LINGUIST List 14.132

Wed Jan 15 2003

Calls: Lexicon&Figurative Language/Text&Discourse

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  • A.M.Wallington, Lexicon and Figurative Language, Sapporo Japan
  • luakt, Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid Spain

    Message 1: Lexicon and Figurative Language, Sapporo Japan

     Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:45:46 +0000
    From: A.M.Wallington <A.M.Wallingtoncs.bham.ac.uk>
    Subject: Lexicon and Figurative Language, Sapporo Japan


    Workshop on The Lexicon and Figurative Language

    Location: Sapporo Japan Date: 11-Jul-2003 - 11-Jul-2003 Call Deadline: 13-May-2003

    Web Site: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/ACLWorkshop.html Contact Person: Alan Wallington Meeting Email: A.M.Wallingtoncs.bham.ac.uk Linguistic Subfield(s): Computational Linguistics

    This is a session of the following conference: 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The use of figurative language, such as metaphor and metonymy, in normal discourse poses considerable problems for treatments of word-sense disambiguation that simply list all the possible senses of a word. A major theme of the workshop will be to consider alternative approaches. However, we also seek papers computationally address any other aspects of figurative langauge.



    The Lexicon and Figurative Language

    July 11 2003, Sapporo, Japan

    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~amw/ACLWorkshop.html

    Post-Conference Workshop as part of ACL 2003

    http://www.ec-inc.co.jp/ACL2003/

    Call for Papers

    Workshop Description

    The problem of word-sense disambiguation is currently one of the central concerns of natural language processing. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that WordNet type approaches that list the different polysemous senses of a word without saying anything about how they relate to each other lead to considerable problems. Novel uses of words occur frequently and the problem is particularly acute when figurative language is being used. Figurative language is pervasive in normal discourse, but the source meaning of a word being used metaphorically is often far removed from the intended, target, meaning.

    One possibility is not to just list all the different senses but to have fewer senses and employ a different mechanism for generating new senses and treating the relations between them. The Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky 1995) assumes a structure to the lexicon and much richer representations that determine how different senses combine in context. Whilst some success has been achieved with some of the more simple cases of metonymy, the question of how well the approach copes with metaphor is open to debate. Furthermore, the distinction between metonymy and metaphor is not always easy to make.

    An alternative would be to treat computationally the claim from Cognitive Linguistics that metaphor is not a matter of linguistic expression. Instead, the meanings of many different words are best related in terms of an underlying conceptual metaphor. However, if metaphor is a cognitive rather than a linguistic phenomenon, and word senses are related solely in terms of their underlying conceptual domains, then this implies that there need be no structure specifically in the lexicon. Instead the lexicon can be a list of items, but metaphorical extensions of words would not be listed as a matter of course. The list approach is compatible with WordNet approaches, but puts the approach in conflict with that of the generative lexicon, and so the question is raised as to how much structure is needed in the lexicon in order to cope with figurative language.

    We therefore have three different approaches to the lexicon and the problems that figurative language poses for word-sense disambiguation, and the major theme of this workshop is to explore means for tackling these problems, particularly means that could be used in practical NLP applications.

    However, papers that computationally address other aspects of figurative language will also be welcomed. In particular, since word meanings do not come marked with the information that they are metaphorical, metonymical, or not, papers that address the issue of how to distinguish literal from non-literal language will be very welcome, especially if this can be done automatically. Likewise, much work on figurative language has relied on intuitions and handcrafted relations, and in this respect research on figurative language has lagged behind recent work in the rest of computational linguistics. Consequently, there is an urgent need for computational corpus studies of figurative language.

    The relationship between discourse issues and figurative language, such as the interaction of anaphora and metonymy has been addressed in the past, but more studies are needed using other types of figurative language such as metaphor. Indeed the issue of how metaphor and metonymy relate to each other may benefit from computational study. There has been some work (notably by Dan Fass and Jerry Hobbs) on bringing them into a common computational framework, but this is largely with the aim of coping with mixtures rather helping with the other problems.

    Submission

    Please submit full papers of maximum 8 pages (including references, figures etc). Authors should follow the main conference ACL style format. Electronic submission only. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., ''We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...''. Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

    Send the pdf, postscript, or MS Word form of your submission to: Alan Wallington (A.M.Wallingtoncs.bham.ac.uk ), who will also answer any queries regarding the submission.

    Important Dates

    * Submission deadline for workshop papers: 13 April 2003 * Notification of accepted papers: 14 May 2003 * Deadline for camera ready copies: 29 May 2003 * Workshop date: 11 July 2003

    Workshop Organizers

    John Barnden School of Computer Science J.A.Barndencs.bham.ac.uk University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT U.K. Sheila Glasbey School of Computer Science S.R.Glasbeycs.bham.ac.uk University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT U.K. Mark Lee School of Computer Science M.G.Leecs.bham.ac.uk University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT U.K. Alan Wallington School of Computer Science A.M.Wallingtoncs.bham.ac.uk University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT U.K.

    Program Committee

    * John Barnden: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. * Tony Berber Sardinha: LAEL, Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil * Dan Fass: School of Computing Science and the Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada. * Josef van Genabith: Computer Applications Department, Dublin City University, Ireland. * Sheila Glasbey: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. * Adam Kilgarriff: Information technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK. * Mark Lee: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. * Katja Markert: Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh, UK. * James Martin: Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. * Alan Wallington: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK. * Tony Veale: Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. * Carl Vogel: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. * Yorick Wilks: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK.

    REGISTRATION

    Workshop registration information will be posted at a later date. The registration fee will include attendance at the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings.

    Further Information

    Alan Wallington School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B152TT, UK.

    phone: (+44)(0)121 4142795 email: A.M.Wallingtoncs.bham.ac.uk fax: (+44) (0)121 4144281

    Message 2: Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid Spain

     Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:16:13 +0000
    From: luakt <luaktcomp.nus.edu.sg>
    Subject: Society for Text and Discourse, Madrid Spain




    13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse

    Short Title: ST&D 13 Location: Madrid, Spain Date: 26-JUN-03 - 28-JUN-03

    Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2003

    Web Site: http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/index.htm Contact Person: Jose A. Le�n Meeting Email: std-madrid2003uam.es

    Linguistic Subfield(s): Discourse Analysis, Text/Corpus Linguistics

    Meeting Description:

    The Society for Text and Discourse will hold its Thirteenth Annual Meeting at the Tryp Reina Victoria Hotel in Madrid, Spain, from Thursday through Saturday, June 26-28, 2003. The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society of Singapore is pleased to announce that the Oriental COCOSDA 2003 will be held in Singapore on June 24-26, 2003. This meeting will be held concurrently with the 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 17)

    COCOSDA is an international workshop held annually by the oriental chapter of The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques for Speech Input/Output. The first preparatory meeting was held in Hong Kong and then the past five workshops were held in Japan, Taiwan, China Mainland, Korea and Thailand.

    Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to:

    speech databases and corpora assessment of speech technologies speech input and output phonetic systems for oriental languages segmentation and labeling speech models and systems multilingual speech corpora special topics on speech databases and assessments any other relevant topics.

    Paper should be submitted electronically to website http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/cgi-bin/journal/Review1.exe. Please register as a user first. In case of difficulties, you may also submit you paper as an e-mail attachment to: luaktcomp.nus.edu.sg.

    The maximum length of a paper is 20 A4-sized pages, 11pt, double-spaced throughout. For e-mail submission, the first page of the submitted paper should bear the following information: the title of the paper, the name(s) of the author(s), affiliations, mailing address, and email address for correspondence. Acceptable file formats are PostScript (.ps), Portable Document Format (.pdf), MS Word (.doc), and plain text. Please separate the first page from the main body of the paper so that it can be reviewed anonymously. There is no need to include this page if your paper is submitted electronically to our web cgi, because you would have entered all these to our computer system when you register as a user.

    General, we do not accept hard copy submission for this conference. Hard copy will only be accepted under extreme condition. Please email luaktcomp.nus.edu.sg for assistance.

    Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Suitable papers may also be considered to be included in a special issue of our Journal of Chinese Language and Computing.

    IMPORTANT DATES:

    Paper submission due: March 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance: April 1 2003 Final Manuscript: April 15, 2003 Early Bird registration: May 15, 2003 Deadline for Conference Registration: June 10, 2003

    For further information, please contact:

    Associate Professor. Kim-Teng Lua, School of Computing, National University of Singapore 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543 E-mail: luaktcomp.nus.edu.sg Phone: 6874-2782, Fax: 6779-4580

    Oriental COCOSDA 2003 workshop home page: http://cslp.comp.nus.edu.sg/colips/conference/cocosda2003/index.htm