Purpose and scope
The aim of this workshop is to bring together active researchers in the field of Textual Entailment and Question Answering so that they can
- present and discuss innovative theoretical work and original applications on the field,
- exchange ideas,
- establish collaboration links,
- discuss important recent achievements in the field, and
- talk over the significance of results in the field to AI in general.
In particular, the workshop aims to provide a forum for young researchers to present their ongoing research.
Call for Papers
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in all areas related to Recognizing Textual Entailment and Question Answering. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
- Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing,
- Question answering using Textual Entailment,
- Answer Validation using Textual Entailment,
- Types of Text Entailment,
- Cross-lingual Textual Entailment,
- Evaluation methods for textual entailment,
- Applications of Textual Entailment,
- Semantic Textual Entailment, and
- Application of Question Answering System in Intelligent Tutoring System .
Full call for papers (in PDF format)
Publication
Papers will be accepted for oral presentation at the workshop and included in the proceedings which will be published in a special issue of the journal Research in Computer Science Research in Computer Science. Based on the quality of the submissions we are considering publishing best papers in a post-workshop special issue of a distinguished journal. Authors will be required to provide expanded versions of their submissions which will undergo an additional review process for inclusion in the special issue.
Important Dates
- Submission of papers: September 20, 2014.
- Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2014.
- Submission of final versions: October 25, 2014.
- Workshop: November 17 and/or 18, to be announced.
Submission Details
Interested parties are invited to submit a technical paper written in English in LNCS Springer style, not exceeding 8 pages. The details of the format can be found at Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Information for LNCS Authors. The submissions must not contain authors' names or affiliations. They must not include either any information that may reveal the authors' identities. Submissions which fail to meet these requirements will be rejected without revision.
In order to submit a paper electronically, authors must send an e-mail with the subject: "RTE-QA-2014 Submission" to Partha Pakray, Alexander Gelbukh (see below for corresponding email addresses) with the paper attached in PDF format; the body of the message should contain the following data:
- Paper title.
- Authors' names and affiliations.
- Postal address, e-mail address and phone number of the contact authors.
- The abstract of the paper.
- Up to five keywords.
Please contact any of the workshop organizers in case you have any doubt or problem with electronic submissions.
Workshop Chairs
- Partha Pakray,
Email: parthapakray@gmail.com - Alexander Gelbukh,
National Polytechnic Institute, IPN
Email: gelbukh@gelbukh.com
Program Committee
- Amitava Das, University of North Texas, USA
- Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille Université, France
- Björn Gambäck, NTNU, Norway
- David Pinto, BUAP, Mexico
- Grigori Sidorov, CIC-IPN, Mexico
- Paolo Rosso, POlytechnic University Valencia, Spain
- Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- Pinaki Bhaskar, IIT - CNR, Italy
- Pinar Ozturk, NTNU, Norway
- Saint-Dizier Patrick, IRIT-CNRS, France
- Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
More information
The workshop will be held in collaboration with MICAI 2014 that will take place this year on November 16th - 22th, 2014 at the Instituto Tecnológico de Tuxtla Gutierrez, ITTG, in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, México.
Information regarding costs, travel and accommodation can be found in the MICAI 2014 web site.
