Corpora: SIGLEX Workshop on Word Senses and MultiLinguality: Program

[Nancy M. Ide]

                      ACL 2000 Workshop

               WORD SENSES AND MULTI-LINGUALITY

Sponsored by the ACL Special Interest Group for the Lexicon (SIGLEX)
                9:00-12:00 AM, October 7, 2000
        Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

      http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/siglex00.html

With an increasingly global economy and the explosive growth of the
"World" in "World Wide Web", the computational linguistics community
is faced as never before with the challenges and opportunities of
multi-linguality. At the same time, the community has returned with
renewed enthusiasm to problems of word meaning, especially the
delineation and discrimination of word senses.  An intimate
relationship between the two issues is becoming apparent -- for
example, in the consideration of translation equivalence in parallel
corpora, the construction of multilingual ontologies, and the
examination of senses in relation to specific natural language
applications such as machine translation, information retrieval,
summarization, etc. The issue of multi-lingual approaches to sense
distinctions was also a central topic of discussion at the first
SENSEVAL conference in 1998, and is one of the areas to be covered at
SENSEVAL-2 (to be held in Spring 2001).

This workshop will address problems of word sense disambiguation and
delineation of appropriate sense distinctions, with specific emphasis
on approaches that involve more than one language and the ways in
which observations about cross-linguistic equivalence affect our
consideration of sense divisions in the individual languages. More
generally, we seek to foster discussion and exchanges of insight in
any area of computational linguistics where a non-monolingual approach
to word sense issues is being taken.



                       Provisional Program

9:00-9:15   OPENING AND OVERVIEW

9:15-9:45   An Unsupervised Method for Multilingual Word Sense Tagging
            Using Parallel Corpora
              Mona Diab, University of Maryland , USA

9:45-10:15  Sense Clusters for Information Retrieval: Evidence from
            SemCor and the EuroWordNet InterLingual Index
              Irina Chugar, Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain

10:15-10:30 COFFEE BREAK

10:30-11:00 Chinese-Japanese Cross Language Information Retrieval:
            A Han Character Based Approach
              Maruf Hasan, Yuji Matsumoto, NARA Inst., Japan

11:00-11:30 Experiments in Word Domain Disambiguation for Parallel
            Texts
              Bernardo Magnini, Carlo Strapparava, IRST, Italy

11:30-12:00 DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY

12:00-12:15 SIGLEX Business Meeting



Workshop Organizers

       Nancy Ide, Charles Fillmore, Philip Resnik, David Yarowsky

Program Committee

       Helge Dyvik, University of Bergen
       Nancy Ide, Vassar College
       Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University
       Charles Fillmore, UC Berkeley and ICSI
       Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton
       Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania
       Philip Resnik, University of Maryland
       Evelyne Viegas, Microsoft Corporation
       David Yarowsky, Johns Hopkins University