Noise in text can be defined as any kind of difference between
the surface form of a coded representation of the text and
the intended, correct, or original text.
By its very nature, noisy text warrants moving beyond traditional text analytics techniques. Noise introduces challenges that need special handling, either through new methods or improved versions of existing ones.
After the highly successful AND 2007, that was part of IJCAI 07, in this second edition that is part of SIGIR 08, we hope to add the Information Retrieval communities perspective to this topic.
We invite you to submit your own unique perspectives on this important topic (see the cfp)
more on noisy text analytics...
*Keynote by Donna Harman*
She has many notable contributions in IR but is most well known as the founder of TREC. She started TREC in 1992 which is considered the most important development in experimental information retrieval.
*Invited Talk by John Tait*
John Tait is Chief Scientific Officer of the Information Retrieval Facility in Vienna.
*Journal Special Issue*
Extended versions of selected papers from the workshop will appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition published by Springer.
*Workshop Proceedings*
The proceedings of AND 08 will be published as an ACM International Conference Series Volume and included in the ACM Digital Library.
*Best Student Paper*
Papers in which a student is the primary author (first author/presenter) will be eligible for the best student paper.
*Financial Support*
Limited financial support is available for student authors to attend the workshop.
*Information*
Follow this link to get information on visa, accomodation, travel, the venue and registration.
