LINGUIST List 3.974

Thu 10 Dec 1992

FYI: Report on Workshop on Compound Nouns

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>From Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0394. Tuesday, 8 Dec 1992.

>Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 21:14:34 +0100
>From: prof17naiut.dnet.circe.fr (JACQUEMIN Christian)
>Subject: Workshop on Compound Nouns

The following report is available (in French) :

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* WORKSHOP ON COMPOUND NOUNS *
* Linguistic and Computational Approaches *
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* Friday the 26th of JUNE 1992 in Fontenay aux Roses FRANCE *
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CONTENTS :
1 Compound Nouns (CN) processing : a survey

2 Linguistic study of CN :
 Description
 - CN with a particular structure
 - Lexicography and CN
 - CN : morphology and morpho-syntax
 Variations
 - syntax : between frozen expressions and free structures
 - semantics : between metaphors and compositionality
 - semiotics : between description and naming
 - categorisation, taxonomy and cognitive relevance
 - CN ind sublanguages or in semantic domains

3 Processing CN
 Retrieval
 - electronic dictionaries for CN
 - lexical analysis for CN : spelling variations, inflected forms
 Parsing
 - CN and syntactic formalisms
 - CN and parsing tools
 Variations
 - NP analysis and CN transformations
 - contribution of CN study to NLP (translation, thesaurus design,
 automatic indexing, spelling checkers, NL interfaces ...)

4 BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES
 230 references about CN

Only hard copies (25 pages) are available.
Price : 30 FF, postage included.

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Address : Christian JACQUEMIN * E-mail : JACMINNAIUT.DNET.CIRCE.FR
 IRIN / LIANA *
 3, rue du Marechal Joffre * Phone : (33) 40 30 60 52
 F-44041 NANTES Cedex 01 * (33) 49 61 49 85
 FRANCE * Fax : (33) 40 30 60 53
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