[Corpora-List] call for papers

[Michael ZOCK]

Call for papers for the special issue of the TAL journal

Title: ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES, FOR MEN, MACHINES OR FOR BOTH?

Submission deadline: 15 December 2002

Guest Editors: Michael Zock (CNRS, LIMSI) & John Carroll (University
of Sussex).

http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-dictionnaires-electroniques.html

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Dictionaries are the backbone of any NLP system. Understanding and
producing text, translation, summarisation, dialog, indexing or
finding information in a document all require lexical competency
represented in computers as a lexical resource / dictionary.

A good dictionary is characterized by the following features: broad
coverage (number of entries), rich annotation (a lot of information
associated with each entry) and ease of access of the information.

If electronic dictionaries compare favourably with paper dictionaries
(size, ease of access), they are still far from perfect in particular
with regard to content and access. Coverage is certainly not the only
criterion for evaluating a dictionary, because, what is a large
dictionary good for if the data is not easily accessible?

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The goal of this special issue is to discuss challenges inherent to
the building and use of electronic dictionaries and approaches and
techniques to address them. We welcome work on any of the following
issues:

  o the problem of building a dictionary (method, know-how);
  o types of information to be stored in a dictionary;
  o representation, structuring (indexing) and visualisation of the data;
  o the problem of accessing information (aids for navigation,
interface, strategies);
  o acquisition of lexical data (corpus), reuse of existing data;
  o coherency checking;
  o problems related to multilinguality;
  o possibilities given to the user or lexicographer to edit entries
(annotation, updating);
  o the usage of dictionaries by people (learning/teaching; writing)
and by machines (NLP).

Given the wide spectrum of needs we welcome work from any of the
following perspectives, linguistics, computer science,
psycholinguistics, language learning, ergonomics, etc. provided the
contibution contains a computational element.

Reviewers
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- Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
- Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Pisa)
- Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princeton)
- Charles Fillmore (University of Berkeley)
- Ulrich Heid (IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart)
- Jean-Marie Pierrel (ATILF, Nancy)
- Alain Polguère (University of Montreal)
- Thiery Selva (GRELEP, K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
- Gilles Sérasset (GETA, Grenoble)
- Monique Slodzian (CRIM, INALCO, Paris)
- Patrick St. Dizier (University of Toulouse)
- Jean Véronis (University of Aix en Provence)
- Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands)
- Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)


Format
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Papers (25 pages maximum) may be submitted in Word, Postscript or
PDF. The Hermes style sheets are available at Lavoisier and from the
TAL journal web site (http://www.atala.org/tal/hermes/cons_actes.htm).


Language
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The papers may be written either in French or in English (non-French
speaking authors only)

Schedule
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The submission deadline is 15 December 2002. People intending to
submit a paper should contact Michael Zock (zock at limsi.fr) before
October 31st.

Articles will be reviewed by a member of the editorial board of the
journal (http://www.atala.org/tal/redaction.html) and two external
reviewers chosen by the editors of the special issue. Editorial board
decisions and referees' reports will be transmitted to the authors by
March 1st, 2003.

Final versions of accepted papers will be required by June 1st, 2003.
Publication is planned for the summer of 2003.

Submission
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Submissions (25 pages maximum, following the Hermes style sheet)
should be sent either electronically (zock at limsi.fr), or by surface
mail (five copies) to

Michael Zock
Limsi-CNRS, B.P. 133
F-91403 Orsay-Cedex, FRANCE
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