CFP / workshop announcement

[Joan BUSQUETS]

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>                        CALL for PAPERS
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>                        WORKSHOP on
>        "THEORETICAL BASES FOR SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS IN NLP :
>The expression of time, space and movement in lexicon, discourse and dialogue"
>in conjunction with the TALN'99 conference on Natural Language Processing
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>                Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corsica)
>                        12-16 July 1999
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>TOPICS
>This workshop aims at presenting and discussing current theoretic
>approaches to semantics and pragmatics stemming from the formal semantics
>tradition. In order to prompt in-depth discussions between participants,
>the debate will focus on the analysis of time, space and motion in
>language. Besides their general importance, it is expected that these
>topics reveal how tightly grammatical semantics, lexical semantics,
>discourse semantics and discourse and dialogue pragmatics are intertwined.
>Papers discussing the role of semantics and pragmatics in NLP and the
>significance of the formal approaches presented as theoretical bases for
>NLP in the future are especially welcome.
>
>The workshop will deal, amongst others, with the following topics:
>- semantics and pragmatics of discourse and dialogue
>- anaphora (cross sentential and cross speakers)
>- beliefs and intentions
>- discourse and dialogue structure (especially spatiotemporal structure)
>- lexicon of space and time
>- world knowledge and bridging
>- ontology of time and space for lexicon and world knowledge
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>THE WORKSHOP
>The workshop will be held during the TALN'99 conference at Cargese in
>Corsica. It will consist of four 1h30 sessions over four days (July 12th,
>13th, 15th and 16th). There will be 2 invited lectures and about 10 talks
>of 30 minutes (including discussion) selected by the program committee.
>Proceedings will be available at the workshop.
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>ORGANIZERS & CONTACT PERSONS
>Myriam BRAS (IRIT-Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)
>Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse)
>email : bras at irit.fr, vieu at irit.fr
>address : IRIT, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 4
>tel : +33 5 61 55 60 91   fax : +33 5 61 55 83 25
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>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
>Myriam Bras, IRIT & Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
>Laure Vieu, IRIT & CNRS, Toulouse, France
>Nicholas Asher, University of Texas at Austin, USA
>Michel Aurnague, ERSS, Toulouse, France
>Mario Borillo, IRIT, Toulouse, France
>Joan Busquets, ERSS & Université de Bordeaux, France
>Jacques Moeschler, Université de Genève, Switzerland
>Uwe Reyle, IMS & Université de Stuttgart, Germany
>Co Vet, University of Groningen, Holland
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>SUBMISSIONS
>Researchers in the area are encouraged to submit a twelve-page paper.
>(Participation on later submission of a short position paper will also be
>possible).
>As we do not have much time, only electronical submission will be proposed
>at: bras at irit.fr, vieu at irit.fr
>DEADLINE : MARCH, 12 1999.
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>SUBMISSION FORMAT
>- self-contained LaTeX source AND DVI files
>     OR
>- MSWord source AND RTF files AND confirmation by fax: +33 5 61 25 83 55
>Authors are requested to use the TALN'99 styles, see:
>http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/styles/
>(Note that these styles have been designed for the main conference and
>therefore the information regarding length, deadline and submission doesn't
>matching that of the workshop)
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>WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
>official languages for communications are French and English
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>SCHEDULE
>March 12, 99: Deadline for submissions
>April 28, 99: Notification of acceptance
>May 12, 99: Deadline for final copy
>July 12, 99: Workshop
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>REGISTRATION
>Workshop contributors are required to register for TALN99, without any
>additional fees.
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>INFORMATION
>For further information on TALN'99, please visit the TALN99 web site at
>http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/
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