Text Mining and Applications Workshop in Vietnam

2018-03-08

Text Mining and Applications Workshop

National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester and Ho Chi Minh City University of Science

14th May 2018, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

WORKSHOP SCOPE

Text mining (TM) is increasingly used to harness the power of unstructured data and analyse such data to discover hidden and new knowledge. TM applications have attracted considerable worldwide attention from both academia and industry over the past few years. However, in Vietnam, TM still remains under-explored due to a lack of communication between different scientific communities. This workshop will explore how text mining can be used to bring together different communities by supporting a number of applications such as publishing, life sciences, evidence-based medicine, biodiversity, etc. in Vietnam.

Building on recent developments of the OpenMinTed project, which supports interoperability between text mining platforms, we will demonstrate text mining applications in the areas of chemistry, neuroscience and biodiversity. OpenMinTeD illustrates the effectiveness of interoperability principles among different text mining platforms, tasks and languages. We invite submissions in the following areas:

Resource building (annotated corpora, terminologies)
Vietnamese language processing
Named entity recognition
Relation and event extraction
Text summarisation
Opinion mining and sentiment analysis from social media
Search systems, question-answering and other applications
Text mining infrastructures

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract deadline: Monday 23rd April 2018

Notification of acceptance: Monday 30th April 2018

Workshop: Monday 14th May 2018

KEYNOTE

"Text Mining for Life Sciences" by Prof. Sophia Ananiadou

PROGRAMME

The final program is available here.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

Thuc D. Nguyen, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

Dien Dinh, Computational Linguistics Centre, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

John McNaught, National Centre for Text Mining, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

Nhung T.H. Nguyen, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK

Minh Q. Nghiem, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK

Nam C. Van, Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, VN

REGISTRATION

Attending the workshop is free of charge, but advance registration is necessary. Please register here: https://goo.gl/forms/now68LHRwne9GIrL2 by Friday 11th May, 2018.