9.392, Confs: Lexical Semantic Systems

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Subject: 9.392, Confs: Lexical Semantic Systems

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Date:  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:07:20 +0000
From:  WLSS98 <wlss98 at alphalinguistica.sns.it>
Subject:  Lexical Semantics Systems

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Date:  Mon, 16 Mar 1998 17:07:20 +0000
From:  WLSS98 <wlss98 at alphalinguistica.sns.it>
Subject:  Lexical Semantics Systems

SECOND WORKSHOP ON LEXICAL SEMANTICS SYSTEMS (WLSS98)

                               April 6-7

                             FINAL PROGRAM


Monday, April 6th

9.00 - 9.10     Opening

9.10 - 9.50     J. Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
                Title to be defined

9.50 - 10.20    E. Klipple & J. Gurney
                (Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi)
                "Verb Modification and the Lexicon in the
                Natural Language and Virtual Reality System"

10.20 - 10.50   P. Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
                "The Acquisition of Defaults in Lexical
                Semantic Representations"

10.50 - 11.10   COFFEE BREAK

11.10 - 11.50   C. Fellbaum (Princeton University)
                Title to be defined

11.50 - 12.20   P. Bouillon (ISSCO, University of Geneva) &
                F. Busa (Brandeis University)
                "Where's the Polysemy? A Study of Adjective-Noun
                Constructions"

12.20 - 12.50   N. Guarino (LADSEB-CNR, Padova)
                "Some Ontological Principles for Designing
                Upper Level lexical Resources"

                LUNCH

15.00 - 15.30   M. Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris)
                "Trade Offs between Generic and Domain Specific
                Lexical Resources"

15.30 - 16.00   J. Veronis, V. Houitte & C. Jean
                (LPL, Universite' de Provence & CNRS)
                "Methodology for the Construction of Test Material
                for the Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems"

16.00 - 16.30   F. Segond, E. Aimelet & L. Griot
                (Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble)
                "'All You Can Use!' or How to Perform WSD with
                Available Resources"

16.30 - 16.50   COFFEE BREAK

16.50 - 17.30   H. Schuetze (Xerox Parc, California)
                "Automatic Word Sense Discrimination"

17.30 - 18.00   P.M. Alcouffe
                (Hachette Encyclopedies et Dictionnaires, Vanves)
                "Do 'What/Where/When' Make Sense? Building
                a Semantic Net from Three Thematic Indexes"

18.00 - 18.30   N. Dufour (University of Liege)
                "Turning Two Commercial Dictionaries
                into a Single Lexical  Data Base for NLP"


                SOCIAL DINNER


Tuesday, April 7th

9.00 - 9.40     G. Chierchia (University of Milan)
                NP Structure and Semantic Variation

9.40 - 10.10    R. Aranovich (University of Texas, San Antonio)
                "Restructuring in HPSG and the Lexical Semantics
                of Causation: Evidence from Spanish"

10.10 - 10.40   L. Gracia & L. Turon (University of Girona)
                "On Appreciative Suffixes"

10.40 - 11.00   COFFEE BREAK

11.00 - 11.40   H. Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken)
                Title to be defined

11.40 - 12.10   A.M. Di Sciullo (UQAM, Montreal)
                "Lexical Semantic Systems Based on Natural
                Language Asymmetries and Consequences for IR"

12.10 - 12.50   E. Klein (University of Edinburgh)
                Title to be defined

                LUNCH

15.00 - 15.30   G. Ferrari (University of East Piemonte, Vercelli)
                "Semantic Interpretation, Reasoning, and Lexicon"

15.30 - 16.00   J. Veronis (LPL, Universite' de Provence & CNRS)
                P. Langlais (KTH-CTT, Stockholm & CERI-LIA, Avignon)
                 "Progress in Parallel Text Alignment Techniques
                for Multilingual Lexical Acquisition: The ARCADE
                Evaluation Exercise"

16.00 - 16.30   E. Viegas & Remi Zajac
                (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces)
                 "Inheritance and Genericity in a Multilingual
                Knowledge Base"

16.30 - 16.50   COFFEE BREAK

16.50 - 17.20   S. Montemagni & V. Pirrelli (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
                "Asymmetries in the Causative/Inchoative Alternation:
                Theoretical  Accounts and Corpus Evidence"

17.20 - 17.50   N. Moreno (Instituto Universitario Ortega y
Gasset, 						Madrid)
                J. Romero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
                "Denominal Verbs and the Theory of Lexicon"


ALTERNATES

1.      M. Stede (Technische Universitaet Berlin)
        "DiMLex: A Lexical Approach to Discourse Markers"


2.      T. Hamon (Universite' Paris-Nord)
        "Does the General Semantic Information Help
        the Terminology  Structuration?"


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Conference venue:
Scuola Normale Superiore
Piazza dei Cavalieri 7
56126 Pisa

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

****************************************************************


The workshop is free. People who intend to partecipate are invited to
register by sending a message to the following address:


wlss98 at celi.sns.it


For every information concerning hotels, travel, and workshop location,
please refer to the webpage:

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

or contact:

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

Vittorio Di Tomaso
CELI
ditomaso at sns.it

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