IJCAI-2007 Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data

From the Workshop

• Selected papers from the workshop will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition from Springer.

• The workshop had over 58 registered attendees making it the largest workshop at IJCAI 2007.
• Definition: Noisy Text Analytics
• Gerald DeJong's keynote generated a lot of interest and discussion.
• The panel discussion identified some key problems, proposed some solutions and set the tone for future work in the area.
• Presentation slides of keynote and panel lectures available online.
• Presentation slides of oral and poster papers presented at the workshop are now available.
• Proceedings of the workshop made available online.
• IAPR best student paper award announced

  won by the paper

  Investigation and Modeling of the Structure of Texting Language
  Monojit Choudhury, Rahul Saraf*, Vijit Jain, Sudeshna Sarkar and Anupam Basu
  Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
  *National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

• Here are some photographs from the workshop.