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Roxana_Girju, Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004)

Michael Ullman, Cortex special issue on Broca's area

Message 1: Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004)

Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:29:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Roxana_Girju <Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu>
Subject: Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004)

Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004) Short Title: CLS

Date: 06-May-2004 - 07-May-2004 Location: Boston, MA, United States of America Contact: Roxana Girju Contact Email: Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu Meeting URL: http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html

Linguistic Sub-field: Computational Linguistics Subject Language: English Call Deadline: 02-Feb-2004

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004) Final Call for Papers and Participation

!! Deadline extended: February 2nd, 2004 !!

Computational Lexical Semantics Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2004 (http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html) May 6, 2004 The Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA

Workshop Lexical semantics is the study of word semantic properties in context and it is at the core of NLP and many of its applications. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in text semantics fueled in part by the complexity of some major research initiatives, such as Question Answering, Text Summarization, Machine Translation, Information Extraction, Reasoning, and others. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia, government, and industry interested in text understanding, lexical semantics, knowledge representation, question answering, information retrieval, machine translation, and speech processing to submit papers reporting on recent advances and new perspectives in computational lexical semantics, including but not limited to the following topics:

* semantically based language models; * information retrieval using semantics; * complex nominals - acquisition and interpretation; * polysemy and sense boundaries; * semantic roles and other semantic relations; * verb semantic classes and alternations; * semantics of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions; * metonymy and metaphor; * the role of context in lexical semantics; * representation issues in lexical semantics; * tools and resources; * evaluation of systems; Papers describing applications of natural language, speech understanding, and information retrieval that use lexical semantics are especially welcome.

Important Dates:

Monday, Feb. 2, 2004 Paper submission deadline (!! Extended !!) Monday, Feb. 23, 2004 Notification of acceptance Monday, March 1, 2004 Camera ready version deadline Thursday, May 6, 2004 Workshop

Workshop Format:

The desired workshop length is one day of approximately 6 hours of paper presentations. We expect to accept between 15 - 18 papers (20 - 30 minutes / paper).

Submission Format:

The papers should be of maximum 8 pages (including references) submitted in electronic form (ps or pdf) following the style provided by the HLT/NAACL-04 conference. All submissions must be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). The papers should be attached to an email indicating the contact authors, paper's title, and appropriate subject areas under which the paper can be classified. Please submit the papers via email to Roxana Girju (Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu).

Program Committee:

Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas (Co-chair) Roxana Girju Baylor University, USA (Co-chair) Jade Goldstein DoD, USA Vasileios Hatzivassiloglu Columbia University, USA Marti Hearst U.C. Berkeley, USA Mirella Lapata University of Sheffield, UK Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA John Prange ARDA, USA James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA Carol Van Ess-Dykema DoD, USA

Contact:

Interested participants should send their questions to Roxana Girju (Roxana_Girjubaylor.edu).

Message 2: Cortex special issue on Broca's area

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 12:01:32 -0500
From: Michael Ullman <michaelgeorgetown.edu>
Subject: Cortex special issue on Broca's area

Cortex special issue on Broca's area

Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System & Behavior

Special Issue: INTEGRATIVE MODELS OF BROCA'S AREA AND THE VENTRAL PREMOTOR CORTEX

Guest Editors:

Ricarda I. Schubotz (schubotzcns.mpg.de) Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience; PO Box500 355; D-04303Leipzig; Germany

Christian J. Fiebach (christianfiebach.org) Department of Psychology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute; University of California, Berkeley; 4143 Tolman Hall; Berkeley, CA 94720-5050; USA

Deadline for submission: March 31, 2004

We are pleased to announce a special issue of Cortex focusing on Broca's area and the ventral premotor cortex. Today, it is without doubt that Broca's area is involved in language processing, but also in several other domains including working memory, music processing, action perception and execution, and imitation. Broca's area shares many functional and anatomical features with the neighboring ventral premotor cortex, and both have been suggested as regions serving the integration of sensory and motor events. The challenge for modern cognitive neuroscience is to formulate models capable of accounting for the domain-general nature of these brain areas. The present special issue provides a platform for discussing such integrative models of the functioning of Broca's area and the ventral premotor cortex. This special issue was inspired by a workshop recently held at the Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience which brought together researchers in the field of cognitive neuroscience addressing the topics of action processing and language (see http://www.cns.mpg.de/brocapmc).

We welcome the submission of original research papers which employ functional neuroimaging techniques to target functions of Broca's area and/or the ventral premotor cortex.

Please send your intention to submit by February 15, 2004 to: schubotzcns.mpg.de.

Please note: 1. Cortex has new Editors (Sergio Della Sala, Aberdeen, UK and Jordan Grafman, Bethesda, USA). 2. This special issue will be made into a hard cover book with proper ISBN. 3. Color figures are printed at no cost for authors (within reasonable limits). 4. Cortex provides free access to electronic on-line versions of Cortex (www.cortex-online.org), which guarantees a wider audience.