CFP: Final Call - Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition (Split, Croatia)

[Damir Ćavar]

Last Call for Papers: Workshop on Computational Modeling of Lexical 
Acquisition - The Split Meeting -

http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/

Time: 25.-28. July 2005
Location: University of Split, Croatia

Abstract submission deadline: March 23rd 2005

The Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) and the University of 
Split are pleased to sponsor the inaugural meeting of the Workshop on 
Computational Linguistics held in Split, Croatia, focusing on the topic 
of "Computational Modeling of Lexical Acquisition". We will build on 
the topics in formal-theoretical and computational linguistics, in 
particular on issues in learnability, complexity and modeling of 
lexical knowledge.

This workshop is especially intended to provide a forum for the 
presentation of unique and original research on computational 
linguistic topics in the domain of learning of lexical properties, i.e. 
lexical acquisition, including but not limited to the following topics:

a. machine learning methods for lexical acquisition
- speech and language segmentation into lexical units
- induction and learning of phonological and morphological structure
- inducing formal grammars from discovered structural properties
- learning lexical semantic properties and lexical disambiguation
- computational models of psycholinguistic aspects of lexical 
acquisition

b. corpora, evaluation and applications
- induction of part-of-speech information for tagging and automatic 
annotation (via e.g. clustering and classification, using Vector Space 
Modeling or other strategies)
- corpora for learning phonological and morphological regularities and 
a common gold standard
- applications using machine learning and automatic lexical acquisition 
(e.g. tagger, ontologies, textmining)
- evaluation strategies and methods for learning approaches

This workshop will expand into a fixed annual event organized by the 
Croatian Language Technologies Society (CLTS) to be hosted, in turn, 
and shared among all interested and committed Croatian Universities.

We strongly encourage students to participate at this workshop and join 
the tutorial sessions!

Tutorials:
- Thomas Hanneforth (University of Potsdam) "Finite State Modeling and 
the Potsdam FSMLib"
- Damir Ćavar (Indiana University) "Vector Space Modeling, Latent 
Semantic Analysis, Clustering Algorithms for Lexical Acquisition"

Mail your suggestions for additional tutorials that you would volunteer 
to teach to:  cpala at ohz.unist.hr

Publications:
Papers and presentations will be published online and on a CD-ROM 
distributed during the workshop. All tutorial material, necessary 
programs and example code will be published on the workshop CD-ROM as 
well.
Publishers will be approached for publication of the proceedings.  If 
you are interested or have suggestions, please contact:  
cpala at ohz.unist.hr

Detailed instructions on abstract submission and registration can be 
found on the following web page:

http://www.ohz.unist.hr/cpala/

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