[Corpora-List] Call for papers: Lexical structure - Pavia

[Andrea Sanso`]

Subject: 2nd Call for papers: Lexical structure/Pavia, Italy

Title: International Colloquium on Word structure and lexical systems: models
and applications
Short title: Lexical Structure

Date: December 16-17, 2004
Location: University of Pavia, Italy
Contact: Elisabetta Jezek
Contact e-mail: jezek at unipv.it
Meeting URL: http://dobc.unipv.it/linguistica

Linguistic sub-field: general linguistics, lexicology, semantics
Call deadline: September 30, 2004

Meeting description
In light of the central role recently assigned to the lexicon in linguistic
theories, the colloquium aims at bringing together researchers from various
theoretical backgrounds who carry out investigations in the following areas:
-	description and representation of lexical information (i.e. semantic,
syntactic, combinatorial information);
-	investigation of the properties of words and word classes from an
interface perspective (i.e. interrelation between semantic/aspectual properties
of words and their syntactic behavior);
-	elaboration of dynamic models of meaning representation, considering
the limits of the compositionality principle in semantics;
-	identification of  recurrent patterns of meaning/form relation in world
languages with reference to the organization of their lexicons (i.e. ways of
compacting semantic components in lexical items);
-	description and representation of syntagmatic phenomena concerning the
lexicon (i.e. multiword expressions, collocations, light verb constructions
etc.);
-	application of lexical models for various purposes (development of
computational tools for language learning, texts production; compilation of
lexicographic sources, databases; corpus annotation; extraction of lexical
information from corpora).
The focus of the colloquium is both on the description and representation of
lexical information and on the principles and levels of organization of entire
lexicons. The purpose is to give an overall view of the most recent
acquisitions in these domains, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the
various theoretical proposals, and define the most promising perspectives of
study.

Invited Speakers
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa), Ulrich
Heid (Universitaet Stuttgart), James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Waltham,
Mass.), Raffaele Simone (Universita' di Roma Tre, Roma), Piek Vossen (Irion
Technologies, Delft)

Activities
-	lecturers by invited speakers
-	presentations by other participants
-	posters

Colloquium venue
Universita' di Pavia, Aula Volta, Palazzo Centrale, Strada Nuova 65, Pavia

Call for papers
Abstracts are invited for presentations and for posters. Please submit a
one-page abstract to: Lexical Structure Conference Committee, Universit di
Pavia, Dipartimento di Linguistica, Strada Nuova 65, 27100 Pavia
Send abstract by fax (+390382504487), by priority mail (to the above mentioned
address) or, preferably, by email to: jezek at unipv.it

Deadline
All submissions must be received by September 30, 2004. Acceptance will be
notified via e-mail on October, 15.

Important dates:
September, 30: deadline for abstracts
October, 15: notification of acceptance
December, 16-17: colloquium

Scientific committee
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa),
Elisabetta Jezek (Universita' di Pavia), Raffaele Simone (Universita' di Roma
Tre), Paolo Ramat (Universita' di Pavia), Michele Prandi (Universita' di
Bologna)

Organizing committee
Elisabetta Jezek, Amira Lakhdhar, Stefano Rastelli, Andrea Sanso'