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humnet.unipi.it>* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS * EUROLAN'99 Workshop July 23-28 Procedures in Discourse Interpretation http://www.humnet.unipi.it/~wpdi/main.html held as part of EUROLAN'99 July 19-31 A.I. Cuza University Iasi - Romania http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan99 DESCRIPTION Our comprehension of the intended meaning of a discourse act, of the semantics of discourse segments, and of the coherence relations holding between them, relies on different types of knowledge, like the meaning of lexical items, domain-specific knowledge, commonsense knowledge, the particular view of the context, etc. During the process of discourse interpretation, specific procedures are activated, which, by manipulating in a uniform manner all these pieces of knowledge, carry out inferences and reasoning activities necessary to the identification of the preferred reading. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussing the nature of such procedures and the way they access and manipulate the relevant sources of knowledge. Theoretical issues like bridging, conflicts between lexically based and discourse-based inference, presupposition and anaphora resolution, and the relevance of cognitive constraints on discourse interpretation are especially welcome. Submissions are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics and issues: * How can lexical clues lead to the preferred interpretation? How are underspecified lexical representations solved in discourse? * What is the semantic contribution of verbal and nominal classes to discourse structure? * How can inference on nominals and events be modeled? * Are lexical features arranged along a prominence and accessibility hierarchy? To what extent could such a hierarchy affect the accessibility of referents? * In a frame/semantics perspective, when analyzing discourse one activates several frames connected to meaningful elements: do these elements have the same status or, especially if ambiguities arise, are some frames computed first? * To what extent does world knowledge (whether or not it is encoded into the lexical structure of an item) affect the interpretation process w.r.t consistency and informativity? How is the knowledge of context involved? * Which are the relevant factors in evaluating informativity and consistency? Prospective authors are encouraged to focus on procedural aspects in their approaches to discourse interpretation. This will ensure that all contributions share a common basis for discussion, notwithstanding their differences in perspective. WORKSHOP FORMAT The workshop will consist of around twelve 20 min. presentations, organized into 4 short sessions, each followed by 30 min. of discussion. Some experienced discussants have been invited to comment and better orient the discussion. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'99 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Authors are requested to submit an abstract. Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Send your electronic submission to: WPDIMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
let.uu.nl>CLIN 99 First Announcement Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Tenth CLIN Meeting Friday, 10 December, 1999 Utrecht University We are happy to anounce the tenth Clin meeting, which will be hosted by the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS at Utrecht University. The meeting will take place in Utrecht, at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English. The local organiser of this year's meeting is Paola Monachesi. Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information retrieval, knowledge representation, corpus-oriented methods,etc.). Authors should submit an abstract in English orDutch to the local organiser (preferably by e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain: -a title -your name, address,affiliation, and e-mail address -a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines) You can send your abstract to: clin99Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue