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                  STEP 2008: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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               Symposium on Semantics in Text Processing

          http://project.cgm.unive.it/html/STEP2008/index.htm

                         September 22-24, 2008

                   Ca' Dolfin, Universita` Ca' Foscari
                           Venice (Italy)

          Endorsed by SIGSEM, the ACL special interest group
                    on computational semantics


  WORKSHOP SCOPE
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  The goal of the STEP workshop is to provide a forum for anyone
  active in semantic processing of text to discuss innovative
  technologies, representation issues, inference techniques,
  prototype implementations, and real applications.


  INVITED SPEAKERS
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  Harry Bunt (University of Tilburg)
  "A New Life for Semantic Annotations?"

  Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas)
  "Semantic Processing in Textual Question Answering"


  PROGRAMME, Monday 22nd
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Montse Cuadros and German Rigau. KnowNet: A proposal for building  
highly connected and dense knowledge bases from the web.

Pierpaolo Basile, Marco de Gemmis, Pasquale Lops and Giovanni  
Semeraro. Combining Knowledge-based Methods and Supervised Learning.

Benjamin Van Durme and Lenhart Schubert. Open Knowledge Extraction  
through Compositional Language Processing.

Peter Clark, Christiane Fellbaum, Jerry Hobbs, Phil Harrison, William  
Murray and John Thompson. Augmenting WordNet for Deep Understanding  
of Text.

Rob Koeling and Diana McCarthy. From Predicting Predominant Senses to  
Using Local Context for Word Sense Disambiguation.

Emily M. Bender and David Goss-Grubbs. Semantic Representations of  
Syntactically Marked Discourse Status in Crosslinguistic Perspective.

Lionel Fontan and Saint-Dizier Patrick. Analyzing the explanation  
structure of procedural texts: dealing with Advice and Warnings.

Manfred Stede. Connective-based local coherence analysis: Recognizing  
causal relationships.

Nils Reiter, Matthias Hartung and Anette Frank. A Resource-Poor  
Approach for Linking Ontology Classes to Wikipedia Articles.

Doina Tatar, Andreea Mihis and Gabriela Serban. Top-down Cohesion  
Segmentation in Summarization.

Delphine Battistelli, Javier Couto, Jean-Luc Minel and Sylviane  
Schwer. Representing and visualizing calendar expressions in texts.

Udo Kruschwitz, Jon Chamberlain and Massimo Poesio. Addressing the  
Resource Bottleneck to Create Large-Scale Annotated Texts.

Rodrigo Agerri, John Barnden, Mark Lee and Alan Wallington. Textual  
Entailment as an Evaluation Framework for Metaphor Resolution.

Peter Clark, Phil Harrison, William Murray and John Thompson.
Boeing's NLP System, and the Challenges of Semantic Representations.

Johan Bos. Wide-Coverage Semantic Analysis with Boxer

Rodolfo Delmonte. Semantic and Pragmatic Computing with GETARUNS.

Antonio Branco and Francisco Costa. LXGram in the Shared Task  
"Comparing Semantic Representations" of STEP2008.

Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. Baseline  
Evaluation of WSD and Semantic Dependency in OntoSem.

Charles Callaway. The TextCap Semantic Interpreter.

James Allen. Deep Semantic Analysis of Text.


  PROGRAMME, Tuesday 23rd
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Invited Speaker - Harry Bunt
A New Life for Semantic Annotations?

Maria Liakata and Stephen Pulman. Automatic fine grained semantic  
classification of domain adaptation.

Irene Cramer. How Well Do Semantic Relatedness Measures Perform: A  
Meta-Study.

Evguenia Malaia, John Borneman and Ronnie Wilbur. Analysis of ASL  
motion capture data towards identification of verb type.

Diego De Cao, Danilo Croce, Marco Pennacchiotti and Roberto Basili.  
Combining word sense and usage for modeling frame semantics.

Allan Ramsay and Debora Georgia Field. Everyday language is highly  
intensional.

Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg. The Idiom-Reference Connection.

Antonio Branco and Francisco Costa. High Precision Analysis of NPs  
with a Deep Processing Grammar.

Livio Robaldo, Eleni Miltsakaki and Jerry Hobbs. Refining the Meaning  
of Sense Labels in PDTB: Concession.


  PROGRAMME, Wednesday 24th
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Invited Speaker - Sanda Harabagiu
Semantic Processing in Textual Question Answering.

Rodolfo Delmonte and Emanuele Pianta. Answering WHY-questions in  
Closed Domains from a Discourse Model.

Marjorie McShane, Sergei Nirenburg and Stephen Beale. Resolving  
Paraphrases to Support Modeling Language Perception in an Intelligent  
Agent.

Closing Remarks


  ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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  Rodolfo Delmonte (Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice)
  Johan Bos (Universita' La Sapienza, Rome)


  PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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  Roberto Basili (University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)
  Amedeo Cappelli (CELCT, Trento Italy)
  Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
  Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy)
  Sanda Harabagiu (HLT, University of Texas, USA)
  Alexander Koller (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  Leonardo Lesmo (DI, University of Tourin, Italy)
  Katja Markert (University of Leeds, UK)
  Dan Moldovan (HLT, University of Texas, USA)
  Srini Narayanan (ICSI, Berkeley, USA)
  Sergei Nirenburg (University of Maryland, USA)
  Malvina Nissim (University of Bologna, Italy)
  Vincenzo Pallotta (Universitaet Freiburg, Schweiz)
  Emanuele Pianta (ITC, Trento, Italy)
  Massimo Poesio (University of Trento, Italy)
  Stephen Pulman (Oxford University, UK)
  Michael Schiehlen (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
  Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)


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