[Corpora-List] LREC 2004 Workshop CFP: Building Lexical Resources from Semantically Annotated Corpora

From: Katrin Erk (erk@CoLi.Uni-SB.DE)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 12:36:45 MET

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                   First Call for Papers
            WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

             Building Lexical Resources from Semantically
                      Annotated Corpora

    In association with the Fourth International
    Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
    LREC 2004

    Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
    May 30, 2004

    BACKGROUND

    Over the last several decades, print dictionaries have
    largely shifted from being based on previous
    dictionaries, citation slips and lexicographer's
    intuitions, to using sophisticated corpus searches for
    discovering and recording the actual ways in which
    words are used. A similar change is under way in the
    field of on-line lexical resources, as people seek a
    middle way between massive word crunching at one
    extreme and hand-built entries based on native speaker
    intuitions at the other.

    Since 1997, the FrameNet project has built a body of
    more than 120,000 corpus examples annotated with
    finely detailed semantic roles (based on frame
    semantics) and deriving from these a lexicon with rich
    semantic/syntactic descriptions of roughly 7,000
    lexical units. Projects with goals very similar to
    FrameNet are under way for German at the University of
    the Saarland (SALSA), for Spanish in Barcelona, and
    for Japanese in Tokyo, and independent but allied
    efforts are in progress for English at U Penn
    (PropBank) and for Czech in Prague (Prague treebank).

    This workshop will bring together researchers building
    and using such lexica to report on recent work and to
    share ideas for future directions.

    PAPER TOPICS

    Papers are invited on questions such as:

    What sorts of lexical information will be most useful
    for NLP applications, commercial lexicography, or
    language pedagogy? (And what's a reasonable balance
    between what we would like and what we can
    cost-effectively get?)

    To what extent can manual annotation of corpus
    examples be facilitated or replaced by automatic
    processes?

    How can the lexica be used to guide semantic
    parsing/role labeling in unrestricted text?

    What are the advantages and disadvantages of the
    differing approaches of the various projects? What
    are the possibilities of adopting a common program and
    setting up the means of cooperating closely?

    How do the semantic role concepts underlying different
    annotation practices compare? What are their
    respective advantages and disadvantages? Is it
    possible to align them and to map between them?

    PAPER SELECTION CONSIDERATIONS

    We would like the workshop to contain a balance of
    papers dealing with

    (1) lexicon building of the kind supported by corpus
    analysis, (2) methods of semantic and/or functional
    annotation,

    (3) ontological issues with frame structures and the
    elements of frames,

    (4) outreach, including NLP applications, the
    suitability of current procedures to the terminologies
    of scientific and technical discourse, and the special
    problems related to the lexica and grammatical
    structures of different languages,

    (5) the potential for achieving some level of
    cross-linguistic and cross-framework standardization
    of annotation and analysis practices.

    TARGET AUDIENCE

    Builders and potential users of
    semantically/functionally annotated corpora.

    IMPORTANT DATES

    Abstract Submission Deadline: February 29, 2004
    Notification: March 21, 2004
    Camera Ready Papers: April 21, 2004
    Workshop: May 30, 2004

    ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

    Abstracts should be no more than 1000 words in length,
    in .pdf format (preferred) or plain ASCII text. The
    abstract should be emailed to Collin Baker
    (collinb@icsi.berkeley.edu) with the subject line
    "CORPUS ANNOTATION WORKSHOP". The body of the email
    should begin with the author's name(s) and
    affiliation(s), and the email address of the contact
    person. The attachment should contain only the text of
    the submission.

    WORKSHOP CHAIRS

    Charles Fillmore
    Manfred Pinkal
    Collin Baker
    Katrin Erk

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Collin Baker
    Katrin Erk
    Charles Fillmore
    Daniel Gildea
    Eva Hajicova
    Ulrich Heid
    Mirella Lapata
    Martha Palmer
    Manfred Pinkal



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