DAARRC2 - Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution Colloquium
Lancaster University, 1 - 4th August , 1998
Invited Speakers -
Branimir Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics"
Prof. Michael Hoey "Grammatical constraints on the reference
functions
of lexical signals: a corpus perspective"
Prof. Pieter Seuren "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey
Anaphora"
Anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of
attention from workers in linguistics, computational
linguistics, artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number
of decades. Such problems have proved a major challenge for all
of these fields, and a great many differing theories and solutions have been
proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success. This colloquium
aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet. Our hope is that
this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be
identified, with a view to producing an up-to-date review of the field.
To this end, a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of August,
1998 at Lancaster University, UK, organized jointly by the
Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University and the Institute for
English Studies, Lodz University, Poland. This colloquium is a follow up to
the highly succesful DAARC colloquium held at Lancaster in 1996. Our aim
this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization
of ideas between theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics and
computational linguistics.
Papers are requested for presentation on all aspects of anaphora and
reference resolution. The following research areas are of particular
interest, but do not constitute an exhaustive list:
corpus-based studies of anaphora in natural language, statistical
approaches to reference resolution, cognitive and psychological
perspectives, discourse and text-processing perspectives, information
retrieval and other computer applications, pragmatics and anaphor
resolution, and linguistic-theoretical approaches.
Papers reporting work in any language are welcome. The official language of
the conference, for purposes of publication and
presentation, is English. Research may be work in progress, or work that
has already been completed. Abstracts (500 - 1000 words) may be sent either
electronically, by email or fax, or by traditional surface mail. Email
submission of abstracts is, however, strongly encouraged. Details below.
Abstracts should arrive at Lancaster by 1st February, 1998, and notification
of acceptance will be sent by 14th February, 1998. Draft
versions of full papers should arrive by 30th June, 1998. The proceedings
will be published in time for the colloquium.
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The DAARC2 Organizing committee
Simon Botley, Lodz University, Poland
Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton University, UK
Pieter Seuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands
Andrew Wilson, Chemnitz University, Germany
Surface mail submissions:
DAARC2,
Department of Linguistics and MEL,
Lancaster University,
Bailrigg,
Lancaster LA14YT
EMAIL: eiaamme@msmail.lancaster.ac.uk
FAX: +44 1524 843 085