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Subject: 13.786, Calls: Computational Ling, Computational Ling
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:38:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Rada Mihalcea <rada at utdallas.edu>
Subject: CFP: Deadline Extension for ACL Workshop on "Word Sense
2)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:29:40 -0000
From: "Roger Harris" <rh at nationalfinder.com>
Subject: CFP: EAMT Teaching MT Workshop, Manchester UK, Nov 2002
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:38:51 -0600 (CST)
From: Rada Mihalcea <rada at utdallas.edu>
Subject: CFP: Deadline Extension for ACL Workshop on "Word Sense
Disambiguation"
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DEADLINE EXTENSION - CALL FOR PAPERS
Word Sense Disambiguation: Recent Successes and Future Directions
An ACL-SIGLEX/SENSEVAL workshop at ACL 2002
University of Pennsylvania
July 11, 2002
***** The deadline for submissions has been EXTENDED *****
***** New submission deadline: April 11, 2002
***** Please inform us asap if you think you'll submit a paper
***** We are also accepting SHORTER PAPERS (1-3 pages long) that
describe WSD systems for which improvements have been made
since Senseval-2, or for which more detailed analysis of
results has been made since Senseval-2, or which didn't
participate in Senseval-2 but have been evaluated against
Senseval data.
Workshop: http://www.seas.smu.edu/~rada/ACL02.WSD/
ACL: http://www.acl02.org/
DESCRIPTION
The main purpose of this workshop is to analyse and discuss the
results of SENSEVAL-2. The second purpose is to start planning
SENSEVAL-3, the next evaluation exercise for word sense disambiguation
systems.
This workshop is a followup to the SENSEVAL-2 workshop held 5-6 July
2001 in conjunction with ACL-01. At SENSEVAL-2, we unveiled the
results of over 90 systems submitted by 35 teams to tasks in 10
different languages. At the time, it wasn't possible to do any
in-depth analysis, so it was agreed to organize a followup workshop in
2002 after sufficient analysis could be done.
The format will be a mixture of refereed papers and panel sessions.
We now invite original submissions on any of the following topics:
- Analysis of results of Senseval-2
- Comparisons of results across different systems, techniques, and
languages
- Comparisons between SENSEVAL-1 and SENSEVAL-2
- What makes some words easier to disambiguate than others
- The efficacy of different corpora and sense inventories for WSD
- Evaluation techniques and methodology, especially domain-, task-,
and application-specific evaluation
- Variation in the required sense inventories for different
applications
The workshop will culminate in a session to continue planning
Senseval-3. A central question is: Can we, and should we, move
towards a more-real application scenario?
SPECIAL SESSION ON PREPOSITION SEMANTICS
Prepositions have an extremely complex behavior: most are highly
polysemous, subject to numerous metaphorical transpositions, and enter
into a number of idiomatic or semi-idiomatic constructs. Semantically,
prepositions have a meaning which is in general abstract and largely
underspecified. Perhaps more than for any other syntactic category,
the exact meaning of a preposition is determined in context.
Within the WSD framework, we welcome papers that investigate polysemy,
metaphorical and metonymic uses of prepositions. Preposition
classification methods and semantic representation formalisms are also
of much interest.
This special session is organized by Patrick Saint-Dizier and
submissions should be emailed directly to him (stdizier at irit.fr) using
the guidelines below. *** Papers should be submitted by 14 March. ***
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions should use the standard ACL style files (available at
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~lindek/acl02/style/). Papers should not
exceed eight (8) pages, including references.
Please email your submissions to Rada Mihalcea (rada at seas.smu.edu)
with the subject "SENSEVAL SUBMISSION". Submissions to the special
session on prepositions should be emailed to Patrick Saint-Dizier
(stdizier at irit.fr).
IMPORTANT DATES
Mar 17 Submissions due (** now Apr 11)
Apr 21 Notification of acceptance
May 8 Camera-ready due
Jul 11 Workshop
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Phil Edmonds (chair) Sharp Laboratories of Europe
Dimitrios Kokkinakis Goteborg University
Sadao Kurohashi The University of Kyoto
Bernardo Magnini IRST, Italy
Diana McCarthy University of Sussex
Rada Mihalcea University of Texas at Dallas
Hwee Tou Ng DSO National Laboratories
Ted Pedersen University of Minnesota, Duluth
Judita Preiss University of Cambridge
German Rigau Claramunt Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
For the session on prepositions
Patrick Saint-Dizier (France, chair)
Bonnie Dorr (USA)
Roger Evans (UK)
Paola Merlo (Switzerland)
Keith Miller (USA)
Vasile Rus (USA)
Gloria Vazquez (Spain)
BACKGROUND
The purpose of SENSEVAL is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of
WSD programs with respect to different words, different varieties of
language, and different languages.
SENSEVAL is managed by the SENSEVAL committee which reports to
ACL-SIGLEX.
The first SENSEVAL took place in the summer of 1998 for English,
French, and Italian, culminating in a workshop held at Herstmonceux
Castle, Sussex, England on September 2-4. The second evaluation
exercise occurred in 2001, culminating in SENSEVAL-2: The Second
International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation
Systems. Systems were evaluated on "translation", "all-words"," and
"lexical-sample" tasks in Dutch, Czech, Basque, Estonian, Italian,
Korean, Spanish, Swedish, Japanese, and English. Over 90 systems were
scored.
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:29:40 -0000
From: "Roger Harris" <rh at nationalfinder.com>
Subject: CFP: EAMT Teaching MT Workshop, Manchester UK, Nov 2002
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
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Subject: 6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation
Date: 14 - 15 November 2002
Venue: UMIST, Manchester, England
Web-site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/eamt-bcs/cfp.html
Call for Papers
The sixth EAMT Workshop will take place on 14-15 November 2002 hosted
by the Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, Manchester,
England.
Organised by the European Association for Machine Translation, in
association with the Natural Language Translation Specialist Group of
the British Computer Society, the Workshop will focus on the topic of:
Teaching Machine Translation
The following topics are of interest:
- why and to whom should MT be taught?
- teaching the theoretical background of MT: linguistics,
computer science, translation theory
- addressing preconceptions about MT in the classroom
- the use of commercial MT programs in hands-on teaching
- teaching computational aspects of MT to non-computational students
- web-based distance learning of MT
- MT education and industry: bridging the gap between academia
and the real world
- teaching pre- and post-editing skills to MT users
- teaching MT evaluation
- building modules or `toy' MT systems in the laboratory
- experiences of the evaluation of MT instruction
- the role of MT in language learning
- translation studies and MT
- etc.
We invite submissions of an extended abstract of your proposed paper,
up to two pages, summarizing the main points that will be made in the
actual paper.
Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee.
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to submit a full version of
the paper, maximum 12 pages, which will be included in the
proceedings.
A stylefile for accepted submissions will be available in due course.
Initially, an extended abstract should be sent, preferably by email as
an attachment in any of the standard formats (doc, html, pdf, ps) or
as plain text, to Harold.Somers at umist.ac.uk.
Otherwise, hardcopy can be sent to:
Harold Somers, Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST, PO Box 88,
Manchester M60 1QD, England, or by fax to +44 161 200 3091.
Programme Committee
Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester
Derek Lewis, University of Exeter
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant
...
Important dates:
Deadline for extended abstract: 31 July 2002
Acceptance notification: 6 September 2002
Final copies due: 14 October 2002
Conference dates: 14-15 November 2002
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