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- From: lewis@vanilla.research.att.com (David Lewis)
- Subject: Call For Papers: Special Issue on Text (or Speech!) Categorization
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:04:45 GMT
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- There has been some interesting work recently on categorization of
- speech messages (sometimes called "topic spotting"). Topic-specific
- language models are also a possibility, though I don't know if
- anyone's done that yet.
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- --Dave
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- Call For Papers
- Special Issue on Text Categorization
- ACM Transactions on Information Systems
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- Submissions due: June 1, 1993
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- Text categorization is the classification of units of natural
- language text with respect to a set of pre-existing categories.
- Reducing an infinite set of possible natural language inputs to a
- small set of categories is a central strategy in computational systems
- that process natural language. Some uses of text categorization have
- been:
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- --To assign subject categories to documents in support of text
- retrieval and library organization, or to aid the human assignment of
- such categories.
- --To route messages, news stories, or other continuous streams
- of texts to interested recipients.
- --As a component in natural language processing systems, to
- filter out nonrelevant texts and parts of texts, to route texts to
- category-specific processing mechanisms, or to extract limited forms
- of information.
- --As an aid in lexical analysis tasks, such as word sense
- disambiguation.
- --To categorize nontextual entities by textual annotations, for
- instance to assign people to occupational categories based on free
- text responses to survey questions.
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- ACM Transactions on Information Systems is the leading forum for
- presenting research on text processing systems. For this special
- issue we encourage the submission of high quality technical
- descriptions of algorithms and methods for text categorization.
- Experiments comparing alternative methods are especially welcome, as
- are results on deploying systems into regular use.
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- Five copies of each manuscript should be submitted to either of the
- special issue editors at the addresses below:
-
- David D. Lewis Philip J. Hayes
- AT&T Bell Laboratories Carnegie Group, Inc.
- 600 Mountain Ave. Five PPG Place
- Room 2C409 Pittsburgh, PA 15222
- Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA
- USA hayes@cgi.com
- lewis@research.att.com
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- Submission June 1, 1993
- Notification October 1, 1993
- Revision February 1, 1994
- Publication mid-1994
-
- The July 1990 issue of TIS contains a description of the style requirements.
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- David D. Lewis
- AT&T Bell Laboratories email: lewis@research.att.com
- 600 Mountain Ave.; Room 2C409 ph. 908-582-3976
- Murray Hill, NJ 07974; USA dept. fax. 908-582-7550
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