TextGraphs-11: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
Workshop at ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada, August 2017
  
TextGraphs-11 is proudly sponsored by Verisk Analytics!  ** INVITED SPEAKERS ** We are proud to announce the invited speakers for TextGraphs-11:
Multiple-submission policy Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must indicate this at submission time. Authors submitting multiple papers to TextGraphs-11 may not submit papers that overlap significantly (>50%) with each other in content or results. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at Textgraphs-11 must notify the organizers immediately as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The workshops in the TextGraphs series have published and promoted the synergy between the field of Graph Theory and Natural Language Processing. Besides traditional NLP applications like word sense disambiguation and semantic role labeling, and information extraction graph-based solutions nowadays also target new web-scale applications like information propagation in social networks, rumor proliferation, e-reputation, language dynamics learning, and future events prediction, to name a few. >> Previous editions of the TextGraphs workshop The eleventh edition of the TextGraphs workshop aims to extend the focus on issues and solutions for large-scale graphs, such as those derived for web-scale knowledge acquisition or social networks. We encourage the description of novel NLP problems or applications that have emerged in recent years, which can be addressed with graph-based methods. Furthermore, we also encourage research on applications of graph-based methods in the area of Semantic Web in order to link them to related NLP problems and applications.
SPECIAL THEME In an exciting and completely novel extension, we encourage graph-based interpretations of deep learning models for NLP tasks. Though deep learning models are displaying state of the art performance on many NLP tasks, they are often criticized for not being interpretable. In TextGraphs-11 we introduce a new challenge for graph-based methods: reasoning and interpretation of the layers used in deep learning models. Given that a neural network is, from one point of view, a graph through which activation scores are propagated, many of the existing graph-based methods used in our workshop community could potentially be directly applicable. Can graph-based methods be harnessed to provide information to make deep processing comprehensible for humans and computers? What are the capabilities and limits when graph-based methods are applied to neural networks in general? Which aspects of the networks are not susceptible to such treatment and why not?
WORKSHOP TOPICS TextGraphs-11 invites submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:
PROGRAM COMMITTEE In alphabetical order: Alan Akbik, Zalando, Germany Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Chris Biemann, University of Hamburg, Germany Pushpak Bhattacharyya, IIT Bombay, India Tomáš Brychcín, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Tanmoy Chakraborty, University of Maryland, USA Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research, India Asif Ekbar, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India Stefano Faralli, University of Mannheim, Germany Michael Flor, Educational Testing Services, USA Marc Franco Salvador, University of Valencia, Spain Tomáš Hercig, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Ioana Hulpus, University of Mannheim, Germany Roman Klinger, University of Stuttgart, Germany Nikola Ljubešić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Héctor Martínez Alonso, Inria & University Paris Diderot, France Gabor Melli, VigLink, USA Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan, USA Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India Vivi Nastase, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Roberto Navigli, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy Alexander Panchenko, University of Hamburg, Germany Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany Steffen Remus, University of Hamburg, Germany Stephan Roller, UT Austin, USA Shourya Roy, Xerox Research, India Josef Steinberger, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Jan Šnajder, University of Zagreb, Croatia Kateryna Tymosenko, University of Trento, Italy Aline Villavicencio, F. University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, “Tor vergata” University of Rome, Italy ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY
TextGraphs-11 workshop fully embraces the following ACL's anti-harassment policy.
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We thank Verisk Analytics for the sponsorship of TextGraphs-11!
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