[Corpora-List] call for papers

From: Michael ZOCK (zockm@noos.fr)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 13:37:49 MET DST

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    Call for papers for the special issue of the TAL journal

    Title: ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES, FOR MEN, MACHINES OR FOR BOTH?

    Submission deadline: 15 December 2002

    Guest Editors: Michael Zock (CNRS, LIMSI) & John Carroll (University
    of Sussex).

    http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-dictionnaires-electroniques.html

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    Dictionaries are the backbone of any NLP system. Understanding and
    producing text, translation, summarisation, dialog, indexing or
    finding information in a document all require lexical competency
    represented in computers as a lexical resource / dictionary.

    A good dictionary is characterized by the following features: broad
    coverage (number of entries), rich annotation (a lot of information
    associated with each entry) and ease of access of the information.

    If electronic dictionaries compare favourably with paper dictionaries
    (size, ease of access), they are still far from perfect in particular
    with regard to content and access. Coverage is certainly not the only
    criterion for evaluating a dictionary, because, what is a large
    dictionary good for if the data is not easily accessible?

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    The goal of this special issue is to discuss challenges inherent to
    the building and use of electronic dictionaries and approaches and
    techniques to address them. We welcome work on any of the following
    issues:

      o the problem of building a dictionary (method, know-how);
      o types of information to be stored in a dictionary;
      o representation, structuring (indexing) and visualisation of the data;
      o the problem of accessing information (aids for navigation,
    interface, strategies);
      o acquisition of lexical data (corpus), reuse of existing data;
      o coherency checking;
      o problems related to multilinguality;
      o possibilities given to the user or lexicographer to edit entries
    (annotation, updating);
      o the usage of dictionaries by people (learning/teaching; writing)
    and by machines (NLP).

    Given the wide spectrum of needs we welcome work from any of the
    following perspectives, linguistics, computer science,
    psycholinguistics, language learning, ergonomics, etc. provided the
    contibution contains a computational element.

    Reviewers
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    - Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
    - Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR, Pisa)
    - Christiane Fellbaum (University of Princeton)
    - Charles Fillmore (University of Berkeley)
    - Ulrich Heid (IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart)
    - Jean-Marie Pierrel (ATILF, Nancy)
    - Alain Polguère (University of Montreal)
    - Thiery Selva (GRELEP, K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
    - Gilles Sérasset (GETA, Grenoble)
    - Monique Slodzian (CRIM, INALCO, Paris)
    - Patrick St. Dizier (University of Toulouse)
    - Jean Véronis (University of Aix en Provence)
    - Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft, The Netherlands)
    - Leo Wanner (University of Stuttgart)

    Format
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    Papers (25 pages maximum) may be submitted in Word, Postscript or
    PDF. The Hermes style sheets are available at Lavoisier and from the
    TAL journal web site (http://www.atala.org/tal/hermes/cons_actes.htm).

    Language
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    The papers may be written either in French or in English (non-French
    speaking authors only)

    Schedule
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    The submission deadline is 15 December 2002. People intending to
    submit a paper should contact Michael Zock (zock@limsi.fr) before
    October 31st.

    Articles will be reviewed by a member of the editorial board of the
    journal (http://www.atala.org/tal/redaction.html) and two external
    reviewers chosen by the editors of the special issue. Editorial board
    decisions and referees' reports will be transmitted to the authors by
    March 1st, 2003.

    Final versions of accepted papers will be required by June 1st, 2003.
    Publication is planned for the summer of 2003.

    Submission
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    Submissions (25 pages maximum, following the Hermes style sheet)
    should be sent either electronically (zock@limsi.fr), or by surface
    mail (five copies) to

    Michael Zock
    Limsi-CNRS, B.P. 133
    F-91403 Orsay-Cedex, FRANCE
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