Registration for the conference on computer linguistics "Dialogue" is open

    imageMay 30 - June 3 in the Bekasovo boarding house near Moscow will be held the largest Russian conference on computer linguistics "Dialogue". Details about what is the "Dialogue" and why ABBYY organizes this conference, we wrote in detail here .

    This year the main topics will be:

    Assessment of sentiment of the text (sentiment analysis). To solve this problem (how to understand the author’s attitude to what he describes), methods based on linguistic rules are used, as well as computer-based training methods on large test collections of documents (in which experts manually assigned tonality scores, and the computer tries to figure out which it is the properties of the test text that are associated with the assessment, in order to evaluate new texts on their basis). I think many have come up with “correct” assessments of the tonality of articles in Russian media monitoring systems (we will not name names), so the topic is very relevant.

    Creation of new textual bodies for linguistic research. What are enclosures? Corps of texts (it can be speech recordings) is that research material on which computer linguistics tries to build models for automatic language processing. Modern cases can include millions of specially selected and processed texts. But even such cases is not enough for the powerful statistical processing algorithms that are used today. Therefore, the task is to create such cases automatically, using the Internet as an almost unlimited source.

    The tradition of "Dialogue" is the holding of competitions of automatic document analysis systems. The purpose of such competitions is not sports, but research: the development of reliable criteria and methods for evaluating automatic analysis systems. This year, under the auspices of the Dialogue, two such competitions were held: testing systems for parsing texts in Russian (syntactic parsers) and testing systems that evaluate the tonality of texts in Russian. The results of these tests will be summed up on the Dialogue (at the end of the conference we will publish them on this blog, stay tuned).

    Since the Dialogue is an international conference, traditionally, experts in computer linguistics of a world scale take part in it. This year, Dan I. Moldovan is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, andJohn Carroll is a professor of computer linguistics at the University of Sussex, UK.

    The working languages ​​of the conference are Russian and English.

    Applications for participation are accepted until May 28 at the address secretary@dialog-21.ru . You can find out all the additional information on the Dialogue Conference website .

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