10.1808, Calls: Multimodal Info, Anaphora/Ellipsis (Correction)
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Subject: 10.1808, Calls: Multimodal Info, Anaphora/Ellipsis (Correction)
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:15:20 +0100
From: root <root at Leibniz.lili.uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: Multimodal Information
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:36:58 +0000
From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution (Correction)
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 14:15:20 +0100
From: root <root at Leibniz.lili.uni-bielefeld.de>
Subject: Multimodal Information
This is the First Call for Papers for the
WORKSHOP
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"Integrating Information from Different Channels
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in Multi-Media-Contexts"
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to be held as part of ESSLLI 2000 at Birmingham (UK), August 6-18, 2000
URL: http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic
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Description:
In everyday situations agents must combine information from different
sources: Reference and predication can be based both on gestural and
spoken information. Inferences demand extracting information from
diagrams and the text built around them. Focus of attention is often
indicated by visual, gestural or acoustic means.
The growing number of researchers interested in multimodal information
reflects its practical relevance, not least in the construction of
man-machine interfaces. In order to model complex multimodal
information, a notion of composite signal is called for in which
the different "threads of information" are integrated. Understanding
composite signals may be necessary for all fields of science dealing
with information, whether empirically or formally oriented. Research
in this area is bound up with logical, linguistic, computational and
philosophical problems like
- assessing the semantic contribution of information from
different sources,
- compositionality in the construction of information
- extending the notions of reference, truth and entailment in
order to capture the content of "mixed information states" and
- experimentally measuring the activity on different channels or
- investigating timing problems concerning "interleaving
threads" of information.
Despite their foundational flavour, emerging theories in this area
have applications in domains as diverse as discourse analysis
(monitoring and back-channelling behaviour), styles of reasoning,
robotics (reference resolution by pointing) and Virtual Reality
(integration of gesture and speech).
Consequently, the workshop is addressed to scholars from different
fields: We welcome experimental researchers investigating
e.g. gesture, eye movement or other means of focussing in relation to
speech. At the same time workshop contributions of linguists,
logicians or computer scientists are invited who work on the
description and the formal modelling of complex signals. Finally, work
concerning the simulation of production or understanding of complex
signals, Virtual Reality type, neural net like or other, is also
encouraged.
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For further and occassionally updated information, please visit
http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic
Kenneth Holmqvist (LUCS), Hannes Rieser (SFB360) and
Peter Kuehnlein (SFB360)
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:36:58 +0000
From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution (Correction)
(Please use this corrected version - many thanks)
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin
Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are
phenomena of active study in formal and computational linguistics
alike. The correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well
as the understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for
Natural Language Processing.
After considerable initial research, and after years of relative
silence in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the
attention of many researchers in the last 10 years and much promising
work on the topic has been reported. Discourse-orientated theories
and formalisms such as DRT and Centering have inspired new research on
the computational treatment of anaphora. The drive towards
corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further stimulated interest, for
alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In addition,
application-driven research in areas such as automatic abstracting and
information extraction, has independently identified the importance of
(and boosted the research in) anaphora and coreference resolution.
Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular importance to a number of
Natural Language Understanding applications such as dialogue and
discourse processing, has received increasing attention. The growing
interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has been demonstrated
clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC coreference task
projects and at a number of related fora (workshops, conferences,
etc.).
Against this background of expanding research and growing interest,
this special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and
timely, collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
Topics
The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel
and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited
to:
o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,
o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,
o techniques in ellipsis resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,
o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,
o applications of ellipsis resolution,
o multilingual anaphora resolution,
o evaluation issues,
o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.
In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related
to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:
o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora
resolution?
o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit
"constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?
o What is the case for languages other than English?
o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"
factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical
data can be brought to bear on this?
o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple
factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting
the antecedent?
o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?
o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora
automatically?
o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements
from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises
might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would
awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for
particular type(s) of input text?
o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic
reconstruction?
o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of
the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided
structure?
Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both
theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should
construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.
Submissions and Reviewing
The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either
electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style
details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl ) to:
Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and
details of the author (following the format given at
http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt ) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.
Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor
of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special
issue. In addition to the guest editors,
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton),
Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and
Shalom Lappin (University of London),
the guest editorial board includes the following members:
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),
Amit Bagga (GE CRD),
Claire Cardie (Cornell University),
David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),
Eugene Charniak (Brown University),
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp),
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC),
Dan Hardt (Villanova University),
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto),
Jerry Hobbs (SRI International),
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania),
Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe),
Andrew Kehler (SRI International),
Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University),
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh),
Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille),
Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),
Candy Sidner (Lotus Research),
Marilyn Walker (AT&T).
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