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    Workshop at the International Conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering, 30 August 2002, Nancy France.
    Electronic Proceedings (PDF file - about 2MB)

    Programme

    0915 - 0930: Opening and Welcome Lee Gillam, University of Surrey Presentation
    0930 - 0950: Events and the Causes of Events Khurshid Ahmad, University of Surrey Paper Presentation
    0950 - 1010: Automatic Analysis of Corporate Financial Disclosures Darina M. Slattery, Richard F.E. Sutcliffe, Eamonn J. Walsh: University of Limerick and University College Dublin Paper Presentation
    1010 - 1030: A Financial News Summarisation System based on Lexical Cohesion Paulo Cesar Fernandes de Oliveira, Khurshid Ahmad, Lee Gillam: University of Surrey Paper Presentation
    1030 - 1100: Break
    1100 - 1120: Processing the language of predicting and forecasting in an Italian corpus of economic reports Maria Teresa Musacchio, University of Trieste Paper Presentation
    1120 - 1140: Economic News and Stock Market Correlation: A Study of the UK Market Lee Gillam, Khurshid Ahmad, Saif Ahmad, Matthew Casey, David Cheng, Tugba Taskaya, Paulo C F de Oliveira and Pensiri Manomaisupat: University of Surrey Paper Presentation
    1140 - 1200: Discussion and Closing Remarks Lee Gillam, University of Surrey Presentation

    Further materials

  • Multi-lingual Knowledge Bases for Information Extraction - Roberta Catizone, Andrea Sezter, Nick Webb, Yorick Wilks: University of Sheffield
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    Motivation and Aims

    Europe has a number of world-class financial institutions and highly fluid stock markets. This is a major sector of the European economy and has considerable potential for realising knowledge-based services. Familiarity of Europeans with services and products provided over the Internet is evident in the increasing numbers of corporate and private investors who deal in stocks, currencies, bonds and other financial instruments.

    News and financial information provided by large agencies such as Reuters generally represents national level news that affects the markets. Once ready access to news and financial data at national and regional levels is satisfied, the synthesis of these two distinct pieces of information is important. These two pieces of information, one consisting of language and related signs, and the other numeric values, are currently analysed using separate systems and algorithms.

    This workshop will address the potential for realising knowledge-based services through the understanding of news and financial data. The goal of the workshop will be to provide a framework for the combination of research carried out on events in news texts and knowledge-based generation from numeric data.

    Topics of Interest

    This workshop is aimed at academics and industrial representatives who have an interest in the application of language technologies to finance, particularly with a focus on aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG).

    We invite submissions of papers on topics including but not limited to:

    • Processing the Language of Finance
    • Knowledge Acquisition strategies
    • Generating Natural Language from numeric data
    • Systems for the provision of integrated financial services
    • Multimodal/Multimedia Knowledge Extraction

    Submission Details

    Papers should be submitted by email to Lee Gillam, l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk in Microsoft Word format or PDF.

    Papers should be 4 to 6 pages, including the abstract. Papers should be formatted according to the TKE template

    Important Dates
    Deadline for workshop submission Closed
    Notification of acceptance Closed
    Final version of paper for workshop proceedings Closed
    Workshop 30 August 2002

    Organizing Committee
    Khurshid Ahmad University of Surrey k.ahmad@surrey.ac.uk
    Roberta Catizone University of Sheffield R.Catizone@dcs.shef.ac.uk
    Lee Gillam University of Surrey l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk
    Inge Gorm Hansen Copenhagen Business School igh.eng@cbs.dk
    Teresa Musacchio Università degli Studi di Trieste musacchi@sslmit.univ.trieste.it
    Milan Novkovic Finsoft milan@finsoft.com
    Petra Ristau JRC Capital Management and Research PRistau@jrconline.com
    Laurent Romary LORIA Laurent.Romary@loria.fr
    Tony Rose Reuters Tony.Rose@reuters.com
    Henrik Selsoe Sorensen Copenhagen Business School hss.fra@cbs.dk
    Sylvain Surcin Ibermatica s.surcin@ibermatica.com

    Workshop Registration

    Registration for the workshop is included in conference registration at the TKE website.

    For questions related to this workshop, please email Lee Gillam, l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk or Laurent Romary L.Romary@loria.fr