Corpora: COLING-ACL'98 Workshop on Computational Treatment of Nominals

Inderjeet Mani (imani@mitre.org)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 11:12:38 -0400

Coling-ACL '98 workshop
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~federica/workshops/coling/program.html

"The Computational Treatment of Nominals"

August 16, 1998
Université de Montréal
Montréal/Canada

Workshop Program

9:00
Welcome
9:05
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Pisa)
Opening Remarks: A global vision for language resources in a
multilingual setting

Session 1: Syntax and Semantics
9:20
Toni Badia and Roser Sauri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
The Representation of Syntactically unexpressed complements to nouns
9:40
Ralf Naumann (University of Düsseldorf)
A Dynamic Temporal Logic of Events, Interval and States for
Nominalizations in Natural
Language
10:00
Evelyne Viegas, Wanying Jin, Ron Dolan and Stephen Beale (New Mexico
State University)
Representation and Processing of Chinese Nominals and Compounds
10:10
Session Chair: TBA
Commentary
10:30
Coffee Break

Session 2: Use and Acquisition of Linguistic Resources
10:45
Adam Meyers, Catherine Macleod, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman,
Leslie Barrett, Ruth
Reeves (New York University)
Using NOMLEX to Produce Nominalization Patterns for Information
Extraction
11:05
Sadao Kurohashi, Masaki Murata, Yasunori Yata, Mitsunoby Shimada, and
Makoto Nagao
(Kyoto University)
"Construction of Japanese Nominal Semantic Dictionary using ``A NO
B'' Phrases in
Corpora"
11:25
Session Chair: TBA
Commentary

Session 3: Parsing and Generation
11:45
Alexandra Klein, Johannes Matiasek and Harald Trost (Austrian
Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence)
The treatment of noun phrase queries in a natural language database
access system
12:05
Mick O'Donnell, Alistair Knott, Janet Hitzeman and Hua Cheng
(University of Edinburgh)
Integrating Referring and Informing in NP Planning
12:20
Kees Van Deemter and Richard Power (University of Brighton)
Coreference in Knowledge Editing
12:30
Session Chair: TBA
Commentary
13:00
Lunch

Session 4: Information Extraction
14:30
John Goldsmith (University of Chicago) and Tom Reutter (Microsoft
Research)
Automatic Collection and Analysis of German Compounds
14:50
Nina Wacholder (Columbia University)
Simplex NPs Sorted by Head: A Method for Identifying Significant
Topics within a Document
15:10
Jean Senellart (Université de Marne-la-Vallée)
Locating noun phrases with finite state transducers
15:20
Session Chair: TBA
Commentary
15:40
Coffee Break

Session 5: Sense Extensions and Contextualization of Word Meaning

16:00
Mohsen Rais-Ghasem and Jean-Pierre Corriveau (Carleton University)
Exemplar-Based Sense Modulation
16:20
Boyan Onyshkevych (US Department of Defense)
Nominal Metonymy Processing
16:40
Helmut Horacek (Universität des Saarlandes)
The Role of Cardinality in Metonymic Extensions to Nouns
17:00
Session Chair: TBA
Commentary

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by

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

Program Committee

Federica Busa (Brandeis University)
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, Université Paul Sabatier)
Antonio Sanfilippo (LingLink, European Commission)
Evelyne Viegas (CRL, New Mexico State University)
Piek Vossen (University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Inderjeet Mani
Principal Scientist
The MITRE Corporation, W640
11493 Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA 22090, USA
Phone: 703-883-6149
Fax: 703-883-1379
Email: imani@mitre.org