, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
Bloomington; Co-Director, HathiTrust Research Center.
-Talk: Big-data and NLP: opportunities and challenges @ HathiTrust

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Text analysis on different linguistic levels, e.g. lexical, syntactic,
semantic, discourse levels
Entity extraction and named entity recognition
NLP application/system
Access to big unstructured data
Knowledge graph mining
NLP resource usage or construction
Summarization
Ontology or semantic web based NLP applications
Deployable and scalable NLP for large textual datasets
Parallel computing and NLP
Text mining in social media

Important Dates

    * Submission deadline: June 21, 2013
    * Notification of acceptance: July 22, 2013
    * Final papers due: August 11, 2013

All papers submitted should have a maximum length of 8 pages and must be
prepared using the ACM camera-ready template
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Authors are required to
submit their papers electronically in PDF format. The submission website is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mnlp2013.

Please contact Xiaozhong Liu (liu237@indiana.edu) for any questions about
the workshop.