10.1017, Calls: Computational Semantics, Collocation/DGfS 2000
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Subject: 10.1017, Calls: Computational Semantics, Collocation/DGfS 2000
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1)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:16:12 +0200
From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>
Subject: ICoS-1
2)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 08:19:18 +0200
From: Anke Luedeling <anke at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: Collocation workshop at DGfS 2000
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:16:12 +0200
From: Christof Monz <christof at wins.uva.nl>
Subject: ICoS-1
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
First workshop on
INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
ICoS-1
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Amsterdam, August 15, 1999
(Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999)
Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics.
ABOUT ICoS
Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model
builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely
and easily available. In addition, a wide variety of new tools
(statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine
learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in
computational semantics for natural language. Indeed, computational
semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development
of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot
of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously.
The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1)
intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational
Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in
order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural
language semantics.
PROGRAM
The following people will give invited presentations:
* Johan Bos (Saarbruecken)
Automated Reasoning for Natural Language Semantics
* Steve Pulman (Cambridge and SRI International)
Bidirectional Contextual Resolution
* Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
Towards a Computational Account of Knowledge, Action and
Instructions
In addition, 7 research papers and some implementations will be
presented
* P. Baumgartner and M. Kuehn
Abducing Coreference by Model Construction
* G. Bierner and B. Webber
Inference through Alternative-Set Semantics
* M. Gabsdil and K. Striegnitz
Classifying Scope Ambiguities (System Description)
* C. Gardent and K. Konrad
Definites and the Proper Treatment of Rabbits
* A. Holt, E. Klein and C. Grover
Natural Language for Hardware Verification: Semantic
Interpretation and Model Checking (System Description)
* J. Jaspars
Structural Logics for Reasoning with Underspecified
Representations
* A. Kaplan
Reason Maintenance in a Hybrid Reasoning System
* B. Ludwig
An Inference-Based Approach to the Interpretation of Discourse
* A. Ramsay and H. Seville
Models and Discourse Models
The program committee for ICoS-1 consists of the following people:
James Allen Alex Lascarides
Patrick Blackburn Christof Monz
Denys Duchier Reinhard Muskens
Jan van Eijck Manfred Pinkal
Claire Gardent Maarten de Rijke
Jacques Jayez Len Schubert
Aravind Joshi Henk Zeevat
Michael Kohlhase
LOCATION
ICoS-1 will be held at the Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam during the 11th European
Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99), which
will be held in Utrecht, approximately 30 km from Amsterdam. More
information on the ILLC including instructions how to get there can be
found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/ContactsandLinks/
REGISTRATION
Until August 1, the registration fee for ICoS-1 is 50 Dutch
guilders. After August 1, the fee is 100 Dutch guilders. The
registration fee includes the conference package and lunch.
To register, please go to:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~christof/ICoS-1/registration.html
or fill out the form attached to this message and send it to
icos1 at wins.uva.nl
As it is very hard to get accommodation in Amsterdam during the
summer, it is imperative that you start looking for accommodation
now. If you are attending ESSLLI'99, you can take the train to
Amsterdam which takes approximately 30 minutes. More information on
finding accommodation in Amsterdam will be made available on the
ICoS-1 home page.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information, please contact the local organizers at
icos1 at wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page:
http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/
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ICoS-1 Registration Form
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First name:
Last name:
Email:
Phone:
Fax:
Preferred address:
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I will join the conference dinner:
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The registration fee will be collected on the spot at ICoS-1.
We kindly ask you to pay in cash.
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Christof Monz | A: ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The
Netherlands | R: 326 (3rd floor) | P: +31 20 525 6095 | F: +31 20 525 5101
E: christof at wins.uva.nl | W: www.illc.uva.nl/~christof
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Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 08:19:18 +0200
From: Anke Luedeling <anke at IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Subject: Collocation workshop at DGfS 2000
Call for Papers:
As part of the
22nd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society
(Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft),
DGfS-2000
March 1 - 3, 2000 in Marburg
http://www.uni-marburg.de/linguistik/dgfs2000
we are organizing a workshop on
Collocations:
their linguistic description
and acquisition from text.
The workshop aims to bring together research on collocations - and
any kind of related multi-word-lexemes - from formal linguistics,
descriptive linguistics and lexicography as well as Natural Language
Processing and its applications.
Despite increasing interest in idiomaticity within theoretical and
formal linguistics, there is still a gap between the needs of NLP
lexicons and the descriptive tradition in lexicography and applied
linguistics. In the framework of formal grammars, mainly the syntactic
description of collocations (in particular support verb constructions)
has been discussed, but the integration of collocational lexicons into
broad coverage formal grammars is still an open issue.
Contributions are invited on all relevant topics, in particular the
following:
- The linguistic description of collocations: definition
criteria; collocations vs. idiomatic expressions; collocations vs.
support verb constructions etc.; the grammatical description of
collocational phenomena (complex predicates, the description of
predicative nouns in support verb constructions etc.).
- The interaction between lexicon and grammar: generalizations,
sub-regularities in the lexicon; lexical rules, the relationship
between semantic classifications and collocational preferences;
contrastive generalizations (Germanic vs. Romance languages).
- The acquisition of collocational information from text:
stochastic grammars, statistical cooccurrence measures, clustering
techniques, hybrid systems; partial parsing, morphosyntactic
extraction patterns etc.; possibilities of combining symbolic and
statistical extraction procedures.
- Applications of detailed collocational descriptions: broad
coverage grammars and lexicons, computer-assisted language learning,
machine translation, information extraction and information retrieval.
Abstracts:
- Should be maximally 3 pages with 2,5cm (1 inch) margins
- Submission on paper (3 copies) or via e-mail as ASCII text or
postscript
files; no word processing formats!
- First page to include title, author(s), author(s)' affiliation,
address, telephone, telefax, e-mail
Deadlines:
- Submission of abstracts: August 15, 1999
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 31, 1999
- Submission of a short abstract (1 page) for the proceedings: December
20, 1999
- Conference date: March 01 - 03, 2000
Workshop organizers:
Ulrich Heid und Anke Luedeling
Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universitaet Stuttgart
Petra Ludewig
Institut fuer Semantische Informationsverarbeitung
Universitaet Osnabrueck
Submissions, inquiries and comments should be addressed to
Ulrich Heid
Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
Azenbergstr. 12
70174 Stuttgart Germany
Fax: +49-711-121-1366
dgfs-coll at ims.uni-stuttgart.de
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