Corpora: Reminder: CFP for Coling-ACL'98 Workshop

inderjeet mani (manipop@azrael.mitre.org)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:35:58 -0400

[Apologies if you see this more than once.]

Call for papers

Coling-ACL '98 workshop

"The Computational Treatment of Nominals"

August 16, 1998
UniversitÈ de MontrÈal
MontrÈal/Canada

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling/call.html

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers who are interested in
the study of the computational properties of nominals and noun phrases. The
focus is on representational questions as they relate directly to NLP
requirements and applications.

Understanding the properties of the nominal system is extremely important
since nouns and nominalizations are used extensively by both people and
systems: searching and communicating with either a telegraphic or a more
expressive language involves heavy use of nominal forms. A number of NLP
applications, ranging from "intelligent" key-word search to text
summarization and information extraction, among others, not only require
some way of recognizing nominal forms, but also require at least a shallow
understanding of the semantic information that nouns carry. It is therefore
of great interest to consider what impact representing semantic knowledge at
a finer level of granularity would have towards enhancing a system's
performance.

Submissions are invited on one or more of the following topics:

* Representation of nominals:
o design of noun ontologies for use in lexical semantics and machine
translation
o ambiguity, polysemy, vagueness, and underspecification in the
semantics of nominals
o identifying the minimal requirements for lexical representations
* Representational issues in the acquisition of knowledge:
o from corpora
o from MRDs
o syntactic and morphological bootstrapping
o semantic boostrapping (role of prepositions, arguments, etc.)
* Role of representations for the interpretation of nominals:
o techniques for recovering implicit information in nominals
o interpretation and generation of nominals in descriptions of
events and abstract objects in discourse
o recovering implicit semantic relations in nominal compounds
o defining implicit semantic relations between nominalizations and
the forms they are derived from

Organizing Committee

Federica Busa (Brandeis University)
Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation)
Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, UniversitÈ Paul Sabatier)

Submission Information

* Papers are invited that address any of the topics listed above.
* Maximum length is 8 pages (single-spaced) including figures and
references.
* Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies
within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm).
* Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12
points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title.
* LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by
COLING-ACL'98: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/colaclsub.sty
* Authors should send 5 copies in either electronic (PostScript or Latex)
or hard-copy format to:

Federica Busa
Computer Science Department
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
Waltham, Massachusetts 02254
U.S.A.
federica@cs.brandeis.edu

Criteria for selection will include clarity, originality, relevance, and
significance of results.

Important Deadlines

* Deadline for submission: March 15th, 1998
* Notification of authors: May 1st, 1998
* Final versions due: June 1, 1998

Program Committee

* Federica Busa (Brandeis University)
* Jean Mark Gawron (SRI International)
* Bob Ingria (Psyche Systems Corporation)
* Beth Levin (Northwestern University)
* Inderjeet Mani (The MITRE Corporation)
* Paul Portner (Georgetown University)
* James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
* Patrick Saint Dizier (IRIT, UniversitÈ Paul Sabatier)
* Antonio Sanfilippo (SHARP Laboratories of Europe)
* Evelyne Viegas (CRL, New Mexico State University)
* Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam)

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