Corpora: Calls: Semantic lexicons in NLP

[Evelyne Viegas]

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Call for papers

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SEMANTIC LEXICONS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

 

Special issue of the French journal TAL edited by:

Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Genève) and Evelyne Viegas

(Microsoft/Natural Language Group, Redmond)

 

Submission deadline: April 1, 2001

 

http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html
<http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-semlex.html> 

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SCOPE

 

No one would argue about the importance of semantic lexicons for

Natural Language Processing applications such as machine translation,

automatic indexing, information extraction, text generation,

etc. However, there is no agreement on the type of information to use,

how to represent it or how to acquire it automatically.

 

 

This special issue directly addresses this difficult topic by

investigating

how lexical semantic theories relate to applications in NLP. We will

emphasize the following questions:

- Which theory for which application?

- How to acquire information automatically?

- How to use it in applications?

 

TOPICS (NOT LIMITATIVE)

 

- Acquisition of semantic lexicons

- Lexical semantics in NLP applications

- Generic versus specific resources?

- Which lexical semantic theory for which application?

- Types of lexical information

- Reuse of existing lexical data

 

FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS

 

Authors must use the HERMES style files for LateX and Word at

< http://www.editions-hermes.fr/
<http://www.editions-hermes.fr/%20rubrique%20Auteurs> rubrique Auteurs>.
Submissions

(30 pages maximum, double spaced, Helvetica 12) must be sent

electronically to Pierrette Bouillon

(<pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch>) and Evelyne Viegas

(<evelynev at microsoft.com>).

 

 

LANGUAGE

 

Articles can be written in French or in English, but English will only

be accepted from non-French speaking authors.

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

- Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva)

- Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrücken)

- Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa)

- Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge)

- Cécile Fabre (Univ. Toulouse-Le-Mirail, Toulouse)

- Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, Princeton)

- Thierry Fontenelle (Luxembourg)

- Mari Olsen (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond)

- Pierre Popowich (Gavagai Technology, Vancouver)

- James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston)

- Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes)

- Frédérique Segond (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble)

- Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond)

- Piek Vossen (SailLabs, Antwerpen)

- Rémi Zajac (New Mexico State University, Computing Research

Laboratory)

 

JOURNAL T.A.L. ( http://www.atala.org/tal/ <http://www.atala.org/tal/> )

 

The international journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) has

been published since 1969 by the French Association pour le Traitement

Automatique des Langues (ATALA) with the support of the Centre

National pour la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The journal TAL covers

all fields of computational linguistics and its aim is to provide

mainly (but not only) French speaking researchers and students with

publications in all domains of computational linguistics. It appears

three times a year and is distributed by HERMES.

 

T.A.L. EDITORIAL BOARD

 

Anne Abeillé (Université Paris 7)

Pierrette Bouillon (TIM/ISSCO, Geneva)

Philippe Blache (CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) -- Chief Editor

Danièle Clément (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)

Christophe d'Alessandro (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) -- Chief Editor

Anne Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)

Claire Gardent (Universität des Saarlandes) -- Chief Editor

Marc El-Bèze (Université d'Avignon)

Jean-Louis Lebrave (CNRS, Paris)

Piet Mertens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Évelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)

Bernard Victorri (ENS, Paris)

Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)