9.1043, Calls: Computational Semantics, Syllable Structure
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Subject: 9.1043, Calls: Computational Semantics, Syllable Structure
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:16:51 +0200
From: Harry.Bunt at kub.nl (Harry Bunt)
Subject: Computational Semantics
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:46:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Odden <odden at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Syllable Structure and Gesture Timing
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:16:51 +0200
From: Harry.Bunt at kub.nl (Harry Bunt)
Subject: Computational Semantics
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Third International Workshop on
COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
(IWCS - 3)
January 13-15, 1999, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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(SECOND) CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Linguistics Department at Tilburg University will host the Third
International Workshop on Computational Semantics, that will take
place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, 13 - 15 January 1999. The aim of
the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the study
of computational aspects of the semantics of natural language.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop will focus on computational aspects of formal semantic
theories and on the theoretical issues involved in the development of
natural language processing systems. Papers are invited in areas which
include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
* working with underspecified semantic representations
* use of context in interpretation
* the semantics-pragmatics interface
* dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
* information packaging
* computational lexical semantics
* interpretation and inference
* interpretation in multi-modal interaction
* context modelling
* speech acts and interpretation
* incremental interpretation
* connections with theorem proving and knowledge representation
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 5000 words
by September 15, 1998. Papers should be prepared with LaTeX and should
be submitted by email. All submitted papers will be refereed by the
programme committee. Accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings; we also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers
in book form. Guidelines for LaTeX preparation of your manuscript are
available at the IWCS-3 web pages:
http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm
For initial submission email a Postscript version of the paper to:
Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Patrick Blackburn Martha Palmer
Mario Borillo Manfred Pinkal
Harry Bunt (chair) Steve Pulman
Robin Cooper James Pustejovsky
Jan van Eijck Allan Ramsay
John Etchemendy Patrick Saint Dizier
Giacomo Ferrari Lenhart Schubert
Erhard Hinrichs Rohini Srihari
Megumi Kameyama Mark Steedman
Daniel Kayser Enric Vallduvi
Paul Mc Kevitt Wlodek Zadrozny
Reinhard Muskens Henk Zeevat
John Nerbonne
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Harry Bunt Reinhard Muskens Elias Thijsse
IMPORTANT DATES
15 September 1998 Submission of preliminary papers
15 October 1998 Notification of acceptance
15 November 1998 Final papers due
13-15 January 1999 Workshop
FURTHER INFORMATION
Conference Secretariat:
Anne Adriaensen
Department of Linguistics
Tilburg University
PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
Fax: +31-13 466 31 10
WWW: http://cwis.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, 15 Jul 1998 14:46:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dave Odden <odden at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Syllable Structure and Gesture Timing
CALL FOR PAPERS: SYLLABLE STUCTURE AND GESTURE TIMING
As part of the conference LP '98 to be held at Ohio State University
Sept. 15-20, there will be a workshop funded by the National Science
Foundation Sept. 19-20, on 'Syllable Structure and Gesture Timing',
covering issues related to phonetic and phonological accounts of
segmentation, and timing and ordering of gestures in speech, especially
how sequences of consonants e.g. [spr], [ntw] are formally represented.
Speech is traditionally represented as a string of segments,
defined in terms of features which are implemented simultaneously. In
that conception, the phoneme is the minimal phonological unit where
time and ordering are defined. As has long been known, the transition
from phoneme to phoneme is phonetically realized as a continuous change.
There has been a steady progression in phonological theory from linear
generative theory to nonlinear representations where the mapping
between segments and features is quite relaxed, and highly articulated
suprasegmental structures are assumed. A consequence of nonlinear
models, which allow single 'segments' to bear multiple values of a
feature and allow one feature to be associated with many 'segments', is
that one can meaningfully question the existence of the 'segment' as a
formal object. The theory of feature geometry does not explicitly
represent the notion 'segment', and it has been argued that the
traditional segment does not correspond to any specific level of
representation in current models. Nonlinear models have increasingly
tended towards positing complex but internally timeless single
'segments' in place of clusters of segments: thus, what was formerly
represented as a triconsonantal sequence [ntw] might also be
represented as a single segment, a 'voiceless prenasalised rounded
alveolar'.
Some languages, such as Bella Coola and Georgian, seem to allow
unbounded arbitrary sequences of consonants, which suggests that
phonological theory may ultimately need to allow infinitely long
syllables and unstructured onsets and codas. One of the central
questions to be taken up in the workshop is "are there any universal
limits on possible strings of segments in various positions within the
syllable"? This statement of the question begs two quite important
questions: do segments per se exist (and how can one identify whether a
given temporal stretch of the phonetic output corresponds to one or more
segments), and do syllables themselves exist? Both of these
assumptions remain controversial, especially in nonlinear phonology.
Invited speakers for this workshop include Donca Steriade, John
Ohala, John Harris and Louis Goldstein. Further details on the issues
being investigated in this workshop can be found at
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/Events/phon_workshop.html.
One-page abstracts for 30 minute papers to be presented at this
workshop are solicited (due date for receipt of abstracts: August 10).
Lodging and up to $400 to cover economy travel expenses will be
provided to authors presenting papers at the workshop.
Abstracts may be sent by email to odden at ling.ohio-state.edu, or by
surface mail to:
Syllable Workshop
Department of Linguistics
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
Please include a surface mail address, email address, and phone number.
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