8.1593, Calls: Phonology, Semitic Syntax, Lexical Semantics
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Subject: 8.1593, Calls: Phonology, Semitic Syntax, Lexical Semantics
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 10:13:17 -0800
From: minisymp at trill.berkeley.edu
Subject: Mini-Symposium on Phonetics and Phonology
2)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:28:05 PST
From: "Linda Culver" <Culver at Hermes.usc.edu>
Subject: Semitic Syntax
3)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:44:05 -0500
From: Paul Buitelaar <paulb at cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Lexical Semantics in Context: Corpus, Inference & Discourse
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 10:13:17 -0800
From: minisymp at trill.berkeley.edu
Subject: Mini-Symposium on Phonetics and Phonology
CALL FOR
PAPERS
The Fourth Annual Mini-Symposium on Phonetics and
Phonology
Sponsored by the Phonology Laboratory, the Department of
Linguistics and the Society of Linguistics Undergraduates (SLUG)
March 13, 1998
University of California
Berkeley, California
Inner Structure of Distinctive Features
Abstracts are invited on papers which focus on the phonetic structure of
distinctive features and the relevance of them to our understanding of
the sound patterns in language. Potential topics include, but are not
limited to:
1. The micro-structure of features, that is, the phonetic cues that
comprise them.
2. Production. The articulatory implementation of distinctive features:
data and theories; articulatory and aerodynamic aspects.
3. Perception. Salience of features in specific contexts. Dominance
relations between features. The extraction of features from the speech
signal.
4. Phonetic validation of the domain of features: segments, syllables,
words. The varying temporal domains of features.
5. Binary vs. gradual feature values. Ranges of allowable variation for
feature values. Binary vs. privative features.
6. Features in Gestural Phonology
Papers will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes discussion.
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Send abstracts (400 words or less) by December 15, 1997 by email to:
minisymp at trill.berkeley.edu or by regular post to (* no fax submission
please):
Mini-Symposium '98
Department of Linguistics/ Phonology Laboratory
2337 Dwinelle Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
Include author's name, affiliation, and where to send notification
(preferable e-mail).
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission of abstracts:
December 15, 1997
NOTE! THIS DEADLINE WILL BE STRICTLY OBSERVED!
Acceptance notification:
January 19, 1998
Conference:
March 13, 1998
For further information, contact minisymp at trill.berkeley.edu or check out
our web page at
http://trill.berkeley.edu/Talks/CALL_1998.html
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Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:28:05 PST
From: "Linda Culver" <Culver at Hermes.usc.edu>
Subject: Semitic Syntax
CALL FOR PAPERS: THE SYNTAX OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern
California invites abstracts for a conference on the syntax of
Semitic Languages to be held at USC April 3-5, 1998.
During the past decade, there has emerged a significant body of work
concerning the syntax and the syntax/semantics interface of Semitic
languages. We feel that the time is now right for scholars who have been
working independently on the syntax of these languages to come together on
a regular basis, so as to share with each other the results of their
research. In order to pursue this goal, the Department of Linguistics at
USC will be hosting a conference on this topic, in the hope that it will
be the first of many. Participants will be selected on the basis of
refereed anonymous abstracts, to be judged by a selection committee. It
is our intention to have 18 talks in all, each 40 minutes long with an
additional 15 minutes for discussion.
Please send 10 copies of an anonymous abstract, at most 2-pages long
(including examples and references). Please enclose a 3x5 card with
submission stating name of paper, name of author, affiliation and address,
including e-mail address, phone number and fax number, where available.
The name of the author SHOULD NOT appear on the abstract. Submissions by
e-mail or by fax will not be accepted. Abstracts should be postmarked NO
LATER THAN JANUARY 10, 1998, and sent to:
HAGIT BORER
DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES, CA 90089-1693
USA
Please direct all inquiries to the address above, or to:
borer at usc.edu
FUNDING PERMITTING, SPEAKERS CAN EXPECT PARTIAL TO
FULL REIMBURSEMENT FOR THEIR TRAVEL EXPENSES.
-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 17:44:05 -0500
From: Paul Buitelaar <paulb at cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Lexical Semantics in Context: Corpus, Inference & Discourse
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on
LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE
August 17 - 21, 1998
A workshop held as part of the
10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information
(ESSLLI-98)
August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany
** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS **
ORGANIZERS: Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) and Paul Buitelaar (Brandeis University)
Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
BACKGROUND:
The workshop aims at bringing together research in two complementary fields of
semantic analysis that are still too far apart. In order to achieve both a
broad and a deep understanding of any given text document, a system needs both
advanced acquisition of corpus specific lexical semantic knowledge and powerful
inference mechanisms that utilize that knowledge in discourse analysis.
Given the still relatively limited results within both areas there has been
little impetus to combine them. Corpus-based extraction of lexical semantic
knowledge has only recently become a more feasible task, because of the growing
availibility of on-line text documents; robust corpus processing technologies,
such as broad coverage part-of-speech tagging and shallow parsing; and readily
available statistical methods. The various approaches to discourse analysis,
originating in such diverse fields as formal semantics, psychology and AI, are
in the process of converging into a unified approach to the analysis and
representation of the cohesive structure of natural language documents.
The intersection between these two fields lies in the application of lexical
semantic knowledge to such problems in discourse analysis as anaphora
resolution and discourse segmentation. In fact, the benefit will be mutual,
because knowledge of discourse structure is helpful to lexical knowledge
extraction as well.
In summary, large scale domain specific lexical semantic knowledge acquisition
can assist in analyzing discourse structures, which in turn can assist in
acquiring even more accurate lexical semantic representations for the relevant
terms in the domain.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions, with two or three 20+10-minute
presentations in each session. Additionally, a number of invited talks will be
given by members of the program committee, while also some time will be set
aside for general discussion of the topic of the workshop.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the organizers and the following program
committee:
Bran Boguraev
Ann Copestake
Daniel Kayser
Alex Lascarides
Manfred Pinkal
Massimo Poesio
James Pustejovsky
SUBMISSION:
It should be stressed that we especially encourage those contributions that
address aspects of the integration of all three areas of research mentioned
above (lexical semantics, discourse analysis and corpus-based approaches to
both of these).
The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader.
Publication in an edited volume is under discussion.
All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
researchers, are encouraged to submit an extended abstract (4 to 5 pages),
preferably by email and in postscript.
Submissions should be sent before February 15, 1998 to one of the following
two organizers:
Johan Bos Paul Buitelaar
University of the Saarland Brandeis University
Dept. of Computational Linguistics Department of Computer Science
Postfach 15 11 50 Waltham, MA 02254
D-66041 Saarbruecken USA
Germany
bos at coli.uni-sb.de paulb at cs.brandeis.edu
REGISTRATION:
Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-98, but they
will be elligible for a reduced registration fee.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Feb 15, 98: Deadline for submissions
Apr 15, 98: Notification of acceptance
May 15, 98: Deadline for final copy
Aug 17, 98: Start of workshop
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information about ESSLLI-98 please visit the ESSLLI-98
home page at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli
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