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cogs.susx.ac.uk>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ECAI98 Second Multilinguality in the Lexicon Workshop August 25th 1998 A workshop held as part of the 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98) August 23rd - 28th, 1998, Brighton, UK Organising Committee: Lynne Cahill (University of Sussex) Susan Armstrong (ISSCO) Pierette Bouillon (ISSCO) Roger Evans (ITRI, University of Brighton) Web site: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98/tw/W13.html The 1st Multilinguality in the Lexicon Workshop took place in April 1996 as part of the AISB workshop series at Sussex, and brought together researchers with a wide range of experiences in multilingual lexicon development. In this second MLL workshop, we invite papers illustrating progress made since the first meeting, as well as papers on new approaches and applications. As before, the workshop will provide an opportunity for people working on all aspects of multilingual lexicons, both theoretical and practical, to focus on the particular problems and questions associated with multilingual lexical representation. Papers are invited on any aspects of multilinguality in the lexicon including but not limited to: pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, orthography; machine translation, generation, understanding; bilingual and multilingual issues; related and unrelated languages; issues of representation and access. The workshop will run for one day as part of ECAI-98 in Brighton, UK. To ensure a workshop rather than mini-conference format, presented papers will be interspersed with substantial discussion sessions. In order to maximise participation, attendees not presenting papers (and perhaps some who are) may be asked to lead the discussion sessions. SUBMISSION FORMAT: Extended abstracts of not more than 6 pages (A4) are invited. Submissions should be either hard copy or (preferably) electronic in self-contained LaTeX or Postscript files. Submissions should include authors' name, affiliation, email and full postal address and should be sent to: Lynne Cahill School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK Email: Lynne.CahillMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
ilc.pi.cnr.it>ADAPTING LEXICAL AND CORPUS RESOURCES TO SUBLANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS a workshop to be held at the FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 26 MAY 1998 The workshop will provide a forum for those researchers involved in the development of methods to integrate corpora and MRDs, with the aim of adding adaptive capabilities to existing linguistic resources. Organisers: Roberto Basili (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Roberta Catizone (University of Sheffield), Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma "Tor Vergata"), Paola Velardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza), Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS Lexicons, i.e., those components of a NLP system that contain "computable" information about words, cannot be considered as static objects. Words may behave very differently in different domains, and there are language phenomena that do not generalize across sublanguages. Lexicons are a snapshot of a given stage of development of a language, normally provided without support for adaptation changes, whether caused by language creativity and development or the shift to such a previously unencountered domain. The divergence of corpus usages from lexical norms has been studied computationally at least since the late Sixties, but only recently has the availability of large on-line corpora made it possible to establish methods to cope systematically with this problem. An emerging branch of research is now involved in studies and experiments on corpus-driven linguistics, with the aim of complementing and extending earlier work on lexicon acquisition based on Machine Readable Dictionaries (MRD): data are extracted from texts, as embodiments of language in use, so as to capture lexical regularities and to code them into operational forms. The purpose of this workshop will be to provide an updated snapshot of current work in the area, and promote discussion of how to make progress. Central topics will be (though this list is in no way exclusive): * corpus-driven tuning of MRDs to optimize domain-specific inferences, * terminology and jargon acquisition, * sense extensions, * acquisition of preference or subcategorization information from corpora * taxonomy adaptation, * statistical weighting of senses etc. to domains * use of MRDs to provide explanations of linguistic phenomena in corpora * what is the scope of "lexical tuning" * the evaluation of lexical tuning as a separate task, or as part of a more generic task INDUSTRIAL PANEL ***NEW**** Automatic adaptation of lexicons to new domains through the use of application corpora makes NLP applications more adaptable and portable. The Program Commettee is organizing a joint panel to discuss this (and other) issues concerning next generation Information Extraction Systems. The panel intends to bring industrial representatives to confront expectations in IE from their viewpoint and degree of maturity of the offering. The following (and other) issues will be discussed: - Is there a market for IE? - What is the demand in domains such as New Services for the citizens, Telecommunications, Management Support, etc? - What are the technical requirements?Is the technology near to the market? PROGRAM COMMITTEE Yorick Wilks University of Sheffield Roberta Catizone University of Sheffield Paola Velardi University of Roma "La Sapienza" Maria Teresa Pazienza University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Roberto Basili University of Roma "Tor Vergata" Bran Boguraev Brandeis University Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University James Pustejowsky Brandeis University Ralph Grishman New York University Christiane Fellbaum Princeton University PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATTING GUIDELINES: Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. HARD COPIES: Three hard copies should be sent to: Paola Velardi Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Informazione via Salaria 113 00198 Roma Italy ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or Word per Mac or RTF. An ftp site will be available on demand. Authors should send an info email to Paola Velardi (velardiMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue