9.201, Calls: Lexical Semantics, Phonology
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Subject: 9.201, Calls: Lexical Semantics, Phonology
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:36:08 -0500
From: Paul Buitelaar <paulb at cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Extended Deadline! LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS,
INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:51:37 +0000
From: SIGPHON98 <sigphon at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: SIGPHON Meeting at COLING/ACL 98
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:36:08 -0500
From: Paul Buitelaar <paulb at cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Extended Deadline! LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS,
INFERENCE AND 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
** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS **
** EXTENDED DEADLINE : March 2, 1998 **
ORGANIZERS: Johan Bos (Saarbruecken) and Paul Buitelaar (Brandeis University)
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.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
To obtain further information please visit the workshop home page at
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~paulb/esslli98.html
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:51:37 +0000
From: SIGPHON98 <sigphon at cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: SIGPHON Meeting at COLING/ACL 98
(Apologies if you see this twice ...)
The Computation of Phonological Constraints
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The 4th Meeting of the ACL
Special Interest Group in Phonology
(http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~sigphon/98)
In conjunction with
The COLING-ACL'98 Joint Conference
Montreal, Canada, 15th August 1998
The Meeting
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Constraint-based theories of phonology have become enormously popular
in recent years. Such theories express generalizations by stating how
and when a language's phonological forms are constrained, rather than
relying on rules that actively modify the forms.
Computational ideas have often provided an impetus for these
innovations. Koskenniemi's (1983) 2-level morphophonological processor
introduced parallel constraining relations as an alternative to an
ordered system of rewrite rules. Declarative Phonology (c 1990)
focusses on the unity of representations and rules as constraints,
drawing on various computational ideas from unification to temporal
logic to finite-state calculi.
One current constraint-based theories is Optimality Theory (OT)
(Prince&Smolensky 1993). This theory found, at least partial,
inspiration in computational work by Smolensky on the relation between
symbolic and subsymbolic computation. Although this link with
connectionism has been left largely unexplored, OT has proved to be a
computationally productive theory, giving rise to several theoretical
papers on computational issues related to complexity and learnability,
as well as inspiring a number of implementations.
This workshop is designed to foster the link between computational
work and constraint-based phonology in general. To this end, it
invites submissions on topics related to the computation of any
constraint-based phonological formalism, including but not limited to
the three mentioned above. Here are some example topics:
* the computational interpretation of phonological theories,
* constraint ranking and interaction, eg. as in OT,
* implementations of particular analyses,
* results in the complexity of constraint application,
* algorithms for learning constraints or constraint ranking,
* results on the learnability of such constraints,
* novel formalisms for constraint-based phonology,
* representational issues raised by constraint-based approaches.
In short, papers are invited which address computational issues in
constraint-based theories of phonology.
Submission
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What: original research, not published elsewhere
a completed study is prefered to proposals and progress reports
originality, topicality and clarity will be the assessment criteria
How: submissions must be sent by email to sigphon98 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
When: April 20 Submissions due
May 22 Notification of acceptance
June 23 Final (accepted) versions due
Submission Format
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(Note that apart from the Medium and Length sections, these
requirements are as for submissions to COLING-ACL98.)
Medium: postscript, emailed to sigphon98 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
please check postscript compatibility using either
ghostview, or by printing the postscript file
before sending
Length: 10 pages maximum (including references and appendices)
optional extra page for abstract in a second language
Paper size: Please use A4 page-size
Typesetting: LaTeX is encouraged, but not required.
Layout: set margins so that text lies centred within a rectangle of
6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm)
Use Times Roman or Computer Modern font
11 to 12 point for text
14 to 16 point for headings and title
centred page numbers in footers
2 columns after title and abstract
figures may range across columns
Since reviewing will be blind, a separate identification notice should
be emailed (in ASCII) to sigphon98 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk. It should include:
title
author(s) name(s)
affiliation(s)
complete addresses
abstract in English
submission to other conferences ('none' or list)
and author of record (for correspondence).
Authors should not identify either themselves or their affiliations,
either directly or indirectly in the body of the text (the postscript
file).
Authors should use the COLING-ACL98 style files and templates for
preparing submissions (see http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html).
This will help ensure that the layout requirements are met, and that
the effort required to format the final version will be minimized.
Registration
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Registration is open only to those registered for the main COLING/ACL
conference (see http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html).
There will be an additional fee for the workshop (yet to be
determined). The 1997 ACL workshop fee was US$60.
ACL/EACL reserves the right to cancel any workshop if the number of
participants is below 25 persons.
Organisation
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Organiser: T. Mark Ellison (Edinburgh)
Organising/Program Committee: Steven Bird (Edinburgh)
Jason Eisner (Pennsylvania)
Bruce Tesar (Rutgers)
Markus Walther (Duesseldorf)
Correspondence
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Should be sent to: SIGPHON98
Centre for Cognitive Science
Edinburgh University
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK
Tel. +44 (131) 650-4416
Fax. +44 (131) 650-6626
email: sigphon98 at cogsci.ed.ac.uk
web: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~sigphon/98
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