9.1835, Calls: Computational Semantics, VEXTAL/NLP
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Subject: 9.1835, Calls: Computational Semantics, VEXTAL/NLP
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:15:32 +0100
From: Harry.Bunt at kub.nl (Harry Bunt)
Subject: International Workshop on Computational Semantics
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:26:22 +0200
From: delmont at helios.unive.it (Rodolfo Delmonte)
Subject: VEXTAL
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From: Harry.Bunt at kub.nl (Harry Bunt)
Subject: International Workshop on Computational Semantics
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Third International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
Tilburg, The Netherlands, 13-15 January 1999
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The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at
Tilburg University will host the Third Workshop on Computational
Semantics, which will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, from
13 -15 January 1999. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers involved in all aspects of natural language computational
semantics.
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* INVITED SPEAKERS *
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* James Allen (U. Rochester) *
* Patrick Blackburn (U. Saarbruecken) *
* James Pustejovsky (Brandeis U.) *
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The workshop focuses on the computational aspects of semantic theories
and on theoretical issues involved in the development of natural
language processing systems or of tools, methodologies, or techniques
for computer interpretation of natural language. Some of the topics
that figure prominently in the workshop program are:
* underspecified semantic representations: definition and use
* use of context in interpretation
* the semantics - pragmatics interface
* dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
* speech acts and interpretation
* incrementality, monotonicity, and compositionality
* computational lexical semantics
* effective treatments of ambiguity
* computational aspects of discourse
* interpretation and inference
PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, January 13
08.30 - 09.15 registration, coffee
09.15 - 09.25 opening (Harry Bunt)
09.25 - 10.10 James Allen: Making Speech Acts Work: Conversational Agents
(invited talk)
10.10 - 10.40 Jonathan Ginzburg: Fragmenting Meaning: Clarification
Ellipsis and Anaphora
10.40 - 11.00 coffee break
11.00 - 11.30 Laurence Danlos: Event Coreference between Two Sentences
11.30 - 12.00 Helen Seville: Experiments with Discourse Structure
12.00 - 13.00 flash presentations of accepted posters: Pierre Beust &
Anne Nicolle, Robin Cooper & Staffan Larsson, Francois
Levy, Andrea Sanso, Hui Xu, Jana Sukkarieh & Stephen Pulman
13.00 - 14.00 lunch break and poster visit
14.00 - 14.30 Bonnie Webber, Alistair Knott & Aravind Joshi: Multiple
Discourse Connectives in a Lexicalized Grammar for Discourse
14.30 - 15.00 Ralf Naumann & Rainer Osswald: Aspects of Until
15.00 - 15.30 Denys Duchier & Claire Gardent: A constraint-based
treatment of descriptions
15.30 - 15.50 tea break
15.50 - 16.20 Aravind Joshi & K. Vijay-Shanker: Compositional
Semantics with Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (LTAG):
Is Underspecification Necessary?:
16.20 - 16.50 Alistair Willis & Suresh Manandhar: The Availability of
Partial Scopings in an Underspecified Semantic Representation
16.50 - 17.20 Rodger Kibble, Richard Power & Kees van Deemter:
Editing Logically Complex Discourse Meanings
17.30 reception at Tilburg City Hall Palace
Thursday, January 14
09.00 - 09.45 Patrick Blackburn: The Method of Architectures (invited talk)
09.45 - 10.15 Johan Bos, Patrick Blackburn, Michael Kohlhase & Hans de
Nivelle: Inference and Computational Semantics
10.15 - 10.45 Wenjie Li & Kam-Fai Wong: The Analysis of Chinese
N1-V-N2 Noun Compounds
10.45 - 11.05 coffee break
11.05 - 11.35 Leen Kievit & Harry Bunt: Well-formedness and Coercion
in Type Theoretical Semantics
11.35 - 12.05 James Thomas & Stephen Pulman: Bidirectional
Interpretation of Tense and Aspect
12.05 - 13.05 flash presentations of accepted posters: Gregers
Koch, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Robert van Rooy, Lucia Tovena &
Emmanuele Pianta, Naoto Takahashi & Minoru Motoki, Carl
Vogel & Jonathan Ginzburg, Claus Zinn
13.05 - 14.00 lunch break and poster visit
14.00 - 14.30 Kees Vermeulen: Type Declaration for Modal Subordination
14.30 - 15.00 Richard Zuber: Towards a Cross-categorial Computation of
Meaning Components
15.00 - 15.30 Michael Boettner: Peirce Grammar
15.30 - 15.50 tea break
15.50 - 16.20 Mark Hepple: A Functional Interpretation Scheme for
D-Tree Grammars
16.20 - 16.50 Josef van Genabith, Anette Frank & Dick Crouch: Glue,
Underspecification and Translation
17.00 - 18.30 ACL SIG business meeting
19.30 conference dinner
Friday, January 15
09.00 - 09.45 James Pustejovsky: How to Build a Category: Lexical
Semantics and Concept Formation (invited talk)
09.45 - 10.15 Allen Ramsay: Weak Lexical Semantics and Multiple Views
10.15 - 10.45 Francoise Gayral, Daniel Kayser & Nathalie Pernelle:
In Search of the Semantic Value(s) of an Occurrence: an
Example and a Framework
10.45 - 11.05 coffee break
11.05 - 11.35 Frederica Busa, Nicoletta Calzolari, Alessandro Lenci &
James Pustejovsky: Building a Semantic Lexicon:
Structuring and Generating Concepts
11.35 - 12.05 Gloria Vazquez, Ana Fernandez, M. Marti, Roser Morante &
I. Castellon: A Hierarchically Structured LKB For Verbs
12.05 - 12.35 Patrick Saint-Dizier: Underspecified Lexical Conceptual
Structures for Sense Variations
12.35 closing
GENERAL INFORMATION
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A registration form and information about hotels and how tot ravel to
Tilburg can be found at the IWCS-3 web pages; see
http://www.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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To register, either use the registration form at the IWCS-3 web pages
or fill out the registration form below and return it to the
conference scretary Ms Anne Adriaensen at J.B.P.Adriaensen at kub.nl
(or by fax or ordinary mail; see addresses below).
____________________________________________________________________________
IWCS-3 REGISTRATION FORM
Name: ________________________________________
Title: ________________________________________
Institute: ________________________________________
Department: ________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
Telephone: ________________________________________
Fax: ________________________________________
Email: ________________________________________
Registration fee is Dfl 325 (approx. 165 USD)
The fee includes
* Proceedings
* Lunches
* Coffee/tea
* Reception
* Transportation to reception
For undergraduate students a reduced fee is offered
which only includes participation and proceedings.
The traditional conference dinner will be on the second
day of the workshop (Thursday, 14th); the price of the
dinner is Dfl 39,30.
Method of Calculate any transfer charges, as we must receive the
payment: full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have
to be paid on arrival at the workshop.
If you want to participate in the conference dinner,
please at the amount of Fdl 39,50 to the registration
fee.
On your payment, please indicate your name, and mention
code 1.8270.W 340, IWCS 3, Tilburg University, Faculty
of Arts.
() Via bank transfer:
In Dutch guilders to bank account 45 50 46 042.
ABN AMRO Bank, Heuvelring 88, P.O.Box 8, NL-5000 AA,
Tilburg, The Netherlands
or to Postbank account 23 86 602 (only within the
Netherlands).
() By credit card:
Company: Visa/MasterCard/American Express
Number: ________________________________
Expiration date: ____________________________
(If you prefer not to use email to transfer this
information, please send us a fax.)
HOTEL INFORMATION
A number of rooms have been reserved at the following
hotels. (Note: the city center is 5-10 minutes walking
from the central railway station.)
If you wish, we can make reservations for you
Lodging () Hotel Mercure (city center)
Heuvelpoort 300
NL-5038 DT Tilburg
phone: +31-13-535 46 75
fax: +31-13-535 58 75
Dfl 175,- per night.
() Hotel Lindeboom (city center)
Heuvelring 126
NL-5038 CL Tilburg
phone: +31-13-535 13 55
fax: +31-13-536 10 85
Dfl 140,- per night.
() Hotel Central (city center) ALREADY BOOKED FULL
Spoorlaan 422
NL-5038 CG Tilburg
phone: +31-13-543 62 34
fax: +31-13-544 11 01
Dfl 85,- per night.
Please make reservations in the hotel I checked above,
number of persons: __
date of arrival: January __
date of departure: January __ .
() Do not make any hotel reservations for me
Send this form to:
Anne Adriaensen
Tilburg University
Faculty of Arts
P.O.Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
J.B.P.Adriaensen at kub.nl
Or use the IWCS-3 web page:
http://www.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm
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FURTHER INFORMATION
For questions about the program contact Harry Bunt at kub.nl;
for all other matters contact the conference secretariat:
Anne Adriaensen
Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group,
Tilburg University,
P.O. Box 90153,
5000 LE Tilburg,
The Netherlands.
phone: +31 13 466 30 60;
fax: +31 13 466 31 10;
email: Computational.Semanticskub.nl.
Web: http://www.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm
____________________________________________________________________________
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Harry C. Bunt
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
Dean, Faculty of Arts
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
2568 (Dean's office)
2653 (office, room B 310)
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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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 13:26:22 +0200
From: delmont at helios.unive.it (Rodolfo Delmonte)
Subject: VEXTAL
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VExTAL
SECONDO ANNUNCIO
(prima scadenza: 6 marzo 1999)
Venezia
dal 20 al 22 settembre 1999
Il Convegno Vextal si terra' a Venezia, nell'Auditorium S.Margherita
dell'Universita' Ca' Foscari ed e' rivolto a linguisti che usano metodi
computazionali e quantitativo/statistici nello studio delle lingue. Il
Convegno Vextal e' stato preceduto lo scorso anno da Fractal, tenutosi
a Besancon - Francia.
Le lingue ufficiali del Convegno sono l'italiano, il francese e
l'inglese.
TEMATICHE
Le comunicazioni, della durata di 20 minuti, domande incluse, potranno
trattare i temi piu' noti del TAL:
lessico morfologia sintassi semantica
pragmatica discorso analisi generazione
riassunto dialogo traduzione automatica
approcci logici, quantitativi, statistici, simbolici
Altri domini di interesse per Vextal sono i seguenti:
aspetti cognitivi
terminologia, acquisizione di conoscenza dai testi
estrazione d'informazione
linguistica dei corpora
correttori grammaticali, style-checkers
insegnamento delle lingue assistito dall'elaboratore
linguistica matematica e quantitativa
Si accettano lavori su applicazioni implementate e verificate nel campo
del TAL. Sono incoraggiate le dimostrazioni come complemento della
presentazione di lavori scientifici.
I lavori verranno pubblicati negli Atti della Conferenza.
COMITATO ORGANIZZATORE
Universita' di Venezia
Universite' de Besancon
Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Rinaldo Giuseppe - Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni, Roma
Stephane Chaudiron - Ministre de l'Education Nationale,
de la Recherche et de la Technologie - Paris
COMITATO SCIENTIFICO
Sylviane Cardey - Universite' de Besancon
Peter Greenfield - Universite' de Besancon
Andre Clas - Universite' de Montreal
Gaston Gross - Universite' de Paris XIII
Maurice Gross - Universite' de Paris VII
Igor Mel'cuk - Universite' de Montreal
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Krzysztof Bogacki - Universita' di Varsavia
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Alex Monaghan - Dublin City University
Dario Bianchi - Universita' di Parma
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia
Carlo Minnaja - Universita' di Padova
Maria Teresa Pazienza - Universita' di Roma
Oliviero Stock - IRST, Povo (Trento)
Carlo Minnaja - Universita' di Padova
Giorgio Satta - Universita' di Padova
Leonardo Lesmo - Universita' di Torino
Vincenzo Lombardo - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Giacomo Ferrari - Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Andrea Di Carlo - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Andrea Paoloni - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Irina Prodanoff - ILC, Pisa
Nicoletta Calzolari - ILC, Pisa
Antonio Zampolli - ILC & Universita' di Pisa
PRESIDENTE
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia
DATE DA RICORDARE
Scadenza per l'invio proposta : 6 marzo 1999
Notificazione di accettazione : 6 maggio 1999
Versione finale : 10 giugno 1999
Conferenza : 20-22 settembre 1999
MODALITA' DI INVIO
Le proposte dovranno essere anonime, cioe' non dovra' apparire ne' il nome
dell'autore ne' una sua citazione. Gli articoli non dovranno superare le 9
pagine, spaziatura singola, Times 10, 6000 parole massimo. Gli articoli devono
essere inviati in forma cartacea, formato A4, o in forma elettronica,
formato .rtf di Word o .ps al seguente indirizzo:
Indirizzo elettronico: vextal at byron.cgm.unive.it
Indirizzo postale: VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
San Marco 3417
Universita' Ca' Foscari
30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)
Formato dell'invio elettronico:
L'invio elettronico deve essere indirizzato all'indirizzo indicato piu'
sopra, vextal at cgm.unive.it, con il "Subject", "VEXTAL-relazione", per
l'articolo e "VEXTAL-autore" per la pagina contenente titolo, nome autore,
affiliazione, indirizzo postale ed elettronico, numero di telefono, fax e
pagina web. I formati possono essere solo
- RTF (Word) e PostScript
IMPORTANTE: tutti i lavori .ps devono essere in formato A4.
SESSIONE SPECIALE APPLICAZIONI INDUSTRIALI DEL TAL
Sara' organizzata una sessione speciale dedicata completamente alle
applicazioni
industriali prototipi e prodotti del TAL. In questa sessione sono previste
anche
relazioni ad invito.
SESSIONI POSTER E DIMOSTRAZIONI
Saranno organizzate sessioni poster. La sessione poster potra' comprendere
anche
una dimostrazione di sistemi prototipi o di cui si hanno solo risultati
preliminari.Si invitano tutti i relatori a presentare una loro
dimostrazione nella Sessione Dimostrazioni.
ARRIVO E SISTEMAZIONE LOCALE
Raccomandiamo a tutti quelli interessati a partecipare alla conferenza di
prenotare al piu' presto il periodo di soggiorno poiche' gli alberghi di
Venezia sono sempre molto affollati.
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VEXTAL
SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
(deadline: 6 March 1999)
Venice (Italy)
20 - 22 September 1999
For more information look at the web page:
http://byron.cgm.unive.it/events/VEXTAL
The VEXTAL Conference will be held in the Auditorium S.Margherita of the
University Ca' Foscari - Venice(It), 20 - 22 September, 1999. It is directed
to research people working in the area of computational linguistics,
mathematical and quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics and language
engineering. It is the follow-up of FRACTAL held in Besancon (France), last
year.
The official languages of the conference are Italian, French and English.
THEMES
Papers are invited for twenty minute talks, questions included,
in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) :
lexicon morphology syntax semantics
pragmatics discourse parsing text generation
abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation
quantitative, logical, symbolical and statistical approaches
VEXTAL also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an
important role, which are more application oriented:
cognitive aspects
terminology, knowledge acquisition
information extraction
documentary retrieval
corpus linguistics
grammar and style-checkers and NLP tools
computer assisted language learning
mathematical & quantitative linguistics
VEXTAL invites submissions focusing on NLP applications already implemented,
tested and evaluated. Demos are strongly encouraged, in addition to a standard
paper.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Universita' di Venezia
Universite' de Besancon
Universita' del Piemonte Orientale
Rinaldo Giuseppe - Ministero Poste e Telecomunicazioni, Roma
Stephane Chaudiron - Ministre de l'Education Nationale,
de la Recherche et de la Technologie - Paris
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Sylviane Cardey - University of Besancon
Peter Greenfield - University of Besancon
Andre Clas - University of Montreal
Gaston Gross - University of Paris XIII
Maurice Gross - University of Paris VII
Igor Mel'cuk - University of Montreal
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Krzysztof Bogacki - University of Varsaw
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Alex Monaghan - Dublin City University
Dario Bianchi - University of Parma
Rodolfo Delmonte - University of Venice
Carlo Minnaja - University of Padua
Maria Teresa Pazienza - University of Roma
Oliviero Stock - IRST, Povo (Trento)
Carlo Minnaja - University of Padua
Giorgio Satta - University of Padua
Leonardo Lesmo - University of Turin
Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Eastern Piemonte
Giacomo Ferrari - University of Eastern Piemonte
Andrea Di Carlo - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Andrea Paoloni - Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Irina Prodanoff - ILC, Pisa
Nicoletta Calzolari - ILC, Pisa
Antonio Zampolli - ILC & University of Pisa
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Rodolfo Delmonte - Universita' di Venezia
TIMETABLE
submission deadline : 6 March 1999
notification to authors : 6 May 1999
final version due : 10 June 1999
conference : 20 - 22 September 1999
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submissions will be anonymous, and should therefore not include the
author's name, nor any self-reference. The maximum length is nine
pages, single spaced, Times 10, (approx. 6000 words).
Hard-copies of the paper must be in A4 format. Authors are encouraged
to send an electronic version of their paper.
E-mail address : vextal at byron.cgm.unive.it
Address : VEXTAL - Ca' Garzoni-Moro
San Marco 3417
Universita' Ca' Foscari
30124 - V E N E Z I A (It)
Guidelines for electronic submission :
Authors should send their submission (neither compressed
nor encoded) via E-mail as an attached file to the address above,
specifying "VEXTAL-submission" as the Subject.
A separate identification page (with the following
information : title of the paper, author's name, affiliation, postal
address, E-mail address, fax and telephone number) should also be
send specifying "VEXTAL-author". Papers MUST be sent in one of the following
formats :
- RTF (Word) document AND PostScript version.
IMPORTANT : all PostScript versions must be in A4 format.
SPECIAL INDUSTRIAL SESSION
A special session will be devoted to industrial applications of TAL, be they
prototypes or full-fledged commercial products. This session will be partially
covered by invited speakers.
POSTER AND DEMO SESSION
Poster parallel sessions will be organized: speakers are encouraged to couple
their presentation with a demo. Demos are strongly encouraged, even when
prototypes or simply preliminary results are shown. All speakers are
invited to present a demo in the Demo Session.
VENUE AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
We strongly encourage all those interested in joining the conference to proceed
to an early booking since Venice hotels are always very crowded in September.
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