========================================================================= Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 09:06:12 ECT Reply-To: Indexer's Discussion Group Sender: Indexer's Discussion Group From: David Lewis Subject: CFP on Text Categorization ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Hi - Readers of this list may be interested in this call for papers on a subject often (ambiguously) called "automated indexing". Best, Dave **************************************************************************** Call For Papers Special Issue on Text Categorization ACM Transactions on Information Systems Submissions due: June 1, 1993 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: --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. 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. 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 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. **************************************************************************** =========================================================================