LINGUIST List 16.540

Wed Feb 23 2005

Calls: Ling Theories/USA; Computational Ling/Romania

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        1.    Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure
        2.    Diana Inkpen, Eurolan 2005 Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop

Message 1: Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure

 Date: 22-Feb-2005
From: Anna Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca>
Subject: Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure


Full Title: Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure

Date: 01-Jul-2005 - 01-Jul-2005
Location: Cambridge, MA, United States of America
Contact Person: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Meeting Email: di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca
Web Site: http://


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2005

Meeting Description:

Meeting Description: Issues on the Form and Interpretation of Argument Structure
LSA Linguistic Institute Workshop
Cambridge, MA
July 1, 2005

The proper characterization of argument structure is a central question in
linguistic theory. One can contrast a projectionist approach according to
which verbs lexically determine the expression of their arguments, to a
constructionist approach according to which argument structure is constructed
in the syntax rather than being lexically determined. Alongside these
approaches one can also distinguish what has been referred to as the
Davidsonian tradition emphasizing the importance of events.

Notwithstanding the substantial progress achieved, several aspects of the
properties of arguments structure and their legibility at the semantic
interface are yet to be fully understood. The purpose of this workshop is thus
to address questions on the form and the interpretation of argument structure
from different theoretical perspectives and to raise the question of whether a
novel integrated approach can be envisioned.

Invited Speakers:
Hagit Borer (USC)
Adele Goldberg (Princeton)
Angelika Kratzer (UMASS)
Beth Levin (Stanford)
Liina Pylkkanen (NYU)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis)
Carol Tenny (Carnegie Mellon)

Call for papers:
Abstracts are invited for thirty-minute talks (twenty minutes for presentation
plus ten minutes for discussion). Send abstracts by e-mail to:
di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca before March 1st 2005. Abstracts should be
attached in plain text format or as Word files and should be no longer than
one page plus one page for examples and references. The author's information
(name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address) together with the
title of the paper should be in a separate file or included as part of the
body of the e-mail message.

Deadline:
All submissions must be received by March 1st 2005
Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed by April 15th 2005

Sponsors:
SSHRC, MCRI on Interface Asymmetry,
The Federation on Natural Language Processing

Organizers:
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, Calixto Aguero-Bautista, Marcin Morzycki
UQAM

Message 2: Eurolan 2005 Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop

 Date: 22-Feb-2005
From: Diana Inkpen <dianasite.uolttawa.ca>
Subject: Eurolan 2005 Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop


Full Title: Eurolan 2005 Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop

Date: 25-Jul-2005 - 06-Aug-2005
Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Contact Person: Diana Inkpen
Web Site:
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Call Deadline: 05-May-2005

Meeting Description:

Cross-Language Knowledge Induction Workshop

International Workshop held as part of the Eurolan 2005 Summer School

25 July - 6 August, 2005, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Website:
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~diana/Eurolan2005KnowledgeInductionWorkshop.htm

Knowledge of words and text behavior in other languages has recently been used
to help solving tasks in a first language. An example of such a task is word
sense disambiguation by using translations in a second language. Another
example is verb classification by studying properties of verbs in several
languages.

A second modality of knowledge transfer across languages is to take advantage
of resources already built for English and for a few other resource-rich
languages. These resources have been used to induce knowledge in languages for
which few linguistic resources are available. This was made possible by the
wider availability of parallel corpora (better alignment methods at paragraph,
sentence, and word level). Examples of knowledge induction tasks are: learning
morphology, part-of-speech tags, and grammatical gender. The development of
wordnets for many languages used as a starting point knowledge transfer from
the Princeton WordNet.

This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names in the
field and researchers involved in cross-language applications. We would like to
invite researchers, master and Ph.D. students, to submit their original and
unpublished work to the workshop.

Special consideration will be given to papers for which one of the languages
involved in the knowledge transfer is an East-European language. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

* applications that exploit parallel corpora (aligned at paragraph, sentence,
or word level).
* induction of knowledge from a language for which resources are abundant to
another language for which fewer resources are available.
* using other languages to solve a task in a first language:
- word-sense disambiguation by using translations in other languages.
- verb classification by studying verb properties in several languages.
- other tasks of this kind
* identifying and using cognate words between languages.
* building wordnets by knowledge transfer.
* exploiting multi-language wordnets for NLP applications.

Submission Requirements

Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages extended abstract in electronic form
(pdf only) by 5th of May 2005. Authors of accepted papers should submit the
final version in electronic format not later than 20th of June. The final
version must be in pdf format. If you have problems delivering your paper in
pdf format, please contact the organizing committee. We can assist you with
converting from Word format into pdf format. If your paper is a ps file, please
convert into pdf and make sure all the fonts are included. The maximum length
of the paper should be 8 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as
ACL-2005. The instructions can be found at
http://www.aclweb.org/acl2005/index.php?stylefiles. Please do not insert page
numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem following the style please
contact the organizing committee as soon as possible. All the papers should be
sent to dianasite.uottawa.ca

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: 5th May 2005
Notification of Acceptance: 5th June 2005
Camera-ready Papers: 20th June 2005

Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged.

Registration:

People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered at the Eurolan 2005
School (http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005). Participation to the workshop
is open to all Eurolan 2005 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be
made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the
workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register.

Programme Committee:
Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain)
Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, US)
Mona Diab (Columbia University, US)
Lluis Marquez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
Joel Martin (National Research Council of Canada)
Rada Mihalcea (University of North Texas, US)
Viviana Nastase (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, US)
Emanuele Pianta (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)
Philip Resnik (University of Maryland, US)
Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France)
Michel Simard (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
Suzanne Stevenson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Amalia Todirascu (Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania)
Nikolai Vazov (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)


Organizing committee:
Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Carlo Strapparava (ITC-IRST, Povo-Trento, Italy)

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