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george.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr>Second Call for Papers Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND MULTIMEDIA DICTIONARIES 22-23 September 2000 Patras, Greece Organized by WCL, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Patras, Greece. Supported by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech) AIMS The aim of this workshop is to present the state of the art in corpus based monolingual and multilingual lexicography (corpora creation, methods and tools for lexical knowledge extraction, knowledge representation, etc.) and the integration of various modalities (textual, spoken, visual) in electronic dictionaries. In particular the workshop aims at the presentation of current work and results of national and international projects related to the workshop's subject. The scientific program will include several invited lectures as well as submitted paper presentations. Submitted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings available at the workshop. TOPICS Electronic corpora for lexicography Methods and tools for corpus based lexicography Acquisition and reusability of lexicography resources Annotation of lexicography resources Evaluation and validation of lexicography resources Lexical knowledge representation Treatment of morphology and polysemy Recognition of lexical units in text Monolingual and multilingual lexicography Integration of various modalities in electronic dictionaries Multimedia information retrieval Speech synthesis/recognition for multimedia dictionaries Encyclopedic dictionaries Specialized dictionaries (language teaching, NLP-applications, etc) Internet based dictionaries Other subjects related to the workshop VENUE The workshop will be held at the conference center of the University of Patras, Greece. Patras is located on the west coast of Greece, 200 km from Athens. It is the principal seaport linking the country with Italy and the commercial and cultural center of Western Greece. Apart from its beautiful landscape, Patras is close to the famous archeological sites of Olympia, Delphi and Corinth. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Anastassiadi-Simeonidi Anna (University of Thessaloniki) Caragiannis George (Technical University of Athens) Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras) Dermatas Evangelos (University of Patras) Fakotakis Nikos (University of Patras) Faloutsos Cristos (Carnegie Mellon University) Gibbon Dafydd (Universit"at Bielefeld) Kalamboukis Theodore(Athens University of Economics and Business) King Philip (University of Birmingham) Kokkinakis George (University of Patras) Kontos John (Athens University of Economics and Business) Potapova Rodmonga (Moscow State Linguistic University) Spyropoulos Konstantinos (Research Centre "Democritos" Athens) Tsoutsoura Maria (Ionian University) Veronis Jean (Universite de Provence) Zampolli Antonio (University of Pisa) INVITED SPEAKERS Cristos Faloutsos, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. "Multimedia Information Retrieval" Dafydd Gibbon Fakulta t fur Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universitat Bielefeld. "Progress in Computational Lexicography" Jean Veronis, Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Science Humaines, Universite de Provence "Building dictionaries from knowledge bases" Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa. "Electronic corpora for lexicography" SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts of original not elsewhere published papers may be submitted either by post (three copies) or preferably by e-mail in ASCII format only. Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. They should not exceed two A4 pages (including figures and references). All abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee. Submission of an abstract implies a commitment to present the paper if accepted. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) Affiliation: of author(s) Contact address: full postal address E-mail: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) Fax number: of main author Phone number: of main author Electronic submissions should be sent to: dermatasMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
zas.gwz-berlin.de>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOPC2000 Workshop on predicative constructions ZAS Berlin, 16.-17. October 2000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! About WOPC2000 - ------------ We invite contributions to a workshop to be held in connection with three projects in ZAS investigating the semantics and syntax of predicative constructions. The workshop will address issues surrounding the following themes: - syntax and semantics of predicative copula constructions, the nature of copular be - syntax and semantics of copula-less predications (e.g. depictives, resultatives, small clauses) - nature and role of the stage-level / individual-level (SL/IL) distinction - source and explanation of 'subject specificity' effects We especially welcome contributions (i) taking an interface (syntax-semantics) perspective; and/or (ii) dealing with comparative or typological aspects. Specific questions we are interested in include the following. Predicative copula constructions: The role, nature and source of the situation argument in predicative copula constructions is crucial to understanding their compositional semantics, with direct implications for the treatment of be (how many be's do we need?); and wider implications for the theories of predication, event-based semantics, and aspect. The source of the situation argument has been argued to be (i) be (e.g. Rothstein 1999) or (ii) the main predicate (e.g. Kratzer 1995). Closer examination of copula-less predications is becoming increasingly relevant to the resolution of such issues. SL/IL and subject specificity: The linguistic importance of the SL/IL distinction is due to the role identified for it (i) as a defining factor in various constructions; e.g. in 'epistemic' small clauses (consider NP Pred), Pred is IL only, in resultatives and depictives (V NP Pred) it is SL only; and (ii) in accounting for 'subject specificity' effects (Mapping Hypothesis, Diesing 1992, Tsai 1999). On the other hand there is mounting evidence that there is no unitary SL/IL distinction. Effects attributed to it fall into at least 3 logically and empirically distinct classes (e.g. J�ger 1999): whether the predicate (i) allows a weak subject, (ii) denotes a temporary (alienable) vs. permanent (inherent) property, (iii) can serve as a perception verb complement. The complex of questions arising include (i) the SL/IL distinction: if the distinction is illusory, how are its apparent effects in the grammar to be interpreted? (ii) subject specificity effects: is a syntax-based account along the lines of the Mapping hypothesis correct? Is the SL/IL component in such accounts sustainable, or what replaces it? Copula-less predications: Descriptive issues arise concerning all three main classes: depictive secondary predicates, resultatives, small clauses governed by e.g. epistemic, causative or perception verbs: what parameters govern the occurrrence/distribution of e.g. resultatives (e.g. Germanic vs. Romance, Greek)? What governs the varying form of resultatives (adjectival in English, adverbial in Russian)? In addition, these constructions display variable specificity effects cross-linguistically: thus English object depictives show specificity effects on their 'subject' (e.g. Percus 1995, Tsai 1999), though Chinese depictives may not, English resultatives do not (e.g. Winkler 1997), though Chinese resultatives may do (Tsai). We are particularly interested in contributions that also shed light the SL/IL issue and the treatment of subject specificity, and on the treatment of copula predications. Invited speakers - -------------- John F. Bailyn (SUNY at Stony Brook, USA) (not yet confirmed) Susan Rothstein (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) Submission format - --------------- We invite submissions of anonymous abstracts of maximum 2 page length, accompanied by a separate sheet indicating name, address and affiliation of the author(s) together with the title of the abstract, to be sent - via ordinary mail to WOPC2000 ZAS J�gerstr. 10/11 10117 Berlin Germany - via fax (with a cover sheet marking it as a WOPC-submission) to +49-30-20192-402 - or via email (in ascii, postscript or pdf only!) to wopc2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue