News

31 May 2009	List of accepted papers is online.
28 Apr 2009	Please take note that June 14, 2009ort) paper is 23:59 May 3, 2009 Singapore Time (GMT+8).
18 Mar 2009	The whitepaper of the shared task has been updated (The latest version: V1.4).
3 Mar 2009	The whitepaper of the shared task has been updated.
16 Feb 2009	Registration for shared task opens.
4 Feb 2009	The whitepaper of the shared task has been updated.
23 Jan 2009	The whitepaper of the shared task is available.

Workshop Focus

Named Entities (NEs) play a critical role in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as search, machine translation, document clustering, summarization, information extraction, etc.  While identifying and analyzing NEs in a given natural language is a challenging research problem by itself, the phenomenal growth in the Internet user population, especially among the non-English speaking parts of the world, has extended this problem to the cross-language arena, making the handling of NEs in multiple languages critically important.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in various aspects of NEs in natural language text.  In addition, the NEWS workshop will feature a shared task on Machine Transliteration of NEs.