Final Call for Papers: EACL 2006 Workshop Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions

[Beata Trawinski]

EACL 2006 Workshop

Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions

3 April, 2006
Trento, Italy

* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The Third ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on Prepositions will be hosted in 
conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the 
Association for Computational Linguistics on April 3, 2006, in Trento, 
Italy.

* BACKGROUND

Prepositions have received a considerable amount of attention in recent 
years, due to their importance in computational tasks. For instance, in 
NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention, and 
different machine learning techniques have been employed with varying 
degrees of success. Researchers from various perspectives have also 
looked at spatial or temporal aspects of prepositions, and their 
cross-linguistic differences, monolingual and cross-linguistic contrasts 
or the role of prepositions in syntactic alternations. Moreover, in 
languages like English and German, phrasal verbs have also been the 
subject of considerable effort, ranging from techniques for their 
automatic extraction from corpora, to methods for the determination of 
their semantics. In other languages, like Romance languages or Hindi, 
the focus has been either on the incorporation of the preposition or its 
inclusion in the prepositional phrase. All these configurations are of 
much interest semantically as well as syntactically.

* TOPICS

Papers are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

     * Descriptions:

       prepositions in lexical resources (WordNet, Framenet), productive 
versus collocation uses, multilingual descriptions (mismatches, 
incorporation, divergences), prepositions and thematic roles.

     * Applications:

       dealing with prepositions in applications e.g. for Machine 
Translation, Information extraction or Language Generation.

     * Representation of Prepositions:

       prepositions in knowledge bases, cognitive or logic-based 
formalisms for the description of the semantics of prepositions (in 
isolation, and in composition/confrontation with the verb and the NP), 
compositional semantics; implications for AI and KR.

     * Prepositions in reasoning procedures:

       how different kinds of preposition provide distinct challenges to 
a reasoning system and how they can be handled.

     * Cognitive dimensions of prepositions:

       how different kinds of prepositions are 
acquired/interpreted/represented, in terms of human and/or computational 
processing.


* IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: January 6, 2006
Notification date: January 27, 2006
Camera-ready submission deadline: February 10, 2006
Workshop date: April 3, 2006

As the schedule is extremely tight, there is no scope for a deadline 
extension.

* SUBMISSIONS DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit either full papers or short papers on 
original, unpublished work in the topic area of this workshop. Full 
papers should be up to 8 pages in length; they should emphasize 
completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly 
the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, 
concrete evaluation results should be included. Short papers should be 
up to 6 pages in length; they can describe work in progress rather than 
completed work, or smaller-scale implementation/experimentation. 
Presentations for short papers will be proportionately shorter than 
presentations for full papers. Submissions will be judged on 
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance 
to the workshop, and interest to the attendees.

Submissions should be formatted using the EACL 2006 stylefiles without 
overt author and affiliation information and not exceeding 8 pages. The 
EACL 2006 stylefiles are available from:

http://eacl06.itc.it/submission/submission.htm

Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via the START 
Conference Manager at:

http://www.softconf.com/start/EACL06_WS05/

The contact author of the paper will receive an auto-generated 
notification of receipt via email.

Dual submissions to the main EACL 2006 conference and this workshop are 
allowed, although you must make sure to indicate this in your 
submission. If your paper is accepted for the main conference, you 
should withdraw your paper from the workshop immediately upon notification.

Address any queries regarding the submission process to:

prep-eacl2006 at unimelb.edu.au

* REGISTRATION

Information on registration and registration fees will be provided on 
the EACL 2006 conference web page.

* ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Boban Arsenijevic (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
Doug Arnold (University of Essex, UK)
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia)
John Beavers (Stanford University, USA)
Bob Borsley (University of Essex, UK)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy)
Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, UK)
Markus Egg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA)
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany)
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Tracy Holloway King (PARC, USA)
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany)
Ken Litkowski (CL Research, USA)
Alda Mari (CNRS / ENST Infres, France)
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Stephen Pulman (University of Oxford, UK)
Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, France)
Beata Trawinski (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Jesse Tseng (Loria, France)
Hans Uszkoreit (Saarland University and DFKI)
Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Martin Volk (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden)
Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

* FURTHER INFORMATION

Workshop web page

http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~tim/events/eacl2006/


Conference web page

http://eacl06.itc.it/


EACL 2006 Workshops site

http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/EACL2006Workshops/


* CONTACT INFORMATION

prep-eacl2006 at unimelb.edu.au