LINGUIST List 15.279

Sun Jan 25 2004

Calls: Computational Ling/USA; Neurolinguistics

Editor for this issue: Andrea Berez <andrealinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Roxana_Girju, Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004)
2. Michael Ullman, Cortex special issue on Broca's area

Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004)
Short Title: CLS 

Date: 06-May-2004 - 07-May-2004
Location: Boston, MA, United States of America
Contact: Roxana Girju
Contact Email: Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu 
Meeting URL: http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics 
Subject Language: English 
Call Deadline: 02-Feb-2004 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004) Final
Call for Papers and Participation

!! Deadline extended: February 2nd, 2004 !!

 
 Computational Lexical Semantics
 Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2004
 (http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html)
 May 6, 2004
 The Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

Workshop Lexical semantics is the study of word semantic properties in
context and it is at the core of NLP and many of its
applications. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in text
semantics fueled in part by the complexity of some major research
initiatives, such as Question Answering, Text Summarization, Machine
Translation, Information Extraction, Reasoning, and others. The aim of
this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia,
government, and industry interested in text understanding, lexical
semantics, knowledge representation, question answering, information
retrieval, machine translation, and speech processing to submit papers
reporting on recent advances and new perspectives in computational
lexical semantics, including but not limited to the following topics:

* semantically based language models;
* information retrieval using semantics;
* complex nominals - acquisition and interpretation;
* polysemy and sense boundaries;
* semantic roles and other semantic relations;
* verb semantic classes and alternations;
* semantics of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions;
* metonymy and metaphor;
* the role of context in lexical semantics;
* representation issues in lexical semantics;
* tools and resources;
* evaluation of systems;
Papers describing applications of natural language, speech
understanding, and information retrieval that use lexical semantics
are especially welcome.

Important Dates:

Monday, Feb. 2, 2004 Paper submission deadline (!! Extended !!)
Monday, Feb. 23, 2004 Notification of acceptance
Monday, March 1, 2004 Camera ready version deadline
Thursday, May 6, 2004 Workshop

Workshop Format:

The desired workshop length is one day of approximately 6 hours of
paper presentations. We expect to accept between 15 - 18 papers (20 -
30 minutes / paper).

Submission Format:

The papers should be of maximum 8 pages (including references)
submitted in electronic form (ps or pdf) following the style provided
by the HLT/NAACL-04 conference. All submissions must be original,
previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). The
papers should be attached to an email indicating the contact authors,
paper's title, and appropriate subject areas under which the paper can
be classified. Please submit the papers via email to Roxana Girju
(Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu).

Program Committee:

Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas (Co-chair)
Roxana Girju Baylor University, USA (Co-chair)
Jade Goldstein DoD, USA
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglu Columbia University, USA
Marti Hearst U.C. Berkeley, USA
Mirella Lapata University of Sheffield, UK
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA
John Prange ARDA, USA
James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA
Carol Van Ess-Dykema DoD, USA

Contact:

Interested participants should send their questions to Roxana Girju
(Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu).

Cortex special issue on Broca's area

Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System &
Behavior


Special Issue: INTEGRATIVE MODELS OF BROCA'S AREA AND THE VENTRAL
PREMOTOR CORTEX

Guest Editors:

Ricarda I. Schubotz (schubotzcns.mpg.de) Max Planck Institute of
Cognitive Neuroscience; PO Box500 355; D-04303Leipzig; Germany

Christian J. Fiebach (christianfiebach.org) Department of Psychology
& Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute; University of California,
Berkeley; 4143 Tolman Hall; Berkeley, CA 94720-5050; USA

Deadline for submission: March 31, 2004


We are pleased to announce a special issue of Cortex focusing on
Broca's area and the ventral premotor cortex. Today, it is without
doubt that Broca's area is involved in language processing, but also
in several other domains including working memory, music processing,
action perception and execution, and imitation. Broca's area shares
many functional and anatomical features with the neighboring ventral
premotor cortex, and both have been suggested as regions serving the
integration of sensory and motor events. The challenge for modern
cognitive neuroscience is to formulate models capable of accounting
for the domain-general nature of these brain areas. The present
special issue provides a platform for discussing such integrative
models of the functioning of Broca's area and the ventral premotor
cortex. This special issue was inspired by a workshop recently held at
the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience which brought
together researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience addressing
the topics of action processing and language (see
http://www.cns.mpg.de/brocapmc).

We welcome the submission of original research papers which employ
functional neuroimaging techniques to target functions of Broca's area
and/or the ventral premotor cortex.

Please send your intention to submit by February 15, 2004 to:
schubotzcns.mpg.de.


Please note:
1. Cortex has new Editors (Sergio Della Sala, Aberdeen, UK and Jordan
Grafman, Bethesda, USA).
2. This special issue will be made into a hard cover book with proper
ISBN.
3. Color figures are printed at no cost for authors (within reasonable
limits).
4. Cortex provides free access to electronic on-line versions of
Cortex (www.cortex-online.org), which guarantees a wider audience.