16.700, Confs: Computational Ling/Syntax/Essex, UK

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Date: 08-Mar-2005
From: Aline Villavicencio < avill at essex.ac.uk >
Subject: 2nd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications 

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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:51:16
From: Aline Villavicencio < avill at essex.ac.uk >
Subject: 2nd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications 

2nd ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on the Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their
Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications 
Short Title: Prep05 

Date: 19-Apr-2005 - 21-Apr-2005 
Location: Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom 
Contact: Aline Villavicencio 
Contact Email: prep05 at essex.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/Prep05.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; Cognitive
Science; Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Historical Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Language Description; Lexicography; Linguistic Theories;
Neurolinguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics;
Syntax; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

In the linguistic and computational linguistic communities, much of the  effort
has been devoted to the understanding of the syntax and semantics of  verbs and
nouns. On the other hand, prepositions, partly due to their very  polysemic
nature and the difficulty of identifying (cross-)linguistic  regularities, have
received much less attention.

Recently, however, there has been a growing awareness of the difficulties  posed
by prepositions and the importance of providing adequate means of  capturing
them, for many different applications. Several projects have now  focused on the
understanding of certain aspects of prepositions from  perspectives such as
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language  Processing (NLP),
psycholinguistics and ethnolinguistics. 

For instance, some research has concentrated on spatial or temporal aspects  of
prepositions, and their cross-linguistic differences. Several  investigations
have also been carried out on quite diverse languages,  emphasizing, for
example, monolingual and cross-linguistic contrasts or the  role of prepositions
in syntactic alternations. These observations cover in  general a small group of
closely related prepositions. The semantic  characterization of prepositions has
also motivated the emergence of a few  dedicated logical frameworks and
reasoning procedures.

Languages like English have phrasal verbs, and these combinations of verbs  and
prepositions (in prepositional verbs or verb-particle constructions),  have also
been the subject of considerable effort, going from techniques  for their
automatic extraction from corpora, to methods for the  determination of their
semantics.  Other languages, like Romance languages  or Hindi, either
incorporate the preposition or include it in the  prepositional phrase. All
these configurations are semantically as well as  syntactically of much interest. 

In NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention, with 
different machine learning techniques having been employed with varying  degrees
of success. 

In this context, a successful workshop on prepositions was held in  Toulouse, in
September 2003, with papers presenting research in a wide  variety of topics,
examining prepositions in languages like French,  English, German and Japanese,
some from a more computational approach and  others more linguistic. 

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on 
prepositions from a variety of backgrounds, such as linguistics, NLP, AI  and
psycholinguistics, providing a forum for discussing, among others, the  syntax,
semantics, description, representation and computational  applications of
prepositions, with the ultimate aim to advance the  state-of-the-art, identify
challenges, and promote future collaborations  among researchers interested in
the different aspects of prepositions. 

2nd ACL-SIGSEM  Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions   of Prepositions and
their Use in Computational Linguistics   Formalisms and Applications 

University of Essex - Colchester,  United Kingdom.

Workshop date:    April, 19th-21st, 2005
Workshop website: http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/Prep05.html
Registration now open. 
Early Registration Deadline: March, 19th 
Late Registration Deadline: April, 8th

To register for the workshop, go to 
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/registration1.html

WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
 In the linguistic and computational linguistic communities, much of the  effort
has been devoted to the understanding of the syntax and semantics of  verbs and
nouns. On the other hand, prepositions, partly due to their very  polysemic
nature and the difficulty of identifying (cross-)linguistic  regularities, have
received much less attention.

For instance, some research has concentrated on spatial or temporal   aspects of
prepositions, and their cross-linguistic differences. Several   investigations
have also been carried out on quite diverse languages,   emphasizing, for
example, monolingual and cross-linguistic contrasts or   the role of
prepositions in syntactic alternations. These observations   cover in general a
small group of closely related prepositions. The   semantic characterization of
prepositions has also motivated the   emergence of a few dedicated logical
frameworks and reasoning procedures.

Languages like English have phrasal verbs, and these combinations of   verbs and
prepositions (in prepositional verbs or verb-particle   constructions), have
also been the subject of considerable effort, going   from techniques for their
automatic extraction from corpora, to methods   for the determination of their
semantics.  Other languages, like Romance   languages or Hindi, either
incorporate the preposition or include it in   the prepositional phrase. All
these configurations are semantically as   well as syntactically of much interest.

In NLP, PP attachment ambiguities have attracted a lot of attention,   with
different machine learning techniques having been employed with   varying
degrees of success.

In this context, a successful workshop on prepositions was held in   Toulouse,
in September 2003, with papers presenting research in a wide   variety of
topics, examining prepositions in languages like French,   English, German and
Japanese, some from a more computational approach   and others more linguistic.
Selected papers of this workshop are now   planned to be published by Kluwer in
a special volume   ('Computational Linguistics Dimensions of the Syntax and the
  Semantics of Prepositions' Patrick Sain-Dizier (ed.), forthcoming).

The aim of the second workshop is to bring together researchers working   on
prepositions from a variety of backgrounds, such as linguistics, NLP,   AI and
psycholinguistics, providing a forum for discussing, among   others, the syntax,
semantics, description, representation and   computational applications of
prepositions, with the ultimate aim to   advance the state-of-the-art, identify
challenges, and promote future   collaborations among researchers interested in
the different aspects of   prepositions.

REGISTRATION

Information on registration can be found at:
http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~avill/registration1.html

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Anne Abeille (Université Paris 7, France) 
Doug Arnold (University of Essex, UK) 
Timothy Baldwin (University of Melbourne, Australia) 
Colin J Bannard (University of Edinburgh, UK) 
Luc Baronian (Stanford University, USA) 
John Beavers (Stanford University, USA) 
Bob Borsley (University of Essex, UK) 
Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy) 
Markus Egg (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 
Sonja Eisenbeiss (University of Essex, UK) 
Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University, USA) 
Dan Flickinger (Stanford University, USA) 
Frederik Fouvry (Saarland University, Germany) 
Anette Frank (DFKI, Germany) 
Daniele Godard (Université Paris 7, France) 
Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas) 
Julia Hockenmaier (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 
Tracy King (PARC, USA) 
Valia Kordoni (Saarland University, Germany) 
Anna Korhonen (University of Cambridge, UK) 
Jonas Kuhn (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 
Ingrid Leung (University of Essex, UK) 
Alda Mari (CNRS / ENST Infres, France) 
Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) 
Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 
Anna Papafragou (University of Delaware, USA) 
Steve Pulman (University of Oxford, UK) 
Henk van Riemsdijk (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 
Louisa Sadler (University of Essex, UK) 
Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, France) 
Karin Kipper Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 
Advaith Siddharthan (Columbia University, USA) 
Melanie Siegel (DFKI, Germany) 
Hidetosi Sirai (Chukyo University, Japan) 
Andrew Spencer (University of Essex, UK) 
Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK) 
Beata Trawinski (University of Tuebingen, Germany) 
Jesse Tseng (Loria, France) 
Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK) - Workshop Chair 
Martin Volk (Stockholms Universitet, Sweden) 
Clare Voss (Army Research Laboratory, USA) 
Tom Wasow (Stanford University, USA) 
Emile van der Zee (University of Lincoln, UK) 
Joost Zwarts (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) 

PROGRAM

Day 1

13.50 - 14.00 - Opening Session

14.00 - 14.30 - Adpositions in Estonian Computational Syntax 
	Kaili Müürisep, Kadri Muischnek and Tiina Puolakainen
14.30 - 15.00 - Prepositions and complement selection 
	Jesse Tseng
15.00 - 15.30 - Preposition-Pronoun Contraction in Polish 
	Beata Trawinski

15.30 - 16.00 - Coffee Break

16.00 - 16.30 - Prepositions as abstract relations 
	Allan Ramsay
16.30 - 17.00 - Prepositions and event participants 
	Boban Arsenijevic
17.00 - 17.30 - The polysemy of ''from'' within the barrier verb   construction 
	Christopher Phipps

Day 2

09.00 - 09.30 - Minor prepositions in nominal projections 
	Frank Van Eynde
09.30 - 10.00 - A Minimal Recursion Semantics Analysis of Locatives 
	Fredrik Jørgensen and Jan Tore Lønning
10.00 - 10.30 - Classification of Prepositional Senses for Deep Grammar  
Applications 
	Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beermann

10.30 - 11.00 - Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30 - Spatial and temporal arguments of the preposition ''uz''   in
Serbian 
	Tijana Asic
11.30 - 12.00 - Meaning of Japanese Spatial Nouns 
	Tokunaga Takenobu, Koyama Tomofumi and Saito Suguru
12.00 - 12.30 - B3D - A System for the Description and Calculation of   Spatial
Prepositions 
	Thorsten Reichelt and Etienne Verleih

12.30 - 14.00 - Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 - Invited Speaker - Paola Merlo - TBA
15.00 - 15.30 - Towards More Accurate PP Attachment even with Simple   Algorithms 
	Brian Mitchell

15.30 - 16.00 - Coffee Break

16.00 - 16.30 - Cognitive Representations of Projective Prepositions 
	John Kelleher and Fintan Costello
16.30 - 17.00 - A context-dependent model of proximity in physically   situated
environments 
	Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and John Kelleher
17.00 - 17.30 Business Meeting

Workshop Dinner

Day 3

09.00 - 09.30 - Concept-Based Meaning Representation of Prepositions 
	Steffen Leo Hansen
09.30 - 10.00 -Reasoning with Prepositions within a Cooperative
Question-Answering Framework 
	Farah Benamara
10.00 - 10.30 - Sense Disambiguation for Preposition 'with' 
	Chutima Boonthum,  Shunichi Toida and Irwin Levinstein

10.30 - 11.00 - Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30 - An overview of PrepNet: abstract notions, frames and inferential
patterns 
	Patrick Saint-Dizier
11.30 - 12.00 - The Preposition Project 
	Kenneth C. Litkowski and Orin Hargraves

12.00 - 13.30 - Lunch

13.30 - 14.00 - Looking for Prepositional Verbs in Corpus Data 
      Timothy Baldwin
14.00 - 14.30 - The Extraction of Determinerless PPs 
	Leonoor van der Beek
14.30 - 15.00 - Classifying Verb Particle Constructions by Verb Arguments 
	Jon Patrick and Jeremy Fletcher

15.00 - 15.30 - Coffee Break

15.30 - 16.00 - Teaching a robot spatial expressions 
	Simon Dobnik, Paul Newman, Stephen Pulman and Alastair Harrison 
16.00 - 16.30 - An empirical testing of Levelt's (1984/1996) Principle of
Canonical Orientation 
	Emile van der Zee, Karen Walker
16.30 - 17.00 - Closing Session

CONTACT

For inquiries, please e-mail prep05 at essex.ac.uk .

Looking forward to welcoming you at Essex in April.

Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex, UK) - Workshop Chair Valia Kordoni
(Saarland University, Germany)

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