[Corpora-List] TextGraphs-6 - Call for Papers - ACL-HLT 2011 Workshop

[Rada Mihalcea]

I would say "graphs for NLP" is not really a new term -- it's just putting
together the graph representations and algorithms from the relatively old
field of Graph Theory, and NLP.

In addition to semantic networks, which are indeed an instance of "graphs
for NLP," there is also a lot of work involving syntactic graphs,
discourse graphs, graphs built using sentence or document relations, etc -
so I think this area of work is broader than just semantic networks.

Rada

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, John F. Sowa wrote:

>On 2/6/2011 3:10 PM, TextGraphs-6 wrote:
>> TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
>
>The term 'semantic network' was coined at the Cambridge Language
>Research Unit (CLRU) a half century ago for "Graph-based Methods
>for Natural Language Processing".  See, for example,
>
>    http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/semnet.htm
>
>Why would anybody coin a new term?
>
>There is a tradition in AI and NLP to change terminology every
>10 or 20 years so that all the old R & D can be ignored.  That
>practice establishes a new COTD (Change of Terminology Date),
>which makes it easier to publish and patent "new" ideas.
>
>John Sowa
>
>
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