IWCS-5 2nd Call for Papers/Special Event/Invited Speakers

Harry Bunt Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
Wed Jun 26 14:50:25 UTC 2002


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                    Fifth International Workshop on

                        COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                             (IWCS-5)

             January 15-17, 2003, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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                             Endorsed by
    SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics
         SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon
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 |                          SPECIAL EVENT                         |
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 |  On Tuesday January 14, the day before the start of IWCS-5,    |
 |  the first meeting will take place of the SIGSEM Working Group |
 |  on Multimodal Meaning Representation (see www.sigsem.org).    |
 |  All IWCS-5 participants are invited to attend this meeting.   |
 |  More information about the meeting will soon be available on  |
 |  the SIGSEM and IWCS-5 websites.                               |
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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

Tilburg University will host the Fifth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-5), which will take place from 15-17
January 2003. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language, in language-based multimedia objects,
or in multimodal messages.


                          TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects of
semantic theories and theoretical issues in building natural language
understanding systems. Papers are invited in areas which include, but
are not limited to, the following:

  * construction and use of natural language semantic representations
  * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation
  * learning lexical semantics from corpora
  * meaning representation in multimodal interaction
  * the semantic web, ontologies and natural language semantics
  * meaning in multimedia objects
  * the computational semantics-pragmatics interface
  * modelling and using context for semantic interpretation
  * computational semantics of speech acts
  * logic and use of underspecified representations of meaning
  * monotonicity and shallow reasoning in interpretation
  * dynamic interpretation in text, speech and dialogue
  * inductive logic programming and computational semantics
  * semantic aspects of language generation
  * shallow processing and formal semantics


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                    |     INVITED SPEAKERS         |
                    |                              |
                    |         Pat Hayes            |
                    |      Adam Kilgariff          |
                    |   Michiel van Lambalgen      |
                    |      Matthew Stone           |
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                         PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

              Patrick Blackburn      Emiel Krahmer
              Johan Bos              Alex Lascarides
              Harry Bunt (chair)     Reinhard Muskens
              Nicoletta Calzolari    Martha Palmer
              Robin Cooper           Manfred Pinkal
              Kees van Deemter       Steve Pulman
              Jan van Eijck          James Pustejovsky
              Frank van Harmelen     Allan Ramsay
              Pat Hayes              Laurent Romary
              Jerry Hobbs            Patrick Saint Dizier
              Daniel Kayser          Mark Steedman
              Paul Mc Kevitt         Enric Vallduvi
              Adam Kilgariff         Bonnie Webber


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

              Harry Bunt             Reinhard Muskens
              Yann Girard            Ielka van der Sluis
              Emiel Krahmer          Elias Thijsse
              Roser Morante


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Submission of full papers
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Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 14 pages by
September 15, 2002. Files should be prepared with LaTeX and initial
submissions should be in postscript format. (For accepted papers we
will need the LaTeX source code to prepare the proceedings.) The page
limit presupposes the standard 11 point Computer Modern font and
default LaTeX formatting. All papers will be refereed by the programme
committee. We aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book
form after the workshop.

Email your postscript file to: computational.semantics at kub.nl

There are two levels of acceptance:
- Acceptance for a long (30 min.) presentation. The full paper will be
  published in the proceedings, available at the time of the workshop.
- Acceptance for a flash (5 min.) presentation in a plenary session
  plus presentation of a poster in one of the poster sessions. Authors
  will be invited to publish a 3-page abstract in the proceedings.

Submission of poster abstracts
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It is also possible to directly submit a 3-page abstract for a flash
presentation and a poster session. The abstract should be prepared
with LaTeX (11 point Computer Modern, default formatting). Email to
computational.semantics at kub.nl the resulting postscript file by 1
November 2002.

Further guidelines
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Since we will use the LaTeX source code of accepted papers and poster
abstracts for producing the proceedings, please follow the further
guidelines for submission at the IWCS-5 website:

http://let.kub.nl/research/TI/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs5/index.htm


                           IMPORTANT DATES

         15 September  2002 Submission of full papers
         15 October    2002 Notification of acceptance
         1  November   2002 Submission of poster abstracts
         15 November   2002 Final papers due
         15 December   2002 Deadline for early registration
         15-17 January 2003 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

Secretariat: Ms Anne Adriaensen
             Computational Linguistics and AI
             Tilburg University
             PO Box 90153
             5000 LE Tilburg
             The Netherlands
             Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10
             Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
             Email: computational.semantics at kub.nl

Website: http://let.kub.nl/research/TI/sigsem/iwcs/iwcs5/index.htm

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IWCS-5 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL Special Interest Group in
Computational Semantics (see http://www.sigsem.org)
and by SIGLEX, the ACL Special Interest Group on the Lexicon
(see 3http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mpalmer/siglex2.html).
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 Harry C. Bunt
 Chair of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2653 (office, room R 102)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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