LINGUIST List 15.337

Thu Jan 29 2004

Calls: General Ling/USA; Computational Ling/Portugal

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

Directory

1. tortora, Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group at the MLA
2. erk, Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora

Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group at the MLA 

Date: 27-Dec-2004 - 30-Dec-2004
Location: Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
Contact: Christina Tortora
Contact Email: tortorapostbox.csi.cuny.edu 

Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics 
Subject Language Family: Romance 
Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2004 


Meeting Description:

Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group at the annual meeting
of the Modern Language Association 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group
MLA Annual Convention
December 27-30, 2004 Philadelphia

Abstracts covering any aspect of Romance Linguistics (e.g., Phonology,
Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Philological studies)
are solicited. Although preference is given to papers addressing more
than one Romance Language, all abstracts addressing Romance are
considered.

Presentations are 20 minutes. Abstracts should be no more than one
page (12 point font, 1-inch margins).

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: March 1, 2004.

Electronic submissions (as a Word document or in .pdf format) will be
accepted. Please send electronic submissions to both e-mail addresses
below.

Contact information:

Christina Tortora
Department of English, Speech, and World Literature, 2S-218
College of Staten Island (CUNY)
2800 Victory Blvd.
Staten Island, NY 10314

Telephone: (718) 982-3659
Fax: (718) 982-3643

E-mail:
tortorapostbox.csi.cuny.edu
ctortoragc.cuny.edu

Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora 

Date: 30-May-2004 - 30-May-2004
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Contact: Katrin Erk
Contact Email: erkcoli.uni-sb.de 
Meeting URL: 

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics ,Semantics
,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Lexicography
Call Deadline: 29-Feb-2004 

This is a session of the following conference: 4th International
Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Meeting Description:

LREC 2004 Workshop: Building Lexical Resources from Semantically
Annotated Corpora

This workshop will bring together researchers building and using
large-scale, corpus-based lexical resources to report on recent work
and to share ideas for future directions.


	 First Call for Papers
	WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

	 Building Lexical Resources from Semantically
		 Annotated Corpora

In association with the Fourth International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2004

Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
May 30, 2004

BACKGROUND

Over the last several decades, print dictionaries have largely shifted
from being based on previous dictionaries, citation slips and
lexicographer's intuitions, to using sophisticated corpus searches for
discovering and recording the actual ways in which words are used. A
similar change is under way in the field of on-line lexical resources,
as people seek a middle way between massive word crunching at one
extreme and hand-built entries based on native speaker intuitions at
the other.

Since 1997, the FrameNet project has built a body of more than 120,000
corpus examples annotated with finely detailed semantic roles (based
on frame semantics) and deriving from these a lexicon with rich
semantic/syntactic descriptions of roughly 7,000 lexical
units. Projects with goals very similar to FrameNet are under way for
German at the University of the Saarland (SALSA), for Spanish in
Barcelona, and for Japanese in Tokyo, and independent but allied
efforts are in progress for English at U Penn (PropBank) and for Czech
in Prague (Prague treebank).

This workshop will bring together researchers building and using such
lexica to report on recent work and to share ideas for future
directions.

PAPER TOPICS

Papers are invited on questions such as:

What sorts of lexical information will be most useful for NLP
applications, commercial lexicography, or language pedagogy? (And
what's a reasonable balance between what we would like and what we can
cost-effectively get?)

To what extent can manual annotation of corpus examples be facilitated
or replaced by automatic processes?

How can the lexica be used to guide semantic parsing/role labeling in
unrestricted text?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the differing approaches
of the various projects? What are the possibilities of adopting a
common program and setting up the means of cooperating closely?

How do the semantic role concepts underlying different annotation
practices compare? What are their respective advantages and
disadvantages? Is it possible to align them and to map between them?

PAPER SELECTION CONSIDERATIONS

We would like the workshop to contain a balance of papers dealing with

(1) lexicon building of the kind supported by corpus analysis, 

(2) methods of semantic and/or functional annotation, 

(3) ontological issues with frame structures and the elements of frames, 

(4) outreach, including NLP applications, the suitability of current
procedures to the terminologies of scientific and technical discourse,
and the special problems related to the lexica and grammatical
structures of different languages,

(5) the potential for achieving some level of cross-linguistic and
cross-framework standardization of annotation and analysis practices.

TARGET AUDIENCE

Builders and potential users of semantically/functionally annotated
corpora.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline:		February 29, 2004
Notification:				March 21, 2004
Camera Ready Papers:			April 21, 2004
Workshop:				May 30, 2004

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Abstracts should be no more than 1000 words in length, in .pdf format
(preferred) or plain ASCII text. The abstract should be emailed to
Collin Baker (collinbicsi.berkeley.edu) with the subject line
''CORPUS ANNOTATION WORKSHOP''. The body of the email should begin
with the author's name(s) and affiliation(s), and the email address of
the contact person. The attachment should contain only the text of the
submission.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Charles Fillmore
Manfred Pinkal
Collin Baker
Katrin Erk


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Collin Baker
Katrin Erk
Charles Fillmore
Daniel Gildea
Eva Hajicova
Ulrich Heid
Mirella Lapata
Martha Palmer
Manfred Pinkal