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divsun.unige.ch>Call for Contributions Workshop Compound Nouns Mulilingual Aspects of Nominal Composition 3-4 December 1994 Geneva Organization Commitee: Pierrette Bouillon, Dominique Estival (ISSCO, Geneva) Purpose: Following the previous meetings concerned with the question of Compound Nouns (Fontenay 1992 et Paris 1993) and in order to continue this series, we are organizing another two-day workshop on this topic. This year, a special emphasis will be given to the mulilingual aspects of nominal composition. We hope that such a meeting, gathering both linguists and computational linguists, will enable us to bridge the gap between theory and practice and will foster discussions about the respective constributions from linguistics and computational linguistics to the multilingual treatment of nominal composition. We propose several sub-themes: * theoretical contrastive approaches to nominal composition * description and analysis tools for compound nouns in multilingual applications * detection and extraction of compound nouns * statistical studies of compound nouns and their application in processing * compound nouns in electronic multilingual dictionaries * compound nouns in machine translation * links with studies in terminology * compound nouns and the processing of bilingual corpora (e.g. through text alignment, or for terminology acquisition) * and any other theme for which the representation and computational treatment of nominal composition, in particular in its multilingual aspects, are crucial. Organization: The two-day workshop will be constituted by 30 minutes presentations, followed by a round table at the end of the second day. Contributions: Authors who wish to make a presentation must send, before June 30th 1994 and to the address given below, an abstract (maximum 4 pages, in French or in English), which will be reviewed by the program committee. Program Committee: Paul Bennett, UMIST, Great Britain Paul Boucher, Universite de Nantes, France Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Suisse Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Anne Condamines, Universite de Toulouse, France Beatrice Daille, C.2.V., France Dominique Estival, ISSCO, Suisse Christian Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes, France Benoit Habert, ENS Fontenay Saint Cloud, France Pierre Lerat, Universite Paris 13, France Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University, Canada Angela Ralli, University of Athens, Greece Sergio Scalise, Universita degli studi di Ferrara, Italy Pascale Sebillot, IRISA Rennes, France Allina Villalva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Stefan Wermter, Universitaet Hamburg, Allemagne Wiecher Zwanenburg, Rijkuniversiteit te Utrecht, Netherlands For further information, contact: Pierrette Bouillon or Dominique Estival ISSCO, Universite de Geneve 54 rte des Acacias CH-1227 Geneve SWITZERLAND tel: +41-22-705-7116 fax: +41-22-300-1086Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
science.smith.edu>Please note the following announcement for a special issue of the journal Language Acquisition. The deadline for paper submissions was announced in the current issue as May 1st, but because of the late appearance of the issue I have moved it to June 1st. Announcing a Special Issue of the journal Language Acquisition on: The Acquisition of Wh-questions Special Editor: Jill de Villiers The submission of papers for the Special Issue is requested on any topic related to the acquisition of wh-questions, including but not limited to: the acquisition of wh-movement, the logical form of questions, cross-linguistic differences in questions, the syntax of relative clauses and wh-questions, the nature of traces, the CP as a site for wh-movement, barriers to movement. As with all Special Issues of the journal, papers will be peer reviewed. Deadline for Submissions: June 1st, 1994. Please follow the guidelines for submissions to Language Acquisition and send your submissions to : Professor Jill de Villiers Psychology Department Smith College Northampton, Ma 01063.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue