We welcome original research papers that identify key problems related to noisy text analytics and offer solutions. Potential topics include (but not limited to):

• Information Retrieval and Information Extraction on noisy texts
• IR-related tasks (classification, clustering, genre recogntion, document summarization, QA, keyword search, ...) on noisy texts
• Formal models for noise, characterization and classification of noise
  
• Linguistic analysis of noisy textual data (robust parsing, OOV handling,...)
• Treatment of noisy data in special application fields
  • Historical Texts
  • Multilingual Texts 
  • Blogs
  • Chat logs/SMS 
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Business Intelligence
  • Patent Search
  • Optical Character Recognition
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Machine Translation 
• Data sets, benchmarks and evaluation techniques for analysis of noisy texts

Selected papers from the workshop will be included in a special issue of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition published by Springer. 

 

We are pleased to note that selected papers from the first AND workshop -- held in January 2007 at the IJCAI conference in Hyderabad, India -- appeared in a special issue of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition published by Springer less than a year after the workshop date. For the table of contents, follow this link.

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