LINGUIST List 9.1835

Wed Dec 23 1998

Calls: Computational Semantics, VEXTAL/NLP

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Harry Bunt, International Workshop on Computational Semantics
2. Rodolfo Delmonte, VEXTAL

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 Third International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS 
 
 Tilburg, The Netherlands, 13-15 January 1999
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The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at
Tilburg University will host the Third Workshop on Computational 
Semantics, which will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from 
13 -15 January 1999. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers involved in all aspects of natural language computational 
semantics.

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 * INVITED SPEAKERS *
v * *
 * James Allen (U. Rochester) *
 * Patrick Blackburn (U. Saarbruecken) *
 * James Pustejovsky (Brandeis U.) *
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The workshop focuses on the computational aspects of semantic theories
and on theoretical issues involved in the development of natural 
language processing systems or of tools, methodologies, or techniques
for computer interpretation of natural language. Some of the topics
that figure prominently in the workshop program are:

* underspecified semantic representations: definition and use
* use of context in interpretation
* the semantics - pragmatics interface
* dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
* speech acts and interpretation
* incrementality, monotonicity, and compositionality 
* computational lexical semantics
* effective treatments of ambiguity
* computational aspects of discourse
* interpretation and inference


 PROGRAMME
 ********* 
Wednesday, January 13

08.30 - 09.15 registration, coffee
09.15 - 09.25 opening (Harry Bunt)

09.25 - 10.10 James Allen: Making Speech Acts Work: Conversational Agents
 (invited talk)
10.10 - 10.40 Jonathan Ginzburg: Fragmenting Meaning: Clarification
 Ellipsis and Anaphora 
10.40 - 11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Laurence Danlos: Event Coreference between Two Sentences
11.30 - 12.00 Helen Seville: Experiments with Discourse Structure
12.00 - 13.00 flash presentations of accepted posters: Pierre Beust &
 Anne Nicolle, Robin Cooper & Staffan Larsson, Francois
 Levy, Andrea Sanso, Hui Xu, Jana Sukkarieh & Stephen Pulman 

13.00 - 14.00 lunch break and poster visit

14.00 - 14.30 Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott & Aravind Joshi: Multiple
 Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar for Discourse
14.30 - 15.00 Ralf Naumann & Rainer Osswald: Aspects of Until
15.00 - 15.30 Denys Duchier & Claire Gardent: A constraint-based
 treatment of descriptions
15.30 - 15.50 tea break
15.50 - 16.20 Aravind Joshi & K. Vijay-Shanker: Compositional
 Semantics with Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (LTAG): 
 Is Underspecification Necessary?:
16.20 - 16.50 Alistair Willis & Suresh Manandhar: The Availability of
 Partial Scopings in an Underspecified Semantic Representation
16.50 - 17.20 Rodger Kibble, Richard Power & Kees van Deemter:
 Editing Logically Complex Discourse Meanings
17.30 reception at Tilburg City Hall Palace



Thursday, January 14

09.00 - 09.45 Patrick Blackburn: The Method of Architectures (invited talk)
09.45 - 10.15 Johan Bos, Patrick Blackburn, Michael Kohlhase & Hans de
 Nivelle: Inference and Computational Semantics
10.15 - 10.45 Wenjie Li & Kam-Fai Wong: The Analysis of Chinese
 N1-V-N2 Noun Compounds 
10.45 - 11.05 coffee break
11.05 - 11.35 Leen Kievit & Harry Bunt: Well-formedness and Coercion
 in Type Theoretical Semantics 
11.35 - 12.05 James Thomas & Stephen Pulman: Bidirectional
 Interpretation of Tense and Aspect 
12.05 - 13.05 flash presentations of accepted posters: Gregers
 Koch, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Robert van Rooy, Lucia Tovena &
 Emmanuele Pianta, Naoto Takahashi & Minoru Motoki, Carl
 Vogel & Jonathan Ginzburg, Claus Zinn

13.05 - 14.00 lunch break and poster visit

14.00 - 14.30 Kees Vermeulen: Type Declaration for Modal Subordination
14.30 - 15.00 Richard Zuber: Towards a Cross-categorial Computation of
 Meaning Components 
15.00 - 15.30 Michael Boettner: Peirce Grammar
15.30 - 15.50 tea break
15.50 - 16.20 Mark Hepple: A Functional Interpretation Scheme for
 D-Tree Grammars 
16.20 - 16.50 Josef van Genabith, Anette Frank & Dick Crouch: Glue,
 Underspecification and Translation 

17.00 - 18.30 ACL SIG business meeting 
19.30 conference dinner 



Friday, January 15

09.00 - 09.45 James Pustejovsky: How to Build a Category: Lexical
 Semantics and Concept Formation (invited talk) 
09.45 - 10.15 Allen Ramsay: Weak Lexical Semantics and Multiple Views 
10.15 - 10.45 Francoise Gayral, Daniel Kayser & Nathalie Pernelle: 
 In Search of the Semantic Value(s) of an Occurrence: an
 Example and a Framework 
10.45 - 11.05 coffee break
11.05 - 11.35 Frederica Busa, Nicoletta Calzolari, Alessandro Lenci &
 James Pustejovsky: Building a Semantic Lexicon:
 Structuring and Generating Concepts 
11.35 - 12.05 Gloria Vazquez, Ana Fernandez, M. Marti, Roser Morante &
 I. Castellon: A Hierarchically Structured LKB For Verbs
12.05 - 12.35 Patrick Saint-Dizier: Underspecified Lexical Conceptual
 Structures for Sense Variations 
12.35 closing

 

 GENERAL INFORMATION
 ********* 
A registration form and information about hotels and how tot ravel to
Tilburg can be found at the IWCS-3 web pages; see

 http://www.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm

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 REGISTRATION INFORMATION 
 ********* 

To register, either use the registration form at the IWCS-3 web pages 
or fill out the registration form below and return it to the
conference scretary Ms Anne Adriaensen at J.B.P.Adriaensenkub.nl
(or by fax or ordinary mail; see addresses below). 
____________________________________________________________________________

 IWCS-3 REGISTRATION FORM

 Name: ________________________________________
 Title: ________________________________________
 Institute: ________________________________________
 Department: ________________________________________
 Address: ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 ________________________________________
 Telephone: ________________________________________
 Fax: ________________________________________
 Email: ________________________________________

 Registration fee is Dfl 325 (approx. 165 USD)
 The fee includes

 * Proceedings
 * Lunches
 * Coffee/tea
 * Reception
 * Transportation to reception

 For undergraduate students a reduced fee is offered 
 which only includes participation and proceedings.

 The traditional conference dinner will be on the second
 day of the workshop (Thursday, 14th); the price of the
 dinner is Dfl 39,30. 

 Method of Calculate any transfer charges, as we must receive the
 payment: full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have
 to be paid on arrival at the workshop. 
 
 If you want to participate in the conference dinner, 
 please at the amount of Fdl 39,50 to the registration
 fee. 

 On your payment, please indicate your name, and mention 
 code 1.8270.W 340, IWCS 3, Tilburg University, Faculty
 of Arts.

() Via bank transfer:
 In Dutch guilders to bank account 45 50 46 042.
 ABN AMRO Bank, Heuvelring 88, P.O.Box 8, NL-5000 AA, 
 Tilburg, The Netherlands
 or to Postbank account 23 86 602 (only within the 
 Netherlands).

() By credit card:
 Company: Visa/MasterCard/American Express
 Number: ________________________________
 Expiration date: ____________________________
 (If you prefer not to use email to transfer this 
 information, please send us a fax.)


 HOTEL INFORMATION

 A number of rooms have been reserved at the following
 hotels. (Note: the city center is 5-10 minutes walking
 from the central railway station.)
 
 If you wish, we can make reservations for you

 Lodging () Hotel Mercure (city center)
 Heuvelpoort 300
 NL-5038 DT Tilburg
 phone: +31-13-535 46 75
 fax: +31-13-535 58 75
 Dfl 175,- per night.

 () Hotel Lindeboom (city center)
 Heuvelring 126
 NL-5038 CL Tilburg
 phone: +31-13-535 13 55
 fax: +31-13-536 10 85
 Dfl 140,- per night.

 () Hotel Central (city center) ALREADY BOOKED FULL
 Spoorlaan 422
 NL-5038 CG Tilburg
 phone: +31-13-543 62 34
 fax: +31-13-544 11 01
 Dfl 85,- per night.


 Please make reservations in the hotel I checked above,
 number of persons: __ 
 date of arrival: January __ 
 date of departure: January __ .

 () Do not make any hotel reservations for me


Send this form to:

 Anne Adriaensen
 Tilburg University
 Faculty of Arts
 P.O.Box 90153
 NL-5000 LE Tilburg
 The Netherlands
 J.B.P.Adriaensenkub.nl

Or use the IWCS-3 web page:

 http://www.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm
____________________________________________________________________________

FURTHER INFORMATION

For questions about the program contact Harry Buntkub.nl; 
for all other matters contact the conference secretariat:
 
Anne Adriaensen 
Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, 
Tilburg University, 
P.O. Box 90153,
5000 LE Tilburg, 
The Netherlands. 
phone: +31 13 466 30 60; 
fax: +31 13 466 31 10; 
email: Computational.Semanticskub.nl.

Web: http://www.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm
____________________________________________________________________________





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 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Dean, Faculty of Arts
 Tilburg University 
 P.O. Box 90153 
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
 2568 (Dean's office)
 2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Buntkub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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(see English version below)

 VExTAL

 SECONDO ANNUNCIO
 (prima scadenza: 6 marzo 1999)

 Venezia
 dal 20 al 22 settembre 1999


 Il Convegno Vextal si terra' a Venezia, nell'Auditorium S.Margherita
 dell'Universita' Ca' Foscari ed e' rivolto a linguisti che usano metodi
 computazionali e quantitativo/statistici nello studio delle lingue. Il
 Convegno Vextal e' stato preceduto lo scorso anno da Fractal, tenutosi
 a Besancon - Francia.

 Le lingue ufficiali del Convegno sono l'italiano, il francese e
 l'inglese.

 TEMATICHE

 Le comunicazioni, della durata di 20 minuti, domande incluse, potranno
 trattare i temi piu' noti del TAL:
 lessico morfologia sintassi semantica
 pragmatica discorso analisi generazione
 riassunto dialogo traduzione automatica
 approcci logici, quantitativi, statistici, simbolici

 Altri domini di interesse per Vextal sono i seguenti:
 aspetti cognitivi
 terminologia, acquisizione di conoscenza dai testi
 estrazione d'informazione
 linguistica dei corpora
 correttori grammaticali, style-checkers
 insegnamento delle lingue assistito dall'elaboratore
 linguistica matematica e quantitativa

Si accettano lavori su applicazioni implementate e verificate nel campo
del TAL. Sono incoraggiate le dimostrazioni come complemento della
presentazione di lavori scientifici.

I lavori verranno pubblicati negli Atti della Conferenza.

COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE
Universita' di Venezia
Universite' de Besancon
Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Rinaldo Giuseppe - Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni, Roma
Stephane Chaudiron - Ministre de l'Education Nationale,
 de la Recherche et de la Technologie - Paris


COMITATO SCIENTIFICO
Sylviane Cardey - Universite' de Besancon
Peter Greenfield - Universite' de Besancon
Andre Clas - Universite' de Montreal
Gaston Gross - Universite' de Paris XIII
Maurice Gross - Universite' de Paris VII
Igor Mel'cuk - Universite' de Montreal
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Krzysztof Bogacki - Universita' di Varsavia
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Alex Monaghan - Dublin City University
Dario Bianchi - Universita' di Parma
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia
Carlo Minnaja - Universita' di Padova
Maria Teresa Pazienza - Universita' di Roma
Oliviero Stock - IRST, Povo (Trento)
Carlo Minnaja - Universita' di Padova
Giorgio Satta - Universita' di Padova
Leonardo Lesmo - Universita' di Torino
Vincenzo Lombardo - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Giacomo Ferrari - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Andrea Di Carlo - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Andrea Paoloni - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Irina Prodanoff - ILC, Pisa
Nicoletta Calzolari - ILC, Pisa
Antonio Zampolli - ILC & Universita' di Pisa

PRESIDENTE
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia

DATE DA RICORDARE

Scadenza per l'invio proposta : 6 marzo 1999
Notificazione di accettazione : 6 maggio 1999
Versione finale : 10 giugno 1999
Conferenza : 20-22 settembre 1999

MODALITA' DI INVIO
Le proposte dovranno essere anonime, cioe' non dovra' apparire ne' il nome
dell'autore ne' una sua citazione. Gli articoli non dovranno superare le 9
pagine, spaziatura singola, Times 10, 6000 parole massimo. Gli articoli devono
essere inviati in forma cartacea, formato A4, o in forma elettronica,
formato .rtf di Word o .ps al seguente indirizzo:

Indirizzo elettronico: vextalbyron.cgm.unive.it
Indirizzo postale: VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
 San Marco 3417
 Universita' Ca' Foscari
 30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)

Formato dell'invio elettronico:

L'invio elettronico deve essere indirizzato all'indirizzo indicato piu'
sopra, vextalcgm.unive.it, con il "Subject", "VEXTAL-relazione", per
l'articolo e "VEXTAL-autore" per la pagina contenente titolo, nome autore,
affiliazione, indirizzo postale ed elettronico, numero di telefono, fax e
pagina web. I formati possono essere solo

 - RTF (Word) e PostScript

IMPORTANTE: tutti i lavori .ps devono essere in formato A4.

SESSIONE SPECIALE APPLICAZIONI INDUSTRIALI DEL TAL
Sara' organizzata una sessione speciale dedicata completamente alle
applicazioni
industriali prototipi e prodotti del TAL. In questa sessione sono previste
anche
relazioni ad invito.

SESSIONI POSTER E DIMOSTRAZIONI
Saranno organizzate sessioni poster. La sessione poster potra' comprendere
anche
una dimostrazione di sistemi prototipi o di cui si hanno solo risultati
preliminari.Si invitano tutti i relatori a presentare una loro
dimostrazione nella Sessione Dimostrazioni.

ARRIVO E SISTEMAZIONE LOCALE
Raccomandiamo a tutti quelli interessati a partecipare alla conferenza di
prenotare al piu' presto il periodo di soggiorno poiche' gli alberghi di
Venezia sono sempre molto affollati.

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 VEXTAL

 SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
 (deadline: 6 March 1999)

 Venice (Italy)
 20 - 22 September 1999
 For more information look at the web page:
 http://byron.cgm.unive.it/events/VEXTAL

The VEXTAL Conference will be held in the Auditorium S.Margherita of the
University Ca' Foscari - Venice(It), 20 - 22 September, 1999. It is directed
to research people working in the area of computational linguistics,
mathematical and quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics and language
engineering. It is the follow-up of FRACTAL held in Besancon (France), last
year.

The official languages of the conference are Italian, French and English.

THEMES

Papers are invited for twenty minute talks, questions included,
in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) :

 lexicon morphology syntax semantics
 pragmatics discourse parsing text generation
 abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation
 quantitative, logical, symbolical and statistical approaches

VEXTAL also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an
important role, which are more application oriented:

 cognitive aspects
 terminology, knowledge acquisition
 information extraction
 documentary retrieval
 corpus linguistics
 grammar and style-checkers and NLP tools
 computer assisted language learning
 mathematical & quantitative linguistics

VEXTAL invites submissions focusing on NLP applications already implemented,
tested and evaluated. Demos are strongly encouraged, in addition to a standard
paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Universita' di Venezia
Universite' de Besancon
Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Rinaldo Giuseppe - Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni, Roma
Stephane Chaudiron - Ministre de l'Education Nationale,
 de la Recherche et de la Technologie - Paris


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Sylviane Cardey - University of Besancon
Peter Greenfield - University of Besancon
Andre Clas - University of Montreal
Gaston Gross - University of Paris XIII
Maurice Gross - University of Paris VII
Igor Mel'cuk - University of Montreal
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Krzysztof Bogacki - University of Varsaw
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Alex Monaghan - Dublin City University
Dario Bianchi - University of Parma
Rodolfo Delmonte - University of Venice
Carlo Minnaja - University of Padua
Maria Teresa Pazienza - University of Roma
Oliviero Stock - IRST, Povo (Trento)
Carlo Minnaja - University of Padua
Giorgio Satta - University of Padua
Leonardo Lesmo - University of Turin
Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Eastern Piemonte
Giacomo Ferrari - University of Eastern Piemonte
Andrea Di Carlo - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Andrea Paoloni - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Irina Prodanoff - ILC, Pisa
Nicoletta Calzolari - ILC, Pisa
Antonio Zampolli - ILC & University of Pisa

CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia

TIMETABLE
submission deadline : 6 March 1999
notification to authors : 6 May 1999
final version due : 10 June 1999
conference : 20 - 22 September 1999


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference. The maximum length is nine
pages, single spaced, Times 10, (approx. 6000 words).
Hard-copies of the paper must be in A4 format. Authors are encouraged
to send an electronic version of their paper.

E-mail address : vextalbyron.cgm.unive.it
Address : VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
 San Marco 3417
 Universita' Ca' Foscari
 30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)

Guidelines for electronic submission :

Authors should send their submission (neither compressed
nor encoded) via E-mail as an attached file to the address above,
specifying "VEXTAL-submission" as the Subject.
A separate identification page (with the following
information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal
address, E-mail address, fax and telephone number) should also be
send specifying "VEXTAL-author". Papers MUST be sent in one of the following
formats :

 - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript version.

IMPORTANT : all PostScript versions must be in A4 format.

SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL SESSION
A special session will be devoted to industrial applications of TAL, be they
prototypes or full-fledged commercial products. This session will be partially
covered by invited speakers.

POSTER AND DEMO SESSION
Poster parallel sessions will be organized: speakers are encouraged to couple
their presentation with a demo. Demos are strongly encouraged, even when
prototypes or simply preliminary results are shown. All speakers are
invited to present a demo in the Demo Session.

VENUE AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
We strongly encourage all those interested in joining the conference to proceed
to an early booking since Venice hotels are always very crowded in September.

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