6-7 April 1998, Pisa, Italy
Scuola Normale Superiore
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM
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Monday, April 6th
9.00 - 9.10 Opening
9.10 - 9.50 James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University)
Design for a Lexicon
9.50 - 10.20 Elisabeth Klipple & John Gurney (Army Research
Laboratory, Adelphi)
Verb Modification and the Lexicon in the
Natural Language and Virtual Reality System
10.20 - 10.50 Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbr|cken)
The Acquisition of Defaults in Lexical
Semantic Representations
10.50 - 11.10 COFFEE BREAK
11.10 - 11.50 Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University)
The Representation of Polysemous Word Meanings:
Dictionaries vs. the Mental Lexicon
11.50 - 12.20 Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO, University of Geneva) &
Federica Busa (Brandeis University)
Where's the Polysemy? A Study of Adjective-Noun
Constructions
12.20 - 12.50 Nicola Guarino (LADSEB-CNR, Padova)
Some Ontological Principles for Designing Upper Level
lexical Resources
LUNCH
15.00 - 15.30 Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris)
Trade Offs between Generic and Domain Specific
Lexical Resources
15.30 - 16.00 Jean Veronis, Valerie Houitte & Corinne Jean
(LPL, Universite' de Provence & CNRS)
Methodology for the Construction of Test Material
for the Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems
16.00 - 16.30 Frederique Segond, Elisabeth Aimelet & Laurent Griot
(Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble)
'All You Can Use!' or How to Perform WSD with
Available Resources
16.30 - 16.50 COFFEE BREAK
16.50 - 17.30 Hinrich Sch|tze (Xerox Parc, California)
Automatic Word Sense Discrimination
17.30 - 18.00 Philippe M. Alcouffe (Hachette Encyclopedies et
Dictionnaires, Vanves)
Do 'What/Where/When' Make Sense? Building
a Semantic Net from Three Thematic Indexes
18.00 - 18.30 Nicolas Dufour (University of Liege)
Turning Two Commercial Dictionaries
into a Single Lexical Data Base for NLP
SOCIAL DINNER
Tuesday, April 7th
9.00 - 9.30 Manfred Stede (Technische Universitdt Berlin)
DiMLex: a Lexical Approach to Discourse Markers
9.30 - 10.00 Raul Aranovich (University of Texas, San Antonio)
Restructuring in HPSG and the Lexical Semantics
of Causation: Evidence from Spanish
10.00 - 10.30 Lluisa Gracia & Lidia Turon (University of Girona)
On Appreciative Suffixes
10.30 - 11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.00 - 11.40 Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbr|cken)
Center Self Embedding, Extraposition
and Syntactic Working Memory
11.40 - 12.10 Anne-Marie Di Sciullo (UQAM, Montreal)
Lexical Semantic Systems Based on Natural
Language Asymmetries and Consequences for IR
12.10 - 12.50 Gennaro Chierchia (University of Milan)
NP Structure and Semantic Variation
LUNCH
15.00 - 15.30 Giacomo Ferrari (University of East Piemonte, Vercelli)
Semantic Interpretation, Reasoning, and Lexicon
15.30 - 16.00 Philippe Langlais (KTH-CTT, Stockholm & CERI-LIA, Avignon)
Jean Veronis (LPL, Universite' de Provence & CNRS)
Progress in Parallel Text Alignment Techniques
for Multilingual Lexical Acquisition: The ARCADE
Evaluation Exercise
16.00 - 16.30 Evelyne Viegas & Remi Zajac
(New Mexico State University, Las Cruces)
Inheritance and Genericity in a Multilingual Knowledge
Base
16.30 - 16.50 COFFEE BREAK
16.50 - 17.20 Simonetta Montemagni & Vito Pirrelli (ILC-CNR, Pisa)
Asymmetries in the Causative/Inchoative Alternation:
Theoretical Accounts and Corpus Evidence
17.20 - 17.50 Norberto Moreno (Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset,
Madrid)
Juan Romero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
Denominal Verbs and the Theory of Lexicon
ALTERNATES
Thierry Hamon (Universite' Paris-Nord)
Does the General Semantic Information Help
the Terminology Structuration?
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Conference venue: Scuola Normale Superiore - Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 PISA
Sessions start at 9 a.m.
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