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ist.flinders.edu.au>Call for Participation/Program/Proceedings: Australian NLP Fortnight ANLPF: Australian Natural Language Processing Fortnight CoNLL/NeMLaP The Program for the combined CoNLL98 and NeMLaP3 being held in Sydney, January 11th to 17th January 1998, is now available and we invite your partipation. Registration forms are available as HTML+JavaScript forms (we recommend Netscape4/Communicator), as well as in ASCII and PostScript. The EARLY BIRD and AUTHOR registration close on November 15 for the main conference and/or tutorials. In Sydney we have thirty conference papers, two invited talks and four tutorials, and there are four other events spread around the country - three workshops and a tutorial. Note that proceedings may also be ordered using the registration forms if you are unable to attend. Calls for papers are current for the three workshops which are being held as part of the fortnight, the Australian Natural Language Processing Graduate Workshop (ANLPW: closing date October 31 - NOW), the workshop on Human Computer Communication being held in conjunction with the Loebner Prize (HCC: closing date for two page abstracts and offers of demonstrations: November 24) and the workshop on Paradigms and Grounding in Language Learning (PaGiLL: closing date for two page abstracts: November24). EARLY BIRD and AUTHOR registration for the workshops closes on December 1. Main Page: http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/ Selected Subpages: http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/register.txt http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/register.ps http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/Registration.html http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/Program.html http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/Tutorials.html http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/PaGiLL.html http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/ANLPF/HCC.html Australian Natural Language Processing Graduate Workshop: http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/Dept/LALX/stuff/anlpw.html Loebner Prize Competition and Demonstrations: http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au/research/AI/LoebnerPrize/ - - powersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
alphalinguistica.sns.it>- ----------------------------------------------------------- WLSS98 II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTIC SYSTEMS Pisa, 19-20 March 1998 Scuola Normale Superiore - ----------------------------------------------------------- Organized by CELI, ILC, ITC-IRST and Scuola Normale Superiore With the support of University of Pisa and Xerox Research Centre Europe ----------------------------- http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98 ---------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS (provisional list) Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ewan Klein (University of Edimburgh) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbrucken) ----------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS WLSS98 is organized by Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio ed Informazione (CELI), Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC), Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia (ITC-IRST) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), and will take place in Pisa on the 19-20 March 1998. WLSS workshops aim at bringing together Italian and international scholars, active in both theoretical and applicative domains of research in lexical semantics, with the goals of: - providing an overview of the state of the art and exchanging information on ongoing and planned activities; - bridging the gap and enhance the trade-off between theoretical models of lexical knowledge and applications in NLP systems. These goals are justified: - by the increasingly central position that lexical knowledge, and in particular lexical semantics, is assuming within the general architecture of cognitive systems, both as a dynamic module which interact with other non-linguistic sources of knowledge, and as a component playing a major role in interfacing syntax and semantics; - by the fact that lexical resources (such as tagged corpora, computational dictionaries, Machine Readable Dictionaries, WordNets) are among the most crucial aspects of practical NLP systems. Issues concerning the structure, the representation, the development, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge are thus of the uttermost importance when building NLP systems. Lexical systems also play a crucial role in the design and construction of multilingual systems, a key feature at least for applications designed to operate in a distributed, non- centralized environment such as the World Wide Web. This second edition of WLSS will focus on the portability and reusability of lexical systems, and on the issue of word sense disambiguation and semantic tagging. We also encourage the submission of papers concerning more general issues about linguistic lexical semantics and its interaction with computational lexicography. Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks. Here follows a non- exhaustive list of topics which could be addressed: * Lexical resources for semantic tagging and word sense disambiguation. * Use of lexicons and thesauruses to improve information retrieval / extraction techniques. * Automatic acquisition and management of lexical resources. * Reusability and tuning of existing lexical resources for novel tasks. * Trade offs between generic and domain specific lexical resources. * Multilingual lexical resources. * Description and evaluation of existing tools and systems. * Evaluation of different representation formats. * Issues in computational lexical semantics and computational lexicography. * Issues in the design, construction and use of lexical resources. * Architecture for a cognitive plausible lexicon * Lexical representation and the interface with syntactic processes SUBMISSIONS Only electronic submissions are accepted. Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length, in Postscript or ASCII format, and should be sent to the following address: wlss98Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
iol.it>ESSLLI-98 Workshop on MACHINE TRANSLATION August 24 - 28, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANIZER: Frank Van Eynde (K.U. Leuven) Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html BACKGROUND: The Programme of ESSLLI-98 (Saarbruecken, August 17-28, 1998) features a workshop on Machine Translation, to be held during the second week of the School. As in the case of the other ESSLLI workshops its main aim is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. Machine Translation is, of course, a rather large topic. In a sense, there is not a single branch of computational or formal linguistics which is not directly or indirectly relevant to it. In order to arrive at a reasonably coherent programme for the workshop it is therefore proposed to focus on a limited number of topics. 1. Formal Theories of Translation There are many theories of translation (esp. in literary criticism), but few of the theories are sufficiently explicit and formalized to provide a useful frame of reference for MT. A notable exception is the one presented in M.T. Rosetta. Compositional Translation (Kluwer, 1994), recently reviewed in JoLLI. Contributions on this theme can take the form of replies to M.T. Rosetta or of presentations of an alternative formal theory of translation. 2. Computational Semantics and Machine Translation The importation of methods and analyses from formal and computational semantics has proved useful for modeling the translation of such notoriously difficult expressions as determiners, pronouns, negation and tense/aspect markers. Of potential interest for MT is also the recent attention in computational semantics for the modeling of reasoning on the basis of underspecified representations. The contextual disambiguation of word senses, for instance, could be seen as a form of reasoning with underspecified semantic representations. Presentations on this theme can take the form of new contributions in one of these areas. 3. Competence-based vs. performance-based models for MT As in other fields of natural language processing, there has been a growing interest in the use of probabilistic techniques during the last decade, leading to a shift from rule- or constraint-based models to corpus-based or example-based models. Contributions are invited which report on the use of probabilistic techniques in translation systems (notice the emphasis on MT, rather than on NLP in general). 4. Machine Translation of Spoken Language Till a few years ago, virtually all MT efforts concerned the translation of written language, but the recent rise of interest (and funding) in speech processing has changed this: most of the currently started MT efforts explicitly aim at the translation of spoken language. Contributions on this theme should report on work in this field, preferably on those aspects which are in the intersection of speech processing and MT (rather in their union). 5. Translator's tools There is a school of thought in MT which dismisses the efforts to arrive at Fully Automatic High Quality Translation (FAHQT) as misguided and wasteful. What should be aimed at instead is the development of tools for human translators, such as smart text editors, on-line access to multilingual dictionaries and term banks, automatic recognition of multi-word units, and the like. A recent survey of this work can be found in the special issue of Machine Translation on New Tools for Human Translators (Volume 12, nos. 1-2, 1997). Contributions on this topic should report on original work in this field. For all five of the topics, but especially for the last three, contributors are encouraged to include a demo, either as part of the presentation, or as an extra, at the end of the session. WORKSHOP FORMAT: There will be 5 sessions of 90 minutes, each containing three slots of 30 minutes. Some of these slots will be assigned to invited speakers, but the large majority will be assigned on the basis of submitted proposals. SUBMISSIONS: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encouraged to submit a proposal. Proposals should include 1. Name, affiliation, address, e-mail of the submitter(s) 2. An indication of which of the 5 themes will be addressed 3. Two-page abstract of a paper 4. If applicable, requirements for the demo They should be sent to Frank Van Eynde Centrum voor Computerlinguistiek - K.U.Leuven Maria-Theresiastraat 21, B - 3000 Leuven, Belgium frank.vaneyndeMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de>ESSLLI-98 Workshop on CURRENT TOPICS IN CONSTRAINT-BASED THEORIES OF GERMANIC SYNTAX August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** ORGANIZERS: Tibor Kiss and Detmar Meurers (IBM Germany and Univ. Tuebingen) Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html BACKGROUND: A number of approaches to Germanic languages (excluding English) have been developed in constraint-based theories like HPSG and LFG. Apart from the issue of empirical adequacy, formal issues were raised, among them: - the nature of complex predicates and the mechanisms used to formalize them - linearization versus movement analyses of various phenomena - the nature of functional projections - configurational and non-configurational properties of scope determination The idea of this workshop is to provide a forum to present and discuss current approaches exploring such empirical and formal issues of the syntax of Germanic languages (excluding English). Focusing on Germanic rather than on a particular syntactic theory is intended to allow for more inter-framework discussion. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will consist of five sessions, with two 30+10-minute presentations in each session. SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encouraged to submit an extended abstract of 2000-3000 words either as hardcopy or electronically (postscript only). The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader. If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to publish them in an edited volume. Submissions should be sent before 15 February 1998 to one of the following two organizers: Tibor Kiss Detmar Meurers IBM Germany Universitaet Tuebingen Vangerowstr. 18 Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft D-69115 Heidelberg Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 Germany D-72074 Tuebingen Germany tiborMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue