Corpora: NAACL-2001 Workshop on Adapting Lexical Resources CFP

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

We are pleased to announce the following ACL sponsored workshop.



                   NAACL 2001 Workshop

              Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg

                    3 or 4 June 2001

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               - Adapting Lexical Resources -

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	    http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~marks/wshop


Lexical resources have become important basic tools within NLP and

related fields. The range of resources available to the researcher is

diverse and vast - from simple word lists to complex MRDs and

thesauruses. The resources contain a whole range of different types of

linguistic information presented in different formats and at varying

levels of granularity. Also, much information is left implicit in the

description, e.g. the definition of lexical entries.



The majority of resources used by NLP researchers were not intended

for computational uses. For instance, WordNet was an experiment in

modelling the mental lexicon and MRDs are a by-product of the

dictionary publishing industry. The reasons for using these resources

are simple: they are available (and in the case of WordNet, free). The

cost of lexicon building is high and few research sites have the

resources or inclination to carry out what Johnston called the

"mindless drudgery" of manual lexicography.



The alternative is to adapt existing resources to particular

computational tasks. This workshop is concerned with automatic methods

for carrying out this process. We are particularly interested in

papers related to the following topics:



        - adapting resources to by making them reflect the lexical

	  coverage within a particular domain



        - adapting resources for particular applications

          (e.g. information extraction, machine translation, question

	  answering, information retrieval)



        - augmenting the information in a resource

          (e.g. adding extra word senses, enriching the information

           associated with the existing entries)



        - improving the consistency or quality of resources by e.g.

	  merging resources, homogenizing lexical descriptions,

	  making implicit lexical knowledge explicit and clustering

	  word senses



	- combining the information in more than one resource e.g. by

	  producing a mapping between their senses



The overall aim of this workshop is to build up a picture of the current

state-of-the-art techniques for automatically modifying lexicons. This

picture will allow the NLP community to make more effective and

efficient use of the lexical resources currently available.





Important Dates

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26 January 2001  Deadline for submission of papers

16 February      Notification of acceptance

 1 March         Camera-ready copies due

3 or 4 June         Workshop







Submissions

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We invite contributions of original research related to any of the

topics of the workshop. Paper submissions should be no longer than

3000 words (including references) and should use the appropriate ACL

latex style or Microsoft Word style. You can download the appropriate style

or template files using the following links:



Latex

	style sheet file

	http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl2001sub.sty

	bibliography file

	http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/acl.bst

	sample latex file

	http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.tex

	sample bibliography file

	http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/samplesub.bib



Microsoft Word Template file

http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/naacl01/naacl-2001-sub.dot







Preferred submission format is as an electronic file sent to

wim at dcs.shef.ac.uk by the 26th of January. Alternatively, three

hardcopies may be sent to the following address to arrive by the same

date:



Wim Peters,

Room G36b,

Department of Computer Science,

Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street,

University of Sheffield,

Sheffield S1 4DP

United Kingdom







Workshop Organisers

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Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University





Programme Committee

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(confirmed so far)



Robert Krovetz, NEC

Wim Peters, Sheffield University

Mark Stevenson, Sheffield University

Piek Vossen, Sail Labs

Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University