IWCS-4 Program and Call for Participation
Harry Bunt
Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
Mon Dec 4 12:17:40 UTC 2000
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Fourth International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS
10-12 January 2001
Tilburg, The Netherlands
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The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at
Tilburg University will host the Third Workshop on Computational
Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10 -12 January 2001.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers interested
in any aspects of the computation of meaning in natural language
or in language-based multimedia objects.
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* INVITED SPEAKERS: *
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* James Allen (U. Rochester) *
* Jan van Eijck (U. Utrecht) *
* Alex Lascarides (U. Edinburgh) *
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The workshop focuses on the study of computational aspects of semantic
theories, on theoretical issues in the development of natural language
understanding systems, and on tools, methodologies, and techniques for
computer interpretation of natural language. Some of the topics that
figure prominently in the workshop program are:
* working with underspecified representations of meaning
* modelling and using context in interpretation
* the relations between semantics and pragmatics
* dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
* interpretation and games
* incrementality and monotonicity in the computation of meaning
* computational lexical semantics
* speech acts and interpretation
* semantics and pragmatics in language generation
* computational aspects of meaning in discourse discourse
* knowledge representation and reasoning in interpretation.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
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Wednesday, January 10
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James Allen: invited talk
Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory and Shalom Lappin: SHARDS: Fragment
resolution in dialogue
Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Bonnie Webber: Concession, implicature,
and alternative sets
Rodger Kibble: Inducing rhetorical structure via nested update semantics
short presentations: Roland Hausser, Elena Karagjasova, Ruth Kempson,
Jan van Kuppevelt, Birte Loenneker, Jon Patrick
Emiel Krahmer and Mark Swerts: Meaning and intonation: the cases of
contrastive accent and met-linguistic negation
Alistair Butler: Sentences with exhaustification
Robert van Rooy: The pragmatics of mention-some readings of questions
Patrick Saint-Dizier and Gloria Vazquez: A compositional framework
for prepositions
Nicolas Denand: Answering the question Where? - some experimental results
Andrea Zielinski: A treatment of scope in MT
Thursday, January 11
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Jan van Eijck: Context semantics for NL
Michel Gagnon, Elena Godoy and Rogerio de Oliveira: An implementation
of DRT for a compositional Interpretation of the Portuguese progressive
form
Helen Seville and Allan Ramsay: Capturing sense in intensional contexts
Massimo Poesio and Uwe Reyle: Underspecification in anaphoric reference
Diego Molla: Ontologically promiscuous flat logical forms for NLP
short presentations: Pascal Boldini, David McDonald, Gregers Koch,
Isabelle Debourges/S.Guillore/C.Vrain,
Allan Ramsay & Helen Seville,
Serge Sharoff & Lena Sokolova
Dick Crouch, Anette Frank and Josef van Genabith: Linear logic based
transfer and structural misalignment
Theo Janssen: On the interpretation of IF logic
Rene Ahn: Observable types: a computational approach to meaning
Norihiro Ogata: A type theory for typing, meta-typing, and ontological
information in discourse
ACL SIGSEM business meeting
Friday, January 12
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Alex Lascarides: Why dynamic semantics needs discourse structure
(invited talk)
Kees van Deemter: Generating referring expressions: beyond the
incremental algorithm
Claire Gardent and Katarina Striegnitz: Generating indirect anaphora
Frank van Eynde: Rules or constraints for modeling tense
Sven Verdoolaege, Marc Denecker, Ness Schelkens, Danny De Schreye
and Frank van Eynde: Abductive reasoning with temporal information
George Demetriou and Eric Atwell: A domain-independent semantic tagger
for the study of meaning associations in English text
Closing at lunchtime
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Information about hotels, about how to travel to Tilburg and the
conference site, etc. can be found at the IWCS-4 web pages; see
http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html
For any questions about the program contact Harry Bunt at kub.nl;
for all other matters contact the conference secretariat:
Carol Mcgregor
Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
phone: +31 13 466 83 81
fax: +31 13 466 31 10
email: C.J.McGregor at kub.nl
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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To register, either use the registration possibilities at the IWCS-4
web pages or fill out the registration form below and return it to the
conference scretary Ms Carol McGregor at C.J.McGregor at kub.nl
(or by fax or by traditional mail; see addresses below).
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IWCS-4 REGISTRATION FORM
Name: ________________________________________
Institute: ________________________________________
Department: ________________________________________
Address: ________________________________________
________________________________________
________________________________________
Telephone: ________________________________________
Fax: ________________________________________
Email: ________________________________________
Registration fee is 295 Dutch guilders
(approx. 120 US$, or 135 Euros) when
registering before December 21.
For registration after December 21 the
participation fee is NLG 325.
The fee includes
* Participation in 2.5 days program
* 1 copy of proceedings
* 2 x lunch
* 8 x coffee/tea
* Reception
For undergraduate students a reduced fee is offered
which only includes participation and proceedings.
Method of Calculate any transfer charges, as we must receive the
payment: full registration fee. Any shortfall in fees will have
to be paid on arrival at the workshop.
On your payment, please indicate your name, and mention
code 8270.W 367, IWCS 4, Tilburg University, Faculty
of Arts.
() Via bank transfer:
In Dutch guilders to bank account 45 50 46 042.
ABN AMRO Bank, Heuvelring 88, P.O.Box 8, NL-5000 AA,
Tilburg, The Netherlands
or to Postbank account 23 86 602 (only within the
Netherlands).
() By credit card:
Company: Visa/MasterCard/American Express
Number: ________________________________
Expiration date: ____________________________
(If you prefer not to use email to transfer this
information, please send us a fax.)
HOTEL INFORMATION
A number of rooms have been reserved at the following
hotels. (Note: the city center is 5-10 minutes walking
from the central railway station. All hotels are at
approximately the same distance from the conference venue.)
If you wish, we can make reservations for you
Lodging () Hotel Mercure (city center)
Heuvelpoort 300
NL-5038 DT Tilburg
phone: +31-13-535 46 75
fax: +31-13-535 58 75
NLG 192,50 per night, inc. breakfast.
() Hotel Lindeboom (city center)
Heuvelring 126
NL-5038 CL Tilburg
phone: +31-13-535 13 55
fax: +31-13-536 10 85
NLG 150,- per night, inc. breakfast.
() Hotel Central (city center) ALREADY BOOKED FULL
Spoorlaan 422
NL-5038 CG Tilburg
phone: +31-13-543 62 34
fax: +31-13-544 11 01
NLG 85,- per night, inc. breakfast.
Please make reservations in the hotel I checked above,
number of persons: __
date of arrival: January __
date of departure: January __ .
() Do not make any hotel reservations for me
Send this form to:
Carol McGregor
Tilburg University
Faculty of Arts
P.O.Box 90153
NL-5000 LE Tilburg
The Netherlands
C.J.McGregor at kub.nl
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Harry C. Bunt
Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
Tilburg University
P.O. Box 90153
5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
2568 (Dean's office)
2653 (office, room B 310)
Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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