Text Mining and Applications (TeMA)

The 9th Track of Text Mining and Applications (TeMA 2021) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas.

The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies.

Following recent advances in general IA sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using text mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value.

Topics of Interest

TM, NLP, and Social Media Content Analysis:

  • Entity Recognition and Disambiguation
  • Relation Extraction
  • Analysis of Opinions, Emotions and Sentiments
  • Text Clustering and Classification
  • Machine Translation
  • Summarization
  • Word Sense Disambiguation
  • Co-Reference Resolution
  • Language Modeling
  • Syntax and Parsing
  • Distributional Models and Semantics
  • Multi-Word Units
  • Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
  • Spatio-Temporal Text Mining
  • Entailment and Paraphrases
  • Natural Language Generation
  • Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage
  • Cross-Lingual Approaches
  • Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining

Applications:

  • Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
  • Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems
  • Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting
  • Web Content Annotation
  • Computational Social Science
  • Computational Journalism
  • Health and Well-being
  • Big Data Analysis

Organizing Committee

Joaquim Silva, DI – FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal (Contact person)
Pablo Gamallo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
Paulo Quaresma, DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal.
Irene Rodrigues., DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal

Program Committee 

Adam Jatowt – Universit of Kioto, Japan
Alberto Diaz – Universidade Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Alberto Simões – Algoritmi Center - University of Minho, Portugal
Alexandre Rademaker – IBM / FGV, Brazil
Altigran Silva – Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brasil
Antoine Doucet – University of Caen, France
António Branco – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Béatrice Daille – University of Nantes, France
Bruno Martins – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Eric de La Clergerie – INRIA, France
Fernando Batista – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Francisco Couto – Faculdade de Ciências – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Gabriel Pereira Lopes – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Gaël Dias – University of Caen Basse-Normandie
Hugo Oliveira – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Iñaki Vicente - Language Technology, Elhuyar Foundation
Irene Rodrigues – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Jesús Vilares – University of A Coruña, Spain
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Katerzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska – ESIGETEL, France
Luisa Coheur – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
Manuel Vilares Ferro – University of Vigo, Spain
Marcos Garcia - Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Mário Silva – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Miguel Alonso – Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Pablo Gamallo – Faculdade de Filologia, Santiago de Compustela, Spain
Patricia Martín-Rodilla – Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Paulo Quaresma – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Pavel Brazdil – University of Porto, Portugal
Renata Vieira – Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Sérgio Nunes – Faculdade de Engenharia – Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Contacts

Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt