[Corpora-List] Workshop on Computational Lexical Semantics (HLT/NAACL-2004): Deadline extended!

From: Girju, Corina R. (Roxana_Girju@baylor.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 25 2004 - 01:01:19 MET

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    Final Call for Papers and Participation         
    !! Deadline extended: February 2nd, 2004 !!
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                              Computational Lexical Semantics
                        Workshop in conjunction with HLT/NAACL 2004
                   (http://cs.baylor.edu/~girju/hlt-naacl/cfp-CLS04.html)
                                            May 6, 2004
                               The Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
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    Workshop Lexical semantics is the study of word semantic properties in context and it is at the core of NLP and many of its applications. Recently, there has been a renewed interest in text semantics fueled in part by the complexity of some major research initiatives, such as Question Answering, Text Summarization, Machine Translation, Information Extraction, Reasoning, and others. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia, government, and industry interested in text understanding, lexical semantics, knowledge representation, question answering, information retrieval, machine translation, and speech processing to submit papers reporting on recent advances and new perspectives in computational lexical semantics, including but not limited to the following topics: not limited to the following topics: * semantically based language models; * information retrieval using semantics; * complex nominals - acquisition and interpretation; * polysemy and sense boundaries; * semantic roles and other semantic relations; * verb semantic classes and alternations; * semantics of adjectives, adverbs and prepositions; * metonymy and metaphor; * the role of context in lexical semantics; * representation issues in lexical semantics; * tools and resources; * evaluation of systems; Papers describing applications of natural language, speech understanding, and information retrieval that use lexical semantics are especially welcome.

    Important Dates:

    Monday, Feb. 2, 2004 Paper submission deadline (!! Extended !!) Monday, Feb. 23, 2004 Notification of acceptance Monday, March 1, 2004 Camera ready version deadline Thursday, May 6, 2004 Workshop

    Workshop Format:

    The desired workshop length is one day of approximately 6 hours of paper presentations. We expect to accept between 15 - 18 papers (20 - 30 minutes / paper).

    Submission Format:

    The papers should be of maximum 8 pages (including references) submitted in electronic form (ps or pdf) following the style provided by the HLT/NAACL-04 conference. All submissions must be original, previously unpublished work and should not identify the author(s). The papers should be attached to an email indicating the contact authors, paper's title, and appropriate subject areas under which the paper can be classified. Please submit the papers via email to Roxana Girju (Roxana_Girju@baylor.edu).

    Program Committee:

    Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas (Co-chair) Roxana Girju Baylor University, USA (Co-chair) Jade Goldstein DoD, USA Vasileios Hatzivassiloglu Columbia University, USA Marti Hearst U.C. Berkeley, USA Mirella Lapata University of Sheffield, UK Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA John Prange ARDA, USA James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA Carol Van Ess-Dykema DoD, USA

    Contact:

    Interested participants should send their questions to Roxana Girju (Roxana_Girju@baylor.edu).



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