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divsun.unige.ch>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 multilingual 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 NLP * 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. Program Committee: Philippe BARBAUD, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada Paul Bennett, UMIST, Great-Britain Paul Boucher, Universite de Nantes, France Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Switzerland Pierre Cadiot, Universite Paris 8, France Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Anne Condamines, Universite Toulouse, France Beatrice Daille, TALANA, France Dominique Estival, ISSCO, Switzerland Benoit Habert, ENS Fontenay Saint Cloud, France Christian Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes, 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 Alina Villalva, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Stefan Wermter, Universitat Hamburg, Germany Wiecher Zwanenburg, Rijkuniversiteit te Utrecht, Netherlands Organization: The two-day workshop will be constituted by 30 minutes presentations, followed by a round table at the end of the second day. It will take place at the ``Hotel Le Grenil'', in the center of Geneva, where a number of room will be reserved for participants. Registration fee: 300 FF or 75 SF. 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