11.550, Calls: Interdisciplinary/Humanities, Comp Ling
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Subject: 11.550, Calls: Interdisciplinary/Humanities, Comp Ling
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:13:16 +0100
From: Peter Gutmann <pegu0001 at stud.uni-sb.de>
Subject: PERSPECTIVES - JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IN THE HUMANITIES
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:37:23 +0000
From: Ruslan Mitkov <r.mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:13:16 +0100
From: Peter Gutmann <pegu0001 at stud.uni-sb.de>
Subject: PERSPECTIVES - JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IN THE HUMANITIES
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
PERSPECTIVES - JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY WORK IN THE HUMANITIES
(Why here? Our aim is a new interdisciplinarity. To us, this concept
does not mean the dilution of disciplines into a vague concept of
something which pretends to be all, but really is nothing, but we would
like to build interdisciplinarity on the firm foundations of
disciplinary work and knowledge. Therefore, we need the contact with
professionals of the disciplines. Being a linguist by discipline
myself, I am sure there are quite a few LINGUIST readers 'out there'
who would like to participate in a (re-)connection of linguistics with
the rest of the Humanities.)
Call For Papers - Call For Papers - Call For Papers - Call For Papers
This new journal, published at Oxford Brookes University Humanities
Research Centre, addresses an international audience of post-graduate
students and scholars engaged in interdisciplinary work within the
Humanities. It is a bi-annual on-line publication, accompanied by a
(weekly updated) website for discussion and workshopping of ideas (still
under construction).
The journal aims at creating a new interdisciplinary community of people
working beyond the limits of the established split into disciplines.
Thus, our concept of "The Humanities" is an open one, it comprises the
traditional Humanities as easily as what has come to be called Social
Sciences and other related fields (and areas of interest).
We invite articles for our next number.
This is not restricted to any particular theme. We are convinced that
there are many authors 'out there' looking for a place to publish
their interdisciplinary work, whose work, however, would not fall under
any category of our themed isssues. So, this time you are absolutely
free to submit your interdisciplinary work without any restriction to
its subject, whatsoever.
Deadline for submission of articles: 15 May 2000
We also invite articles for a number themed "Whatever happened to
Postmodernism?- Foucault & Co. in the 21st century." Preliminary
deadline for this number is: 15 November 2000. (cf separate call for
papers)
Please send enquiries and proposals to the editors at:
perspectives at brookes.ac.uk
The language of the journal is English. Articles requiring translation
will not be accepted. The length of articles should range from 1500 to
5000 words, occasionally, however, exceptional features of up to 15000
words can be published. Book reviews should not exceed 1000 words. All
contributors will be required to submit the article either as plain-text
e-mail or as an e-mail attachment (MSWord format preferred). A
style-sheet for accepted articles can be obtained from the editors.
-
Peter Gutmann, MA
Bei der alten Furt 3
66539 Neunkirchen
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/perspectives/
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:37:23 +0000
From: Ruslan Mitkov <r.mitkov at wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Computational Linguistics Special Issue on Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
*** Reminder: Submission deadline 1 April 2000 ***
Call for Papers
Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution
Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin
Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena
of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The
correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the
understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural
Language Processing.
After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence
in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many
researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has
been reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT
and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment
of anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has
further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched
approaches. In addition, application-driven research in areas such as
automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently
identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and
coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular
importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications
such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing
attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has
been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC
coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops,
conferences, etc.).
Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this
special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,
collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
Topics
The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel
and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.
The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited
to:
o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,
o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,
o techniques in ellipsis resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,
o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,
o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,
o applications of ellipsis resolution,
o multilingual anaphora resolution,
o evaluation issues,
o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.
In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related
to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:
o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora
resolution?
o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit
"constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?
o What is the case for languages other than English?
o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"
factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical
data can be brought to bear on this?
o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple
factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting
the antecedent?
o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?
o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora
automatically?
o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements
from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises
might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would
awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for
particular type(s) of input text?
o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic
reconstruction?
o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of
the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided
structure?
Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both
theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should
construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.
Submissions and Reviewing
The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either
electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style
details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl ) to:
Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton WV1 1SB
United Kingdom
Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and
details of the author (following the format given at
http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt ) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.
Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor
of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special
issue. In addition to the guest editors,
Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton),
Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and
Shalom Lappin (University of London),
the guest editorial board includes the following members:
Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),
Amit Bagga (GE CRD),
Claire Cardie (Cornell University),
David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),
Eugene Charniak (Brown University),
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp),
Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC),
Dan Hardt (Villanova University),
Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto),
Jerry Hobbs (SRI International),
Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania),
Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe),
Andrew Kehler (SRI International),
Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University),
Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh),
Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille),
Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),
Candy Sidner (Lotus Research),
Marilyn Walker (AT&T).
This call for paper is also available at
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html
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