SwissText 2018

Text Analytics is used in many companies and industrial sectors, for instance for process optimization, for decision support, or to develop new products and services. Our goal is to bring together practitioners and researchers, to give an overview of existing solutions and technologies, and to come up with ideas for new and innovative projects using automatic text understanding.

In order to achieve this goal, we invite practitioners, analysts, end users, software vendors, researchers and data scientists to join SwissText 2018, the third edition of the conference for text analytics.

Building on the success of the previous editions of the conference, SwissText 2018 will be held on two days for the first time.

Like in the previous years, one main goal of the conference is to bring together Swiss practitioners and researchers, to give an overview of existing solutions and applications in the domain of text analytics, and to come up with ideas for new and innovative projects. The additional day will allow for even more networking opportunities this year, and we will have a Swiss Track, where all presentations will have a certain "Swissness"-factor.

In addition, we also invite the international scientific community to participate in the conference. We will have a "classical" Scientific Track, where you can present state-of-the-art technical papers.

Scientific papers will be published in the conference proceedings, together with abstracts of the Swiss Track presentations (see Call for Papers for details).

Keynote Speakers

• Eneko Agirre, Professor, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
  Eneko Agirre is Professor at the University of the Basque Country and member of the IXA Natural Language Processing group. His research focuses on lexical and computational semantics, with applications in information retrieval and machine translation. He has been president of SIGLEX, member of the editorial board of Computational Linguistics, and has received a Google research award.
• Costas Bekas, Distinguished Research Staff Member, IBM Research – Zurich
  Costas Bekas manages the Foundations of Cognitive Computing group at IBM Research – Zurich. Costas’ research covers high-performance computing, massive scale analytics and cognitive computing. He is a recipient of the PRACE Award (2012) and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2013 & 2015).
• Iryna Gurevych, Professor, Technical University of Darmstadt
  Iryna Gurevych is Professor for Language Processing at Technical University of Darmstadt, and Director of the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab. Her research aims at lexical-semantics, resources and algorithms, and innovative applications of language processing to social sciences and humanities.
• Hristo Tanev, Researcher, European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  Hristo Tanev, PhD, has been working in the domain of Natural Language Processing for more than 25 years already. His work has been concentrated mostly in the area of Question Answering, Terminology Extraction, Grammar Induction, and Event Extraction. Being researcher and developer of working applications, Hristo Tanev's work resulted in several software systems for Question Answering, Event Extraction and Terminology Learning.

Program

SwissText 2018 is a two-­day conference on automatic text analytics. The conference will see keynotes and presentations by distinguished international experts from research and industry, and a poster exhibition of recent research results. It will be also enriched by tutorials and hands-on workshops targetting a broad audience. Furthermore, proceedings are planed for scientific submissions. We are currently preparing the Call for Papers. Please contact us at info@swisstext.org if you want to get notified when it's published.

The program committee has decided on the submissions, here is the list of accepted papers.

Workshops

Data Expedition into the Swiss Twitter Community
More infos at Data Expedition Website
Day: Tuesday, 12.06.2018

NLP Clinic
More infos at NLP Clinic Website
Day: Wednesday, 13.06.2018

Future Actions for Swiss German
More infos at Future Actions for Swiss German
Day: Wednesday, 13.06.2018

Schedule

Tuesday

Wednesday

Impressions

Presentations

• Welcome Message
  Mark Cieliebak
  ZHAW
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Disentangling the Thoughts: Latest News in Computational Argumentation
  Iryna Gurevych
  TU Darmstadt
  slides (pdf)
  video
• A Genetic Algorithm for Combining Visual and Textual Embeddings Evaluated on Attribute Recognition
  Ruiqi Li
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  video
• Bilingual Term Extraction with Big Data
  Rémy Blättler and Jan Deriu
  Supertext, ZHAW
  slides (pptx)
  video
• On the Effectiveness of Feature Set Augmentation using Clusters of Word Embeddings
  Georgios Balikas
  Kelkoo
  video
• Encoder-Decoder Methods for Text Normalization
  Massimo Lusetti and Tatyana Ruzsics
  University of Zurich
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Automated Detection of Adverse Drug Reactions in the Biomedical Literature Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Biomedical Word Embeddings
  Diego Saldana
  Novartis Pharma A.G.
  slides (pptx)
  video
• Text Zoning for Job Advertisements with Bidirectional LSTMs
  Ann-Sophie Gnehm
  University of Zurich
  video
• Posters
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Cross-linguality and machine translation without bilingual data
  Eneko Agirre
  University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Welcome message second day (13.06.2018)
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Cognitive Discovery: How AI (with NLP) is changing technical R&D
  Costas Bekas
  IBM Research
  video
• Recommendations from Unstructured Data for Investment Banking
  Saurabh Jain
  Squirro
  video
• “What can I ask you?” - The User Experience of Conversational Interfaces
  Sibylle Peuker
  Zeix
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Text and Data Minining Workflow to Make Scientific Publications Accessible
  Donat Agosti
  Plazi
  video
• Automatic Hyperlinking on a Juridicial Corpus via an RDFized Terminology
  Markus Pilzecker
  Die Wissens-Ingenieure
  slides (pdf)
   
• Optimizing Information Acquisition and Decision Making Processes with Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Visual Analytics.
  Albert Weichselbraun
  University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Building a Question-Answering Chatbot Using Forum Data in the Semantic Space
  Khalil Mrini
  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  video
• Auto-generated Email Responses: Boost your Email Efficiency
  Lorenz Bernauer
  Mailytica
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Rupert the Nutritionist, the Efficient Conversational Agent
  Nathan Quinteiro Quintas
  Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  slides (pdf)
  video
• Multiliingual Event Detection in the Europe Media Monitor
  Hristo Tanev
  European Commission, Joint Research Centre
  slides (pptx)
  video
• Closing Session
  Mark Cieliebak
  ZHAW
  slides (pdf)
  video

Venue

SwissText will be held on the 12th and 13th of June 2018 in the ZHAW Eulachpassage in Winterthur (same location as last year).
The venue is located in the historic heart of the city, a 5 minutes’ walk from Winterthur main railway station and has a directly attached parking deck.

Address: Building TN at ZHAW Campus Winterthur, Technikumstrasse 71

Directions: Google Maps, ZHAW Location map

Registration

Discount for students on request. Send email to info@swisstext.org

Conference Registration includes:

• Admission to all sessions
• Please when registering select workshops, since only a limited number of places are available
• Coffee and refreshment breaks
• Lunch
• Conference apero
• Proceedings