Frascati, Italy, July 15-19 2002 

The Artificial Intelligence research group of the Department of Computer Science, Systems and Production of the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), in cooperation with the Italian Association of Artifical Intelligence (AI*IA), is pleased to announce the Third Summer Convention on Information Extraction (SCIE 2002), to be held in Frascati (Roma), Italy, from July 15 to July 19, 2002.

Following a process activated since first edition (SCIE97 Multidisciplinary contributions to an emerging Information Technology , SCIE99 Towards scalable, adaptable systems - LNAI 1714), SCIE02 will deal with a new specific aspects of IE: it will cover emerging problems related to interaction with Web.

All scientific contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series. The book will be distributed to SCIE02 participants.

Spirit of the Meeting

Scie02, third edition of an international and interdisciplinary convention, aims at providing a high quality forum for discussions on information extraction among researchers and practitioners active in artificial intelligence, computer science, linguistics, software engineering. Main covered topics will be: Question/Answering, Dialogue Analysis, Text summarization, Acquisition of domain models, Terminology extraction, Multimodal information access, Linguistic agents interaction.

SCIE02 is not intended to be yet another get together on linguistic methods for documents processing focused on selected knowledge extraction; it is rather based on the assumption that, in a range of places, great strides are being made in real systems development from a range of practical techniques, points of view and methodological approaches. We assume that all would benefit from face-to-face interaction on this!

This initiative is aimed primarily at persons working in companies, research institutions, universities, information and documentation centers. SCIE02  will be really an environment in which each participant is stimulated to get involved actively, supported by the lecturers and the infrastructure provided by the training programme.
The main aim of this International Convention is to offer a stimulating learning environment to participants,  by offering several, different opportunities.

The program in fact foresees:

• talks on specific themes held by international experts;
• scientific workshops;
• an on-site Lab in which participants can be involved in developing/testing activities on a personal base or under working group responsibility;
• technical meetings;
• on site meetings (that could be arranged on participants request).

Contacts

Prof. Maria Teresa Pazienza
Phone: +39 06 72597378
FAX: +39 06 72597460
e-mail: scie02@info.uniroma2.it

Surface Address
SCIE02
Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management
University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
Via del Politecnico
00133 Roma (ITALY)

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