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Wed Mar 15 2006

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Message 1: EACL 2006 Workshop Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions
Date: 13-Mar-2006
From: Beata Trawinski <trawinskisfs.uni-tuebingen.de>
Subject: EACL 2006 Workshop Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions



EACL 2006 Workshop Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions Short Title: SIGSEM Prep 2006


Date: 03-Apr-2006 - 03-Apr-2006 Location: Trento, Italy Contact: Beata Trawinski Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics

Meeting Description:

The Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions will be hosted in conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on April 3, 2006, in Trento, Italy.

REGISTRATION

Information on registration can be found at: http://eacl06.itc.it/registration.htm

BACKGROUND

Prepositions have received a considerable amount of attention in recent years, due to their importance in computational tasks. For instance, in NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention, and different machine learning techniques have been employed with varying degrees of success. Researchers from various perspectives have also looked at spatial or temporal aspects of prepositions, and their cross-linguistic differences, monolingual and cross-linguistic contrasts or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations. Moreover, in languages like English and German, phrasal verbs have also been the subject of considerable effort, ranging from techniques for their automatic extraction from corpora, to methods for the determination of their semantics. In other languages, like Romance languages or Hindi, the focus has been either on the incorporation of the preposition or its inclusion in the prepositional phrase. All these configurations are of much interest semantically as well as syntactically.

PROGRAM

08.55 - 09.00 Opening

09.00 - 09.30 Spatial Prepositions in Context: The Semantics of 'near' in the Presence of Distractor Objects Fintan J. Costello and John D. Kelleher

09.30 - 10.00 Polish Equivalents of Spatial 'at' Iwona Knas

10.00 - 10.20 A Quantitative Approach to Preposition-Pronoun Contraction in Polish Beata Trawinski

10.20 - 10.40 Marked Adpositions Sander Lestrade

10.40 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30 Semantic Interpretation of Prepositions for NLP Applications Sven Hartrumpf, Hermann Helbig and Rainer Osswald

11.30 - 12.00 Coverage and Inheritance in The Preposition Project Kenneth C. Litkowski and Orin Hargraves

12.00 - 12.20 An Ontology Based View on Prepositional Senses Tine Lassen

12.20 - 12.40 A Conceptual Analysis of the Notion of Instrumentality via a Multilingual Analysis Asanee Kawtrakul, Mukda Suktarachan, Bali Ranaivo-Malancon, Pek Kuan, Achla Raina, Sudeshna Sarkar, Alda Mari, Sina Zarriess, Elixabete Murguia, Patrick Saint-Dizier

12.40 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Panel discussion: Prepositions and Multiword Expression Compositionality

Panelists:

Sabine Schulte im Walde (Saarland University): The Syntax-Semantics Interface for German Particle Verbs

Valia Kordoni (Saarland University): PPs as Verbal Arguments: From a Computational Semantics Perspective

Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne): Representing and Modelling the Lexical Semantics of English Verb Particle Constructions

15.00 - 15.30 German Particle Verbs and Pleonastic Prepositions Ines Rehbein

15.30 - 16.00 Automatic Identification of English Verb Particle Constructions using Linguistic Features Su Nam Kim and Timothy Baldwin

16.00 - 16.20 Coffee break

16.20 - 16.50 On the Prepositions which Introduce an Adjunct of Duration Frank Van Eynde

16.50 - 17.20 How Bad is the Problem of PP-Attachment? A Comparison of English, German and Swedish Martin Volk

17.20 - 17.40 Handling of Prepositions in English to Bengali Machine Translation Sudip Kumar Naskar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay

17.40 - 18.10 Closing Remarks and Business Meeting

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Doug Arnold (University of Essex, UK) Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia) John Beavers (Stanford University, USA) Bob Borsley (University of Essex, UK) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy) Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK) Markus Egg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany) Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Tracy Holloway King (PARC, USA) Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany) Ken Litkowski (CL Research, USA) Alda Mari (CNRS / ENST Infres, France) Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, France) Beata Trawinski (University of Tübingen, Germany) Jesse Tseng (Loria, France) Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University and DFKI) Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Martin Volk (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden) Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands) Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia) Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/

Conference web page http://eacl06.itc.it/

EACL 2006 Workshops site http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/

CONTACT INFORMATION prep-eacl2006unimelb.edu.au