News
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.