7.761, Confs: Spatial Expressions, Semantic Lexicons
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Subject: 7.761, Confs: Spatial Expressions, Semantic Lexicons
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Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 18:08:20 BST
From: plo at osfb.aber.ac.uk (PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER)
Subject: ECAI-96 Workshop on Spatial Expressions
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:16:51 MDT
From: viegas at crl.nmsu.edu (Evelyne Viegas)
Subject: SIGLEX96 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION for "Breadth and Depth of Semantic
Lexicons"
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Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 18:08:20 BST
From: plo at osfb.aber.ac.uk (PATRICK LUKE OLIVIER)
Subject: ECAI-96 Workshop on Spatial Expressions
PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
ECAI-96 Workshop
Representation and Processing of Spatial Expressions
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-96)
Budapest University of Economics
Budapest, Hungary
Tuesday 13th August 1996
Following the success of the first workshop held at IJCAI-95 in
Montreal, the 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of
Spatial Expressions is to be held at ECAI-96 in Budapest, Hungary on
Tuesday 13th August 1996.
Though here are been many different approaches to the representation
and processing of spatial expressions, most existing computational
treatments have been restricted to particularly narrow problem
domains, usually specific spatial contexts determined by overall
system goals. To date, AI research in this field has rarely taken
advantage of studies of language and spatial cognition carried out by
the cognitive science community. One of the intentions of this
workshop is to bring together researchers from both disciplines in the
belief that artificial intelligence has much to gain from an
appreciation of cognitive theories.
The workshop will consist of formal presentations, prepared
commentaries on presenations and two ``taking issue'' discussions
sessions (on ''Function'' and ``Shape'') led our invited speakers.
PROGRAM
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08.45 Welcome and workshop overview.
09.00 ``Representation of Spatial Knowledge: French Spatial Prepositions''
Pierre Sablayrolles
09.30 ``Representing Route Networks for some Cases of Motion Description''
Phillipe Muller
10.00 ``An Anthropomorphic Agent for the Use of Spatial Language''
10.30 COFFEE
11.00 TAKING ISSUE SESSION -- Function and Spatial Descriptions
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Kenny Coventry (Plymouth, UK) is the invited speaker and will lead a
structured hour-long session on the relationship between notions of
object use and the interpretation of spatial descriptions, this will
include an introduction to the topic, break out groups and an open-
floor key issue discussion.
12.00 ``Fuzzy Relational Algebras and Spatial Reasoning''
Joaquim A. Jorge and Dragos Vaida
12.30 LUNCH
14.00 ``Mental Frames For Interpreting Direction Terms''
David J. Bryant
14.30 ``Multimodal Interactions Between Drivers and Codrivers On-Board''
Xavier Briffault and Michel Denis
15.00 ``Generating Spatial Descriptions from a Cognitive Point of View''
Robert Porzel, Martin Jansche and Ralf Meyer-Klabunde
15.30 COFFEE
16.00 TAKING ISSUE SESSION -- Language and Shape
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Bryan Heidorn (UIUC, USA) is the invited speaker and will lead a
structured hour-long session on the still under-researched field of
spatial descriptions of shape, this will include an introduction to
the topic, break out groups and an open-floor key issue discussion.
17.00 ``The Real Story of Over''
Kenny Coventry and Gaynor Mather
17.30 Closing comments and discussion
20.00 Workshop Social Evening
WORKSHOP COMMITTEE
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Klaus-Peter Gapp (Saarbruecken, Germany)
Amitabha Mukerjee (IIT, Kanpur, India)
Patrick Olivier (University of Wales, UK)
Simone Pribbenow (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Joerg Schirra (University of Bremen, Germany)
Laure Vieu (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
PARTICIPATION
=============
Attendance will be restricted to 20-40, researchers interested in
participating should contact Patrick Olivier at the address below.
Patrick Olivier (plo at aber.ac.uk)
Centre for Intelligent Systems
Department of Computer Science
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DB, UK
Tel: +44 1970 622447
Fax: +44 1970 622455
e-mail: plo at aber.ac.uk
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Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:16:51 MDT
From: viegas at crl.nmsu.edu (Evelyne Viegas)
Subject: SIGLEX96 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION for "Breadth and Depth of Semantic
Lexicons"
SIGLEX 96 -- CALL for PARTICIPATION
ACL'96 Workshop on the BREADTH and DEPTH of SEMANTIC LEXICONS
June 28, 1996
Santa Cruz, California, USA.
FOCUS OF THE WORKSHOP
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Building semantic lexicons is a very time consuming task. Efficient
large-scale acquisition and representation of lexical knowledge will
be greatly aided by capturing regularities in the lexicon.
Two main issues present themselves:
a) treatment of lexical ambiguity and
b) lexical rules as a conceptual tool for controlled proliferation of
entries.
Whereas the former has been regarded as a topical issue for quite some
time, the latter is only now receiving its due attention. This
workshop will concentrate on lexical rules as a regulator of breadth
and depth of the lexicons. Lexical rules are known under a variety of
names, e.g., Leech's (1991) "semantic transfer rules," "lexical
inference rules" of Ostler and Atkins (1991) and others. They are also
addressed in the framework of such theories as the generative lexicon
of Pustejovsky (1995). Such linguistic frameworks as LFG and HPSG have
also used the concept, albeit in a different sense and for a different
purpose. At the same time, theoretical accounts of the use of lexical
rules (such as, for instance, preemption or blocking) are rather too
general and underspecified to support actual processing. The workshop
will stress issues connected with the practical application of lexical
rules: when to apply the rules, how the rules influence system design,
how to reexamine and adjust the theoretically posited rules in view of
practical needs and evidence. Another central issue for the workshop
will be large-scale acquisition of computational-semantic lexicons.
We are mainly interested in examining the following trade-offs: the
coverage vs.the depth of existing semantic lexicons vs. the effort
involved in building them.
The workshop is intended for researchers in computational linguistics,
artificial intelligence, psycholinguistics or other fields who have
been working in lexical semantics and large-scale lexical knowledge
acquisition.
Some (though not necessarily all) specific questions suggested for
discussion include:
1) What are the different types of lexical rules which should be
considered in the building of computational lexicons (inflectional and
derivational morphology, verbal diatheses, regular word-sense shifts,
other)
2) When should the rules be applied (run-time, load-time,
acquisition, other)
3) How to evaluate the cost-efficiency of the acquisition effort
against the utility of the resulting lexicons. How could we
characterize an NLP system along the dimensions of size, corpus
coverage, and depth.
4) Analyses of appropriate types of inheritance for different lexical
rules.
5) The use of lexical underspecification (and contextual word-use
grounding) as a partial alternative to lexical rules.
PROGRAM
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The meeting is scheduled from 8:30am to 6pm. The papers will be
organised around topics followed by discussions. A summary general
discussion will be scheduled at the end of the day. Attendees are
required to register for the main ACL-96 conference.
How Language Structures Concepts - an Outline
Invited talk by Leonard Talmy (State University of New York at
Buffalo, USA)
Controlling the Application of Lexical Rules
Ted Briscoe and Ann Copestake (Computer Laboratory, University of
Cambridge, UK and CSLI, Stanford University, USA)
Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses
Jill Burstein, Randy Kaplan, Susanne Wolff and Chi Lu, Educational
Testing Service, Princeton, USA)
Acquisition of Computational-Semantic Lexicons from Machine Readable
Lexical Resources
Jason J.S. Chang and J.N. Chen (National Tsing Hua University,
Taiwan)
Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons: Using Word Sense Disambiguation to
Improve Precision
Bonnie J. Dorr and Doug Jones (University of Maryland, USA)
The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns
Brendan S. Gillon (McGill University, Canada)
Lexical Rules is Italicized
Stephen Helmreich and David Farwell (New Mexico State University, USA)
Qualia Structure and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds
Michael Johnston and Federica Busa (Brandeis University, USA)
General Introduction and Overview
Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University, USA)
Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives
Victor Raskin and Sergei Nirenburg (Purdue University and New
Mexico State University, USA)
"*Ask* me no questions, I'll *tell* you no lies". A Case Study of Two
Routes to a Unified Account of Verb Argument Structure Via
Type-Shifting Rules
Joseph Rosenzweig (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Morphological Productivity in the Lexicon
Onur T. Sehitoglu and H. Cem Bozsahin (Laboratory for the
Computational Studies of Language, Turkey)
Towards the Reinterpretation of Static Knowledge Sources as Dynamic
Ones Using Triggering Concepts
Evelyne Viegas (New Mexico State University, USA)
PRE-WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES:
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In order to facilitate interaction and focus the discussion,
a pre-workshop mailing list will be established; please indicate
whether or not you would like to be included by sending e-mail to
lex-rule at crl.nmsu.edu.
Participants will also be able to look at other participants' papers a
month before the workshop via anonymous ftp to crl.nmsu.edu.
The directions to look at other papers are:
ftp crl.nmsu.edu
login: anonymous
password: <your email address>
cd lex-rule
binary (only if the paper you want is not ascii)
get <name of paper>
quit
SCHEDULES:
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Asap: Mosaic home page for the workshop set at
http://crl.nmsu.edu/lex-rule/
June 1: Beginning of e-mail discussion
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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Evelyne Viegas (Chair) New Mexico State University, CRL, USA
Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University, CRL, USA
Boyan Onyshkevych Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nicholas Ostler Linguacubun Ltd, UK
Victor Raskin Purdue University, USA
Antonio Sanfilippo Sharp Laboratories of Europe, UK
ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS:
Philip Resnik Sun Microsystems Laboratories; USA,
Frederique Segond Rank Xerox Research Centre; France,
Evelyne Tzoukermann ATT Bell Laboratories; USA.
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SIGLEX96 Workshop Registration Form
Name:
Affiliation:
Regular Mail Address:
Phone:
Fax:
EMAIL:
[ ] I (intend to submit/have submitted) a paper.
[ ] I am a student
[ ] I will pay by check in US dollars made payable to
"Association for Computational Linguistics" (see below for
mailing address)
early registration (prior to May 31, 1996)
US$55
regular registration (May 31, 1996 - June 20, 1996)
US$60
onsite registration (June 28, 1996)
US$65
[ ] I have special dietary requirements (vegetarian, ...):
Please return this form via email to viegas at crl.nmsu.edu
with the Subject line "SIGLEX96 Registration"
Send checks to:
Evelyne Viegas
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
USA
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Evelyne Viegas
Siglex96 Program Chair
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
USA
email: lex-rule at crl.nmsu.edu
tel: 505 646 5757
fax: 505 646 6218
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