8.237, Confs: Bilingualism, Lexical Semantics
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Subject: 8.237, Confs: Bilingualism, Lexical Semantics
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:18:01 +0000
From: cabeza at uvigo.es
Subject: I International Symposium on Bilingualism: web page
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:07:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: WLSS97 <wlss97 at alphalinguistica.sns.it>
Subject: Workshop on Lexical Semantics: WLSS-97
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:18:01 +0000
From: cabeza at uvigo.es
Subject: I International Symposium on Bilingualism: web page
Information about First International Symposium on Bilingualism
(Vigo, Spain, 21-25 october 1997) at:
http://www.uvigo.es/eventos/congresos/bilin/sib97.htm
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Ma del Carmen Cabeza Pereiro
Facultad de Humanidades (Letras)
Universidad de Vigo
Apartado 874 - 36200 Vigo (Spain)
e-mail: cabeza at uvigo.es
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:07:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: WLSS97 <wlss97 at alphalinguistica.sns.it>
Subject: Workshop on Lexical Semantics: WLSS-97
WLSS-97
FIRST WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS
April 21 1997, Torino, Italy
Aula Magna, Universita' di Torino, Via Verdi 8
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For more information:
wlss97 at celi.sns.it
http://celi.sns.it/~wlss97
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ORGANIZED BY
The workshop is jointly organised by CELI , Department of
Computer Science of the University of Torino, Department of
Human Studies of the University of Torino (in Vercelli).
SPONSORS
The workshop is sponsored by Centro di Scienza Cognitiva
(Universita' e Politecnico di Torino)
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Lexical knowledge plays a major role in language understanding
systems, either natural or artificial. This claim is widely
accepted in the NLP community, as well as in theoretical
linguistics and cognitive science.
From a cognitive point of view, lexical knowledge, and in
particular lexical semantics, has emerged as being a crucial
part of the language understanding process carried on by our
cognitive system.
Moreover, the lexicon is not seen as a static and isolated
part of the cognitive architecture, but as a dynamic
structure, which includes both representations and processes
and is linked to other knowledge sources such as world
knowledge, perceptual representations and pragmatic
procedures.
On the other hand recent linguistic theories share the claim
that many syntactic and semantic properties find their
explanation in the structure of the lexicon. Such an
assumption explains the growing interest for new tools of
lexical description and for the mechanism of the interface
between lexical semantics and syntax.
From a computational perspective, it has been proven that the
development of a large scale lexicon is the real bottleneck of
every NLP application. This means that issues about the
structure and the representation of lexical knowledge, as well
as its development and/or acquisition, are of main importance
when building NLP systems.
This workshop aims at bringing the discussion on these topics:
* Which is the content of lexical semantic knowledge?
* Which is the structure of a cognitive plausible lexicon?
* Which are the links between lexical semantics and other
knowledge sources?
* Which properties of lexical representation contribute to
syntactic processes?
* Which are the advantages and disadvantages of different
representation formats?
* Which is the most suitable architecture for a
computational lexicon?
* Which processes interact with the lexicon and how?
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
The official language of the workshop will be English.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
* Roberto Basili (Universita' di Roma, Tor Vergata)
* Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC, Pisa)
A corpus-based lexicon: acquisition and contents aspects
* Giacomo Ferrari (Universita' di Torino)
Lexicon and semantic interpretation
* Leonardo Lesmo (Universita' di Torino)
Integration between lexical semantics and pragmatics
* Bernardo Magnini (IRST, Trento)
Sense disambiguation for computational systems
* James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Semantic underspecification in lexicon design
* Patrizia Violi (Universita' di Bologna)
* Annie Zaenen (Xerox, Grenoble)
Multi-word lexemes in NLP
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Pier Marco Bertinetto, Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso, Anna
Goy, Leonardo Lesmo, Diego Marconi.
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PARTICIPATION
Attendance to the Workshop is free.
Contact the organizing committe (wlss97 at celi..sns.it) or
use the registration form from the Web site:
http://celi.sns.it/~wlss97
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FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information concernig WLSS97, contact
wlss97 at celi.sns.it
http://celi.sns.it/~wlss97
or:
Anna Goy
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Torino
C.so Svizzera 185
10149 Torino, Italia
Tel. +39 11 7429228
Fax +39 11 751603
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