IEEE EM-RITE 2017

Welcome to IEEE EM-RITE 2017

The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Empirical Methods for Recognizing Inference in TExt

(IEEE EM-RITE 2017)

In conjunction with IEEE IRI 2017

San Diego, CA, USA

August 4-6, 2017

Sheraton Mission Valley San Diego Hotel, San Diego, CA

Textual Entailment and Paraphrase are inference tasks of natural language processing (NLP) for automatically detecting entailment, paraphrase, and contradiction in texts. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for original high-quality research contributions on empirical methods for recognizing inference in text as well as multidisciplinary research opportunities.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to practical areas that span a variety of aspects of empirical methods for recognizing inference in text including:

Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for the construction and annotation of Textual Entailment datasets
Evaluation of Knowledge Resources for Textual Entailment
Recognizing Inference in Text
Recognizing Inference in Text and Validation
Recognizing Textual Entailment
Fact Validation
System Validation
Question Answering
Question Analysis
Answer Extraction
Answer Selection
Answer Validation
Answer Generation
Answer Summarization
Complex Essay
Simple Essay
QA Lab for Entrance Exam
Entrance Exams
Machine Reading
Reading Comprehension Tests
Short Text Conversation
Open Live Test for Question Retrieval
Question Answering over Linked Data
Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
Medical Natural Language Processing for Web Document
Knowledge Base Population
Information Retrieval
Information Extraction
Text Summarization
Dialogue System
Text Mining
Web Mining
Natural Language Processing Applications
Sentiment Analysis
Opinion Mining
Emotion Cause Analysis
Social Computing
Social Media Mining

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular paper submission: May 8, 2017
Notification of acceptance: June 8, 2017
Camera-ready paper due: June 22, 2017
Author registration due: June 22, 2017
Conference events: August 4-6, 2017

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit a paper up to 8 pages (in English) in double-column IEEE format following the submission guidelines available at the IEEE IRI 2017 web page. Papers must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. An electronic version (PDF format) of the full paper should be submitted by the paper submission deadline to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeemrite2017). All submissions will be acknowledged.

Formatting Instructions: download
Word Formatting Template: download
Latex template and style files: download

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Co-Chairs

Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan
Chuan-Jie Lin, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

Program Committee

Paavo Arvola, University of Tampere, Finland
Yung-Chun Chang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Weide Chang, California State University, Sacramento, USA
Chi-Bin Cheng, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Chien-Chang Chen, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Kuo-Chung Chu, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan
Hong-Jie Dai, National Taitung University, Taiwan
Wen-Lian Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ya-Han Hu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Hyeju Jang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mike Tian-Jian Jiang, Yaraku Inc., Japan
Chi-Chang Jou, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Makoto Kato, University of Kyoto, Japan
Lun-Wei Ku, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Chiang-Chi Liao, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Cheng-Wei Lee, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Chao-Lin Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Rick Cheng-Yu Lu, 104, Taiwan
Suguru Matsuyoshi, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Maryoly Ortega, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela
Cheng-Wei Shih, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Sheng-Pao Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Eriks Sneiders, Stockholm University, Sweden
I-Hsien Ting, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Ming-Feng Tsai, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Richard Tzong-Han Tsai, National Central University, Taiwan
Vincent S. Tseng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Chih-Chien Wang, National Taipei University, Taiwan
Yotaro Watanabe, Tohoku University, Japan
William Webber, The University of Maryland, USA
I-Chin Wu, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
Shih-Hung Wu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan
Youzheng Wu, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Jean-Daniel Zucker, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement, France