1st Internat'l Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

***** First Call for Papers GL2001 *****

1st International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon

Organizers:
Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO/TIM, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)

Date:
April 27-29, 2001

Location:
University of Geneva,
Geneva,
Switzerland

Topic:
The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse contributions in
philosophy, linguistics, computer science and lexicography to explore
the lexicon from the point of view of generativity.  The discussions
will be centered, but are not limited to, the newly emerging view of
Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky, 1995).

- Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach
- Representation of Word Meaning
- Generative Lexicon Theory
- Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena
- Building Lexical Resources
- Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications
- Lexical Rules
- Framework for Lexical Semantics
- Critical Perspectives

The conference will be held over a period of two and a half days.  Long
(45 min) and short (20 min) presentations are foreseen.  Invited
speakers include James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University.

Submission procedure:
Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 7 single-column
pages (including references) using a 12' body font size together with a
separate page specifying the author's name, affiliation, address, e-mail
address, title and type of paper (long or short).  The papers should be
submitted electronically (in postscript, rtf or pdf format) to both:
pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch and kanzaki at crl.go.jp.

Language:
All the papers must be submitted and presented in English.  Accepted
papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop.

Important dates:
Paper due: October 16th, 2000
Acceptance/rejection notice: December 20th, 2000
Final version due: February 15th, 2001
Conference: April 27-29, 2001

Workshop Chairs:
Pierrette Bouillon
Kyoko Kanzaki

Program Committee:
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO/TIM, Geneva)
Federica Busa (Lexeme, Inc, Boston)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa)
Ann Copestake (Center for the Study of Language and Information, Standford)
Laurence Danlos (University of Paris VII, Paris)
Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan)
Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh)
Jacques Jayez (EHESS-CELITH, Paris)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston)
Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse)
Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes)
Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle)
(others to be confirmed)

For any information, please contact:

Pierrette Bouillon
ISSCO/TIM
40, bvd du Pont-d'Arve
CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland)
email : Pierrette.Bouillon at issco.unige.ch
Tel: +41/22/705 86 79
Fax: +41/22/705 86 89
http://issco-www.unige.ch/conf.html