LINGUIST List 9.91

Tue Jan 20 1998

FYI: Semantics, Phonology, Computational Linguistics

Editor for this issue: Anita Huang <anitalinguistlist.org>

Directory

  • WLSS98, Change of Deadline
  • Davisjos, Functional Phonology
  • Priscilla Rasmussen, Computational Linguistics

    Message 1: Change of Deadline

     Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:18:17 +0000
    From: WLSS98 <wlss98alphalinguistica.sns.it>
    Subject: Change of Deadline


    CHANGE OF DATE AND EXTENDED DEADLINE

    - ----------------------------------------------------------- WLSS98 II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS Pisa, 6-7 April 1998 Scuola Normale Superiore - -----------------------------------------------------------

    DEADLINE: 20 February 1998

    Organized by CELI, ILC, ITC-IRST and Scuola Normale Superiore With the support of University of Pisa and Xerox Research Centre Europe ----------------------------- http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98 ---------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS (provisional list) Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Ewan Klein (University of Edimburgh) Hinrich Schuetze (Rank Xerox) -----------------------------------------------

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    WLSS98 is organized by Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio ed Informazione (CELI), Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale (ILC), Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia (ITC-IRST) and Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), and will take place in Pisa on the 6-7 April 1998.

    WLSS workshops aim at bringing together Italian and international scholars, active in both theoretical and applicative domains of research in lexical semantics, with the goals of:

    - providing an overview of the state of the art and exchanging information on ongoing and planned activities;

    - bridging the gap and enhance the trade-off between theoretical models of lexical knowledge and applications in NLP systems.

    These goals are justified:

    - by the increasingly central position that lexical knowledge, and in particular lexical semantics, is assuming within the general architecture of cognitive systems, both as a dynamic module which interact with other non-linguistic sources of knowledge, and as a component playing a major role in interfacing syntax and semantics;

    - by the fact that lexical resources (such as tagged corpora, computational dictionaries, Machine Readable Dictionaries, WordNets) are among the most crucial aspects of practical NLP systems. Issues concerning the structure, the representation, the development, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge are thus of the uttermost importance when building NLP systems. Lexical systems also play a crucial role in the design and construction of multilingual systems, a key feature at least for applications designed to operate in a distributed, non- centralized environment such as the World Wide Web.

    This second edition of WLSS will focus on the portability and reusability of lexical systems, and on the issue of word sense disambiguation and semantic tagging. We also encourage the submission of papers concerning more general issues about linguistic lexical semantics and its interaction with computational lexicography.

    Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks. Here follows a non- exhaustive list of topics which could be addressed:

    * Lexical resources for semantic tagging and word sense disambiguation. * Use of lexicons and thesauruses to improve information retrieval / extraction techniques. * Automatic acquisition and management of lexical resources. * Reusability and tuning of existing lexical resources for novel tasks. * Trade offs between generic and domain specific lexical resources. * Multilingual lexical resources. * Description and evaluation of existing tools and systems. * Evaluation of different representation formats. * Issues in computational lexical semantics and computational lexicography. * Issues in the design, construction and use of lexical resources. * Architecture for a cognitive plausible lexicon * Lexical representation and the interface with syntactic processes



    ** CHANGE ** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ** CHANGE **

    Only electronic submissions are accepted. Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length, in Postscript or ASCII format, and should be sent to the following address:

    wlss98celi.sns.it.

    Separate information should be sent, including the title of the talk, author's name, address and affiliation. Submissions must be limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint abstract per author. The deadline is: 20 February 1998. The Program Committee intends to publish a selection of the papers presented at the conference.



    ** CHANGE ** IMPORTANT DATES ** CHANGE **

    Submission of abstracts: 20 February 1998 Notification of acceptance: 9 March 1998 Conference: 6-7 April 1998

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Pier Marco Bertinetto (Scuola Normale Superiore) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC) Luca Dini(CELI) Vittorio Di Tomaso (CELI) Alessandro Lenci (Scuola Normale Superiore) Bernardo Magnini (IRST) Fabio Pianesi (IRST) Frederique Segond (XRCE) Antonio Zampolli (ILC)

    CONTACT PERSONS

    For every further information please contact the conference secretariat:

    Vittorio Di Tomaso CELI ditomasosns.it

    Alessandro Lenci Scuola Normale Superiore lencialphalinguistica.sns.it

    Scuola Normale Superiore Laboratorio di linguistica Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 PISA (Italy)

    Tel. +39 50 509219 Fax: +39 50 563513

    More information on the Workshop and a copy of this call for papers is available on the Web at the following address:

    http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98

    Message 2: Functional Phonology

     Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:08:37 EST
    From: Davisjos <Davisjosaol.com>
    Subject: Functional Phonology


    On Jan. 9 Victor Vazquez Martinez asked for information about phonology practiced in a spirit similar to functional grammar. One source I'd suggest is a new book by Yishai Tobin, "Phonology as Human Behavior: Theoretical Implications and Clinical Applications," Duke University Press.

    Joseph Davis City College of New York

    Message 3: Computational Linguistics

     Date: Tue, 20 Jan 98 12:00:53 EST
    From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmussecs.rutgers.edu>
    Subject: Computational Linguistics




    Association for Computational Linguistics 1998 MEMBERSHIP, CHANGE OF ADDRESS AND EMAIL, AND ORDER FORM

    It is time to renew membership (or begin membership) in the ACL for 1998. You may obtain the 1998 ACL Membership and Order form by contacting one of the addresses below or refer to the ACL web pages. We will be very happy to answer any inquiries regarding the benefits of ACL membership and the many ACL publications available. To contact ACL, send email to aclbellcore.com - note that after February 1st, a new address should be used: aclaclweb.org.

    Priscilla Rasmussen Assoc. for Comp. Ling. Dr. Michael Rosner P.O. Box 6090 Dept. Computer Science & AI Somerset, NJ 08875 USA University of Malta +732-873-3898 phone; Msida, MALTA +732-873-0014 fax +356-32-90-25-04 phone; aclbellcore.com (prior to 2/1/98) +356-32-05-39 fax aclaclweb.org (after 2/1/98) mroscs.um.edu.mt