Proceedings of the 4th Named Entity Workshop
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The workshop series, Named Entities WorkShop (NEWS), focuses on research on all aspects of the Named Entities, such as, identifying and analyzing named entities, mining, translating and transliterating named entities, etc. The first of the NEWS workshops (NEWS 2009) was held as a part of ACL-IJCNLP 2009 conference in Singapore; the second one, NEWS 2010, was held as an ACL 2010 workshop in Uppsala, Sweden; and the third one, NEWS 2011, was held as an IJCNLP 2011 workshop in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The current edition, NEWS 2012, was held as an ACL 2012 workshop in Jeju, Korea.
The purpose of the NEWS workshop series is to bring together researchers across the world interested in identification, analysis, extraction, mining and transformation of named entities in monolingual or multilingual natural language text corpora. The workshop scope includes many interesting specific research areas pertaining to the named entities, such as, orthographic and phonetic characteristics, corpus analysis, unsupervised and supervised named entities extraction in monolingual or multilingual corpus, transliteration modeling, and evaluation methodologies, to name a few. For this year edition, 7 research papers were submitted, each of which was reviewed by 3 reviewers from the program committee. 3 papers were chosen for publication, covering machine transliteration and transliteration mining from comparable corpus and wiki.