9.216, Calls: ESSLLI'98-Mutual Knowledge, LREC
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Subject: 9.216, Calls: ESSLLI'98-Mutual Knowledge, LREC
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:28:30 -0500
From: Wolfgang Heydrich <100732.1675 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Mutual Knowledge, Common Ground and Public Information
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:13:12 GMT
From: Wim Peters <W.Peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: LREC Workshop "Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resourcs"
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 15:28:30 -0500
From: Wolfgang Heydrich <100732.1675 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Mutual Knowledge, Common Ground and Public Information
ESSLLI-98 Workshop on MUTUAL KNOWLEDGE, COMMON GROUND AND PUBLIC
INFORMATION
August 24 - 28, 1998
A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic,
Language and Information (ESSLLI-98)
August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbrueken, Germany
** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS **
ORGANISERS: Wolfgang Heydrich and Hannes Rieser (Hamburg/Bielefeld)
Web site: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~esslli98/workshops.html
BACKGROUND
The topic of the workshop is in the common focus of several
disciplines: cognitive science, linguistic pragmatics & semantics,
philosophical logic, AI, and psychology. It concerns research in
areas like discourse analysis, coordination, presupposition and
accomodation, as well as the formal reconstruction of dialogue and
interaction. There are obvious connections to problems of
group-epistemology and general (philosophical) concepts like
intersubjectivity. The topic constitutes a field of discussion where
empirical and formal methodologies meet (from controlled experiments
and discourse analysis to, say, non-well-founded set theory).
We invite contributions from all the fields mentioned above, which may
focus on:
- foundational problems (epistemic logic, social ontology, set theory)
- descriptive and experimental work in psychology, linguistics and
ethnomethodology
- applications in models of agent's behaviour based on e.g., intention
analysis, Gricean accounts or speech act theory
- computer simulation implementing the concepts mentioned.
WORKSHOP FORMAT:
The workshop will consist of five sessions (90 min. each) of
presentation and discussion of contributed papers. It will take place
during the second week of the Summer School and will be open to all
members of the LLI community.
SUBMISSIONS:
All reserchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young
reserachers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copies
or by e-mail) to one of the following addresses:
Prof.Dr. Hannes Rieser PD Dr. Wolfgang Heydrich
University of Bielefeld University of Hamburg
Fak. Lili Germanisches Seminar
Postfach 100131 Von-Melle-Park 6
D-33501 Bielefeld D-20146 Hamburg
Germany Germany
rieser at lili.uni-bielefeld.de heydrich at lili.uni-bielefeld.de
phone: 0049-521-1063666 phone: 0049-40-4222501
fax: 0049-521-1062996 fax: 0049-40-4222603
The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 1998.
Notification of contributors will be given around April 15, 1998.
Contributors of selected papers will be asked to provide extended
abstracts (five pages) to be distributed as work-shop notes. The
deadline for submission of extended abstracts is May 15, 98.
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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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 15:13:12 GMT
From: Wim Peters <W.Peters at dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Subject: LREC Workshop "Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resourcs"
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Last Call for papers
EXTENDED DEADLINE : March 15, 1998
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Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources
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Workshop immediately before the First International Conference on
language Resources and Evaluation (LREC),
May 27 1998
Granada, Spain
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/conflre.html
Short description:
This workshop will discuss ways to increase the efficacy of linguistic
resource distribution and programmatic access, and work towards the
definition of a new method for these tasks based on distributed
processing and object-oriented modelling with deployment on the WWW.
Organizers: Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham, Wim Peters, Remi Zajac
Workshop Scope and Aims
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In general the reuse of of NLP data resources (such as lexicons or
corpora) has exceeded that of algorithmic resources (such as
lemmatisers or parsers). However, there are still two barriers to
data resource reuse:
1) each resource has its own representation syntax and corresponding
programmatic access mode (e.g. SQL for CELEX, C or Prolog for Wordnet,
SGML for the BNC);
2) resources must generally be installed locally to be usable (and of
course precisely how this happens, what operating systems are
supported etc. varies from case to case).
The consequences of 1) are that although resources share some
structure in common (lexicons are organised around words, for example)
this commonality is wasted when it comes to using a new resource (the
developer has to learn everything afresh each time) and that work
which seeks to investigate or exploit commonalities between resources
(e.g. to link several lexicons to an ontology) has to first build a
layer of access routines on top of each resources. So, for example, if
we wish to do task-based evaluation of lexicons by measuring the
relative performance of an information extraction system with
different instantiations of lexical resource, we might end up writing
code to translate several different resources into SQL or SGML.
The consequence of 2) is that there is no way to "try before you buy":
no way to examine a data resource for its suitability for your needs
before licencing it. Correspondingly there is no way for a resource
provider to expose limitted access to their products for advertising
purposes, or gain revenue through piecemeal supply of sections of a
resource.
This workshop will discuss ways to overcome these barriers. The
proposers will discuss a new method for distributing and accessing
language resources involving the development of a common programmatic
model of the various resources types, implemented in CORBA IDL and/or
Java, along with a distributed server for non-local access. This model
is being designed as part of the GATE project (General Architecture
for Text Engineering:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/gate/) and goes under
the provisional title of an Active CREOLE Server. (CREOLE: Collection
of REusable Objects for Language Engineering. Currently CREOLE
supports only algortihmic objects, but will be extended to data
objects.)
A common model of language data resources would be a set of
inheritance hierarchies making up a forest or set of graphs. At the
top of the hierarchies would be very general abstractions from
resources (e.g. lexicons are about words); at the leaves would be data
items that were specific to individual resources. Programmatic access
would be available at all levels, allowing the developer to select an
appropriate level of commonality for each application.
Note that although an exciting element of the work could be to provide
algorithms to dynamically merge common resources (e.g. connect WordNet
to Celex), what we're suggesting initially is not to develop anything
substantively new, but simply to improve access to existing
resources. This is NOT a new standards initiative, but a way to build
on previous initiatives.
Of course, the production of a common model that fully expressed all
the subtleties of all resources would be a large undertaking, but we
believe that it can be done incrementally, with useful results at each
stage. Early versions will stop decomposing the object structure of
resources at a fairly high level, leaving the developer to handle the
data structures native to the resources at the leaves of the
forest. There should still be a substantial benefit in uniform access
to higher level strucures.
Draft Program Committee
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Yorick Wilks
Hamish Cunningham
Wim Peters
Remi Zajac
Roberta Catizone
Paola Velardi
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Louise Guthrie
Roberto Basili
Bran Boguraev
Sergei Nirenburg
James Pustejowsky
Ralph Grishman
Christiane Fellbaum
Paper Submission
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FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages.
HARD COPIES:
Three hard copies should be sent to:
Gill Callaghan, FAO Yorick Wilks
Dept. Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.,
Sheffield S1 4DP
UK
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION:
Electronic submission will be allowed in Poscript or HTML. An ftp
site will be available on demand. Authors should send an info email
to (Hamish Cunningham - hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk) even if they submit in
paper form. An electronic submission should be accompanied by a plain
ascii text.
# NAME : Name of first author
# TITLE: Title of the paper
# PAGES: Number of pages
# FILES: Name of file (if also submitted electronically)
# NOTE : Anything you'd like to add
# KEYS : Keywords
# EMAIL: Email of the first author
# ABSTR: Abstract of the paper
# . . . . . .
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline(Hard Copy/Electronic) March 15th 1998
Paper Notification April 1st
Camera-Ready Papers Due May 1st
DALR workshop May 27st
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