LINGUIST List 17.2174
Fri Jul 28 2006
Calls: Computational Linguistics
Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins
<marialinguistlist.org>
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1. Aline
Villavicencio,
Computational Linguistics
Message 1: Computational Linguistics
Date: 24-Jul-2006
From: Aline Villavicencio <avillavicencioinf.ufrgs.br>
Subject: Computational Linguistics
Full Title: Computational Linguistics
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 31-Jul-2006
Third Call for Papers for Special Issue of Computational Linguistics onPrepositions in Applications
Submission deadline: July 31, 2006
Guest Editors
Aline VillavicencioFederal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Valia KordoniSaarland University and DFKI GmbH, Germany
Timothy BaldwinUniversity of Melbourne, Australia and NICTA Victoria Research Labs
Contents:
1. The Special Issue2. Topics of Interest3. Submission Information
1. The Special Issue
The special issue will concentrate on the theoretical aspects ofcomputational research on prepositions. Due to their importance incomputational tasks prepositions, and related constructions have received aconsiderable amount of attention and occupied a central position inresearch in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Language Technology (LT),Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), as well asComputational Psycholinguistics (CP).
Despite increasing awareness of the importance of prepositions in NLPtasks, very little progress has been made in systematically describingpreposition semantics.The only account of the lexical semantics of prepositions in resources suchas WordNet is indirect, in that they feature in significant numbers withinmultiwordexpressions or as frame elements. If prepositions are to be incorporatedinto such resources as first-order entities, a large number of issues mustbe resolved. Ourexpectation is that such questions will be guided by careful analysis ofwhat semantic distinctions and representational granularity are required ina range ofapplications, which will in turn be guided by such research as therepresentation of prepositions within implemented grammars, crosslingualpreposition semantics,machine perception and visualisation of preposition semantics, andcomputational models of the human processing of prepositions.
2. Topics of Interest
We invite submissions that bring a theoretical basis to research onprepositions in lexical resources and NLP tasks of the sort describedabove. We focus on the syntactic and semantic treatment of productive andcollocational uses of prepositional phrases and markers in resources suchas WordNet and FrameNet, and theutilization of such resources in NLP tasks,such as Machine Translation.
* Extraction of Prepositions:
Extraction of prepositions and related constructions including theirsubcategorisation frames and alternation patterns, as are necessary for thesemi-automatic extension of lexical resources.
* Representation of Prepositions in Lexical Resources:
The challenges of providing adequate representation of prepositions andrelated constructions such as would be generally applicable in NLPapplications.
* Prepositions in Applications:
The role of prepositions in NLP tasks, focusing specifically on whatinsights various applications offer for lexical resource building, whatparticular needs different application areas have, necessary extensions toexisting resources, and how prepositional lexical resources of varioustypes could enhance performance over a given task like MT and QA.
3. Submission Information
Deadline for paper submissions: July 31, 2006.
All submissions will be subject to the normal peer review process for thisjournal. Submissions are to be done electronically in pdf format, bysending the paper to the editors at the following email address:
cl-prepunimelb.edu.au
Papers must conform to the Computational Linguistics specifications, whichare available at:
http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/compling/style.html
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