LEXICON DEVELOPMENT FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Centre for Computational Linguistics
14-25 July 1997
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO
*** MAY 9, 1997 ***
DUE TO CONSTRUCTION WORK CURRENTLY TAKING PLACE AT THE PREMISES OF THE
CENTRE OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS IN LEUVEN. AS A RESULT, E-MAIL AND FAX
COMMUNICATION WITH LEUVEN HAS BEEN AND WILL BE DIFFICULT/DELAYED UNTIL
MAY 1, 1997. FOR THE TIME BEING, PLEASE CONTACT BOTH THE SUMMER SCHOOL
SECRETARIAT IN LEUVEN AND YVONNE VAN HOLSTEIJN AT ELSNET@LET.RUU.NL FOR
INQUIRIES AND REGISTRATION.
ELSNET's fifth European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication
will be organised at the Centre for Computational Linguistics in Leuven,
Belgium. The central theme of the summer school will be 'Lexicon development
for Language and Speech Processing'. The event is sponsored by the European
Network in Language and Speech (ELSNET), ERASMUS, the COPERNICUS project
ELSNET goes East, the network Computational Linguistics in Flanders (CLIF),
and by one of the Belgian Councils for Scientific Research (NFWO), and
supported by the European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) and the
European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).
Language and speech processing applications with a reasonable coverage
need large lexicons. The construction and maintenance of lexical resources
is a costly and complex task. Consequently, decisions about notation,
format, structure, content and acquisition of lexical knowledge require
careful consideration, while keeping in mind specific requirements of
applications on the one hand and reusability on the other. For students and
staff interested in the development of systems for speech and language
communication it is of prime importance to be familiar with the latest
developments in this field.
Structure and Content of the Programme - Week I
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MONDAY 14/7 - FRIDAY 18/7
09.00 - 10.45
Plenary
Computational lexicography for speech and language
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
10.45 - 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 - 13.00
Parallel 1
Lexical knowledge representation
Julie Berndsen (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Gerald Gazdar (University of Sussex, UK)
11.15 - 13.00
Parallel 2
The use of lexica in text-to-speech systems
Silvia Quazza (CSELT, Italy)
Henk van den Heuvel (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
13.00 - 14.15
Lunch
14.15 - 16.00
Parallel 1
Constraint-based lexicons
Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Dan Flickinger (CSLI Stanford, USA)
Frank Van Eynde (University of Leuven, Belgium)
14.15 - 16.00
Parallel 2
Speech databases
Dafydd Gibbon (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Christoph Draxler (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Germany)
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30
Student presentations
Structure and Content of the Programme - Week II
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MONDAY 21 - FRIDAY 25
09.00 - 10.45
Plenary
The mental lexicon
Harald Baayen (MPI Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
Ardi Roelofs (MPI Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
10.45 - 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 - 13.00
Parallel 1
Multilingual lexicography
Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland)
11.15 - 13.00
Parallel 2
Automatic learning of lexical structure
Walter Daelemans (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands)
Gert Durieux (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
13.00 - 14.15
Lunch
14.15 - 16.00
Parallel 1
Recognizing lexical units in text
Gregory Grefenstette (Rank Xerox, Grenoble, France)
Anne Schiller (Rank Xerox, Grenoble, France)
Salah Ait-Mokhtar (Rank Xerox, Grenoble, France)
14.15 - 16.00
Parallel 2
The use of lexica in automatic speech recognition
Lori Lamel (LIMSI, Orsay, France)
Martine Adda-Decker (LIMSI, Orsay, France)
16.00 - 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 - 17.30
Student presentations
REGISTRATION
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The Summer School is open to advanced undergraduate, graduate and
postgraduate students, as well as to postdocs and staff members from
academia and industry. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge
of language and/or speech processing, but no prior experience in the area
of lexicon development will be assumed. The courses are taught in English.
In order to facilitate the acquistion of hands-on experience the number of
participants will be limited to 90. For registration, use the form from
our WWW-pages at
http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/ess97/ess97.html or
http://www.elsnet.org
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: MAY 9, 1997
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Notices of acceptance will be sent (by email or fax) during the second week
of May. Applicants who are accepted will then be asked to pay
the registration fee and -if applicable- the accommodation costs.
DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT: JUNE 1, 1997
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The other applicants are placed on a waiting list. They will be given notice
of (non)acceptance by June 15.
REGISTRATION FEES
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The registration fee covers the tuition, the lecture notes of the courses
which you will attend, consumptions during coffee breaks, and the welcome
and farewell parties. It does not include accommodation nor meals.
Students 5.000 BFr (= 125 ECU)
Academic staff members 10.000 BFr (= 250 ECU)
Employees of industry 20.000 BFr (= 500 ECU)
Participants from ELSNET sites get a 20% reduction and pay 4.000, 8.000 and
16.000 BFr, respectively.
MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION FORM
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More information and a registration form can be obtained from our
WWW-pages at
http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/ess97/ess97.html
http://www.elsnet.org
or from the Summer School secretariat at:
ELSNET Summer School Secretariat
c/o Centre for Computational Linguistics
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Maria-Theresiastraat 21
B-3000 Leuven
tel: +32-16-32.50.88
fax: +32-16-32.50.98
email: ess97@ccl.kuleuven.ac.be