9.6, Calls: Lexical Semantics, Computational Technology

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Subject: 9.6, Calls: Lexical Semantics, Computational Technology

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Date:  Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:17:13 +0000
From:  WLSS98 <wlss98 at alphalinguistica.sns.it>
Subject:  Lexical Semantics Systems-Date Changes

2)
Date:  Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:02:46 -0100
From:  Christian Jacquemin <Christian.Jacquemin at iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr>
Subject:  COLING-ACL'98 COMPUTERM workshop

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 23 Dec 1997 16:17:13 +0000
From:  WLSS98 <wlss98 at alphalinguistica.sns.it>
Subject:  Lexical Semantics Systems-Date Changes


             CHANGE OF DATE AND EXTENDED DEADLINE

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                           WLSS98
           II WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS
                   Pisa, 6-7 April 1998
                  Scuola Normale Superiore
- -----------------------------------------------------------

Organized by CELI, ILC, ITC-IRST and Scuola Normale Superiore
 With the support of University of Pisa and Xerox Research
                        Centre Europe
                -----------------------------
                 http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98
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                      INVITED SPEAKERS
                     (provisional list)
          Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan)
          Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
            Ewan Klein (University of Edimburgh)
                Hinrich Schuetze (Rank Xerox)
      -----------------------------------------------

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

WLSS98   is  organized  by  Centro  per  l'Elaborazione   del
Linguaggio  ed  Informazione (CELI), Istituto di  Linguistica
Computazionale (ILC), Istituto per la Ricerca  Scientifica  e
Tecnologia  (ITC-IRST) and Scuola Normale  Superiore  (Pisa),
and will take place in Pisa on the 6-7 April 1998 (instead of
the 19-20 March, as it was announced in previous messages).

WLSS   workshops  aim  at  bringing  together   Italian   and
international  scholars,  active  in  both  theoretical   and
applicative  domains of research in lexical  semantics,  with
the goals of:

-  providing  an  overview  of  the  state  of  the  art  and
exchanging information on ongoing and planned activities;

-  bridging  the  gap  and   enhance  the  trade-off  between
theoretical  models of lexical knowledge and applications  in
NLP systems.

These goals are justified:

- by   the  increasingly   central  position   that   lexical
knowledge,  and in particular lexical semantics, is  assuming
within the general architecture of cognitive systems, both as
a  dynamic  module  which interact with other  non-linguistic
sources of knowledge, and as a component playing a major role
in interfacing syntax and semantics;

- by the fact that lexical resources (such as tagged corpora,
computational  dictionaries, Machine  Readable  Dictionaries,
WordNets) are among the most crucial aspects of practical NLP
systems. Issues concerning the structure, the representation,
the development, and the acquisition of lexical knowledge are
thus  of  the uttermost importance when building NLP systems.
Lexical  systems also play a crucial role in the  design  and
construction of multilingual systems, a key feature at  least
for  applications designed to operate in a distributed,  non-
centralized environment such as the World Wide Web.

This second edition of WLSS will focus on the portability and
reusability  of  lexical systems, and on the  issue  of  word
sense  disambiguation and semantic tagging. We also encourage
the submission of papers concerning more general issues about
linguistic   lexical  semantics  and  its  interaction   with
computational lexicography.

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks. Here follows a non-
exhaustive list of topics which could be addressed:

*   Lexical  resources for semantic tagging  and  word  sense
    disambiguation.
*   Use  of  lexicons and thesauruses to improve  information
    retrieval / extraction techniques.
*   Automatic acquisition and management of lexical resources.
*   Reusability and tuning of existing lexical resources  for
    novel tasks.
*   Trade  offs  between generic and domain specific  lexical
    resources.
*   Multilingual lexical resources.
*   Description and evaluation of existing tools and systems.
*   Evaluation of different representation formats.
*   Issues   in   computational   lexical   semantics   and
    computational lexicography.
*   Issues  in  the design, construction and use  of  lexical
    resources.
*   Architecture for a cognitive plausible lexicon
*   Lexical  representation and the interface with  syntactic
    processes



** CHANGE **  EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS ** CHANGE
**

Only  electronic submissions are accepted. Abstracts  should
not  exceed 2 pages in length, in Postscript or ASCII format,
and should be sent to the following address:

    wlss98 at celi.sns.it.

Separate  information should be sent, including the title  of
the talk, author's name, address and affiliation. Submissions
must  be limited to a maximum of one individual and one joint
abstract per author. The deadline is:  20 January 1998.
The  Program Committee intends to publish a selection of  the
papers presented at the conference.



          ** CHANGE **   IMPORTANT DATES   ** CHANGE **

Submission of abstracts:    20 January 1998
Notification of acceptance: 28 February 1998
Conference:                 6-7 April   1998


                     PROGRAM COMMITTEE

     Pier Marco Bertinetto   (Scuola Normale Superiore)
                  Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC)
                       Luca Dini(CELI)
                  Vittorio Di Tomaso (CELI)
         Alessandro Lenci (Scuola Normale Superiore)
                   Bernardo Magnini (IRST)
                    Fabio Pianesi (IRST)
                  Frederique Segond (XRCE)
                   Antonio Zampolli (ILC)

                       CONTACT PERSONS

For  every  further information please contact the conference
secretariat:

Vittorio Di Tomaso
CELI
ditomaso at sns.it

Alessandro Lenci
Scuola Normale Superiore
lenci at alphalinguistica.sns.it

Scuola Normale Superiore
Laboratorio di linguistica
Piazza dei Cavalieri 7
56126 PISA (Italy)

Tel. +39 50 509219
Fax: +39 50 563513


More information on the Workshop and a copy of this call  for
papers is available on the Web at the following address:

http://celi.sns.it/~wlss98


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:02:46 -0100
From:  Christian Jacquemin <Christian.Jacquemin at iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr>
Subject:  COLING-ACL'98 COMPUTERM workshop


                         ACL/COLING-98
           (Association for Computational Linguistics/
            Conference on Computational Linguistics)

                      COMPUTERM Workshop


          First Workshop on Computational Terminology

     August 15, 1998 (immediately following ACL/COLING-98)

       University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)

                 PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

DESCRIPTION

The workshop will provide a forum to bring together researchers from
the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated
translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an
interest in computational aspects of terminology processing:
acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building,
dictionary construction, etc. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate
the exchange of innovative ideas and results of diverse aspects of
automatic term processing in order to bridge the gap between these
fields.

TOPICS

The topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):
     - Construction of terminology resources
     - Semi- or automatic acquisition of terms
     - Semi- or automatic acquisition of conceptual knowledge
     - Thesaurus construction and maintenance
     - Use of terminology resources (term banks, thesauri,
       specialized lexicons,...)
     - Terms in information retrieval (stemming, automatic indexing,
       query expansion, ...)
     - Multi-lingual terminological resources for cross-language IR
     - Terminology management in machine-aided translation
     - Terminology and NLP (parsing, tagging, text understanding,
       generation,...)
     - Terminology processing for other applications

SUBMISSIONS

Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should
submit six (6) copies of their full-length paper (3500-5000 words).
Submissions should be sent:

  Didier Bourigault
  Laboratoire de Linguistique Informatique
  Universite Paris XIII
  Avenue J.-B. Clement
  F-93430 Villetaneuse
  France

Style Files and Templates for Preparing Submissions
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html

The official language of the Conference is English. However, papers
can also be submitted in French. The final version of the papers will
be accompanied by two long abstracts in two different languages.
All the presentation at the workshop will be given in English.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

   Submission Deadline:   March 23, 1998
   Notification Date:     May 15, 1998
   Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

  Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK)
  Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK)
  Peter Anick (Digital Equipment Corporation, USA)
  Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelone, Spain)
  Ken Church (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
  Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts, USA)
  Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
  Beatrice Daille (IRIN Nantes, France)
  Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong)
  Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
  Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France)
  Stephanie Haas (University of North Carolina, USA)
  Benoit Habert (LIMSI & ENS Fontenay-St Cloud, France)
  Ulrich Heid (Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany)
  Kyo Kageura (NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan)
  Judith Klavans (Columbia Univesity, USA)
  Robert Krovetz (NEC Research Institute, USA)
  Robert Losee (University of North Carolina, USA)
  Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada)
  Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
  Padmini Srinivasan (The University of Iowa, USA)
  Tomek Strzalkowski (General Electric Company, USA)
  Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs Innovations, Lucent Technologies, USA)
  Richard Wojcik (Boeing Company, USA)
  Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP & Universite Paris 6, France)

ORGANIZERS

  Didier Bourigault (CNRS and Universite Paris XIII, Paris, France)
  Christian Jacquemin (IUT de Nantes, France)
  Marie-Claude L'Homme (Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada)

EMAIL CONTACT

mailto:db at lli.univ-paris13.fr,
       Christian.Jacquemin at iut-nantes.univ-nantes.fr,
       lhommem at ere.umontreal.ca

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