[Corpora-List] Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004): Deadline extended!

[Girju, Corina R.]

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Final Call for Papers and Participation         
!! Deadline extended: February 2nd, 2004 !!
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                          Computational Lexical Semantics
                    Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2004
               (http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html)
                                        May 6, 2004
                           The Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
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Workshop Lexical semantics is the study of word semantic properties in context
and it is at the core of NLP and many of its applications. Recently, there has
been a renewed interest in text semantics fueled in part by the complexity of
some major research initiatives, such as Question Answering, Text
Summarization, Machine Translation, Information Extraction, Reasoning, and
others. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from
academia, government, and industry interested in text understanding, lexical
semantics, knowledge representation, question answering, information retrieval,
machine translation, and speech processing to submit papers reporting on recent
advances and new perspectives in computational lexical semantics, including but
not limited to the following topics:
not limited to the following topics:
*       semantically based language models;
*       information retrieval using semantics;
*       complex nominals - acquisition and interpretation;
*       polysemy and sense boundaries;
*       semantic roles and other semantic relations;
*       verb semantic classes and alternations;
*       semantics of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions;
*       metonymy and metaphor;
*       the role of context in lexical semantics;
*       representation issues in lexical semantics;
*       tools and resources;
*       evaluation of systems;
Papers describing applications of natural language, speech understanding, and
information retrieval that use lexical semantics are especially welcome.

Important Dates:

Monday, Feb. 2, 2004         Paper submission deadline (!! Extended !!)
Monday, Feb. 23, 2004       Notification of acceptance
Monday, March 1, 2004     Camera ready version deadline
Thursday, May 6, 2004      Workshop

Workshop Format:

The desired workshop length is one day of approximately 6 hours of paper
presentations. We expect to accept between 15 - 18 papers  (20 - 30 minutes /
paper).

Submission Format:

The papers should be of maximum 8 pages (including references) submitted in
electronic form (ps or pdf) following the style provided by the HLT/NAACL-04
conference. All submissions must be original, previously unpublished work and
should not identify the author(s). The papers should be attached to an email
indicating the contact authors, paper's title, and appropriate subject areas
under which the paper can be classified. Please submit the papers via email to
Roxana Girju (Roxana_Girju at baylor.edu).

Program Committee:

Dan Moldovan                     University of Texas at Dallas (Co-chair)
Roxana Girju                          Baylor University, USA (Co-chair)
Jade Goldstein                      DoD, USA
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglu    Columbia University, USA
Marti Hearst                          U.C. Berkeley, USA
Mirella Lapata                       University of Sheffield, UK
Martha Palmer                       University of Pennsylvania, USA
John Prange                          ARDA, USA
James Pustejovsky               Brandeis University, USA
Carol Van Ess-Dykema        DoD, USA

Contact:

Interested participants should send their questions to Roxana Girju
(Roxana_Girju at baylor.edu).