Upcoming GATE Events

FIG, the International GATE Symposium. FIG is a training and development event held three times yearly lasting one week. FIGs last one week. They offer 4 tracks plus a talks track:

• Track 1: Introduction to GATE and Text Mining
• Track 2: Programming in GATE
• Track 3: Advanced GATE
• Track 4: GATE Contributers' Sprint
• Research Experience Talks

Malta, May 17 2010: "NLP and the Semantic Web" tutorial

Diana Maynard, Wim Peters and Johanna Voelker are organising a tutorial at LREC 2010 on "NLP for the Semantic Web". This will focus on GATE and other NLP tools and their role in semantic web applications such as ontology-based information extraction, ontology learning and population, and semantic metadata generation.

At LREC 2010.

Malta again, May 22, 2010: "New Challenges for NLP Architectures" workshop

After more than a decade of the current generation of NLP frameworks, the context moves on. This brings new challenges to both the developers of NLP frameworks and their users. Driving forces include in particular:

• Social Media
• Terabyte-Scale Data Sets
• Cloud and Grid Computing
• Semantic Computing, Ontologies, and Reasoning
• Cross-Media Language Analysis (text, speech, images, video)
• Ambient Computing
• addressing more complex genres of language

This workshop will provide a venue for reporting ongoing work in the context of GATE and related systems.

At LREC 2010. Call for papers (deadline February 12th 2010).

Vienna, May 31 2010: IRFC 2010

(Chairs: Stefan Rueger, Hamish Cunningham)

The 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference provides a multi-disciplinary, scientific forum for researchers and aims at bringing young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage.

The 1st IRF Conference tackles 4 complementary research areas:

• Information retrieval
• Semantic web technologies for IR
• Natural language processing for IR
• Large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas

FIG, the International GATE Symposium (as above).