NLPIT 2016

'' The rapid growth of Internet usage in the last two decades adds new challenges to understand the informal user generated content (UGC) on the Internet. Textual UGC refers to textual posts on social media, blogs, emails, chat conversations, instant messages, forums, reviews, or advertisements that are created by end-users of an online system. A large portion of language used on textual UGC is informal. Informal text is the style of writing that disregard language grammars and uses a mixture of abbreviations and context dependent terms. The straightforward application of state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing approaches on informal text typically results in significantly degraded performance due to the following reasons: the lack of sentence structure; the lack of enough context required; the seldom entities involved; the noisy sparse contents of users' contributions; and the untrusted facts contained. It is the aim of this work- shop to bring the attention of researchers to the opportunities and challenges involved in informal text processing. In particular, we are interested in discussing informal text modeling, normalization, mining, and understanding in addition to various application areas in which UGC is involved. ''

Topics
We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following core NLP approaches for informal UGC: language identification, classification, clustering, filtering, summarization, tokenization, segmentation, morphological analysis, POS tagging, parsing, named entity extraction, named entity disambiguation, relation/fact extraction, semantic annotation, sentiment analysis, language normalization, informality modeling and measuring, language generation, handling uncertainties, machine translation, ontology construction, dictionary construction, etc.

Submissions
Authors are invited to submit original work not submitted to another conference or workshop. Workshop submissions could be a full paper or short paper. Paper length should not exceed 10 pages for full papers and 5 pages for short papers. All papers should be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template. Papers in PDF can be sent via the EasyChair Conference System. Each submission will receive, in addition to a meta-review, at least 2 peer double-blind reviews. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity must be avoided. Each full paper will get 25 minutes presentation time. Short papers will get 5 minutes presentation time in addition to a poster. Beside papers, we also plan to have an invited talk by a renowned scientist on a topic relevant for the workshop. The papers accepted in the workshop will be published as a part of the "Companion volume" of the WWW 2016 conference. To contact the NLPIT 2016 organization team, please send an e-mail to: nlpit2016@easychair.org.

Important Dates
- Submission deadline: December 22, 2015 January 8, 2016  Extended - Notification deadline: February 2, 2016 - Camera-ready version: February 8, 2016 - Workshop date: April 12, 2016

Committees

 * Co-Organizers
 * has organizer::Mena B. Habib, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
 * has organizer::Florian Kunneman, Radboud University, The Netherlands
 * has organizer::Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands


 * Program Committee
 * has PC member::Alexandra Balahur, The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Italy
 * has PC member::Barbara Plank, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
 * has PC member::Claudia Hauff, Delft University, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
 * has PC member::Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Dolf Trieschnigg, My Data Factory, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Julia Kiseleva, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Kevin Gimpel, Toyota Technological Institute, USA
 * has PC member::Natalia Konstantinova, University of Wolverhampton, UK
 * has PC member::Orphee De Clerq, Ghent University, Belgium
 * has PC member::Robert Remus, Ghent University, Belgium
 * has PC member::Wang Ling, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 * has PC member::Yannis Korkontzelos, Edge Hill University, UK
 * has PC member::Zhemin Zhu, Elsevier, The Netherlands