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erdos.csie.ncnu.edu.tw>COLING-2002 TUTORIALS 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** REMINDER: Early Registration extended to June 22 !! (30+% saving!!) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issues on: Computational Linguistics && Chinese Language Processing (*) 08/24 am/pm Bio-Informatics && NLP Issues 08/25 am/pm Open-Domain Textual Question Answering 08/25 am Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics 08/25 pm (*) Co-Sponsored by ACL-SIGHAN: Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing (http://www.sighan.org/) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING has been the most important international conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for nearly 40 years. The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) will be held in the Howard International House and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, from August 24 to September 1, 2002. The biennial conference COLING 2002 this year will provide both pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops, in addition to the main conference. There will be four major tutorial issues divided into six 3-hour units during COLING 2002. The first major issue will be Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. This tutorial will focus on Chinese language processing topics including Intelligent Character Encoding (Ching-Chun Hsieh, Academia Sinica), Treebanking and Parsing (Keh-jiann Chen, Academia Sinica), and Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology (Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs). The whole scope will cover most of the interesting and special characteristics that make Chinese language processing a different and difficult task. It will be co-sponsored with the ACL-SIGHAN. People interested in Chinese language processing issues should not miss the two tutorial units and the SigHan Workshop (http://www.sighan.org/swclp/). The second major issue focuses on NLP and Bio-Informatics. People nowadays are becoming more and more interested in knowing how the languages of humans differ from the languages of God. NLP researchers and biologists feel strongly that the two communities can work together to make things different. Our biologists, Toshihisa Takagi, Takako Takai (University of Tokyo), Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tokyo, JAPAN) will discuss some theoretical issues in Bio-Informatics and how NLP techniques can help extracting and migrating biological data from the huge amount of historical archives and databases to speedup biology study. Our computational linguists, Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and UMIST, ICCL permanent member), and Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, ICCL permanent member), on the other hand, will talk about the application of Information Extraction techniques in Bio-informatics and some applications of NLP Techniques for Modeling Biological Sequences in this tutorial. You could expect that such interaction between the biologists and computational linguists will bring to our communities many brand new ideas. While simple information retrieval and information extraction techniques are useful for many language processing tasks, including mining biological rules as discussed in the above major issue, such techniques combined in an intuitive way may not really provide us with good answers for many critical questions. In the third major tutorial issue, our QA experts, Professors Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas) and Dan Moldovan (University of Texas) will tell us how an Open-Domain Textual Question Answering system could be constructed to serve well. Professor Harabagiu's systems had proved to be outstanding in the community. Therefore, you should really attend this course if you want more secrete behind the scenes. The forth major tutorial issue is Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics. This issue is important because every sentence that we processed has its psycholinguistics and cognitive process behind it. The more we know such psycholinguistic models the more we can process the sentences better. Professor Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado) will lead you to the world of computational psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling in the sentence, lexical and discourse levels through this course. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Course Outlines: Please refer to the following web-page for course outlines and further information: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html. Additional information about on-line registration can be found on: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html. Official URL of COLING-2002 is: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICCL Advisor on Workshops and Tutorials Prof. Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Via della Faggiola 32 I-56100 Pisa, ITALY tel:+39-50-560481 fax:+39-50-589055 Email: glottoloMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
uni-erfurt.de)aol.com>uni-erfurt.de)Call for papers As part of the Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft), to be held in Munich, Germany, 26-28.02.2003, there will be a two-day workshop (27.-28.03.2003) on the following topic: "The (non)distinction of the syntax and semantics of adjectives and adverbs" Since adjectives and adverbs are diachronically and categorially as well as synchronically and morphologically related, these two categories are often conceived of as one conflating category the members of which are often hard to distinguish on the basis of formal criteria. Both the structural parallels that exist between adjectival and adverbial projections and the functional and semantic parallels these elements display (in the context of nouns and verbs) are also closely related to the categorial non-distinction of adjectives and adverbs. However, this characterization does not hold true for all adjectives and adverbs. A case in point applies to adjectives and adverbs that display syntactic, functional and semantic similarities with elements of other syntactic categories such as determiners, numerals and quantifiers in the case of adjectives and such as prepositions, particles and degree words in the case of adverbs. Contributions taking a theoretical and / or empirical perspective one (or more) of the following topics are invited: - (non)distinction and lexical representation of adjectives and adverbs - morphological aspects of adjectives and adverbs - adjectives and adverbs in word formation processes - the structure of adjectival and adverbial projections - functional categories within and complexity of adjectival and adverbial projections - synchronic and diachronic development of adjectives and adverbs - universality of adjectives and adverbs - prosodic restrictions on adjective and adverb placement - pragmatic restrictions on adjective and adverb placement Papers should not exceed 20 minutes ( + 10 minutes for discussion). Would those interested please mail a one-page abstract to the organizers by August 15, 2002. dagmar.haumannMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue