Workshop on Computational Terminology + TermEval shared task

Join Workshop on Computational Terminology
CompuTerm 2020

LREC 2020 (Marseille, France)
Sunday, 16th May 2019
Marseille, France
https://sites.google.com/view/computerm2020

Computational Terminology covers an increasingly important aspect in
a range of areas in Natural Language Processing such as text mining,
information retrieval, information extraction, summarization, textual
entailment, document management systems, question-answering systems,
ontology building, machine translation, etc.

There have been four years between the last Computerm workshop held in
Coling 2016. During this period, deep learning and neural methods have
become the state of the art for most NLP applications, reaching higher
performance on various tasks. This workshop would like to investigate
what deep learning brought to computational terminology and its
traditional topics, its impact towards human applications, and the new
questions within the terminology scope that it raises.

The aim of this sixth Computerm workshop is to bring together Natural
Language Processing and Human Language Technology researchers as well
as terminology researchers and practitioners to discuss recent advances
in computational terminology and its impact within automatic and human
applications. We also host a special session for the shared task TermEval,
which uses the large, manually annotated ACTER dataset (Annotated Corpora
for Term Extraction Research), that covers multiple domains and languages.

For the general session, we call for submissions in the following areas,
though the list does not limit the range of topics:

* term extraction
* event recognition and extraction
* acquisition of semantic relations among terms
* distributional semantic analysis
* term variation management
* definition and terminological context extraction
* consideration of the user expertise
* monolingual and multilingual terminological resources
* robustness and portability of statistical methods including neural methods
* detection of unfortunate terminological artefacts
* social networks and modern media processing
* utilization of terminologies in various NLP applications
* evaluation of terminological methods and tools
* terminology diversity according to geographical area, layman/academic, gender

The workshop submissions are open to different approaches, ranging
from term extraction in various languages (using verb co-occurrence,
information theoretic approaches, machine learning, etc.), translation
pairs extracting from bilingual corpora based on terminology, up to
semantic oriented approaches and theoretical aspects of terminology.

Computerm 2020 will host the TermEval shared task on monolingual term
extraction using the ACTER dataset. This dataset contains over 100k manual
annotations in comparable corpora in three different languages (English,
French, and Dutch) and four different domains (corruption, dressage, heart
failure, and wind energy). Participants in the shared task can enter for one
or multiple languages and will get access to the annotated data in three
of the domains, while the domain of heart failure will be provided at a later
stage for evaluation. Participants can choose from different tracks and
will be ranked based on f1-scores of the list of automatically
extracted terms on the evaluation corpus. Apart from the scores, there will
also be more in-depth evaluations on how the tools handle difficulties,
e.g. infrequent terms, single-word vs. multiword terms, etc. All information
concerning the shared task is available on http://termeval.ugent.be
Authors may submit system description papers to CompuTerm 2020 indicating
TermEval shared task.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

General:
Béatrice Daille, LS2N, University of Nantes, France
Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science Laboratory, University of
Tokyo, Japan
Ayla Rigouts Terryn, LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team,
Ghent University, Belgium

TermEval shared task:
Patrick Drouin, OLST Observatoire de Linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de Montréal, Canada
Véronique Hoste, Ghent University, Belgium
Els Lefever, LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Ghent University, Belgium
Ayla Rigouts Terryn, LT3 Language and Translation Technology Team, Ghent University, Belgium

Importante dates:

- 1st workshop CFP: 9th December 2019
- Paper due date: 20th February 2020
- Notification of acceptance: 13th March 2020
- Camera-ready deadline: 25th March 2020
- Workshop: Sunday, 16th May 2020

Submission Instructions

The submissions should be written in English and anonymized for review
and must use the Word or LaTeX template files provided by LREC 2020
(https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/).

- Long paper submission: up to 8 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references; final versions of long papers: one additional page: up
to 9 pages with unlimited pages for references

- Short paper submission: up to 4 pages of content, plus 2 pages for
references; final version of short papers: up to 5 pages with
unlimited pages for references

PDF files will be submitted electronically via the START submission
system available soon.

LRE MAP

Please note, in LREC, describing LRs in the LRE Map is a normal practice in
the submission procedure. Computerm 2020 endorces this practice. Please
follow information on submission site when you submit a paper.

CONTACT

For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
general session: beatrice.daille@univ-nantes.fr
TermEval shared task: ayla.rigoutsterryn@ugent.be